33 X-Files Quotes That Will Make You See The Universe In An Entirely New Way

“Looking for extreme possibilities makes you blind to the probable explanation right in front of you.”

— Alex Gansa, Howard Gordon, Dana Scully, Gillian Anderson, imdb.com

“I'm afraid. I'm afraid to believe.”

— James Wong, Glen Morgan, Dana Scully, Gillian Anderson, imdb.com

“No one, no government agency, has jurisdiction over the truth.”

— Alex Gansa, Howard Gordon, Fox Mulder, David Duchovny, imdb.com

“We send those men up into space to unlock the doors of the universe, and we don't even know what's behind them.”

— Chris Carter, Fox Mulder, David Duchovny, imdb.com

“We over-populate the world and create new technologies to kill each other with. Maybe we're just beasts with big brains.”

— Chris Carter, Fox Mulder, David Duchovny, imdb.com

“I know I should be afraid, but I'm not.”

— James Wong, Glen Morgan, Fox Mulder, David Duchovny, imdb.com

“If coincidences are coincidences, why do they seem so contrived?”

— Howard Gordon, Fox Mulder, David Duchovny, imdb.com

“Men can never be free, because they're weak, corrupt, worthless... and restless. The people believe in authority. They've grown tired of waiting for miracle or mystery. Science is their religion.”

— David Duchovny, Chris Carter, Cigarette Smoking Man, William B. Davis, imdb.com

“The truth is out there. But so are lies.”

— Scott Kaufer, Chris Carter, Dana Scully, Gillian Anderson, imdb.com

“No matter how paranoid you are, you're not paranoid enough.”

— Vince Gilligan, Susanne Modeski, Signy Coleman, imdb.com

“I've often felt that dreams are answers to questions we haven't yet figured out how to ask.”

— Sara B. Charno, Sara Charno, Fox Mulder, David Duchovny, imdb.com

“Sometimes the only sane answer to an insane world is insanity.”

— John Shiban, Fox Mulder, David Duchovny, imdb.com

“It seems to me that the best relationships, the ones that last, are frequently the ones that are rooted in friendship. You know, one day you look at the person and you see something more than you did the night before. Like a switch has been flicked somewhere. And the person who was just a friend is…”

— Jeffrey Bell, Dana Scully, Gillian Anderson, imdb.com

“Time passes in moments... moments which, rushing past define the path of a life just as surely as they lead towards its end. How rarely do we stop to examine that path, to see the reasons why all things happen, to consider whether the path we take in life is our own making or simply one into which w…”

— Gillian Anderson, Dana Scully, Gillian Anderson, imdb.com

“Whatever doesn't kill you makes you stronger. Right?”

— David Amann, Fox Mulder, David Duchovny, imdb.com

“That which makes miracles, can also make great evil.”

— William B. Davis, Cigarette Smoking Man, William B. Davis, imdb.com

“I want to believe so badly; in a truth beyond our own hidden and obscured from all but the most sensitive eyes. In the endless procession of souls, in what cannot and will not be destroyed. I want to believe we are unaware of God's eternal recompense and sadness. That we cannot see His truth. That t…”

— Chris Carter, Fox Mulder, David Duchovny, imdb.com

“These are tricks that the mind plays. They are ingrained cliches from a thousand different horror films. When we hear a sound, we get a chill. We see a shadow and we allow ourselves to imagine something that an otherwise rational person would discount out of hand. The whole idea of a benevolent enti…”

— Chris Carter, Dana Scully, Gillian Anderson, imdb.com

“And why would God allow this to happen? Why do bad things happen to good people? Religion has masqueraded as the paranormal since the dawn of time to justify some of the most horrible acts in history.”

— Frank Spotnitz, John Shiban, Fox Mulder, David Duchovny, imdb.com

“I think nature is supremely indifferent to whether we live or die. I mean, if you're lucky, you get 75 years, if you're really lucky you get 80 years, and if you're extraordinarily lucky, you get to live 50 of those years with a decent head of hair.”

— Frank Spotnitz, Fox Mulder, David Duchovny, imdb.com

“Life... is like a box of chocolates - A cheap, thoughtless, perfunctory gift that nobody ever asks for. Unreturnable, because all you get back is another box of chocolates. So, you're stuck with this undefinable whipped-mint crap that you mindlessly wolf down when there's nothing else left to eat. S…”

— James Wong, Glen Morgan, The Cigarette-Smoking Man, William B. Davis, imdb.com

“Though we may not be alone in the universe, in our own separate ways, on this planet we are all alone.”

— Darin Morgan, Jose Chung, Charles Nelson Reilly, imdb.com

“Conscience is just the voices of the dead trying to save us from our own damnation.”

— Frank Spotnitz, Chris Carter, Christopher Johansen, Robert Clothier, imdb.com

“Maybe you're just seeing what you wanted to see.”

— Howard Gordon, Dana Scully, Gillian Anderson, imdb.com

“I'm afraid that God is speaking and no one is listening.”

— Kim Newton, Dana Scully, Gillian Anderson, imdb.com

“The dead are no longer lonely.”

— Jeff Vlaming, Virgil Incanto, Timothy Carhart, imdb.com

“You can't protect the public by lying to them.”

— Alex Gansa, Howard Gordon, Chris Carter, Fox Mulder, David Duchovny, imdb.com

“You'll only win the war if you pick the right battles, Agent Mulder. This is a battle you can't win.”

— Frank Spotnitz, Mr. X, Steven Williams, imdb.com

“Did you really think you could call up the Devil and ask him to behave?”

— James Wong, Glen Morgan, Fox Mulder, David Duchovny, imdb.com