10 Brutal Truths and Philosophies From Rust Cohle In 'True Detective' That Will Make Your Mind Wander

10 quotes

Its all one ghetto man. 

“Death created time to grow the things that it would kill, and you are reborn but into the same life that you’ve always been born into.”

— Nic Pizzolatto, Rust Cohle, Matthew McConaughey, imdb.com

Tagged: True Detective

“We all got what I call a life trap, this gene-deep certainty that things will be different, that you’ll move to another city and meet the people that’ll be the friends for the rest of your life, that you’ll fall in love and be fulfilled. F*cking fulfillment and closure, whatever the f*ck those two……”

— Nic Pizzolatto, Rust Cohle, Matthew McConaughey, imdb.com

Tagged: True Detective

“Life’s barely long enough to get good at one thing. So be careful what you get good at.”

— Nic Pizzolatto, Rust Cohle, Matthew McConaughey, imdb.com

Tagged: Choosing A Profession, Learning, Education

“This is a world where nothing is solved. Someone once told me, time is a flat circle. Everything we’ve ever done or will do, we’re gonna do over and over and over again.”

— Nic Pizzolatto, Rust Cohle, Matthew McConaughey, imdb.com

Tagged: True Detective

“To realize that all your life… you know, all your love, all your hate, all your memory, all your pain, it was all the same thing. It was all the same dream. A dream that you had inside a locked room. A dream about being a person. And like a lot of dreams there’s a monster at the end of it.”

— Nic Pizzolatto, Rust Cohle, Matthew McConaughey, imdb.com

Tagged: True Detective

“If the only thing keeping a person decent is the expectation of divine reward then brother that person is a piece of shit. And I’d like to get as many of them out in the open as possible. You gotta get together and tell yourself stories that violate every law of the universe just to get through the…”

— Nic Pizzolatto, Rust Cohle, Matthew McConaughey, imdb.com

Tagged: True Detective

“This place is like somebody’s memory of a town, and the memory is fading. It’s like there was never anything here but jungle.”

— Nic Pizzolatto, Rust Cohle, Matthew McConaughey, imdb.com

Tagged: True Detective

“I think human consciousness, is a tragic misstep in evolution. We became too self-aware, nature created an aspect of nature separate from itself, we are creatures that should not exist by natural law. We are things that labor under the illusion of having a self, an accretion of sensory, experience a…”

— Nic Pizzolatto, Rust Cohle, Matthew McConaughey, imdb.com

Tagged: True Detective

“It’s all one ghetto, man, giant gutter in outer space.”

— Nic Pizzolatto, Rust Cohle, Matthew McConaughey, imdb.com

Tagged: Space, Outer Space