Ted Mosby quotes from How I Met Your Mother

You will be shocked, kids, when you discover how easy it is in life to part ways with people forever. That's why when you find someone you want to keep around, you do something about it.

Ted

[to Mother] So I guess... goodnight.

The Mother

Goodnight. [shares long kiss with Ted] Unless, do you want to walk around some more? It's still early.

Ted

Sure.

The Mother

[Walks off ahead, but sees Ted looking at her] What are you doing?

Ted

[pauses] Remembering this.

The Mother

[smiles and offers hand] Come on. [they walk off]

Ted

Stop, stop! You're saying this because you're scared! I am not your future. Barney is.

Robin

Shouldn't I be with a guy who finds me my locket? The guy who steals me the blue French horn? I mean look me in the eye and tell me why shouldn't I be with that guy?

Ted

Because I'm not that guy anymore.

Robin

Then why did you work so hard to find me my locket?

Ted

It was a wedding gift.

Robin

Ted stop it, okay? I've known you better than that. This is more than a wedding gift.

Ted

Maybe it started out that way. Maybe some part of me thought—

Robin

—that you still loved me.

Ted

Maybe, but the truth is…I don't love you like that anymore, and you don't love me. You love Barney, and if you think I would ever be part of screwing that up, then maybe you don't know me at all, Robin.

Robin

Oh, I can't shake it, I can't shake this feeling that nothing about me and Barney makes any sense!

Ted

But love doesn't make sense! I mean, you can't logic your way in or out of it. Love is totally nonsensical. But we have to keep doing it, or else we're lost, and love is dead, and humanity should just pack it in. Because love is the best thing we do. Look, I know that sounds cheesy, but it's just true. You love Barney, and he loves you. And that doesn't have to make sense…to make sense.