Man in Black quotes from Westworld

The Man in Black

A lot of wisdom in ancient cultures. And perhaps it's time to dig deeper into yours.

Man in Black

Your humanity is cost-effective. So is your suffering.

Man in Black

No one else sees it, this thing in me. Even I didn't see it at first. And then one day, it was there - a stain I never noticed before; a tiny flicker of darkness, invisible to everyone. And I could see nothing else, until finally I understood that the darkness wasn't something marred from something I've done; some incredible decision I've made - I was shedding my skin. The darkness was what was underneath. It was mine all along, and I decided how much of it I let into the world. I tried to do great, I was faithful, generous, kind... at least in this world, it has to count for something. I built a wall, and tried to protect you, and Emily. But you saw right through it, didn't you? You're the only one. And for that I am truly sorry. Because, everything you feel is true. I don't belong to you. Or this world. I belong to another world. I always have.

Man in Black

What is a person but a collection of choices? Where do those choices come from? Do I have a choice?

Man in Black

I think Humanity is a thin layer of bacteria on a ball of mud hurling though the void. I think if there was a God, he would have given up on us long ago. He gave us a paradise and we used everything up. Dug up every ounce of energy and burned it. We consume and excrete, use and destroy, and we sit here on a neat little pile of ashes, having squeezed anything of value out of this planet, and we ask ourselves, "Why are we here?"

Man in Black

I don't belong here, I belong in a pine box.

Man in Black

I'm a fucking bastion of society.

Man in Black

Welcome to the end, William.

Man in Black

Hemingway said, "The world breaks everyone. And it's only afterwards that we grow strong in the broken places." And after I've broken you, you will grow. The same as I have.

Man in Black

We aren't revisiting the past. We're recreating it.

Man in Black

Culture doesn't survive. Cockroaches do. The second we stopped being cockroaches, the whole species went fucking extinct.

Man in Black

Civilization is just the lie we tell ourselves to justify our real purpose. We're not here to transcend. We're here to destroy.

The Man in Black

This whole world is a story. I've read every page except the last one. I need to find out how it ends. I want to know what this all means.

Lawrence

See, now that's why I never learned to read.

Hector Escaton

I don't believe we've ever met.

The Man in Black

No, we haven't. You know, you always seemed like a a market-tested kind of thing. Big gun, tasteful scar. Locked in your little cycle like a prized poodle after its own tail.

Hector Escaton

You sound like a man who's grown tired of wearing his guts on the inside.

The Man in Black

There's no need to get testy. I'm just curious about your worldview. Some kind of half-native mumbo jumbo?

Hector Escaton

It's simple. I believe that only the truly brave can look at the world and understand that all of it gods, men, everything else will end badly. No one will be saved.

The Man in Black

Maybe we've got more in common than I thought.

Teddy Flood

The maze is an old native myth.

Man in Black

Regale me, Theodore.

Teddy Flood

The maze itself is the sum of a man's life: choices he makes, dreams he hangs on to. And there at the center, there's a legendary man who had been killed over and over again countless times, but always clawed his way back to life. The man returned for the last time and vanquished all his oppressors in a tireless fury. He built a house. Around that house he built a maze so complicated, only he could navigate through it. I reckon he'd seen enough of fighting.