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- Death and Pot Roast, “Pilot” (Episode 1.01) Ruth: “There’s been an accident. The new hearse is totaled. Your father is dead. Your father is dead, and my pot roast is ruined.”
- Lessons in Escapism, “Pilot” (Episode 1.01) Nathaniel Sr.: “Well, well, the prodigal son returns. This is what you’ve been running away from your whole life, buddy boy.
- Justice For All, “Pilot” (Episode 1.01) Old Man: “If there’s any justice in the universe, she’s shoveling shit in Hell.” The first few episodes of Six Feet Under are filled with mourning.
- Gone Forever, “Pilot” (Episode 1.01) Nate: “You can pump him full of chemicals. You can put makeup on him. You can prop him up for a nap in the slumber room; but the fact remains, David, that the only father we’re ever gonna have is gone!
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It makes me think of a quote from The Hours, when Virginia Woolf tells her young niece that she’s about to kill off a character in the book she’s writing. The niece asks why someone has to die, and Virginia Woolf answers “So that the rest of us value life more.”
Aug 21, 2015 · Six Feet Under mixed serious drama with a macabre sense of humour – and pioneered an influential kind of dark humour, writes Jennifer Armstrong.
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Pilot
1. Old Man: You've done a nice job. She looks peaceful. 2. David: Well, she is at peace now. 3. Old Man: If there's any justice in the universe, she's shoveling shit in Hell. 1. Nate: Everybody forgives everybody for everything. 1. Nate: I refuse to sanitize this anymore! 2. David: This is how it's done. 3. Nate: Yeah? Well, it's whacked. What is this stupid salt-shaker? Huh? What is this hermetically sealed box? This phony Astroturf around the grave? Jesus, David, it's like surgery. Clean. A...
The Will
1. Brenda: Well, we're all wounded. We carry our wounds around with us through life, and eventually they kill us. Things happen that leave a mark in space, in time. In us. 1. Rico: [referring to the deceased's erection]Angel lust. You can be dead, but you're never really dead. 1. Nathaniel Sr.: [commenting on his own headstone]Is that the best anyone could come up with? "Father, husband, caregiver"? 2. Nate: What would you prefer? "Introvert, sadist, mindfucker"? 1. Claire: What am I, some kn...
The Foot
1. Claire: I wish that just once people wouldn't act like the clichés that they are. 1. Ruth: You both look so happy. Just enjoy it while it lasts. Which isn't very long. You think you have forever, but you don't. Soon you start to get on each other's nerves. Then you don't tell the other person as much as you used to, 'cause, really, what's the point? You thought they understood you, but they never did … not really. Finally, not only do you not tell the other person anything real, you active...
In the Game
1. Rico: Now, this is a beautiful and unusual cremains vessel. The ashes actually fill these dolphins, which are carved out inside. 2. Brody: She wasn't really into dolphins. I remember somebody suggesting she boycott tuna, y'know, because of the whole dolphins-getting-caught-in-the-net thing. And she said, "Fuck dolphins, I want a Niçoise salad." 1. Gabriel: I wasin school today. I just wasn't in American History. I mean, who needs to know that shit anyways? 2. Claire: Well, somebody who wan...
Out, Out Brief Candle
1. Nate: Everything's bad for something. 1. Brenda: That's the thing about depression: if you really allow yourself to feel it, it gets very boring very fast.
The Plan
1. Mrs. Piper: I'm a psychic, so, y'know … 2. David: Wow, that must be very interesting. 3. Mrs. Piper: It's just more information. 1. Claire: You know, it's polite for the first person downstairs to make the coffee even if that person has a penis! 2. Nate: Well, you know, it's also polite for the first person who uses the bathroom to spend less than 45 minutes in there even if that person has a vulva. 3. Ruth: [entering]Oh goodness, everyone's here. 4. David: With all their genitalia. 1. Gar...
Perfect Circles
1. Nate: [about the Bennett funeral]Can't Rico do it? 2. David: I believe his exact words were: "No fucking way. I'm not your fucking gopher any more." 1. Nate: [about Maya]You guys, she took the most amazing poop this morning! 2. David: Who, Lisa?
The Eye Inside
1. Olivier: We despise ourselves so much that we consider our own point of view as trivial. But that's bullshit! That's your father talking! 1. Ruth: Chickpeas give me gas. 2. Lisa: This is an unusually gassy family! 1. Olivier: In the beginning, if you hate something, it's good, because you don't recognize the beauty of your own truth.
Nobody Sleeps
1. Russell: I think it's really cool that you live in a funeral home. 2. Claire: Believe me, it's not. 3. Russell: Are you kidding? I'm jealous. It's totally weird … and excellent and perfect for when they write your biography.
Falling into Place
1. Ruth: [after sex]Do you think we were too loud? 2. George: It's possible that we were too loud, yes. 1. Keith: What's so strange? 2. David: I don't know … the thought that I just got blown in the same bed where my mom used to read me the "Runaway Bunny." 1. Nate: So, Keith. 2. David: So what about him? 3. Nate: You guys are back together? 4. David: No. 5. Nate: He was there this morning. 6. David: He was a little drunk last night, I let him stay over. I was being polite. 7. Nate: Polite an...
In Case of Rapture
1. Ruth: Who in the world would send you feces in the mail? 1. Nate: I can't do this any more! 2. David: What are you saying? 3. Nate: I'm saying I quit. I've got to find another kind of life for myself. And not just for myself, but for Maya, too. 1. George: Did you know that the average American changes careers seven times during his or her lifetime? 2. David: Is that information supposed to be useful in some way, George? 3. George: It's just a fact. 1. Nate: I quit my job. 2. Nathaniel Sr.:...
Parallel Play
1. Keith: [about Arthur]Maybe we should buy him a whole new wardrobe. Do they ever do that? Queer Eye for the Gay Guy. 2. David: I don't think Arthur's gay. I think he's A. 3. Keith: I don't know. I think asexual people are asexual because they don't wanna come out of the closet. 1. Claire: Geology is controversial? 2. George: Oil, Claire, oil! 1. Rico: [while embalming a girl whose face is set in a laughing expression]This one won't stop smiling. Wish I knew what the fuck was so funny! 1. An...
A Coat of White Primer
1. Nate:[To Brenda, while talking about their wedding.]I'm glad today sucked, because I wouldn't want the happiest day of our life to be over already, would you?
Hold My Hand
1. David: [to Keith about their appointment with the adoption agency] If we're not on top of our paperwork, Shirleyis going to kick our "Gay Daddy" asses into the street. 1. [Claire walks in on Ruth cleaning the kitchen in the Fisher home.] 2. Claire: Jesus Christ, Mom, will you stop cleaning and talk to me? 3. Ruth: No. This isn't the time, and there's nothing to say. 4. Claire: Don't you think that it's significant that whenever I make a decision for myself, you hateme? 5. Ruth: I don't hat...
Time Flies
1. Nate: I just feel like all I do, all day long, is just manage myself, try to fuckin' connect with people. But it's like, no matter how much energy you pour into getting to the station on time, or getting on the right train, there's still no fuckin' guarantee that anybody's gonna be there for you to pick you up when you get there. 2. Maggie:Well, I know that if you think life is a vending machine, where you put in virtue and you get out happiness, then you're probably gonna be disappointed....
Jul 10, 2018 · Six Feet Under Quotes. Total quotes: 44. “I guess we all wanna be loved. It’s hard to say no to that, no matter who it’s coming from.” — Ruth Fisher, Six Feet Under, Season 3: Everyone Leaves. Tagged: Being Loved. “Well it’s like how many evildoers do you have to kill before you become one yourself, you know?”
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Let’s dive into the world of Six Feet Under and explore some of its most memorable and thought-provoking quotes: Read these Six Feet Under quotes: “The thing is, you keep thinking you have time, but you don’t.”
