Six Feet Under Quotes

Olivier: [to Claire] You sit in such judgment of the world. How do you expect to ever be a part of it?

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Claire: I'm just trying to prepare for the worst so when it actually happens, I don't feel so awful.

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Olivier: What are you, the Pope? Just because I fucked your boyfriend! Get a life.

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Ruth: I just cried all over your jacket, and you're a perfect stranger.
George: Not any more, I'm not.

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Russell: I don't wanna live without you. I can't.
Claire: [annoyed] You're gonna have to.
Russell: I'm not gonna give up.
Claire: That's your fucking problem.

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Nate: [yelling] Lisa! Lisa! Where are you?
Lisa: I'm right here. Where are you?
Nate: I don't know. None of this turned out the way I wanted it to, Lise. You know that, right? I wanted to love you, I did love you! I just felt like we were beginning- [chokes up] I know we were, I know it, I know it in my heart, and I just feel like I had this once in a lifetime chance and I fucked it up!
Lisa: Nate, I'm not a chance. I'm a person.

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Nathaniel Sr.: You're looking for me?
Claire: Yeah. Where the fuck is your grave?

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Claire: [seeing Gabriel] He's dead?
Nathaniel Sr.: Don't ask me. This is your thing.

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Nathaniel Sr.: How's life?
Claire: How's death?

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David: [to Keith] You looked so intense the way you pointed your little alarm thingy at the car. Like, "Fuck you, car. Now you're locked!"

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David: I felt so free for a week. But then, all of a sudden, within days I went from "Yay, I'm independent" to "Holy fuck, I'm gonna die alone."

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Ruth: [after sex] Do you think we were too loud?
George: It's possible that we were too loud, yes.

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Keith: What's so strange?
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."

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Nate: So, Keith.
David: So what about him?
Nate: You guys are back together?
David: No.
Nate: He was there this morning.
David: He was a little drunk last night, I let him stay over. I was being polite.
Nate: Polite and horny.

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Barb: Lisa didn't believe in borders, and that is why I know that wherever Lisa is right now, she's everywhere! She's everywhere, and that means she's home!

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[Claire has just told Russell she was pregnant by him and has had an abortion.]
Claire: Look, I'm sorry. I didn't …
Russell: Just give me a second, okay? … Just give me a second to get used to the idea of living with this for the rest of my life.
Claire: Are you fucking kidding me?
Russell: No, I'm not kidding you, Claire! It's fucking sad! It's fucking sad and it's fucked up. I mean, did you cry? Did you?
Claire: I cried more than you have ever cried in your whole life.
Russell: [breaks down] Then give me a fucking second to feel bad about this, okay? Just a motherfucking second!

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Ruth: Who in the world would send you feces in the mail?

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Nate: I can't do this any more!
David: What are you saying?
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.

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George: Did you know that the average American changes careers seven times during his or her lifetime?
David: Is that information supposed to be useful in some way, George?
George: It's just a fact.

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Nate: I quit my job.
Nathaniel Sr.: I quit my fucking life.
Nate: No, you got fired.

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Edie: Here's a poem dedicated to every guy I've ever been with: "Your Penis Is Kinda Nice, Too Bad You're Attached to It!"

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Keith: [about Arthur] Maybe we should buy him a whole new wardrobe. Do they ever do that? Queer Eye for the Gay Guy.
David: I don't think Arthur's gay. I think he's A.
Keith: I don't know. I think asexual people are asexual because they don't wanna come out of the closet.

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Claire: Geology is controversial?
George: Oil, Claire, oil!

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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!

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Anita: [about Russell] I could have sworn he was gay. He's knitting!
Claire: Haven't you noticed a lot of straight guys knit these days? It's like a macho thing. Like, "I'm so straight I can even knit!"

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Arthur: I could never send you poo! Ever!

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Margaret: Oh, Brenda's feeling eggy.

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Ruth: [about George's other son] Why have you never told me this?
George: Because he's never really been part of my life.
Ruth: If he's sending us shit in the mail, he is a part of your life!

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Russell: [watching a documentary about cave paintings] That's where everything started. In those cave paintings there was the creation of the idea of image, of the representation of ourselves.
Claire: Exactly. That's when we stopped living inside nature and started living inside our heads.
Anita: Yeah, just while we can just sit back and watch while greedy corporate Bush suckers destroy nature, since we're no longer a part of it.
Russell: If you take humans out of nature, then all there are left with is human nature.
Claire: Okay, that sounds really good, but what the fuck does that mean?

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David: [consulting Keith what to wear on the job] Helmut Lang jeans, black tee-shirt — the faded Banana Republic one with the stretch — and black lace-up boots.
Keith: David, this is a profession, okay? There's an image to project. That image isn't fucking Keith of Finland.
David: Are you not out on the job?
Keith: No one's ever asked.
David: You big whore!

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