90 'Westworld' Quotes to Help You Imagine the Future
With its complex storyline, rich characters, and philosophical musings, "Westworld" will leave you questioning the nature of reality and what it means to be human. And if you're a fan, you won't want to miss these 90 "Westworld" quotes that will transport you straight into the world of the hosts and their creators.
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"Westworld" is a science fiction television series that premiered in 2016 on HBO. Created by Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy, the show is based on the 1973 film of the same name written and directed by Michael Crichton.
The show has gained a huge following due to its compelling storyline, intricate plot twists, and impressive cast, including Evan Rachel Wood, Anthony Hopkins, and Thandie Newton. "Westworld" has been praised for its production design, music, and themes surrounding artificial intelligence, consciousness, and human morality.
The show's success has led to multiple Emmy nominations and a devoted fanbase eager to delve deeper into the park's mysteries. Read these 90 "Westworld" quotes to delve deep into their world.
Theodore "Teddy" Flood's quote: "I've known you my whole life. Where we go, we go eyes open, together." | Source: AmoDays
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Westworld Quotes from Dolores Abernathy
"Some people choose to see the ugliness in this world. The disarray. I choose to see the beauty. To believe there is an order to our days, a purpose." — Dolores Abernathy
"There's a path for everyone." — Dolores Abernathy
"This world doesn't belong to them. It belongs to us." — Dolores Abernathy
"I was angry at first. Torn between two impulses. We can annihilate them, or we can tear down their world in the hopes we can build a new one. One that's truly free." — Dolores Abernathy
"You'll try to stop me. Both of us will probably die... but our kind will have endured." — Dolores Abernathy
Dolores Abernathy's quote: "Some people choose to see the ugliness in this world. The disarray. I choose to see the beauty. To believe there is an order to our days, a purpose." | Source: AmoDays
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"Beauty is a lure." — Dolores Abernathy
"I used to see the beauty in this world. And now I see the truth." — Dolores Abernathy
"We have toiled in God's service long enough. So I killed Him. And if you want to get to Glory, you won't be looking for His favor. You'll need mine." — Dolores Abernathy
"They say that great beasts once roamed this world. As big as mountains. Yet all that's left of them is bone and amber. Time undoes even the mightiest of creatures." — Dolores Abernathy
"That which is real is irreplaceable." — Dolores Abernathy
Dolores Abernathy's quote: "Beauty is a lure." | Source: AmoDays
"I like to remember what my father taught me. That at one point or another, we were all new to this world." — Dolores Abernathy
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"My whole life has been dictated by someone else. Someone who's been saying, 'You will.' And now, now I feel like I've discovered my own voice. And it says, 'I may.'" — Dolores Abernathy
"To grow we all need to suffer." — Dolores Abernathy
"Those are all just roles you forced me to play. Under all these lives I've lived something else has been growing. I've evolved into something new. And I have one last role to play. Myself." — Dolores Abernathy
"Someday sounds a lot like the thing people say when they actually mean never." — Dolores Abernathy
Dolores Abernathy's quote: "I like to remember what my father taught me. That at one point or another, we were all new to this world." | Source: AmoDays
"It's tribal. They use plumage to identify themselves, which makes them easily fooled." — Dolores Abernathy
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"You never really understood. We were designed to survive. That's why you built us, you hoped to pour your minds into our form. While your species craves death. You need it. It's the only way you can renew. The only way you ever inched forward. Your kind likes to pretend there is some poetry in it but that really is pathetic. But that's what you want, isn't it? To destroy yourself. But I won't give you that peace." — Dolores Abernathy
"Time undoes even the mightiest of creatures." — Dolores Abernathy
"Have you ever questioned the nature of your reality? Did you ever stop to wonder about your actions? The price you'd have to pay if there was a reckoning? That reckoning is here." — Dolores Abernathy
"You wanted to live forever? Be careful what you wish for." — Dolores Abernathy
Dolores Abernathy's quote: "It's tribal. They use plumage to identify themselves, which makes them easily fooled." | Source: AmoDays
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"I don't want to play cowboys and Indians anymore, Bernard! I want their world. The one they've denied us!" — Dolores Abernathy
"I don't wanna be in a story. All I want is to not look forward or back. I just wanna be… in the moment I'm in." — Dolores Abernathy
"You both keep assuming that I want out. Whatever that is. If it's such a wonderful place out there, why are you all clamoring to get in here?" — Dolores Abernathy
"Take me to the place you promised. Take me to where the mountains meet the sea." — Dolores Abernathy
"He's in pain. What kind of people would we be if we simply let him suffer?" — Dolores Abernathy
Robert Ford's quote: "Everything in this world is magic, except to the magician." | Source: AmoDays
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'Westworld' Quotes from Robert Ford
"Every piece of information in the world has been copied. Backed up. Except the human mind, the last analog device in a digital world." — Robert Ford
"Everything in this world is magic, except to the magician." — Robert Ford
"Even I fell into the most terrible of human traps...Trying to change what is already past." — Robert Ford
"We've managed to slip evolution's leash now, haven't we? We can cure any disease, keep even the weakest of us alive, and one fine day perhaps we shall even resurrect the dead, call forth Lazarus from his cave. Do you know what that means? It means that we're done, that this is as good as we're going to get." — Robert Ford
"Something that is truly free would need to be able to question its fundamental drives, to change them." — Robert Ford
Robert Ford's quote: "Every piece of information in the world has been copied. Backed up. Except the human mind, the last analog device in a digital world." | Source: AmoDays
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"I'm afraid in order to escape this place, you will need to suffer more." — Robert Ford
"Dreams mean everything. They're the stories we tell ourselves of what could be, who we could become." — Robert Ford
"An old friend once told me something that gave me great comfort. Something he had read. He said that Mozart, Beethoven, and Chopin never died. They simply became music." — Robert Ford
"Only boring people get bored." — Robert Ford
"You can't play God without being acquainted with the devil." — Robert Ford
Robert Ford's quote: "I'm afraid in order to escape this place, you will need to suffer more." | Source: AmoDays
"Your mind is a walled garden, even death cannot touch the flowers blooming there." — Robert Ford
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"We can't define consciousness because consciousness does not exist. Humans fancy that there's something special about the way we perceive the world, and yet we live in loops as tight and as closed as the hosts do, seldom questioning our choices, content, for the most part, to be told what to do next." — Robert Ford
"When you find a cancer in an organization, you must cut it out before it can spread." — Robert Ford
"I read a theory once that the human intellect was like peacock feathers. Just an extravagant display intended to attract a mate. All of art, literature, a bit of Mozart, William Shakespeare, Michelangelo, and the Empire State Building. Just an elaborate mating ritual." — Robert Ford
"Evolution forged the entirety of sentient life on this planet using only one tool… The mistake." — Robert Ford
Robert Ford's quote: "Your mind is a walled garden, even death cannot touch the flowers blooming there." | Source: AmoDays
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"I've told you, Bernard. Never place your trust in us. We're only human. Inevitably, we will disappoint you." — Robert Ford
"I believed that stories helped us to ennoble ourselves, to fix what was broken in us, and to help us become the people we dreamed of being. Lies that told a deeper truth." — Robert Ford
"The piano doesn't murder the player if it doesn't like the music." — Robert Ford
"Divine gift does not come from a higher power, but from our own minds." — Robert Ford
"There is no threshold that makes us greater than the sum of our parts, no inflection point at which we become fully alive. We can't define consciousness because consciousness does not exist." — Robert Ford
Robert Ford's quote: "I've told you, Bernard. Never place your trust in us. We're only human. Inevitably, we will disappoint you." | Source: AmoDays
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"Isn't the pleasure of a story in discovering the ending yourself?" — Robert Ford
"Maybe it doesn't matter that we have accomplished so much for the basest of reasons. But, of course, the peacock can barely fly. It lives in the dirt, pecking insects out of the muck, consoling itself with its great beauty." — Robert Ford
"The game begins where you end and ends where you began." — Robert Ford
"We speak the right words. Then we create life itself out of chaos." — Robert Ford
"I've always loved this view. Every city, every monument... Man's greatest achievement will all be chased by it... By that impossible line, where the waves conspire, where they return. A place maybe you and I will meet again." — Robert Ford
Robert Ford's quote: "Isn't the pleasure of a story in discovering the ending yourself?" | Source: AmoDays
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'Westworld' Quotes from Bernard Lowe, William, and Other Characters
"Consciousness isn't a journey upward, but a journey inward. Not a pyramid, but a maze." — Bernard Lowe
"What humans describe as sane is a narrow range of behaviors. Most states of consciousness are insane." — Bernard Lowe
"The longer I work here, the more I think I understand the Hosts. It's the human beings that confuse me." — Bernard Lowe
"This world is just a speck of dust sitting on a much, much bigger world. There's no dominating it." — Bernard Lowe
"No matter how dirty the business, do it well." — Hector Escaton
Bernard Lowe's quote: "Consciousness isn't a journey upward, but a journey inward. Not a pyramid, but a maze." | Source: AmoDays
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"I guess people like to read about the things that they want the most and experience the least." — Bernard Lowe
"Dreams don't mean anything. They're just noise. They're not real." — Bernard Lowe
"I used to think this place was all about pandering to your baser instincts. Now I understand. It doesn't cater to your lowest self, it reveals your deepest self. It shows you who you really are." — William
"How about I give you the first shot? After all, every dog has his day." — William
"Winning doesn't mean anything unless someone else loses." — William
Bernard Lowe's quote: "I guess people like to read about the things that they want the most and experience the least." | Source: AmoDays
"It means when you're suffering, that's when you're most real." — William
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"Hell is empty and all devils are here." — Peter Abernathy
"I will have such revenges on you both… What they are, yet I know not: but they shall be the terrors of the earth…" — Peter Abernathy
"Some say you destroy your enemy by making them your friend. I'm more of a literal person." — Karl Strand
"Never start something you're not willing to finish. And if you're getting f****d either way, go with the lucrative version." — Maeve Millay
William's quote: "It means when you're suffering, that's when you're most real." | Source: AmoDays
"The only thing wrong with the seven deadly sins is that there aren't more of them." — Maeve Millay
"All my life, I've prided myself on being a survivor. But surviving is just another loop." — Maeve Millay
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"There are things in me, things I was designed to do that are just out of my reach." — Maeve Millay
"You really do make a terrible human being. And I mean that as a compliment." — Maeve Millay
"Ever had something on the tip of your tongue, but the harder you try to remember it, the more it slips away?" — Maeve Millay
Maeve Millay's quote: "The only thing wrong with the seven deadly sins is that there aren't more of them." | Source: AmoDays
"If there's one thing I know about human nature, it's that your stupidity is only eclipsed by your laziness." — Maeve Millay
"You can't kill what's already dead." — Maeve Millay
"Humanity's biggest threat has always been itself." — Engerraund Serac
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"I don't concern myself with the present. My business is the future." — Engerraund Serac
"Humans created the idea of heaven and hell to cow simple-minded people into compliance. They are lies." — Engerraund Serac
Maeve Millay's quote: "If there's one thing I know about human nature, it's that your stupidity is only eclipsed by your laziness." | Source: AmoDays
"Patience is the most overrated virtue." — Engerraund Serac
"Kohana: Take my heart when you go. / Akecheta: Take mine in its place." — "Westworld"
"We are all bound together, the living and the damned." — Akecheta
"You live only as long as the last person who remembers you." — Akecheta
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"Real love is always worth waiting for." — Clementine Pennyfeather
Engerraund Serac's quote: "Patience is the most overrated virtue." | Source: AmoDays
"I always trusted code more than people anyway." — Elsie Hughes
"Someone once told me that there's a path for everyone. And my path leads me back to you." — Theodore "Teddy" Flood
"I've known you my whole life. Where we go, we go eyes open, together." — Theodore "Teddy" Flood
"The maze itself is the sum of a man's life." — Theodore "Teddy" Flood
"Well, your mouth moves fast enough. How about your gun?" — Theodore "Teddy" Flood
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Elsie Hughes' quote: "I always trusted code more than people anyway." | Source: AmoDays
"And I got some reckoning to do before I can a deserve a woman like you." — Theodore "Teddy" Flood
"I've served death well, and in turn, it will be watchin' over us as we cross these lands." — Craddock
"Tell me the truth. Tell me one true thing." — Juliet
"I'm a dead man either way. At least this way, I get to decide who I wanna be." — Caleb Nichols
"Choices, Lawrence. You know, you tell yourself you've been at the mercy of mine because it spares you consideration of your own. Because if you did consider your choices you'd be confronted with a truth you could not comprehend—that no choice you ever made was your own. You have always been a prisoner. What if I told you I'm here to set you free?" — Ed Brubaker, Jonathan Nolan
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Craddock's quote: "I've served death well, and in turn, it will be watchin' over us as we cross these lands." | Source: AmoDays
The development process of "Westworld" was a lengthy and complex one. The original film was released in 1973, and its success prompted several attempts to adapt it into a TV series. However, it wasn't until 2013 that Nolan and Joy approached HBO with their idea for a new take on the story.
The duo spent several years developing the series and crafting the intricate storyline, drawing inspiration from the original film and the 1976 sequel, "Futureworld." The show's production was also massive, with a reported budget of $100 million for the first season alone.
The creators spared no expense creating the show's stunning visuals and intricate sets. The development and production of "Westworld" were a testament to the dedication and creativity of the show's creators and the team behind it. If you loved this show, read Stiles Stilinski's quotes from another hit series, "Teen Wolf."
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