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Elliot Alderson Quotes

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“I should never have done this. I should have left this alone. I'll never learn. I brought this upon myself. I'll never learn. This is on me. This is on me.”
— Elliot Alderson, Mr. Robot, season_3.0: eps3.9_shutdown-r
Tagged: Regret, Remorse
“Remember when we used to do our wishing game? We’d close our eyes, and we’d wish for something. Whatever we wanted.

We both wished we could get bigger bedrooms. That was a big one.

You would always wish for more protractors, which was weird.

I would wish for a faster computer. Probably faster modem, too.

You would wish for better clothes. I didn’t really care about that.

We both we both wished we could drive. I just wanted to drive away. We wanted to go on road trips. And eat lots of Sour Patch Kids that we would buy from gas stations.

After we made all our wishes, we’d close our eyes really hard, hoping that when we opened them, it’d all come true.
 And we thought the harder we closed them, the stronger our wishes would be.

And even though they never came true, we still liked doing it. Because the ending was never our favorite part, anyway.
 It was the wishing. I didn’t get that at first.


You remember what you used to say to me right before we opened our eyes that would make it all better?”
— Elliot Alderson, Mr. Robot, season_3.0: eps3.7_dont-delete-me.ko
Tagged: wishing, Dreaming, Sour Patch Kids
“When you delete something, you’re making a choice to destroy it. To never see it again.”
— Elliot Alderson, Mr. Robot, season_3.0: eps3.7_dont-delete-me.ko
“Every morning starts like this, graphic sex talk. Thankfully, I’m able to tune most of it out. When people talk like this, they’re either insecure or they’re full of shame.”
— Elliot Alderson, Mr. Robot, season_3.0: eps3.4_runtime-error.r00
Tagged: Insecurity, Sex Talk, Shame
“And this all started because I tried to hide from society. Remember? ‘Fuck society.’ Yeah, well, I fucked society all right. I reset it to zero, and if I don't do anything about it, it will continue to grow in this malignant way. And that's what I'm afraid of the most. This dark future that I set into motion. Who knows what could come from this? What if instead of fighting back, we caved, gave away our privacy for security, exchanged dignity for safety, and traded revolution for repression? What if we choose weakness over strength? They'll even have us build our own prison. This is what they wanted all along. For us to buy in on our worst selves. And I just made it easier for them. I didn't start a revolution. I just made us docile enough for the slaughtering. And I can stand here and blame Evil Corp and every other conglomerate out there for taking advantage of us, blame the FBI, NSA, CIA, for letting them get away with this, blame all the world's leaders for aiding and abetting them, blame Adam Smith for inventing modern-day capitalism in the first fucking place. Blame money for dividing us, blame us for letting it. But none of that's true. The truth is...I'm the one to blame. I'm the problem. This was my fault. All of it. I did this. Fuck me.”
— Elliot Alderson, Mr. Robot, season_3.0: eps3.0_power-saver-mode.h
Tagged: FBI, NSA, CIA, Adam Smith, Capitalism, Money
“Deletion. When you make that decision, there's always that moment of hesitation. That annoying 'Are you sure?' dialogue box, and then you have to make a decision. Yes or no.”
— Elliot Alderson, Mr. Robot, season_3.0: eps3.0_power-saver-mode.h
Tagged: Indecisiveness
“It's one thing to question your mind; it's another to question your eyes and ears. But, then again, isn't it all the same? Our senses just mediocre inputs to our brain? Sure, we rely on them, trust they accurately portray the real world around us, but what if the haunting truth is they can't? That what we perceive isn't the real world at all, but just our mind's best guess? That all we really have is a garbled reality, a truly fuzzy picture we will never make out?”
— Elliot Alderson, Mr. Robot, season_2.0: eps2.9_pyth0n-pt2.p7z
Tagged: Perception, Reality
“Maybe wars aren't meant to be won, maybe they're meant to be continuous.”
— Elliot Alderson, Mr. Robot, season_2.0: eps2.8_h1dden-pr0cess.axx
Tagged: War, Eternal War
“Control can sometimes be an illusion. But sometimes you need illusions to gain control. Fantasy is an easy way to give meaning to world. To cloak our harsh reality with escapist comfort. After all, isn't that why we surround ourselves with so many screens? So we can avoid seeing? So we can avoid each other? So we can avoid truth.”
— Elliot Alderson, Mr. Robot, season_2.0: eps2.5_h4ndshake.sme
Tagged: Control, Fantasy, Illusion, Escapism
“Every relationship is a power struggle. Some of us need to be controlled.”
— Elliot Alderson, Mr. Robot, season_2.0: eps2.4_m4ster-s1ave.aes
Tagged: Relationships, Power Struggles
“Is that what God does? He helps? Tell me, why didn't God help my innocent friend who died for no reason while the guilty roam free? Okay, fine. Forget the one-offs. How about the countless wars declared in his name? Okay, fine. Let's skip the random, meaningless murder for a second, shall we? How about the racist, sexist, phobia soup we've all been drowning in because of him? And I'm not just talking about Jesus. I'm talking about all organized religion... exclusive groups created to manage control, a dealer getting people hooked on the drug of hope, his followers nothing but addicts who want their hit of bullshit to keep their... their dopamine of ignorance, addicts afraid to believe the truth...that there is no order, there's no power, that all religions are just metastasizing mind worms meant to divide us so it's easier to rule us by the charlatans that want to run us. All we are to them are paying fanboys of their poorly written sci-fi franchise. If I don't listen to my imaginary friend, why the f... should I listen to yours? People think their worship's some key to happiness. That's just how he owns you. Even I'm not crazy enough to believe that distortion of reality. So f... God. He's not a good enough scapegoat for me.”
— Elliot Alderson, Mr. Robot, Mr. Robot Season 2: eps2.1_k3rnel-pan1c.ksd
Tagged: God, atheism, Religion, War, Scapegoats
“When you look closely at the seams between order and chaos, do you see the same things I see? The strain, the tears, the glimpses of truth hidden underneath. Why do they fight so desperately to mask what they are? Or is it that they become who they are when they put on the mask? Sometimes I wonder what you hide behind, my silent friend. What mask do you wear? Or are you just as afraid as the rest of them? Me? Am I afraid? Nah, man. I'm different.”
— Elliot Alderson, Mr. Robot, Mr. Robot Season 2: eps2.0_unm4sk-pt2.tc
Tagged: order, Chaos
“Repeating the same tasks each day without ever having to think about them, isn't that what everybody does? Keep things on repeat to go along with their NCISes and Lexapro. Isn't that where it's comfortable? In the sameness?”
— Elliot Alderson, Mr. Robot, Mr. Robot Season 2: eps2.0_unm4sk-pt1.tc
Tagged: NCIS, Lexapro, Monotony
“I do see the beauty in the rules, the invisible code of chaos hiding behind the menacing face of order.”
— Elliot Alderson, Mr. Robot, Mr. Robot Season 2: eps2.0_unm4sk-pt1.tc
Tagged: Mr. Robot
“Annihilation is always the answer. We destroy parts of ourselves every day. We Photoshop our warts away. We edit the parts we hate about ourselves, modify the parts we think people hate. We curate our identity, carve it, distill it. Krista’s wrong. Annihilation is all we are.”
— Elliot Alderson, Mr. Robot, Mr. Robot Season 2: eps2.2_init_1.asec
Tagged: Mr. Robot
“The devil’s at his strongest while we’re looking the other way, like a program running in the background silently, while we’re busy doing other shit.”
— Elliot Alderson, Mr. Robot, Mr. Robot Season 1: eps1.3_da3m0ns.mp4
Tagged: Mr. Robot
“I hurt Krista. I don’t feel good about that. I hope you’re not mad at me. But you have to admit, she’s just like everyone else. Too afraid to peak over their walls for fear of what they might see. Not me. That’s what I do. I look.”
— Elliot Alderson, Mr. Robot, Mr. Robot Season 1: eps1.7_wh1ter0se.m4v
Tagged: Mr. Robot
“How do I take off a mask when it stops being a mask, when it’s as much a part of me as I am?”
— Elliot Alderson, Mr. Robot, Mr. Robot Season 2: eps2.0_unm4sk-pt2.tc
Tagged: Mr. Robot
“I’ve never found it hard to hack most people. If you listen to them, watch them, their vulnerabilities are like a neon sign screwed into their heads.”
— Elliot Alderson, Mr. Robot, Mr. Robot Season 1: eps1.4_3xpl0its.wmv
Tagged: Mr. Robot
“So this is what a revolution looks like, people in expensive clothing running around. Not how I pictured it.”
— Elliot Alderson, Mr. Robot, Mr. Robot Season 1: eps1.9_zer0-day.avi
Tagged: Mr. Robot
“Life is so much easier when you’re numb.”
— Elliot Alderson, Mr. Robot, Mr. Robot Season 1: eps1.5_br4ve-trave1er.asf
Tagged: Mr. Robot
“I’m good at reading people. My secret, I look for the worst in them.”
— Elliot Alderson, Mr. Robot, Mr. Robot Season 1: eps1.0_hellofriend.mov
Tagged: Mr. Robot
“Hello, friend. Hello, friend. That’s lame. Maybe I should give you a name. But that’s a slippery slope. You’re only in my head. We have to remember that.”
— Elliot Alderson, Mr. Robot, Mr. Robot Season 1: eps1.0_hellofriend.mov
Tagged: Mr. Robot
“Daemons. They don’t stop working. They’re always active. They seduce. They manipulate. They own us. And even though you’re with me, even though I created you, it makes no difference. We all must deal with them alone. The best we can hope for, the only silver lining in all of this is that when we break through, we find a few familiar faces waiting on the other side.”
— Elliot Alderson, Mr. Robot, Mr. Robot Season 1: eps1.3_da3m0ns.mp4
Tagged: Mr. Robot
“This is the world we live in. People relying on each other’s mistakes to manipulate one another and use one another, even relate to one another. A warm, messy circle of humanity.”
— Elliot Alderson, Mr. Robot, Mr. Robot Season 1: eps1.2_d3bug.mkv
Tagged: Mr. Robot
“A bug is never just a mistake. It represents something bigger. An error of thinking. That makes you who you are.”
— Elliot Alderson, Mr. Robot, Mr. Robot Season 1: eps1.2_d3bug.mkv
Tagged: Mr. Robot
“We’re all living in each other’s paranoia.”
— Elliot Alderson, Mr. Robot, Mr. Robot Season 1: eps1.7_wh1ter0se.m4v
Tagged: Mr. Robot
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