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Kurt Sutter Quotes

Total quotes: 52
“I'm not a good man. I'm a criminal and a killer. I need my sons to grow up hating the thought of me.”
— Jax Teller, Sons of Anarchy, Season 7: Papa's Goods
Tagged: Criminals, killers
“I'm a rat. What makes you think I wouldn't be a liar, too?”
— Juice Ortiz, Sons of Anarchy, Season 7: Suits of Woe
Tagged: Snitches, Rats, liars
“You're a man who dares to dance with the freaks. I perpetuate that deviance for you. Allow you to show the world that you live outside the box. But I know that's where it ends for us, and I understand. It comes with the territory of my complicated identity. But my my feelings for you are simpler. They live very much inside the box. I'm afraid Alexander, that I may have fallen in love with you.”
— Venus Van Dam, Sons of Anarchy, Season 7: Faith and Despondency
Tagged: Freaks, Fear, Outlier, Transgender
“Look where we are, Jax. Is this what you wanted? Piles of bodies. Relationships destroyed. And the guy you were going after is still alive.”
— August Marks, Sons of Anarchy, Season 7: What a Piece of Work Is Man
Tagged: Destruction, Failure, Loss
“Happy Lowman: You are so gay.

Tig Trager: Just gay enough.”
— Alex "Tig" Trager, Sons of Anarchy, Season 7: Some Strange Eruption
Tagged: gay, Gay Enough, So Gay
“I was born of man, but I believe my true genesis happened a bit later, when I was stirred by the gods of love and beauty and transformed into an angel. Whose sole purpose is to bring light to the shadows and a little bit of joy to all those lost souls who can no longer find it.”
— Venus Van Dam, Sons of Anarchy, Season 7: Poor Little Lambs
Tagged: Angels, beauty, Transgender, lost souls, Joy
“You know the biggest difference between me and Mr. Pope? Damon made his bones being the smartest guy on the street. I made mine being the deadliest. Don't cross me, Jackson. I have no remorse killing you or any of the Sons.”
— August Marks, Sons of Anarchy, Season 7: Playing with Monsters
Tagged: street smarts, Violence, Remorse, Threats
“I understand the pain you're in, son. The reason for your silence. I lost a son and a nephew to gang violence. I didn't want anyone arrested. I wanted them all dead. Heartless, cold bullets to the back of the head, just the way they killed my boy. That's a natural reaction. The desire for revenge, it's a part of grieving. The difference is in my world, I knew that those violent desires would never become real. In yours, it's a very likely outcome. We couldn't tie you to either murder. Parole violation (scoffs) The gun wasn't fired. It was in the house. We're gonna let you go. Your mother's here to see you. She can take you home. (chuckles) I've been doing this for over 20 years, and until today, I have never said a word about my personal life to someone on the other side of this table.”
— Tyne Patterson, Sons of Anarchy, Season 7: Black Widower
Tagged: Pain, Violence, Gang Violence, Parole, Murder, Grieving
“Whatever decisions happen here today, the outcome lands on you. Are you willing to let your family pay the price for your mistakes? Is that what a good man would do? Because if that happens, I promise you son, it's gonna destroy you and everything else you love, and that's not the law in me talking, that's a flawed mother who made a lot of mistakes. You're a husband, and a father, and a man before (gestures to his kutte) all of this. Own your place.”
— Tyne Patterson, Sons of Anarchy, Season 6: A Mother’s Work
Tagged: Decisions, Mistakes
“There are lessons to be found here—but mostly, I do this so you can know me. Lately, as I write these, I realize they are as much for me as they are for you. This is the one place I can be completely open—the pen and paper has no judgment, no vote, it simply receives my truth and allows me to turn the page. And today, this is my truth. I am terrified a great deal of the time—afraid of what I've done, of what I'm doing, and of what I might have to do. It's not a crippling fear, in fact, it's just the opposite. I thrive on it, I crave it, I need that rush of terror to get me out of bed in the morning. It's in my DNA. I have tremendous remorse for the acts of violence I've committed, both planned and spontaneous. But I think what brings me the most sorrow is that I've learned to justify this behavior. I always find a reason, a cause, a need that allows me the karmic lubrication to stuff my guilt into a savage compartment. I've become the thing, the one I hated. And with that awareness comes periods of days, sometimes weeks, when I have to avoid looking into a mirror. My self-hate is so deep, so palpable, I fear I'll lunge at my own image, shatter the glass, and cut myself with shards of broken reflection. Since my best friend was killed, I've lost my center. 'Op' was always my pull back to true north. Now my doubt and sense of fraudulence bark so loudly in my head that most of the time I can't hear anything else. Love, camaraderie, freedom—all the things I want from this life are lost in the din. Forgive my indulgence, sons, but today may be a day we both remember. A defining day. And I want you to look back at this entry and know that at the very least, your father was completely honest, so you know I speak the truth when I tell you that you are the most important thing to me. I'll never hurt you, never abandon you. I love you, Abel. I love you, Thomas. More than anything or anyone. I always will. Everything I do is for my sons.”
— Chris Collins, Kurt Sutter, Sons of Anarchy, Season 6: A Mother’s Work
Tagged: Lessons, Violence, Honesty, Commitment
“This life, it ain't romantic or free. There's no path to anything that makes any sense. It's just dirty and sad. And we both know it's only going to get worse.”
— Wayne Unser, Sons of Anarchy, Season 6: Aon Rud Persanta
Tagged: Sad, Depression, romance, dirty
“You can slap my wrists until they're bloody, lady. I don't give a shit. I'm giving you a win well above your pay grade. You get your devil and you punch your ticket out of this cesspool. So let's not get too lost in righteousness. I'm the scumbag outlaw, and you're the pillar of justice. And neither one of us likes looking at ourselves in the mirror. Do we have a deal?”
— Jax Teller, Sons of Anarchy, Season 6: John 8
Tagged: Self-Esteem
“JT realized there's nothing more dangerous than a gangster who thinks he's got God in his pocket. The cause may have been the greater good at one point, but for guys like you, Jimmy O, it's just killing people with Catholic bullets to line your own pockets.”
— Jax Teller, Sons of Anarchy, Season 6: Wolfsangel
Tagged: Gangsters, IRA, Catholicism
“I feel like my life has taken a turn. I'm heading down a road I've never been on before. Nothing is familiar. The signs don't make sense. Do I get off the road, or do I keep riding? The people that I see aren't the people i know. Do I go alone or take others with me? Who do I trust and who do I not? I now understand why being a leader requires isolation. I have to remove myself from those whose lives were affected by my decisions. Those I love as well as those I hate. It's getting more and more difficult to be a brother when my decisions are the ones a father has to make. I now realize that every time I make a decision effects everyone around me. By the time you're old enough to make sense of this life, to make sense of me, you'll know everything. the things I'm proud of and the things I regret—and then you'll be faced with your own decisions. And just know that the decisions that you make effect everyone and everything. It has taken me along time to realize that, and I wish I would have sooner. And as much as I want to help you, tell you what to do. I can't. Those choices will be yours, and yours alone. The only advice I can give you, sons, is to examine who you are as people and what you choose as your path in your life. Figure out what's important to you. Know yourselves...Know what's in your heart...and know whats right. Don't be swayed by fear or history or the opinions of outsiders. Find your own truth. It will lead you to the things you love.”
— Jax Teller, Sons of Anarchy, Season 6: Straw
Tagged: Self-knowledge, Decisions, Truth, heart
“There will be days when you're forced to make decisions that affect the lives of everyone you love, choices that will change you forever. You reach an age where you realize that being a man isn't about respect or strength, it's about being aware of all the things you touch. Children face inward, wallow in their own selfish needs. Men face out, take action on the needs of others. I'm at that place boys. I'm staring one of those decisions in the face and it looks back at me with historical eyes and it calls me a coward, a killer, a fraud. It wants me to crack and run from the service of my fate like a broken boy. Today, I will not do that. Today, I will be the man my father tried to be. I will make you proud.”
— Jax Teller, Sons of Anarchy, Season 5: Darthy
Tagged: Decisions, strength, Courage, Cowardice
“These next few months will be the most excruciatingly painful time of your sick and miserable life.”
— Lee Toric, Sons of Anarchy, Season 5: To Thine Own Self
Tagged: Threats, Sadism, Pain, Misery
“She's still your mother….Women like your mom, they don't do so good without family.”
— Nero Padilla, Sons of Anarchy, Season 5: Toad's Wild Ride
Tagged: Motherhood, Family
“It's hard not to hate. People, things, institutions, when they break your spirit and take pleasure in watching you bleed, hate is the only feeling that makes sense. But I know what hate does to a man, tears him apart, turn him into something he's not, something he promised himself that he'd never become. That's what I need to tell you to let you know how hard I am trying not to cave under the weight of all the awful things I feel in my heart. Sometimes my life feels like a deadly balancing act, when I feel slamming up against what I should do, impulsive reactions racing to solutions miles ahead of my brain. When I look at my day, I realize that most of it was spend cleaning up the damage of the day before. In that life I don't have a future, all I have is distraction and remorse. I buried my best friend three days ago. As cliche as this sounds I left part of me in that box. A part I barely knew, a part I never saw again. Everyday is a new box boys, you open it and take a look at what's inside. You're the one who determine if it's a gift or a coffin.”
— Jax Teller, Sons of Anarchy, Season 5: Orca Shrugged
Tagged: Hatred, Hate
“There you go, finding a hidden advantage in an unfortunate circumstance; using pain to take you to the next level. Those are the things that turn players into kings.”
— Damon Pope, Sons of Anarchy, Season 5: Laying Pipe
Tagged: perseverance, Players, kings, Pain
“I’m getting released. There’s nothing you can do to stop that. I’ll find out who you are, and where you live, and then I’m gonna kill you.”
— Jax Teller, Sons of Anarchy, Season 5: Laying Pipe
Tagged: Death Threats, Ex-Con, Prison
“Something happens at around 92 miles an hour—thunder-headers drown out all sound, engine vibrations travels at a heart's rate, field of vision funnels into the immediate and suddenly you're not on the road, you're in it. A part of it. Traffic, scenery, cops—just cardboard cutouts blowing over as you pass. Sometimes I forget the rush of that. That's why I love these long runs. All your problems, all the noise, gone. Nothing else to worry about except what's right in front of you. Maybe that's the lesson for me today, to hold on to these simple moments. Appreciate them a little more—there's not many of them left. I don't ever want that for you. Finding things that make you happy shouldn't be so hard. I know you'll face pain, suffering, hard choices, but you can't let the weight of it choke the joy out of your life. No matter what, you have to find the things that love you. Run to them. There's an old saying, 'That which doesn't kill you, makes you stronger' I don't believe that. I think the things that try to kill you make you angry and sad. Strength comes from the good things - your family, your friends, the satisfaction of hard work. Those are the things that'll keep you whole. Those are the things to hold on to when you're broken.”
— Jax Teller, Sons of Anarchy, Season 5: Sovereign
Tagged: Pain, Suffering, Motorcycles, Bikers, Freedom, Speeding
“Clay: You may as well kill me.


Jax: [laughs] You're already dead.”
— Jax Teller, Sons of Anarchy, Season 4: To Be, Act 2
Tagged: Hopelessness, Murder
“Clay Morrow killed your father, stole that seat away from this family, gunned down your father's best friend and he tried to kill your wife. He's a murderous traitor and there's only one thing to do now, Jackson... for your father, your family and your club. It's in you. It's who you are. Clay has to die. Read 'em. See 'em in your father's own hand and then you kill him, Jax. You kill Clay before he's on his feet and strikes first. And when it's done? You take your place at the head of this table where a Teller belongs. Where you belong.”
— Gemma Teller Morrow, Sons of Anarchy, Season 4: To Be, Act 1
Tagged: Revenge, Murder, Family Honor, Traitors, Betrayal
“Jax: I love you...do you love me?

Tara: If I could stop, I would. I love you, Jackson.”
— Jax Teller, Sons of Anarchy, Season 4: To Be, Act 1
Tagged: Love
“Tara: What are you writing?

Jax: Just jotting some stuff down.


Tara: My badass biker is journaling?”
— Jax Teller, Sons of Anarchy, Season 4: Una Venta
Tagged: Journaling, Bikers, badass
“The bond that holds this club together isn't about love or brotherhood anymore. We lost that a long time ago. It's just fear and greed now.”
— Jax Teller, Sons of Anarchy, Season 4: Out
Tagged: Fear, Greed, Brotherhood
“Every day it becomes more clear that I don't belong here. I'm certain now that Clay and Gemma are together. They barely try to hide it from me. Gemma hates my apathy. She hates all of me. Her chill is terrifying. I know my days are numbered Mo, and when these letters stop you can be certain my death will come at the hands of my wife and best friend. At least my sweet Thomas will never suffer my life. I miss him so much. I only pray that Jackson finds a different path. He already reminds me so much of myself.”
— John Teller, Sons of Anarchy, Season 3: NS
Tagged: Belonging, Regret
“My grief and introspection terrifies them... drives Gemma mad. Clay's pity has moved into profound loathing. I see my best friend and my wife growing closer and closer. I have no jealousy, truly. I feel nothing. Not even fear, and I know I should be afraid.”
— John Teller, Sons of Anarchy, Season 3: Bainne
Tagged: Grief, Introspection, Jealousy, Fear, Numbness
“Every time I think maybe I'm heading in the right direction, I end up in a place I never even knew could feel this bad.”
— Jax Teller, Sons of Anarchy, Season 3: SO
Tagged: Bad Luck, Downward Spiral, Sad
“We don't know who we are until we're connected to someone else. We're just better human beings when we're with the person we're supposed to be with. I wasn't supposed to leave. I belong here.”
— Tara Knowles, Sons of Anarchy, Season 3: SO
Tagged: Interconnected
“My brain never stops. Why am I here? Should I be here? Am I afraid to stay, afraid to go, afraid to be a mother? It's endless. I drive myself crazy.”
— Tara Knowles, Sons of Anarchy, Season 3: SO
Tagged: Obsessive Thinking
“Fair's for losers. I'd rather win.”
— AJ Weston, Sons of Anarchy, Season 2: The Culling
Tagged: Fairness
“Gemma: Clay's never gonna...want to be inside something that's been ripped up like me.

Tara: Jesus Christ, Gemma, Clay loves you.

Gemma: Love don't mean shit. Men need to own their pussy. His has been violated. He'll find another. It's what they do.”
— Gemma Teller Morrow, Sons of Anarchy, Season 2: Service
Tagged: Rape, Shame, Rejection
“Is there anything you love so much, you'd protect it, no matter the cost; the damage it did to you?”
— Jax Teller, Sons of Anarchy, Season 2: Potlatch
Tagged: Love, Protectiveness
“Everything caves under the weight of greed. I've seen it my whole life. Nothing stays simple.”
— Elliott Oswald, Sons of Anarchy, Season 2: Gilead
Tagged: Greed
“Well, you got decades of experience. Why don't you tell me how I do that? How I get right with you tryin' to kill a brother behind the club's back and your little trigger boy blowin' an innocent woman's head off?”
— Jax Teller, Sons of Anarchy, Season 2: Eureka
Tagged: Revenge, Murder, Experience
“I just pulled my six-year-old out of T-ball cause I found out they're giving trophies to every boy on every team for simply playing the game. Trophies should be earned. Teaching children that everyone's equal is a dangerous philosophy.”
— AJ Weston, Sons of Anarchy, Season 2: Albification
Tagged: Participation Trophies
“You wanna know how many women I've slept with over the last 10 years?…Hundreds! Maybe more, I don't know. I barely see their faces. I married Wendy because I was lonely. Because I got tired of the endless disconnect. It was just a sad time-out. Because when I'm inside someone, there's only one face I see. When you came home, it was like some kind of sign to me. Like my past coming around to give me another shot to do this different; better. And now that chance is running back to Chicago.”
— Jax Teller, Sons of Anarchy, Season 1: The Revelator
Tagged: Manwhore, Promiscuity, Disconnection, Chicago, Loneliness
“I'm more scared now than I ever was. I'm scared of getting caught. I'm scared of not getting caught.”
— Tara Knowles, Sons of Anarchy, Season 1: The Revelator
Tagged: Fear, Capture
“I'm protecting the innocent. If I step on a few toes in the meanwhile, so be it.”
— Gemma Teller Morrow, Sons of Anarchy, Season 1: The Sleep of Babies
Tagged: Protectiveness, Innocence
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