Station Eleven Quotes

“Survival is insufficient.”

“Because survival is never the point. The point is about what comes after.”

“What was lost in the collapse: almost everything, almost everyone, but there is still such beauty.”

“The more you remember, the more you’ve lost.”

“Hell is the absence of the people you long for.”

“People want what was best about the world.”

“They’d performed in the settlements so remote that their arrival was regarded as a kind of miracle.”

“Because the work mattered.”

“What made it bearable were the friendships, of course, the camaraderie and the music and the Shakespeare.”

“No more diving into pools of chlorinated water lit green from below. No more ball games played under floodlights.”

“There was a moment when it was possible to look up and see the contrails of airplanes.”

“He’d always had the feeling that life was something that happened to other people.” — Arthur Leander

“What remains of Arthur Leander now? A man who repented and found no peace.”

“We were saved because the world was ugly and we were too.” — The Prophet

“We long only for the world we were born into.”

“First we only want to be seen, but once we’re seen, that’s not enough anymore. After that, we want to be remembered.”

“No one ever thinks they’re awful, even people who really actually are.”

“There had always been a massive and secret failure hidden in Leander’s heart.”

“The Symphony was their only home.”

“She had never felt more alive than she did at that moment, performing Shakespeare.”

“I repent nothing.” - Miranda

“We bemoaned the impersonality of the modern world, but that was a lie... it had never been impersonal at all.”

“A perfect moment, frozen in time.” - House scene

“It was comforting, this glimpse of how the world had once been.”

“They took nothing of value. They only wanted to remember.”

“I think about it constantly. I can’t stop thinking about it.”

“She’d been thinking lately about her life, how she had wandered away from herself.” - Miranda and the comics

“The lights of the earth are like memory, they shine long after they’ve burned out.”

“You don’t have to understand it. It’s mine.”

“The comics had survived the collapse.”