Part of that, of course, is beautifully complex characters and relationships fans love to ship and can relate to; the other part is a dialogue that can only be described as nothing short of exquisite. With the series coming to an end, here are countless quotes from This Is Us that pull at the heartstrings and address core truths about life, love and what it means to be human. From William’s This Is Us quote that had us bawling in the week before the finale, to Jack’s quotes to Rebecca in the series finale to the quotes from the finale we’ll never forget, we rounded them up here. If you can afford to shed a tear (or two) right now, keep reading. These are 55 of the most beautifulThis Is Us quotes.
55 best This Is Us quotes
1. “How you present yourself on the outside reflects how you feel on the inside."—Beth Pearson 2. “When you make a commitment to a child, you got to stick to it.” —Randall Pearson 3. “I just keep thinking about my wife and how I just want to get home to her, hang out with her, make sure she’s OK. Which is crazy, because she’s at her absolute worst right now. I mean, like, Exorcist level bad. But I still don’t want to escape her. Or my future vomiting, crap-riddled kids. I just want more time with them. I want to freeze time with them, so that I can get a little bit more.” —Jack Pearson 4. “I painted this because I felt like the play was about life, you know? And life is full of color. And we each get to come along and we add our own color to the painting, you know?” —Kevin Pearson 5. “Everyone sees their childhood with different lenses.” —Randall Pearson 6. “It is better to have loved and lost, surely, but try not to lose it all.” —William Hill 7. “You find your soul mate, you get married, you stay together until you die, period.” —Jack Pearson 8. “The point is, I don’t know what we are. OK? That’s the truth. I don’t know what I think we are. I just know that I like the fact that there’s a ‘we’ for us to talk about.” —Kevin Pearson 9. “I like to think that maybe one day you’ll be an old man like me, talking a younger man’s ear off, explaining to him how you took the sourest lemon that life has to offer and turned it into something resembling lemonade.” —Dr. Nathan Katowski 10. “Thank you for doing what I couldn’t. For raising him to be the man he is.” —William Hill 11. “You are my daily meteor shower.” —Jack Pearson 12. “It’s always gonna be about the weight for me…It’s been my story ever since I was a little girl. And every moment that I’m not thinking about it, I’m thinking about it. Like, will this chair hold me? Will this dress fit me? And if I ever get pregnant, would anyone ever notice? It’s just at the core of who I am, it’s just deep inside, and eight tequila shots can only mask that for a couple hours.” —Kate Pearson 13. “The moment I saw you, I knew you were my boy.” —Jack Pearson 14. “Roll all the windows down…crank up the music, grow out that fro. Let someone else make your bed.” —William Hill 15. “You got to own your choices, boys. Choose them fully and don’t look back.” —Jack Pearson 16. “Sometimes you just got to do the right thing. You got to do the right thing, even if it’s not what you want.” —Kevin Pearson 17. “My dad put on a tie every day because he had to. I put one on every day because I want to.” —Randall Pearson 18. “I would totally marry you if that’s something you’re down with.” —Toby 19. “When you’re a mom, you get a front row seat to the best show in town: Watching your kids grow up.” —Rebecca Pearson 20. “You deserve it. You deserve the beautiful life you’ve made. You deserve everything.” —William Hill 21. “I mean, my dad is not with us anymore. He’s not alive but he’s with us. He’s with me every day.” —Kevin Pearson 22. “I know it feels like you have all the time in the world. But you don’t. So, stop playing it so cool. Catch the moments of your life. Catch them while you’re young and quick. Because sooner than you know it, you’ll be old. And slow. And there’ll be no more of them to catch.” —William Hill 23. “Life feels like Pac-Man sometimes, I guess. It’s the same game over and over again. Same board. Same ghosts. Sometimes, you get a bunch of cherries but eventually and inevitably, those ghosts catch up with you.” —Randall Pearson 24. “We’re their parents…We do the best we can. But at the end of the day what happens to them, how they turn out, that’s bigger than us. Sometimes they’ll make good decisions. Sometimes they’ll make bad decisions. And every once in a while, they’re gonna do something that’s gonna knock us off our feet. Something that exceeds even our wildest dreams. Our kids are gonna be fine.” —Jack Pearson 25. “You walking into my fourth grade class…that’s the best thing that ever happened to me in my entire life. Actually that’s not true, scratch that. That’s the second best thing that ever happened to me. The best thing that ever happened to me was you telling me that you’d marry me.” —Kevin Pearson 26. “When I held you for the first time, right here in this hospital, it hit me like a bolt of lightning. You were my purpose…And I swear to you, son, I swear to you, you will find yours.” —Jack Pearson 27. “It all just sort of fits somehow. And even if you don’t understand how yet, people will die in our lives, people that we love. In the future. Maybe tomorrow. Maybe years from now. I mean, it’s kind of beautiful right, if you think about it, the fact that just because someone dies, just because you can’t see them or talk to them anymore, it doesn’t mean they’re not still in the painting. I think maybe that’s the point of the whole thing. There’s no dying. There’s no you or me or them. It’s just us.” —Kevin Pearson 28. “I’m terrified that I’m going to make a hundred wrong decisions to keep you guys from living the perfect lives that you deserve, but I will protect you fiercely, and I will always sing to you when you can’t sleep, and I will always be excited to hear you laugh.” —Rebecca Pearson 29. “I haven’t had a happy life. Bad breaks. Bad choices. A life of almosts and could-haves. Some would call it sad, but I don’t. ‘Cause the two best things in my life were the person in the very beginning and the person at the very end. That’s a pretty good thing to be able to say, I think.” —William Hill 30. “You weren’t a choice, Randall, you were a fact. You were never a replacement, son. Do you understand?” —Jack Pearson 31. “Now, I want you to picture the love of your life. Imagine that you have 30 seconds to win her back. One shot, three sentences. What are those sentences and who are you saying them to?” —Toby 32. “If it’s between you and having kids, you win, every time. No question.” —Jack Pearson 33. “For the past 16 years, I have put everything and everyone ahead of myself.” —Rebecca Pearson 34. “Sexiest thing about a man is his sense of humor.” —Randall Pearson 35. “I can’t go back to who I was before I met you.” —Jack Pearson 36. “Maybe instead of running in the morning, I’ll go for a walk. Slow it down a little. Talk to the mailman. That seems like a good way to start the day.” —Randall Pearson 37. “It’s a hell of a lot easier to accept who you are, in all your damaged glory, than to try to be someone you’re not. It’s sure a hell of a lot more fun, too.” —Duke 38. “Some people think the scariest part is coming to the hospital to have the baby. The scariest part is leaving the hospital with the baby.” —Jack Pearson 39. “Please do not tell me what my husband would do if he loved me. My husband’s a freaking superhero, and you have no idea what you’re talking about.” —Rebecca Pearson 40. “I’m still in love with you and I will be at our restaurant bright and early tomorrow, waiting for you.” —Kevin Pearson 41. “I am thankful for my family. I’m thankful that we’re all safe and there’s no one in the world that I’d rather be too hot or too cold with.” —Jack Pearson 42. “Sometimes, in marriage, someone has to be the one to push to make the big moves.” —Rebecca Pearson 43. “You’re not just my great love story…you are my big break. And our love story.” —Jack Pearson 44. “No. It’s not your job to make me feel better. It’s not. It’s my job. It’s my job to keep standing there with my arms wide open, waiting for you to maybe someday fall inside if you needed it. And if you do, I’ll love you. And if you don’t, I’ll love you, too. Because that’s what it means to be a parent. You’ll see one day.” —Rebecca Pearson 45. “I have to admit, you two are great together. You’re honest. You’re raw. I think you two can pull this off.” —Ron Schiller 46. “It feels like all these beautiful pieces of life are flying around me and I’m trying to catch them.” —William Hill 47. “I love the mother that you are. I love that you are still the most beautiful woman in any room and that you laugh with your entire face.” —Jack Pearson 48. “You see, for days, I’ve been plagued by the question: How do I honor my father’s legacy? Then I realized, I honor his legacy by taking what I learned from the way he lived his life and use it to shape the way I go on living mine.” —Randall Pearson 49. “You’re going to find your balance…And then you’re gonna lose it, and then you’re gonna find it again. That’s the ride. And you’re gonna make a lot of choices, and I’m probably not gonna be around for all of them. The choices you make are gonna be spectacular, because you are spectacular, son.” —Jack Pearson 50. “Maybe I don’t run into burning buildings for a living, but to me, my work is challenging and exciting. I will not apologize for the fact that it’s hard to explain to people.” —Randall Pearson 51. “You’re as tough as they come, Rebecca Pearson. And you, my dear, have earned a rest.”—Dr. K to Rebecca 52. “The way I see it, if something makes you sad when it ends, it must have been pretty wonderful when it was happening. Truth be told, I always felt it a bit lazy to just think of the world as sad, because so much of it is. Because everything ends. Everything dies."—William Hill 53. “Hey Kate, if you drifted, we’d drift right after you.” —Kevin 54. “We did good. You did so good.”—Jack to Rebecca 55. “Take the risks. Make the big moves, even if they’re small moves. Forge ahead with your lives in any and every direction that moves you. I’m asking you to be fearless.” —Rebecca Pearson Next up, the best 150 quotes about life.
