"Don't look back. You're not going that way."
BoJack Horseman - Movie Quotes
Memorable Quotes
It gets easier. Every day it gets a little easier. But you gotta do it every day — that’s the hard part. But it does get easier.
— Jogging Baboon
Context:
In the final episode of Season 2, "Out to Sea," a demoralized BoJack attempts to start jogging. He quickly gives up, collapsing on the side of the road, where a random jogging baboon offers him this piece of advice before running off.
Meaning:
This quote encapsulates the show's core philosophy on change and recovery. It acknowledges that healing and self-improvement are not a one-time fix but a continuous, daily commitment. It offers a rare, earned moment of hope in a series often steeped in cynicism.
When you look at someone through rose-colored glasses, all the red flags just look like flags.
— Wanda Pierce
Context:
This line is said by Wanda, BoJack's owl girlfriend who just woke up from a 30-year coma, in Season 2, Episode 10, "Yes And." She says it as she is breaking up with BoJack, having finally recognized the toxic patterns she had previously overlooked.
Meaning:
A poignant observation about the nature of love and denial. This quote speaks to the universal experience of ignoring warning signs in a relationship because of infatuation. It highlights how people's desires can blind them to the reality of who someone is.
Sometimes life’s a bitch and then you keep living.
— Diane Nguyen
Context:
In Season 6, Episode 16, "Nice While It Lasted," Diane says this to BoJack during their final conversation on the roof. It is a reflection on their shared struggles and a quiet acknowledgment of the path forward.
Meaning:
A sober and realistic counterpoint to the nihilistic cliché "life's a bitch and then you die." This quote embodies the show's theme of endurance. It suggests that the true challenge of life isn't death, but the necessity of continuing to live through pain, disappointment, and hardship.
I need you to tell me that I'm a good person. I know that I can be selfish and narcissistic and self-destructive, but underneath all that, deep down, I'm a good person... Tell me that I'm good.
— BoJack Horseman
Context:
At the end of Season 1, Episode 11, "Downer Ending," after a drug-fueled trip where he imagines a better life, BoJack anxiously asks this of Diane. The episode famously ends with her silence, refusing to give him the easy absolution he craves.
Meaning:
This quote perfectly captures BoJack's desperate need for external validation and his refusal to do the internal work required to actually be good. He wants the label of 'good' without the effort, showing his deep insecurity and desire for a simple answer to his complex moral failings.
The view from halfway down.
— Secretariat
Context:
This is the title and centerpiece of Season 6, Episode 15. In a near-death hallucination, BoJack watches his hero, Secretariat, perform a poem about his own suicide by jumping off a bridge. The poem describes the horrifying realization, halfway down, that life was worth living after all.
Meaning:
This phrase, from a poem recited in the episode, is a devastating metaphor for the regret felt in the moment of suicide. It speaks to the sudden clarity and terror of realizing you've made an irreversible mistake, but only when it's too late. It is one of the show's most haunting explorations of death and despair.