The best inspirational quotes from ‘Money Heist’

For people dying for a new television show to check out, La casa de papel – also known as Money Heist – is the recommendation that every TV nerd will give them. The Spanish Netflix series is full of nail-biting tension, wonderful character drama, and a plan so meticulous it would make Leverage’s Nate Ford faint from envy.

Honestly, who doesn’t like a good heist? You can even research the real heists that inspired Money Heist in our roundup here. Money Heist has definitely won over audiences and critics alike around the world with fans eagerly awaiting for the premiere of the fourth season. The crew of city-named criminals led by the Professor end up having a whole found family vibe to them over the course of the series.

While you would expect some thrilling acts and rich tapestry of a story, there are also some truly inspirational quotes buried in there. Sometimes you just need a little pick-me-up to keep going.

Broken down by character, here are the most inspirational quotes in Money Heist.

Tokyo

“In the end, love is a good reason for everything to fall apart.”

“Have you ever thought that if you could go back in time, you might still make the same decisions? We all make our own snowballs out of our bad decisions. Balls that become massive, like the Indiana Jones boulder, chasing you down-hill only to crush you in the end.”

“That is nostalgia: finding out that things from the past you didn’t even expect were happiness…. actually were.”

“They save love makes the world go round. But the truth is that hatred is not that far behind.”

“The good thing about relationships is that you finally forget how they started.”

“After all, what’s more human than the fight for survival?”

“There are moments in life we should just be able to have a damn remote control, so you could pause it. Even if just for five minutes. But sometimes things happen with irreverent obscenity and there’s nothing you can do to help it.”

“When you spend years thinking about something obsessively, that something is your whole world, your perfect world.”

“All the decisions we made in the past leads us inexorably into the future.”

“When you hit rock bottom, you still have a way to go until the abyss.”

“I’d get 30 years. And to be honest, growing old in a prison cell is not my thing. I’d rather run, in body and soul. And if I can’t take my body with me, at least my soul should run.”

“The most important moments are the ones that make you realize there’s no turning back. You’ve crossed a line, and you’re stuck on the other side now.”

The Professor

“When someone is in love, they look through rose-tinted glasses. Everything’s wonderful. They transform into a soft teddy bear that’s smiling all the time.”

“In this world, everything is governed by balance. There’s what you stand to gain and what you stand to lose. And when you think you’ve got nothing to lose, you become overconfident.”

“Weakness is not in us, it is what we have outside.”

“In the end, one cares about many things, and we should not give so much importance to things.”

“Sometimes a truce is the most important part of a war.”

Berlin

“Love can’t be timed. It has to be lived.”

“First times are special. Unique. But the last times are beyond comparison. They are priceless. But people don’t know it’s their last time.”

“Sometimes distance is the only way to find peace. So you can heal your wound.”

“I’ve spent my life being a bit of a son of a bitch, but today I think I want to die with dignity.”

“Believe me, I’ve had five divorces. Do you know what five divorces are? Five times I believed in love.”

“Death can be the greatest opportunity of your life.”

“Because someday, something will go wrong. It could cost you your life or something worse. And on that day what you can’t be thinking is that you are to be blamed for something you couldn’t control. That’s life. Enjoy it, until the party is over.”

“For a joke to work, it has to have part of truth and part of pain.”

“No matter how tough things get, children always turn out okay.”

“I have always wanted to have one mahogany desk, but crime and office don’t get along.”

Nairobi

“You don’t love anyone? Of course you don’t, darling. You don’t have the balls for it. To love, you need courage.”

“Family members help each other, no questions asked. Because it makes you happy and your life depends on it. You have your plan, I know. Well, I have one, too. You’ve taught me that we help each other. That’s who we are.”

“You know what else is scary? Walking home alone at night. But us women keep doing it. Take fear by the hand and keep living. Because you have to live, gentlemen! You have to live until the end!”

“Let the matriarchy begin.”

“What you have to do is show these suckers what you’re capable of. Show them you’re not scared.”

Mariví Fuentes

“Dear, in the end, love is what makes us see life in another color, and lately, you have only seen everything black.”

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