With True Detective's first season now behind us, the legend of Matthew McConaughey's Rust Cohle lives on. And thanks to Rust having a devil's share of unsettling, existential "McConaulagues," the actor's most certainly on his way towards an Emmy win for "Outstanding Actor in a Miniseries or Movie."

True Detective: Season 1 Finale Review

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Party Pooper

Throughout Season 1's eight powerful episodes, Detective Rust Cohle - aka "The Michael Jordan of Being a Son of a Bitch" - could always be counted on for an unhealthy dose of nihilism with a chaser of unwelcome pessimism. A trait that not only pushed everyone (friends, family) out of his life, but also helped marked him as a prime suspect in an widespread occult murder case. But there was a poetry to Rust's rhetoric that was undeniably cool. And it was all said with such sad certainty that one couldn't help but think he was indeed "main-lining the secret truths of the universe."So, looking back at the grandeur of Season 1, here are 13 Rust Cohle-isms to cling to tightly when you find yourself desperately missing this show.

"It's all one ghetto, man. A giant gutter in outer space."

Nature vs. Nurture

"I think human consciousness, is a tragic misstep in evolution. We became too self-aware, nature created an aspect of nature separate from itself, we are creatures that should not exist by natural law. We are things that labor under the illusion of having a self; an accretion of sensory, experience and feeling, programmed with total assurance that we are each somebody, when in fact everybody is nobody. Maybe the honorable thing for our species to do is deny our programming, stop reproducing, walk hand in hand into extinction, one last midnight - brothers and sisters opting out of a raw deal."

Sunday School

"If the only thing keeping a person decent is the expectation of divine reward then, brother, that person is a piece of s***. And I’d like to get as many of them out in the open as possible. You gotta get together and tell yourself stories that violate every law of the universe just to get through the goddamn day? What’s that say about your reality?"

Floaters

"Back then, the visions...most of the time I was convinced that I'd lost it. But there were other times, I thought I was main-lining the secret truth of the universe."

Bad Religion

"The world needs bad men. We keep the other bad men from the door."

Google Earth

"This place is like somebody's memory of a town, and the memory is fading. It's like there was never anything here but jungle."

#AskRust

"The newspapers are gonna be tough on you. And prison is very, very hard on people who hurt kids. If you get the opportunity, you should kill yourself."

Real Talk

"Death created time to grow the things that it would kill."

Dreamcatcher

"To realize that all your life—you know, all your love, all your hate, all your memory, all your pain—it was all the same thing. It was all the same dream. A dream that you had inside a locked room. A dream about being a person. And like a lot of dreams there's a monster at the end of it."

It Gets Better?

"F***, I don't want to know anything anymore. This is a world where nothing is solved. Someone once told me, 'Time is a flat circle.' Everything we've ever done or will do, we're gonna do over and over and over again. And that little boy and that little girl, they're gonna be in that room again and again and again forever."

Giving Notice

"F*** this. F*** this world. Nice hook, Marty."

Five-Year Plan

"My life's been a circle of violence and degradation long as I can remember. I'm ready to tie it off."

Conclusion

"Well, once there was only dark. If you ask me, the light's winning."

So what was your favorite pearl of Rust-dom? Which spoke the most deeply to the bleakness within your soul? Let us know on the comments below.

Matt Fowler is a writer for IGN. Follow him on Twitter at @TheMattFowler and Facebook at Facebook.com/Showrenity