Rick Grimes Quotes

Rick Grimes: Don't show them who you are.

Michonne Grimes: What I am?

Rick Grimes: Strong. A leader. You hide it.

Rick Grimes (narration): I don't see the dead anymore or the ones I lost or the sun, the sky, or the water. I don't see you anymore. I just see what's ahead. Metal rotors and gun oil and blood. What I have to do, what I can do to help save the world, even if you don't know I ever did that. I love you so much. I love you so, so much. I tried. Please just know I tried. I tried, but I failed.

Donald Okafor: You and Thorne will be project leads on the conversion team. This is you getting in. This is the start of your path to the higher echelons of power.

Rick Grimes: I don't want power.

Donald Okafor: That's the thing. You already have it.

Rick Grimes: This isn't my city. Those aren't my people.

Donald Okafor: Everyone are your people. Everyone alive.

Rick Grimes: This isn't everything! You don't get to choose for the world! You don't get to choose for me.

Donald Okafor: I don't. You did. You made the choice.

Rick Grimes: My wife is my choice. My daughter, my life is my choice. You think I went what I went through, did what I did to let anyone choose anything for me?

Rick Grimes (to Esteban): I can't just... I have to keep trying. I won't stop. I'm getting there. I'm getting home. Or I'm dying. That's it.

Pearl Thorne: This is all I have left. The rest? The life before? It's all gone. This is all you have left, too. The person you are trying to get back to...

Rick Grimes: Hey, she's not gone. They're not gone.

Pearl Thorne: She isn't. They aren't. We are.

Rick Grimes: If I'm an "A," if I think for myself, why do you even think I'm gonna go along with all of this?

Donald Okafor (to Rick and Thorne): Because I believe if either one of you had a chance to save the world, you would. You'd have to.

Donald Okafor: Is that your choice? Is this the end of it and the start of something else?

Rick Grimes: It's the end... And the start.

Rick Grimes (narration): First time I tried, the army didn't know what to do with me. Because no one tries to escape. No one wants to.