The best Quotes from Cowboy Bebop

Jet: "You know, sometimes when you lose something, there's just no getting it back."
Spike: "Any more fortune cookies you want to crack open, or can we eat now?"
Jet: "You work at being an ahole?"
Spike: "No, actually, it comes naturally. Unlike your arm."

Spike: "Do you know what I got the last time I was on TJ?"
Jet: "Herpes?"
Spike: "Stabbed."

Man: "Astro Gate toll will be deducted from your account."
Jet: "I'm going to take a piss in transit. Wanna charge me for that too?"
Man: "We already do, BeBop. Read the fine print."

Spike: "Just to be clear... we don't get paid if we bring them in dead, but damaged is okay?"
Jet: "I'd say very badly damaged would be A-okay."

Who takes a shit in the middle of a heist?

"You good guys, or bad guys?"
"Depends on who you ask."

I'm not going there to die. I'm going there to find out if I'm really alive.

Angels banished from heaven have no choice but to become devils.

Men always seem to think about their past before they die, as though they were frantically searching for proof that they truly lived.

They often say that humans can't alive alone. But you can live pretty long by yourself. Insteak of feeling alone in a group, it's better to be alone in your solitude.

Whatever happens, happens.

You told me once to forget the past, cause it doesn't matter, but you're the one still tied to the past, Spike.

Survival of the fittest is the law of nature. We deceive or we are deceived. Thus, we flourish or perish. Nothing good ever happened to me when I trusted others. That is the lesson.

I have no fear of death. It just means dreaming in silence. A dream that lasts for eternity.

Everything has a beginning and an end. Life is just a cycle of starts and stops. There are ends we don't desire, but they're inevitable, we have to face them. It's what being human is all about.

They say hunger is the best spice.

In terms, of sticking to our passions, and purposes, where it makes other people think we're insane. But I believe life is lived at its fullest potential in those moments.

Of the days that I have lived, only those I spent with you seemed real.

Why do people stay longer in my head than they do in my life?

No one can draw a clear line between sane and insane. You move that line as you see fit for yourself. No one else can. You'll understand soon… that the one that's insane is this world.

Look at my eyes, Faye. One of them is a fake because I lost it in an accident. Since then, I've been seeing the past in one eye and the present in the other. So, I thought I could only see patches of reality, never the whole picture. I felt like I was watching a dream I could never wake up from. Before I knew it, the dream was over.

Faye: "How long were you in there listening, Spike?"
Spike: "Too long, your story needs editing."

I don't know if this is true. Because the growth for us is actually in overcoming those obstacles and things that make us fall. I think falling and not getting up, and the worst thing we can do to ourselves, and the lesson that I took from this.

You know the first rule in combat? Shoot them before they shoot you.

Humans are meant to work and sweat to earn a living. Those that try to get rich quick, or live at the expense of others, all get divine retribution somewhere along the line. That's the lesson. Unfortunately, we quickly forget the lessons we've learned and then we have to learn them all over again.

Spike: "That's what you did? You took all the money you stole from us and you lost it gambling in a casino?"
Faye: "You know what they say cowboy, easy come easy go."

A fallen angel banished from heaven, arises into the light to be received by the benevolence of God.

When you and I first met, you told me something. You said that you had died once, that you had seen death. Why can't you just let it go? Forget the past.

The past is the past and the future is the future. A man is a man and a woman is a woman. The present is the present. I am who I am and you are who you are. That's all there is to it. Does it really matter? Or do we just think it does?

I was younger then, I wasn't afraid of anything, I didn't think about dying for a second. I thought I was invincible. Then I met some girl. I wanted to live, I started to think like that; for the first time I was afraid of death. I had never felt like that before.

Once, there was a tiger striped cat. This cat, died a million deaths, revived and lived a million lives. And he had various owners that he didn't really care about, the cat wasn't afraid to die. Then one day, he met a white female cat, the two of them fell in love and lived together happily. Well, the years went by and the white female cat got old and passed away. The tiger striped cat cried a million times, then he also died. But this time... he didn't come back.

Well here's another great moment in the legend of Spike, famous bounty hunter and dog walker.

I'm sick of the whole pooping thing... I'm gonna go get my butt cheeks pierced together.

Hungry equals cranky. And between us gals, you don't wear cranky well.

Sweat is the urine of the skin.