Say Farewell to AMC’s ‘Mad Men’ with the Series’ Best Quotes

The final episode of Mad Men airs Sunday night, so let's get ready to send the show off in style with some of the series' most quotable moments! Mad Men is, without a doubt, my favorite television show. I'd wax poetic about the series and what it's meant to me over the past eight years, but a) I've already done that HERE and b) I am not wearing waterproof mascara right now. Let's just leave it at this: Mad Men is one of, if not the best, show to ever air on television, and its departure will leave a void I don't think any other show will be able to fill.

(Unless, of course, my wildest dreams come true and AMC makes a spinoff series that's just John Slattery and Idris Elba walking around in suits--fingers crossed!)

I've been re-watching Mad Men in anticipation for the big finale, and my binge-a-thon has reminded me how stellar the series' dialogue truly is. I've posted my favorite quotes below. Mix yourself an old fashioned and leave yours in the comments below.

• "If you don't like what's being said, change the conversation." --Don Draper
• "She wanted me to be beautiful so I could find a man. There’s nothing wrong with that. But then what? Just sit and smoke and let it go ˜til you’re in a box?" --Betty Draper
• "The universe is indifferent." --Don
• "Teddy told me that in Greek, nostalgia literally means the pain from an old wound. It’s a twinge in your heart, far more powerful than memory alone. This device isn’t a spaceship, it’s a time machine. Goes backwards, forwards, and takes us to a place where we ache to go again. It’s not called “The Wheel,” it’s called “The Carousel.” It lets us travel the way a child travels, round and around and back home again, to a place where we know we are loved." --Don
• "This is America. Pick a job and become the person who does it." --Bobbie Barrett
• "Get out of here and move forward. This never happened. It will shock you how much it never happened." --Don
• "The only thing keeping you from being unhappy is the belief that you are alone." --Anna Draper
• "Well, one day you’re there and then all of a sudden there’s less of you. And you wonder where that part went, if it’s living somewhere outside of you, and you keep thinking maybe you’ll get it back. And then you realize, it’s just gone." -Peggy Olsen
• "One day you'll lose someone important to you. You'll see. It's very painful." --Joan Holloway Harris
• "Only boring people are bored." --Betty
• "No. Because there are people out there who buy things, people like you and me. And something happened. Something terrible. And the way that they saw themselves is gone. And nobody understands that. But you do. And that’s very valuable." --Don
• "But nobody knows what’s wrong themselves, I mean, everyone else can see it right away." --Stephanie
• "Let's get liberated." --Peggy
• "It doesn’t really bother me except for it’s forever. When I think about forever, I get upset. Like the Land O’Lakes butter has that Indian girl, sitting, holding a box. And it has a picture of her on it, holding a box. With a picture of her on it, holding a box. Have you ever noticed that?" --Sally
• "I told him to be himself. That was pretty mean, I guess." --Roger
• "PIZZA HOUSE!" --Peggy
• "Men don’t take time to end things. They ignore you until you insist on a declaration of hate." --Joan
• "I’m glad the Army makes you feel like a man, because I’m sick of trying to do it." --Joan
• " I would try to avoid the mistake that I’ve made my entire life. Every time someone’s asked me what I wanted, I’ve never told them the truth." --Lane Pryce
• "It’s an epic poem for me to get home." --Pete Campbell
• "What is happiness? It’s a moment before you need more happiness." --Don
• "When it went away, he was heartbroken. And then he realized everything he already had was not right either, and that was why it had happened at all. And that his life with his family was some temporary bandage on a permanent wound." --Pete
• "I’m proud of you. I just didn’t know it would be without me." --Don
• "What are the events in life? It’s like you see a door. The first time you come to it, you say, Oh, what’s on the other side of the door? Then you open a few doors, then you say, I think I want to go over that bridge this time, I’m tired of doors. Finally you go through one of these things, and you come out the other side, and you realize, that’s all there are, doors, and windows, and bridges, and gates. And they all open the same way, and they all close behind you. Look, life is supposed to be a path, and you go along and these things happen to you, and they’re supposed to change you, change your direction. But turns out that’s not true. Turns out the experiences are nothing, they’re just some pennies you pick up off the floor, you stick in your pocket, and you’re just going in a straight line—to you know where." --Roger
• " It’s one thing to want something, it’s another to need it." --Ted Chaough
•  "That poor girl, she doesn’t know that loving you is the worst way to get to you." --Betty
• "My father has never given me anything." --Sally
• "Sometimes I think maybe I died, and I’m in some kind of—I don’t know if it’s heaven, or hell, or limbo—but I don’t seem to exist. No one feels my existence." --Pete
• " I wish it was yesterday." --Bobby Draper
• "The best things in life are free." --Bert Cooper
• " I want to burn this place down." --Joan
• "All art is selling something." --Stan Rizzo
• "You don’t have any character, you’re just handsome. Stop kidding yourself." --John Mathis
• "I don't know, but it's not because I don't care. I don't know, because you're not supposed to know...or you can't go on with your life." --Peggy
• "And I don't want you to think I'm a quitter. I've fought for plenty in my life. That's how I know when it's over. It's not a weakness. It's been a gift for me.To know when to move on." --Betty