“I do believe in killing the messenger. You know why? Because it sends a message.”
— Damon Salvatore, The Vampire Diaries, Season 1: Isobel
“ If I see something I haven’t seen before, I’ll throw a dollar at it.”
— Damon Salvatore, The Vampire Diaries, Season 1: Children of the Damned
“Oh, I understand. He’s the reason you live. His love ‘lifts you up where you belong.’ I get it.”
— Damon Salvatore, The Vampire Diaries, Season 1: Let the Right One In
“I do not go behind people’s backs and torture them. I like my enemies to look me in the eye and see the depth of my rage.”
— Damon Salvatore, The Vampire Diaries, Season 7: Age of Innocence
“Elena: Please don’t do anything stupid.
Damon: Yeah, but stupid’s so much more fun!”
— Damon Salvatore, The Vampire Diaries, Season 2: Daddy Issues
“I will shove this ring so far up your ass, you’ll really have something to choke on.”
— Damon Salvatore, The Vampire Diaries, Season 2: Brave New World
“If you’re setting me up in any way, I will rip your heart out and shove it down your throat. Something I’m very good at.”
— Damon Salvatore, The Vampire Diaries, Season 2: Katerina
“Stefan: So, at the risk of sounding like, uh…like a jealous boyfriend…
Damon: Oh, there’s no risk. You do.”
— Damon Salvatore, The Vampire Diaries, Season 1: Founder’s Day
“I wanted to feel something again. And when I decided to come back home, it all came rushing back, just like I hoped it would.”
— Damon Salvatore, The Vampire Diaries, Season 6: Black Hole Sun
“You know what? I don’t want her to be happy. I want her to be miserable, just like I am.”
— Damon Salvatore, The Vampire Diaries, Season 6: The More You Ignore Me, The Closer I Get
“Caroline: Hey, how come you don’t sparkle?
Damon: Because I live in the real world where vampires burn in the sun.”
— Damon Salvatore, The Vampire Diaries, Season 1: Family Ties
“John: You haven’t returned any of my calls.
Damon: Most people would take that as a hint.”
— Damon Salvatore, The Vampire Diaries, Season 1: Miss Mystic Falls
“Damon: You’re trying to manipulate me…
Elena: If by ‘manipulate’ you mean tell the truth, then okay. Guilty.”
— Damon Salvatore, The Vampire Diaries, Season 2: Bad Moon Rising
“You know what’s real? The way you felt for me. You once told me it was the most real thing you ever felt in your life.”
— Damon Salvatore, The Vampire Diaries, Season 6: The More You Ignore Me, The Closer I Get
“We both know the closest you’ll ever get to humanity is when you rip it open and feed on it.”
— Damon Salvatore, The Vampire Diaries, Season 1: The Night of the Comet
“You can’t just sit there and wait for life to come to you, you have to go get it.”
— Damon Salvatore, The Vampire Diaries, Season 1: Friday Night Bites
“You’re not gonna be doing much of anything if you don’t have your strength. There’s nothing wrong with partaking in a healthy diet of human blood from a blood bank. You’re not actually killing anyone.”
— Damon Salvatore, The Vampire Diaries, Season 1: Under Control
“You know, I really liked you a whole lot better when you hated everybody.”
— Damon Salvatore, The Vampire Diaries, Season 1: Under Control
“If you’re gonna be maudlin, I’m gonna kill you myself. Just to put me out of your misery.”
— Damon Salvatore, The Vampire Diaries, Season 2: The Descent
“Don’t mistake the fact that we haven’t set you on fire in your sleep for trust.”
— Damon Salvatore, The Vampire Diaries, Season 2: Know Thy Enemy
“He has no idea what normal is—his entire existence isn’t normal. Normal to a vampire is drinking human blood, but he’s spent all this time fighting it, when he should have been learning how to control it. And now it’s controlling him, instead.”
— Damon Salvatore, The Vampire Diaries, Season 1: Miss Mystic Falls
“You confuse me for someone with remorse.”
— Damon Salvatore, The Vampire Diaries, Season 1: Haunted
“ Don’t pout. It’s not attractive in a woman your age.”
— Damon Salvatore, The Vampire Diaries, Season 2: The Return
“Just say that you missed me as much as I missed you.”
— Damon Salvatore, The Vampire Diaries, Season 6: Do You Remember the First Time?
“Humanity’s not all it’s cracked up to be.”
— Damon Salvatore, The Vampire Diaries, Season 2: The Descent
“ I’ve been in love. It’s painful, pointless, and overrated.”
— Damon Salvatore, The Vampire Diaries, Season 1: You’re Undead to Me
“Vampires can’t procreate. But we love to try.”
— Damon Salvatore, The Vampire Diaries, Season 1: Bloodlines
“I like being a living dead person.”
— Damon Salvatore, The Vampire Diaries, Season 1: Isobel
“We’re in hell. My own person, custom-built hell.”
— Damon Salvatore, The Vampire Diaries, Season 6: Yellow Ledbetter
“I promised you an eternity of misery, so I’m just keeping my word.”
— Damon Salvatore, The Vampire Diaries, Season 1: Pilot
“Gotta run. Have a murder to plan. Busy day.”
— Damon Salvatore, The Vampire Diaries, Season 2: The Dinner Party
“Well, your life was pathetic; your afterlife doesn’t have to be.”
— Damon Salvatore, The Vampire Diaries, Season 1: You’re Undead to Me
“I have to go exploit some women in the name of grief.”
— Damon Salvatore, The Vampire Diaries, Season 1: A Few Good Men