"You keep finding something to fight for"
About this Quote
Coming from Pedro Pascal, an actor whose public persona blends warmth with a wary edge, the subtext reads as earned resilience rather than motivational-poster optimism. Pascal has become a cultural shorthand for tenderness under pressure: characters and roles that live in collapse-era worlds, where care is an act of defiance and protection is never clean. In that atmosphere, "fight" is less about violence than insistence: keep loving, keep showing up, keep choosing responsibility when it would be easier to detach.
The sentence also dodges the macho trap baked into the word "fight" by pairing it with "something" instead of "someone". The enemy is not a person; its entropy. Cynicism. The slow drift toward meaninglessness. The intent is quietly radical: you may not control the world, but you can control the next cause you commit to. Not heroism as spectacle, just persistence as a moral practice.
Quote Details
| Topic | Never Give Up |
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| Source | The Last of Us, Season 1 Episode 1: When You’re Lost in the Darkness (HBO, 2023), line as Joel Miller |
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APA Style (7th ed.)
Pascal, Pedro. (2026, February 9). You keep finding something to fight for. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/you-keep-finding-something-to-fight-for-184975/
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Pascal, Pedro. "You keep finding something to fight for." FixQuotes. February 9, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/you-keep-finding-something-to-fight-for-184975/.
MLA Style (9th ed.)
"You keep finding something to fight for." FixQuotes, 9 Feb. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/you-keep-finding-something-to-fight-for-184975/. Accessed 13 Feb. 2026.









