I’ll start us off with Cousin Ellis from No Country For Old Men:

“All the time you spend trying to get back what’s been took from you, more is going out the back door.”

  • Sterile_Technique@lemmy.worldEnglish
    15·
    6 months ago

    Idk if I’d call this my favorite, but the one that immediately popped into my brain is one from the original Men In Black - uncharacteristically introspective quote in an otherwise goofy-ass alien flick:

     

    J: “Why the big secret? People are smart. They can handle it.”

    K: “The person is smart. People are dumb, panicky dangerous animals and you know it. Fifteen hundred years ago everybody knew the Earth was the center of the universe. Five hundred years ago, everybody knew the Earth was flat, and fifteen minutes ago, you knew that humans were alone on this planet. Imagine what you’ll know tomorrow.”

  • ThePowerOfGeek@lemmy.worldEnglish
    13·
    6 months ago

    I’ve seen things you people wouldn’t believe… Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion… I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhäuser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die.

    Roy Batty’s closing monologue from Blade Runner before he dies.

    It’s depressing, but in a beautiful way.

    • livus@kbin.social
      1·
      6 months ago

      I absolutely love that speech, but I don’t find it depressing. More, sad but a powerful expression of what it is to be mortal.

  • livus@kbin.social
    11·
    6 months ago

    Somerset at the end of Se7en:

    Ernest Hemingway once wrote, “The world is a fine place and worth fighting for.” I agree with the second part.

  • Rikudou_Sage@lemmings.worldEnglish
    3·
    6 months ago

    It’s from a game, but the voice acting was top notch, Handsome Jack in Tales From the Borderlands:

    Everyone thinks they’re the hero of their own story.

  • KRAW@linux.communityEnglish
    2·
    6 months ago

    Can’t find the full quote, but there is a scene in the movie Calvary where a guy at a pub tells the main character (a priest) a story about a boy rendered blind, deaf, mute, and paralyzed, going into excruciating detail about the hell he must be in. Truly a messed up thing to tell another human. Highly recommend watching the movie.

  • MintyFresh@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    5 months ago

    Also from no country:

    Carla Jean Moss: The coin don’t have no say. It’s just you.

    Anton Chigurh: Well, I got here the same way the coin did.