<p>Don’t know how to describe it, but it makes you stare at it or stops you or whatever whenever you’re reading a book, watching a movie, etc.</p>
<p>Obvious one:</p>
<p>Star Wars Episode III: Obi-Wan to decapitated and burning Darth Vader/Anakin Skywalker “You were the Chosen One! … You became the very thing you swore to destroy! … You were my brother, Anakin! I loved you!”</p>
<p>In Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, at the end, where McGonagall was talking to Harry in Dumbledore’s office, “You meant a great deal to him, Potter.” That was so sad.</p>
<p>“She drew a deep sigh that ended in another laugh. ‘Oh, my dear - where is that country? Have you ever been there? . . . I know so many who’ve tried to find it; and, believe me, they all got out by mistake at wayside stations: at places like Boulogne, or Pisa, or Monte Carlo - and it wasn’t at all different from the old world they’d left, but only rather smaller and dingier and more promiscuous.’” Chapter 29, pg. 230 </p>
<p>-The Age of Innocence</p>
<p>In Gattaca, where Vincent remarks to Anton while swimming to see who can last the longest, “You want to know how I did it? This is how I did it Anton. I never saved anything for the swim back.”</p>
<p>That was so touching I put it on my Facebook.</p>
<p>“But who prays for Satan? Who, in eighteen centuries, has had the common humanity to pray for the one sinner that needed it most?” - Mark Twain</p>
<p>"The end of man is knowledge, but there is one thing he can’t know. He can’t know whether knowledge will save him or kill him. He will be killed, all right, but he can’t know whether he is killed because of the knowledge which he has got or because of the knowledge which he hasn’t got and which if he had it, would save him. " - Robert Penn Warren</p>
<p>“And then he was suddenly overwhelmed. It was as if a thousand bolts of lightning had converged to lift him. All he could see was blue, electric blue, wet shining warm blue, blue with no end, everywhere, blue that glowed and made him cry out, blue, blue, her eyes were blue.” - Mark Helprin</p>
<p>The first two made me ponder. The last one left me in awe.</p>
<p>^^agreed, i like that quote, too :]</p>
<p>twilight:‘look after my heart, i’ve left it with you’
GAH, idek…something about that quote, man…so touching, so heartbreaking, so beautiful. <em>sigh</em></p>
<p>So many quotes I like work 1392084902384902384902384902389048239084902384 times better in context. Or because of what they recall.</p>
<p>In this movie, Moon Child. Basically it’s a group of young adults who live in this area of China that’s like ran by Mafia and gangs (takes place in the future). They are all friends, and then a bunch of things happen and they become enemies (one guy joined the mafia, the same mafia that killed their friend).</p>
<p>When one of the friend’s brother and husband are gun point (towards each other):
"Stop it! Why can’t you all get along? Why don’t we laugh anymore? Like before? "
It was so sad… my friend and I started crying. She never talked before then, and those were the first words that she ever said (probably never talked because of trauma earlier in the movie).</p>
<p>The ending song was so sad:</p>
<p>"At dusk, I beheld the orange sun with you.
With a teary face, you bid an eternal farewell.</p>
<p>I watched your innocent face as you frolicked with the waves.
Running along the beach with your bare feet, you are so precious to me.</p>
<p>I carved your name in the sand and decorated it with shells.
Nuzzled together behind it, we watched as the waves washed it away.</p>
<p>At dusk, I beheld the orange sun with you.
With a teary face, you bid an eternal farewell.</p>
<p>The blue sky hides our breath and the red sunset embraces us.
And I embrace you too, as I close my eyes.</p>
<p>Endless joy and sadness, and countless hellos and farewells,
Unchanging from before, the orange sun continues to watch on gently.</p>
<p>Back then, we dreamed of an eternity together.
Believing we would never part, we smiled and embraced.</p>
<p>I can’t love you any more than I do.
And just by that, I feel complete.
So don’t cry, we can always meet again.
Whenever we close our eyes…</p>
<p>At dusk, I beheld the orange sun with you.
With a teary face, you bid an eternal farewell. "</p>
<p>I highly recommend the movie. Moon Child. It’s Japanese, but you can find English subs.</p>
<p>^^^You just used a quote from Twilight. <em>Bangs head against wall</em></p>
<p>I like the Gattaca one (1000% more because I’ve seen the movie! which is my point with the context thing).</p>
<p>^so? it’s a fantastic quote. if it were from any other movie, you probably wouldn’t be so judgmental [which is just, plain stupid].</p>
<p>^Don’t worry, I’m semi-kidding…but in seriousness, I think 99.99999999999999% of quotes from romantic-like stories that people pass off as “good” are cliched and awful.</p>
<p>There were moments where my heart stopped beating when I read “Siddhartha” by Herman Hesse. I absolutely love that book.</p>
<p>^^that’s true, a lot of romantic movies have famous/popular quotes in them that i just don’t find that interesting. but that <em>particular</em> one…it just resonates with me, for whatever reason :]</p>
<p>“This is not a democracy. It’s a dictatorship. I am the law.” Remember the Titans.</p>
<p>Keys of the Kingdom by AJ Cronin - filled w/ amazing quotes and lessons</p>
<p>such as: “‘Tolerance is he highest virtue. Humility comes next.’”</p>
<p>or</p>
<p>"“My friend, I have often said: There are many religions and each has its gate to heaven.'”</p>
<p>Not a “religion” is “the best” book, but a book about, well, tolerance no matter what religion or being atheist, pantheist, deist, etc.</p>
<p>“Frankly, my dear, I don’t give a damn.”</p>
<p>absolutely love gwtw (the book) :)</p>
<p>^I have only seen the movie.</p>
<p>can we post particularly witty ones?</p>
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<p>Sounds good.</p>
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That was the voted the number one movie quote of all time. </p>
<p>I quite liked Nietzsche’s notorious “God is dead” quote when I first read it.</p>
<p>God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him. How shall we comfort ourselves, the murderers of all murderers? What was holiest and mightiest of all that the world has yet owned has bled to death under our knives. Who will wipe this blood off us? What water is there for us to clean ourselves? What festivals of atonement, what sacred games shall we have to invent? Is not the greatness of this deed too great for us? Must we ourselves not become gods simply to appear worthy of it?</p>
<p>The full excerpt is longer and has a richer mood.</p>