Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind Quotes

Joel: I can't see anything that I don't like about you.
Clementine: But you will! But you will. You know, you will think of things. And I'll get bored with you and feel trapped because that's what happens with me.
Joel: Okay.
Clementine: Okay.

Clementine: Maybe you can find yourself a nice antique rocking chair to die in.

Joel: If only I could meet someone new. I guess my chances of that happening are somewhat diminished, seeing that I'm incapable of making eye contact with a woman I don't know.

Clementine: I apply my personality in a paste.

Clementine: What are you, nuts?
Joel: It's been suggested.

Clementine: I'm a vindictive little bitch, truth be told!

Clementine: I wish you'd stayed.
Joel: I wish I'd stayed, too. Now, I wish I'd stayed. I wish I'd done a lot of things. I wish I'd... I wish I'd stayed... I do.

Clementine: Let me show you something, come on.
Joel: I think I heard a crack.
Clementine: It's not gonna crack, or break, or... It's so thick! Show me which constellations you know.
Joel: Um, oh, I don't... know any.
Clementine: Show me which ones you know!
Joel: Okay, okay - oh! There's Osidius.
Clementine: Where?
Joel: Right there, see? Sort of a swoop and a cross, Osidius the Emphatic.
Clementine: You're full of shit, right?
Joel: Nope. Osidius, right there, swoop and cross.
Clementine: Shut the fuck up!

Clementine: Sometimes I don't think people realize how lonely it is to be a kid.

Clementine: Drink up, young man. It'll make the whole seduction part less repugnant.

Clementine: Joely What if you stay this time?
Joel: I walked out the door. There's no memory left.
Clementine: Come back and make up a goodbye at least, let's pretend we had one... Goodbye, Joel.
Joel: ...I love you...
Clementine: ...Meet me in Montauk.
Clementine: Too many guys think I'm a concept, or I complete them, or I'm gonna make them alive. But I'm just a fucked-up girl who's looking for my own peace of mind; don't assign me yours.
Joel: I remember that speech really well.
Clementine: I had you pegged, didn't I?
Joel: You had the whole human race pegged.
Clementine:Hmm. Probably.
Joel: I still thought you were gonna save my life... even after that.
Clementine: Oh, I know.
Joel: It would be different, if we could just give it another go-round.
Clementine: Remember me. Try your best; maybe we can.

Joel: Why do I fall in love with every woman I see who shows me the least bit of attention?

Joel: Sand is overrated. It's just tiny, little rocks.

Clementine: Well, I came back down stairs and you were gone.
Joel: I walked out. I walked out the door.
Clementine: Why?
Joel: I don't know. I felt like a scared little kid. I was like... it was - it was above my head. I don't know.
Clementine: You were scared?
Joel: Yeah. I thought you knew that about me. I ran back to the bonfire trying to outrun my humiliation, I think.
Clementine: Was it something I said?
Joel: Yeah. You said "So, go." with such disdain, you know?
Clementine: Oh, I'm sorry.
Joel: It's okay.

Clementine: This is it, Joel. It's going to be gone soon.
Joel: I know.
Clementine: What do we do?
Joel: Enjoy it.

Dad Quoted or Quoting

"I'm an old man; I'm going to die soon. I have no more time for foolish people and foolish things. Tick tock, people!"

"I'd rather die in the streets than live in a castle."

"You're like me; it's your blessing and your curse. You see everything."

"You're like your brother-- you can make anything into a weapon."

"You know what my father used to say to me, 'If you threw all your troubles in a hat with everyone else, you'd pull yours back out in a minute.'"

"I might have been born in the dark, but it wasn't last night."

"Throw shit at the wall until it sticks."

"One horseman short of an apocalypse."

"I'm crisis management."

"My life was saved by rock n roll." (Quoted from Velvet Underground)

"A little putty, a little paint makes things what they ain't."

(about drugs) "You want to open the door, not blow it off its hinges."

"It was a small drinking town with a fishing problem."

"I never forget."

"An Irishman walks out of a bar."

"He's a professional Irishman."

"That's the Irish; they think they're the only ones here."

"One crisis at a time."

(about drugs) "You can't ride two horses at once."

"Do you know what ducks are? Ducks are what mountain climbers leave behind to mark the trail. They pile up rocks to leave a sign for the other climbers who will come after them to help them find their way. That's what my art is to me."

"I never understood suicide. If it got that bad, I'd walk out to the interstate and stick my thumb out, see where it'd take me."

"A well organized man can survive comfortably in hell."

"Hassain. This guy wanted to get himself a band of assassins. He took them to a wall garden, fed them boatloads of hashish and had all these courtesans who fucked their brains out. Then, the next morning, they were back out on the street - he convinced them they had gone to heaven, and he told them that their way back to heaven was to commit assassinations for him. The word assassin comes from the word hassain which means hashish."

"I went to the Panther demonstrations in the early 1970's at Yale University, instead of going and getting my head cracked and tear-gassed - I thought it was more interesting to listen to Allen Ginsberg read poetry in a quad somewhere up there. And afterwards, I went up and asked him if he edited his poetry, because I wrote poetry when I was younger, and he told me he edited as little as possible."

"Several years later, I was in the lobby of an auditorium at Boston College, at something called the Dharma Festival, which I no longer had the money to attend because I had bought two pints of tequila, and I was standing in the lobby drinking one of them. Allen Ginsberg came up to me and said, 'That's no way to get into heaven, Tiger.'"

"The day Martin Luther King was assassinated, I was 16, and people were giving away free tickets to see Jimmy Hendrix. And, they were a lot older than I was, and I really had no comprehension of what the assassination of Martin Luther King meant, so I went with some friends and took the 60 bus down Bloomfield Avenue to Newark, and then walked way down Broad Street to the Mosque Theater. Then, when Hendrix came on stage - everyone went to the first three rows, because that was as many people as there were at the show. He only played four or five songs, and everyone went home. The next day, the tanks were rolling down Bloomfield Avenue into Newark, and the school buses filled with black prisoners were headed up to Cauldwell Prison, and you could go up to the mountain behind Montclair and watch Newark burn."

"If you can't stand the paradox, get out of religion."

"Intent is the difference between a tool and a weapon."

S: I see the future yawning before me with nothing but death, Dad: you, Mom, Grandma. What do you do with that?
D: You dance, you dance.

Listening to Baker's Street:
S: It soars.
D: You're goddamn right it does. And when you're going up and down those hills in San Fransico...
-
S: "But you know he'll always keep moving..."
D: Not me.

"Dickless Cheney."

Daddy: Dwight Yoakam-- It's Tom Petty-- it's just country!
Andrew: It's still the blues.

S: I think it's what women ultimately do to men-- they destroy them.
Dad: They challenge them.

S: Beer, it's what's for dinner.
Daddy: Not just for breakfast, anymore.

D: You're my best friend.

S: I'm going crazy.
D: Short trip.

"It's not as bad as it seems, it's actually much worse."

"Drunk? Yes, I'm drunk! But, you, you're crazy! In the morning, I'll wake up-- and I'll be sober. But, you, you'll still be crazy!"

::answering the phone:: TOWER!

"The Irish have a saying, 'Cheer up, you'll soon be dead.'"

"Mi Corazon. Do you know what that means? My heart. Mi Corazon."

"Monos. Little monkeys. That's what they called you kids in Jersey."

"It's Stevie Nicks, honey. She's not afraid of anything that walks and talks or anything she can't see."

"I have to listen to music while I do my art. It engages that part of my mind that I need someone to babysit while I do my thing."

"He's a beautiful mistake."

"It's your mama's pajamas, it's spiders from Mars-- it's always something. But you know what? It all comes out in the wash."