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Relationships10 quotes
What a loss to spend that much time with someone, only to find out that she's a stranger. — Joel Barish · 2004Are we like those bored couples you feel sorry for in restaurants? Are we the dining dead? — Joel Barish · 2004I guess when you're young, you just believe there'll be many people with whom you'll connect with. Later in life, you realize it only happens a few times. — Celine · 2004People have to share things, Joel. That's what intimacy is. — Clementine Kruczynski · 2004You know friend, this is a god damn bitch of an unsatisfactory situation. — Jack Twist · 2005It will be different. If we could just give it another go-round. — Joel Barish · 2004All 10 quotes →
What a loss to spend that much time with someone, only to find out that she's a stranger. — Joel Barish · 2004As far as our marriage goes, we can do it over the phone. — Jack Twist · 2005It will be different. If we could just give it another go-round. — Joel Barish · 2004I hate you. You were just some boy who made me laugh at a party once, and now I loathe the sight of you. — April Wheeler · 2008I wish I had stayed, too. Now I wish I had stayed. I wish I had done a lot of things. I wish I had... I wish I had stayed. I do. — Joel Barish · 2004I couldn't sleep last night because I know that it's over between us. I'm not bitter anymore because I know that what we had was real. — Noah · 2004All 8 quotes →
Love8 quotes
Love means never having to say you're sorry. — Jenny · 1970I wish I knew how to quit you. — Jack Twist · 2005But if you want true love, then this is it. This is real life. It's not perfect but it's real. — Jesse · 2013The best love is the kind that awakens the soul, and makes us reach for more, that, plants a fire in our hearts and brings peace to our minds. And that's what you've given me and what I hope to give to you forever. — Noah · 2004I am no one special; just a common man with common thoughts, and I've led a common life. There are no monuments dedicated to me and my name will soon be forgotten. But in one respect, I have succeeded as gloriously as anyone who ever lived. I've loved another with all my heart and soul, and for me, that has always been enough. — Duke · 2004I love you so much and I hate this war so much. — Ilsa Lund · 1942All 8 quotes →
Love means never having to say you're sorry. — Jenny · 1970But if you want true love, then this is it. This is real life. It's not perfect but it's real. — Jesse · 2013The best love is the kind that awakens the soul, and makes us reach for more, that, plants a fire in our hearts and brings peace to our minds. And that's what you've given me and what I hope to give to you forever. — Noah · 2004
Commitment2 quotes
I'll never let go, I promise. — Rose Dewitt Bukater · 1997So it's not gonna be easy. It's going to be really hard; we're gonna have to work at this everyday, but I want to do that because I want you. I want all of you, forever, you and me, everyday. — Noah · 2004
Summer romances end for all kinds of reasons, but when all is said and done, they have one thing in common. They are shooting stars, a spectacular moment of light in the heavens, a fleeting glimpse of eternity, and in a flash they're gone. — Duke · 2004Why do I fall in love with every woman I see who shows me the least bit of attention? — Joel Barish · 2004
Flings2 quotes
Summer romances end for all kinds of reasons, but when all is said and done, they have one thing in common. They are shooting stars, a spectacular moment of light in the heavens, a fleeting glimpse of eternity, and in a flash they're gone. — Duke · 2004If in some distant place in the future we see each other in our new lives, I'll smile at you with joy, and remember how we spent a summer beneath the trees, learning from each other and growing in love. — Noah · 2004
Life2 quotes
It’s just like our life, we appear and we disappear. We are so important to some, but we are just…passing through. — Natalia (Before Midnight) · 2013Life's hard. It's suppose to be. If we didn't suffer, we wouldn't learn a thing, you know? — Jesse · 2004
It’s just like our life, we appear and we disappear. We are so important to some, but we are just…passing through. — Natalia (Before Midnight) · 2013Life's hard. It's suppose to be. If we didn't suffer, we wouldn't learn a thing, you know? — Jesse · 2004
You know friend, this is a god damn bitch of an unsatisfactory situation. — Jack Twist · 2005It will be different. If we could just give it another go-round. — Joel Barish · 2004
It's an odd feeling, farewell. There is some envy in it. Men go off to be tested, for courage. And if we're tested at all, it's for patience, for doing without, but for how well we can endure loneliness. — Karen · 1985Come back and make up a good-bye at least. Let's pretend we had one. — Clementine Kruczynski · 2004
Summer love2 quotes
Summer romances end for all kinds of reasons, but when all is said and done, they have one thing in common. They are shooting stars, a spectacular moment of light in the heavens, a fleeting glimpse of eternity, and in a flash they're gone. — Duke · 2004If in some distant place in the future we see each other in our new lives, I'll smile at you with joy, and remember how we spent a summer beneath the trees, learning from each other and growing in love. — Noah · 2004
True love2 quotes
But if you want true love, then this is it. This is real life. It's not perfect but it's real. — Jesse · 2013I am no one special; just a common man with common thoughts, and I've led a common life. There are no monuments dedicated to me and my name will soon be forgotten. But in one respect, I have succeeded as gloriously as anyone who ever lived. I've loved another with all my heart and soul, and for me, that has always been enough. — Duke · 2004
Trust2 quotes
You need to learn how to trust. — Noah · 2004Now, you’ll hurt me if you don’t trust me, all right? — Johnny Castle · 1987
Apologies1 quote
Love means never having to say you're sorry. — Jenny · 1970
If he loved you with all the power of his soul for a whole lifetime, he couldn't love you as much as I do in a single day. — Heathcliff · 1939
I saw a whole other future. I can't stop seeing it. — April Wheeler · 2008
Carpe diem1 quote
I figure life's a gift and I don't intend on wasting it. You don't know what hand you're gonna get dealt next. You learn to take life as it comes at you... to make each day count. — Jack Dawson · 1997
If I could change one thing about you, it would be for you to stop trying to change me. — Jesse · 2013
Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world, she walks into mine. — Rick Blaine · 1942
Constantly talking isn't necessarily communicating. — Joel Barish · 2004
I guess when you're young, you just believe there'll be many people with whom you'll connect with. Later in life, you realize it only happens a few times. — Celine · 2004
Curiosity1 quote
But not knowing is not so bad. I mean, the point is to be looking, searching. To stay hungry, right? — Celine · 2013
Delusion1 quote
You know, I think you gotta be a little deluded to stay motivated. — Jesse · 2013
You know friend, this is a god damn bitch of an unsatisfactory situation. — Jack Twist · 2005
He's always attracted by the art he isn't practicing, the place he hasn't been, the girl he hasn't met. — Grandmother Janou · 1957
Constantly talking isn't necessarily communicating. — Joel Barish · 2004
I want to feel things. Really—feel them. — Frank Wheler · 2008
Here's looking at you, kid. — Rick Blaine · 1942
Are we like those bored couples you feel sorry for in restaurants? Are we the dining dead? — Joel Barish · 2004