"Quotes"

Deja 2022-03-25 09:01:21

"What did happen? Why won't you tell anyone?

I let him see. I opened him up, and I let him see. He just couldn't see what he was doing, so I helped him."


"I think you're starting to find out now that the misery... That you read about is real. The tragedy is, is real in all those stories. Did you think that it wasn't? I mean, my God, that deer hunt , you think that's the dark side of man? Killing for pleasure? I'm sorry. I'm really sorry, but you haven't begun to see what we do. we're stumbling around in a very dark age... Basically just trying not to kill each other.”


"He lays his hand on the deer while it's still shakin'. And then he touches me at the same time. Now, I can't figure out why... 'Til my heart starts poundin' and I'm shakin', and I'm feelin' myself hurt and scared shitless, slippin' away in the goddamn dark. That's the worst thing I ever felt. It's like I could feel that animal dyin'. It's like I was the goddamn thing. I swear. Now ... I just can't do it anymore. I can't look at something down the barrel of a gun without thinking about it. I've tried it. I'm telling you, that thing ain't normal. I 'm telling you, he took whatever was in that goddamn deer, and he put it right into me."


"Inside most people there's a feeling of being separate. Separated from everything. And they're not. They're part of absolutely everyone and everything.”


"She didn't go someplace. Your wife. I felt her go. Not away. Just out. Everywhere."


"It's become appallingly clear that our technology has surpassed our humanity. I look at you and I, I think that someday. .. Our humanity might actually surpass our technology.”

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  • Powder: If you thought I was so intelligent would you ask me if I understood?

  • Donald Ripley: It has become appallingly clear that our technology has surpassed our humanity.

    Powder: Albert Einstein.

    Donald Ripley: When I look at you, I have hope that maybe one day our humanity will surpass our technology.