What is a powerful line from a book/show/movie you remember?

I have seen things you people never dream of.
I have seen starships burning off the shoulder of Orion
So many memories lost like tears in the rain...



Time to die

From After Life…

[i]A society grows great when old men plant trees, the shade of which they know they will never sit in. [/i]

"Get busy living, or get busy dying. That's goddamn right"
Shawshank Redemption

"I’m tired of people bein ugly to each other. It feels like pieces of glass in my head. I’m tired of all the times I’ve wanted to help and couldn’t. I’m tired of bein in the dark. Mostly it’s the pain. There’s too much. If I could end it, I would. But I can’t.”

~John Coffey/The Green Mile

“Years ago, my mother used to say to me — she'd say, 'In this world, Elwood, you must be oh so smart, or oh so pleasant. ' Well, for years I was smart. I recommend pleasant.”

James Stewart in Harvey

"My good opinion once lost, is lost forever."
Pride and Prejudice

With great power comes great responsibility

2001: HAL's last words

HAL 9000: "Dave, stop. Stop, will you? Stop, Dave. Will you stop, Dave? Stop, Dave. I'm afraid. I'm afraid, Dave. Dave, my mind is going. I can feel it. I can feel it. My mind is going. There is no question about it. I can feel it. I can feel it. I can feel it. I'm a...fraid."

I'm Batman!

At the end of the Sphynx chapter of Moby-Dick.

"O head! Thou hast seen enough to split the planets and make an infidel of Abraham, and not one syllable is thine!"

The last line of "Respondez" by Walt Whitman.

"Let the limited years of life do nothing for the limitless years of death! (What do you suppose death will do, then?)"

There are many others, but like the above, their power comes from the lines that preceded them.

For i have become death, the destroyer of worlds!

It's a fresh wind that blows against the empire.