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Memorable Quotes from　Before Sunrise (1995)

 

Celine: If there's any kind of magic in this world, it must be in the attempt of understanding someone, sharing something. I know, it's almost impossible to succeed, but... who cares, really? The answer must be in the attempt.

 

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Jesse: I know happy couples... but I think they lie to each other!

 

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Celine: I like to feel his eyes on me when I look away.

 

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Celine: You know what I want?

 

Jesse: What?

 

Celine: To be kissed.

 

Jesse: Well I can do that.

 

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Celine: I used to think that if none of your family or friends knew you were dead, it was like not really being dead. People can invent the best and the worst for you.

 

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Celine: No, then it sounds like a male fantasy. Meet a French girl on the train, fuck her, and never see her again.

 

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Celine: Each time I wear black, or like, lose my temper, or say anything about anything, you know, they always go, "Oh it's so French. It's so cute." Ugh! I hate that!

 

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Celine: You know, I have this awful paranoid thought that feminism was mostly invented by men so that they could like, fool around a little more.

 

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Street Poet: Daydream, delusion, limousine, eyelash / Oh baby with your pretty face / Drop a tear in my wineglass / Look at those big eyes / See what you mean to me / Sweet-cakes and milkshakes / I'm delusion angel / I'm fantasy parade / I want you to know what I think / Don't want you to guess anymore / You have no idea where I came from / We have no idea where we're going / Latched in life / Like branches in a river/ Flowing downstream / Caught in the current / I'll carry you / You'll carry me / That's how it could be / Don't you know me? / Don't you know me by now?

 

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Celine: We're all happy and free as long as I can fuck as much as I want.

 

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Jesse: Everybody's parents fucked them up. Rich kids parents gave them too much. Poor kids, not enough. You know, too much attention, not enough attention. They either left them or they stuck around and taught them the wrong things.

 

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Celine: I had worked for this old man and once he told me that he had spent his whole life thinking about his career and his work. And he was fifty-two and it suddenly struck him that he had never really given anything of himself. His life was for no one and nothing. He was almost crying saying that.

 

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Jesse: I don't know, I think that if I could just accept the fact that my life is supposed to be difficult. You know, that's what to b

 

Celine: Ah, I thought so...

 

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Celine: Isn't everything we do in life a way to be loved a little more?

 

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Celine: But then the morning comes, and we turn back into pumpkins, right?

 

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Jesse: You see?

 

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Celine: [Celine's song] Let me sing you a waltz / Out of nowhere, out of my thoughts / Let me sing you a waltz / About this one night stand / You were, for me, that night / Everything I always dreamt of in life / But now you're gone / You are far gone / All the way to your island of rain / It was for you just a one night thing / But you were much more to me, just so you know / I don't care what they say / I know what you meant for me that day / I just want another try, I just want another night / Even if it doesn't seem quite right / You meant for me much more than anyone I've met before / One single night with you, little Jesse, is worth a thousand with anybody / I have no bitterness, my sweet / I'll never forget this one night thing / Even tomorrow in other arms, my heart will stay yours until I die / Let me sing you a waltz / Out of nowhere, out of my blues / Let me sing you a waltz / About this lovely one night stand

 

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[first lines]

 

Journalist #1: Do you consider the book to be autobiographical?

 

Jesse: Uh, well, I mean... isn't everything autobiographical?

 

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[last lines]

 

Celine: Baby, you are gonna miss that plane.

 

Jesse: I know.

 

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Jesse: In the months heading up to my wedding, I was thinking of you.

 

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Celine: Were you there in Vienna, in December?

 

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Jesse: [about his marriage] I feel like I'm running a small nursery with someone I used to date.

 

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Jesse: I'm designed to feel slightly dissatisfied!

 

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Celine: Memories are wonderful things, if you don't have to deal with the past.

 

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Jesse: Okay, I realize there are a lot of serious problems in the world.

 

Celine: Okay, thank you.

 

Jesse: Okay. I mean, I don't even have one publisher in the whole Asian market.

 

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Celine: An imperialist country can use that kind of thinking to justify their economic greed, you know. I - human rights ...

 

Jesse: Is there any particular imperialist country you have in mind, there, Frenchie?

 

Celine: Mmm, no, not really...

 

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Jesse: Maybe what I'm saying is, is the world might be evolving the way a person evolves. Right? Like, I mean, me for example. Am I getting worse? Am I improving? I don't know. When I was younger, I was healthier, but I was, uh, whacked with insecurity, you know? Now I'm older and my problems are deeper, but I'm more equipped to handle them.

 

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Celine: One night I heard some noise on my fire excape, so I called 911. And the cops came eventually...

 

Jesse: Yeah like three hours later.

 

Celine: [laughing] Yeah, after I had been raped and killed about 10 times.

 

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Jesse: [describing how she looks different] Skinnier, I think. A little thinner.

 

Celine: Did you think I was fat before?

 

Jesse: [laughing] No!

 

Celine: Yeah, you thought I was a fatty. No, you thought I was a fatty! Yeah, you, you wrote a book about a fat French girl!

 

Jesse: No, listen...

 

Celine: [laughing] Oh, no...

 

Jesse: Seriously, all right, you look beautiful.

 

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Jesse: Life's hard. It's supposed to be. If we didn't suffer, we'd never learn anything.

 

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Celine:>Jesse: Yeah, sure.

 

Celine: I don't know, just songs.

 

Jesse: Like?

 

Celine: Like, some are about, you know, people, uh, relationships. One's about my cat.

 

Jesse: Sing one.

 

Celine: No, I can't, I don't have a guitar.

 

Jesse: Oh, co- come on. A cappella.

 

Celine: No, no, no. I'm not singing a song without a guitar. You're nuts!

 

Jesse: Why not? It's...

 

Celine: No, okay. Not now. No.

 

Jesse: One.

 

Celine: No.

 

Jesse: If not now, when? Wanna meet here in six months with a guitar? You know, I'll fly all the way over here, you may or may not make the metro...

 

Celine: [laughing] Okay, that's funny.

 

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Jesse: Do you have kids?

 

Celine: Yes, two -

 

[gasps]

 

Celine: Shit!

 

Jesse: What?

 

Celine: I left them in the car! With the windows rolled up! It was six months ago! Think they're okay?

 

[laughs]

 

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Celine: Tell him to pick you up at Quai Henri Quatre.

 

Jesse: Oh, shit. K-kay ...

 

Celine: Henri Quatre. Quai...

 

Jesse: K-k-k ...

 

Celine: Henri Quatre.

 

Jesse: [laughing] On...

 

Celine: What's wrong with you? No, do you want be to - Henri Quatre.

 

Jesse: Henry Four?

 

Celine: Yes.

 

Jesse: Come one, why didn't you say so.

 

Celine: [laughing] I'm sorry, okay?

 

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Jesse: I heard this story once about when the Germans were occupying Paris and they had to retreat back. They wired Notre Dame to blow, but they had to leave one guy in charge of hitting the switch. And the guy, the soldier, he couldn't do it. You know, he just sat there, knocked out by how beautiful the place was. And then when the allied troops came in, they found all the explosives just lying there and the switch unturned, and they found the same thing at Sacre Couer, Eiffel Tower. Couple other places I think...

 

Celine: Is that true?

 

Jesse: I don't know. I always liked the story, though.

 

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Jesse: You want to know why I wrote that stupid book?

 

Celine: Why?

 

Jesse: So that you might come to a reading in Paris and I could walk up to you and ask, "Where the fuck were you?"

 

Celine: [laughing] No - you thought I'd be here today?

 

Jesse: I'm serious. I think I wrote it, in a way, to try to find you.

 

Celine: Okay, that's - I know that's not true, but that's sweet of you to say.

 

Jesse: I think it is true.

 

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Jesse: What do you think were the chances of us ever meeting again?

 

Celine: After that December, I'd say almost zero. But we're not real anyway, right? We're just, uh, characters in that old lady's dream. She's on her deathbed, fantasizing about her youth. So of course we had to meet again.

 

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Jesse: Oh, God, why weren't you there, in Vienna?

 

Celine: I told you why.

 

Jesse: Well, I know why, I just - I wish you would have been. Our lives might have been so much different.

 

Celine: You think so?

 

Jesse: I actually do.

 

Celine: Maybe not. Maybe, we would have hated each other eventually.

 

Jesse: Oh what, like we hate each other now?

 

Celine: You know, maybe we're - we're only good at brief encounters, walking around in European cities in warm climate.

 

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Jesse: Oh, God, why didn't we exchange phone numbers and stuff? Why didn't we do that?

 

Celine: Because we were young and stupid.

 

Jesse: Do you think we still are?

 

Celine: 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.

 

Jesse: And you can screw it up, you know, misconnect.

 

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Celine: The past is the past. It was meant to be that way.

 

Jesse: What, you really believe that? That everything's fated?

 

Celine: Well, you know, the world might be less free than we think.

 

Jesse: Yeah?

 

Celine: Yeah, when given these exact circumstances, that's what will happen every time: two part hydrogen, one part oxygen, you get water every time.

 

Jesse: No, no, I - I - I mean what if your grandmother had lived a week longer, or, you know, or passed away a week earlier, days even. You know things might have been different. I believe that.

 

Celine: You can't think like that, it's ...

 

Jesse: No, I mean, I know you shouldn't on most things, but - It's just, on this one it seemed like something was off, you know?

 

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Celine: So what's it like to be married? You haven't talked much about that.

 

Jesse: I haven't? How weird.

 

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Jesse: I feel like if someone where to touch me, I'd dissolve into molecules.

 

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Celine: So, I want to try something.

 

Jesse: What?

 

Celine: [hugs him] I want to see if you stay together or if you dissolve into molecules.

 

Jesse: How'm I doing?

 

Celine: Still here.

 

Jesse: Good, I like being here.

 

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Celine: I love my kitty!

 

Jesse: What's his name?

 

Celine: Che.

 

Jesse: Che?

 

Celine: Mmm hmm.

 

Jesse: Uh huh...

 

Celine: What?

 

Jesse: Commie.

 

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Celine: Do you think you would have finished your book if you were fucking someone every five minutes?

 

Jesse: I might have welcomed the challenge.

 

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Celine: They enjoy the goal but not the process. But the reality of it is that the true work of improving things is in the little achievements of the day.

 

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Celine: I see it in the people that do the real work, and what's sad in a way is that the people that are the most giving, hardworking, and capable of making this world better, usually don't have the ego and ambition to be a leader.

 

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Celine: The concept is absurd. The idea that we can only be complete with another person is evil! Right?

 

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Jesse: Okay, so you do believe in religion?

 

Celine: No, I don't think so.

 

Jesse: What about fate?

 

Celine: [shakes her head] Mm-mmm.

 

Jesse: God?

 

Celine: No.

 

[laughing]

 

Celine: But at the same time I don't want to be one of those people who don't believe in anything magical.

 

Jesse: So then, astrology.

 

Celine: Yes, of course! Now that makes total sense, right? You're a Capricorn, I'm a Sagittarius, that's why we get along so well!

 

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Celine: You can never replace anyone because everyone is made up of such beautiful specific details.