Mona: Here's what I do when I'm feeling down. I get very quiet and very still. And I say to myself, "Everyone in the world is as miserable and empty as I am. They're just better at pretending." Try it sometime. It might bring you some peace.
Richard Livesey: Maybe we take these guys in and come back out.
Bernie Webber: We can't live 'em out here alone. That boat won't last. We all live, or we all die.
Peaches: What's it like being a parent?
Ben: Every corny thing you've heard about having a kid is completely and utterly true... It's the only reason we're here.
Tanner Howard: Are you trying to make me mad? I said Dr. Pepper. This is Mr. Pibb.
Toby Howard: That's all they had.
Tanner Howard: Only assholes drink Mr. Pibb.
Toby Howard: Drink up.
Aurora: You can't get so hung up on where you'd rather be, that you forget to make the most of where you are.
Saroo Brierley: My mum could not read... Or write
Dinner Guests: What did she do?
Saroo Brierley: A laborer... She carried rocks.
Claire: What was that thing you said about Einstein in there?
Raffi: Einstein called time a stubbornly persistant illusion.
Claire: Whats that even mean.
Raffi: Time doesn't go from January to December, or from noon to midnight. You know we all just make it that way in our heads.
Claire: That's absurd! Try telling that to a person who's an hour late to a wedding, or that's just been sentenced to 20 years in jail.
Raffi: Or someone fighting the baby clock.
Manny: So now when you masturbate you think about your mom?
Sook-Hee: I need to remind myself that I want to be rich and then travel somewhere far, eat foreign foods, buy bright shiny things and, most importantly... forget about Hideko.
Anita Hill: Why are you doing this?
Charles Ogletree: I've got students more qualified than Thomas. Plus, I believe you.
Anita Hill: What about tenure?
Charles Ogletree: Hell, in 24 hours, I'll be able to get any job I want. Fuck tenure.
Larry Snyder: You can run. And boy, can you jump. What I want to know is - can you win?
Bobby: Life is a comedy written by a sadistic comedy writer.
Sebastian: I'm letting life hit me until it gets tired. Then I'll hit back. It's a classic rope-a-dope.
Dr. Franks: You had an injury to your head. You got hurt, right? When you were young? Do you remember how it happened?
Jericho Stewart: Yeah. My mother told my daddy that he wasn't my daddy. So he called her a whore and throw... me out the car window.
Edward Sheffield: When you love someone you have to be careful with it, you might never get it again.
Buster Moon: When you've reached rock bottom, there's only one way to go, and that's up.
Volmer: Do you know what the cure for the human condition is? Disease. Because that's the only way one could hope for a cure.
The Priest: There comes a time in man's search for meaning when he realises that there are no answers. And when you come to the horrible and unavoidable realization, you accept it or you kill yourself. Or you simply stop searching.