“Before Sunset” quotes

“You can never replace anyone because everyone is made up of such beautiful specific details.”
Julie Delpy - Celine

“- Celine: Men go out with me, we break up and then they get married. And later they call me to thank me for teaching them what love is. That I tought them to care and respect women.
- Jesse: I think I'm one of those guys.
- Celine: I wanna kill them! Why didn't they ask me to marry them? I would've said no, but at least they could have asked.”
Julie Delpy - Celine
Ethan Hawke - Jesse

“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.”
Julie Delpy - Celine

“Life's hard. It's supposed to be. If we didn't suffer, we'd never learn anything.”
Ethan Hawke - Jesse

“Memory is a wonderful thing if you don't have to deal with the past.”
Julie Delpy - Celine

“I have this idea of my best self, and I wanted to pursue that even if it might have been overriding my honest self.”
Ethan Hawke - Jesse

“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.”
Julie Delpy - Celine

“We're just living in a pretense of a marriage responsibility, and all these ideas of how people are supposed to live.”
Ethan Hawke - Jesse

“You realize that most of the people that you meet are trying to get somewhere better, they're trying to make a little bit more cash, trying to get a little more respect, have more people admire them. It's just exhausting.”
Ethan Hawke - Jesse

“- 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.”
Julie Delpy - Celine
Ethan Hawke - Jesse

“- 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...” (continue)(continue reading)
Julie Delpy - Celine
Ethan Hawke - Jesse

“Even being alone it's better than sitting next to your lover and feeling lonely.”
Julie Delpy - Celine

“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.”
Ethan Hawke - Jesse

“What is love, if it's not respect, trust, admiration? And I felt all those things. So cut to the present tense: I feel like I'm running a small nursery with somebody I used to date.”
Ethan Hawke - Jesse

“People just have an affair, or even entire relationships... they break up and they forget! They move on like they would have changed brand of cereals! I feel I was never able to forget anyone I've been with. Because each person have... their own, specific qualities.”
Julie Delpy - Celine

“Nobody is gonna be everything to you, and that ultimately it's just a simple action of committing yourself, meeting your responsibilities that matters.”
Ethan Hawke - Jesse

“At least now we don't have to pretend that each new sexual experience is a life-altering event.”

Ethan Hawke - Jesse

“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.”
Julie Delpy - Celine

“The concept is absurd. The idea that we can only be complete with another person is evil! Right?”
Julie Delpy - Celine

“I feel like if someone were to touch me, I'd dissolve into molecules.”
Ethan Hawke - Jesse