List of the Most Fascinating Quotes from Christopher Nolan’s Movies

You can tell a lot about people from their stuff.Cobb

You take it away… to show them what they had.Cobb

We all lie to ourselves to be happy.Leonard Shelby

We all need mirrors to remind ourselves who we are.Leonard Shelby

Memory can change the shape of a room, it can change the color of a car. And memories can be distorted. They’re just an interpretation, they’re not a record, and they’re irrelevant if you have the facts.Leonard Shelby

If we can’t make memories, we can’t heal.Leonard Shelby

A good cop can’t sleep because he’s missing a piece of the puzzle. And a bad cop can’t sleep because his conscience won’t let him.Ellie Burr

Why do we fall, Bruce? So we can learn to pick ourselves up.Thomas Wayne

If you make yourself more than just a man, if you devote yourself to an ideal, and if they can’t stop you, then you become something else entirely.Henri Ducard

Criminals thrive on the indulgence of society’s understanding.Henri Ducard

The training is nothing! Will is everything!Henri Ducard

Create enough hunger and everyone becomes a criminal.Henri Ducard

To conquer fear, you must become fear.Henri Ducard

People need dramatic examples to shake them out of apathy and I can’t do that as Bruce Wayne. As a man, I’m flesh and blood, I can be ignored, I can be destroyed, but as a symbol… as a symbol I can be incorruptible, I can be everlasting.Bruce Wayne

I won’t kill you… but I don’t have to save you.Batman

Justice is about harmony, revenge is about you making yourself feel better.Rachel Dawes

It’s not who you are underneath, it’s what you do that defines you.Rachel Dawes

You always fear what you don’t understand.Carmine Falcone

There’s nothing to fear but fear itself!Scarecrow

You start pretending to have fun, you might have a little by accident.Alfred Pennyworth

Man’s reach exceeds his imagination!Robert Angier

The audience knows the truth, the world is simple. It’s miserable, solid all the way through. But if you could fool them, even for a second, then you could make them wonder. And then you got to see something very special.Robert Angier

The secret impresses no one. The trick you use it for is everything.Alfred Borden

The sacrifice… that’s the price of a good trick.Alfred Borden

Obsession is a young man’s game.Cutter

Now you’re looking for the secret. But you won’t find it, because, of course, you’re not really looking. You don’t really want to work it out. You want to be fooled.Cutter

You’re familiar with the phrase “Man’s reach exceeds his grasp”? It’s a lie. Man’s grasp exceeds his nerve.Nikola Tesla

Things don’t always go as planned. That’s the beauty of science.Nikola Tesla

Society tolerates only one change at a time.Nikola Tesla

You either die a hero or live long enough to become the villain.Harvey Dent

The world is cruel, and the only morality in a cruel world is chance.Harvey Dent

Whatever doesn’t kill you, simply makes you… stranger.Joker

If you’re good at something, never do it for free.Joker

Madness… is like gravity. All it takes is a little push!Joker

It’s not about money… its about sending a message.Joker

Sometimes the truth isn’t good enough. Sometimes people deserve more. Sometimes people deserve to have their faith rewarded.Batman

An idea is like a virus. Resilient. Highly contagious. And even the smallest seed of an idea can grow. It can grow to define or destroy you.Cobb

Positive emotion trumps negative emotion every time. Cobb

Dreams feel real while we’re in them. It’s only when we wake up that we realize something was actually strange. Cobb

The seed that we planted in this man’s mind may change everything. Cobb

Downwards is the only way forwards.Cobb

True inspiration is impossible to fake.Arthur

You mustn’t be afraid to dream a little bigger, darling.Eames

Suffering builds character.Miranda Tate

It doesn’t matter who we are, what matters is our plan.Bane

You think darkness is your ally? But you merely adopted the dark. I was born in it. Molded by it.Bane

Maybe it’s time we all stop trying to outsmart the truth and let it have its day.Alfred Pennyworth

A hero can be anyone. Even a man doing something as simple and reassuring as putting a coat around a young boy’s shoulders to let him know that the world hadn’t ended.Batman

Murphy’s law doesn’t mean that something bad will happen. What it means is whatever can happen, will happen.Cooper

We used to look up in the sky and wonder at our place in the stars. Now we just look down and worry about our place in the dirt.Cooper

This world’s a treasure, but it’s been telling us to leave for a while now.Cooper

Mankind was born on Earth, it was never meant to die here.Cooper

Once you’re a parent, you’re the ghost of your children’s future.Cooper

Our survival instinct is our single greatest source of inspiration.Dr. Mann

Accident is the first building block of evolution.Dr. Amelia Brand

Love is the one thing we’re capable of perceiving that transcends dimensions of time and space.Dr. Amelia Brand

Don’t trust the right thing done for the wrong reason. The why of the thing, that’s the  foundation.Donald

I’m not afraid of death. I’m an old physicist. I’m afraid of time.Dr. John Brand

Do not go gentle into that good night; Old age should burn and rave at close of day. Rage, rage against the dying of the light.Dr. John Brand ('Do not go gentle into that good night' by Dylan Thomas)

Men my age dictate this war. Why should we be allowed to send our children to fight it?Mr. Dawson

Seeing home doesn’t help us get there.Commander Bolton

Wars are not won by evacuations.Tommy (reading Churchill's statement in the newspaper)

I’m not the man they send to negotiate. Or the man they send to make deals. But I’m the man people talk to.The Protagonist

One man’s probability of death is another man’s possibility for a life.Andrei Sator

We’re the people saving the world from what might have been. The world will never know what could happen. And even if they did, they wouldn’t care. Because no one cares about the bomb that didn’t go off. Only the one that did.Neil