Apocalypse Now Quotes

Horror has a face, and you must make a friend of horror. Horror and moral terror are your friends. If they are not, then they are enemies to be feared. They are truly enemies.

There are two of you, don’t you see? One that kills and one that loves.

I watched a snail crawl along the edge of a straight razor. That’s my dream. That’s my nightmare. Crawling, slithering, along the edge of a straight razor and surviving.

Everyone gets everything he wants. I wanted a mission, and for my sins they gave me one. Brought it up to me like room service. It was a real choice mission, and when it was over, I never wanted another.

We train young men to drop fire on people, but their commanders won’t allow them to write “f***” on their airplanes because it’s obscene!

They were gonna make me a major for this, and I wasn’t even in their f*****’ army anymore. Everybody wanted me to do it, him most of all. I felt like he was up there, waiting for me to take the pain away. He just wanted to go out like a soldier, standing up, not like some poor, wasted, rag-assed renegade. Even the jungle wanted him dead, and that’s who he really took his orders from anyway.

The war will still be here tomorrow.

The horror… the horror…

It was the way we had over here of living with ourselves. We’d cut ’em in half with a machine gun and give ’em a Band-Aid. It was a lie. And the more I saw them, the more I hated lies.

I love the smell of napalm in the morning.

You have to have men who are moral and at the same time who are able to utilize their primordial instincts to kill without feeling, without passion, without judgement. Without judgement! Because it’s judgement that defeats us.

There’s a conflict in every human heart, between the rational and the irrational, between good and evil. And good does not always triumph.