Before Sunset Quotes

You want to know why I wrote that stupid book?[Jesse]Why?[Celine]So that you might come to a reading in Paris, and I could walk up to you and ask, “Where the f***s were you?”[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, they’re trying to get a little more respect, have more people admire them. It’s exhausting.

You can never replace anyone because everyone is made of such beautiful, specific details.

There’s so many things I want to do, and I end up doing not much.

There’s gotta be something more to love than commitment.

The true work of improving things is in the little achievements of the day.

Memory is a wonderful thing if you don’t have to deal with the past.

Life’s hard. It’s supposed to be. If we didn’t suffer, we wouldn’t learn a thing.

It’s okay to want things as long as you don’t get pi**ed off if you don’t get them.

I see the people that do the real work, and what’s really sad in a way is that the people that are the most giving, hard-working, and capable of making this world better, usually don’t have the ego and ambition to be a leader.

I remember thinking that it didn’t much matter, the who of it all. That nobody is gonna be everything to you and that ultimately, it’s just the simple action of committing yourself, meeting your responsibilities that matters. I mean, what is love, right, if it’s not respect, trust, admiration?

I just feel like I’m designed to be slightly dissatisfied with everything.