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When The Matrix was released in 1999, it was more than a science fiction movie; it was a cultural revolution. Directed by the Wachowskis, swimming in philosophy, black leather, slo-mo bullet dodges and existentialist dread, The Matrix made everyone see the world just that little bit differently. Was it real? Was it coded? Were we living in a game?

But more than action and special effects, it’s the Matrix quotes that sting most. This dialogue combines ancient philosophy, hacker cool and revolutionary fervor — and somehow manages to make it all seem iconic.

The Matrix turns 25: the best lines from the iconic film, as sharp as a katana two decades on.

1. Morpheus: “What if I told you… everything you knew was a lie?”
2. Neo: “I know kung fu.”
3. Morpheus: “Unfortunately, no one can be told what the Matrix is. You have to see it for yourself.”
4. Trinity: “Dodge this.”
5. Morpheus: “You take the blue pill — the story ends. You wake up in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe. You take the red pill — you stay in Wonderland, and I show you how deep the rabbit hole goes.”
6. Neo: “Why do my eyes hurt?”
   Morpheus: “You’ve never used them before.”
7. Agent Smith: “Human beings are a disease. A cancer of this planet. You’re a plague. And we are the cure.”
8. Oracle: “Know thyself.”
9. Neo: “I don’t like the idea that I’m not in control of my life.”
10. Cypher: “Ignorance is bliss.”
11. Morpheus: “There’s a difference between knowing the path and walking the path.”
12. Agent Smith: “Never send a human to do a machine’s job.”
13. The Oracle: “Being the One is just like being in love. No one needs to tell you you are. You just know it.”
14. Neo: “My name… is Neo.”
15. Morpheus: “He’s beginning to believe.”

The Matrix was not here to coddle you. It was here to wake you up. These Matrix quotes still have weight because they are saying something deeper — control, freedom, identity. And yeah, they look super cool while they’re at it.

Whether you want to find Neo quotes or Morpheus wisdom or the best red pill scenes in the history of movies, this list is what you’re looking for. Even if you didn’t know you were looking.

If A New Hope ignited the spark, then The Empire Strikes Back was the conflagration. The second installment of the original Star Wars trilogy, released in 1980 and directed by Irvin Kershner, took everything deeper — the story, the emotions, the galaxy. It’s darker, more personal and stuffed with some of the most iconic lines in movie history.

This is the episode that gave us that twist, brought Yoda into the mix and demonstrated that Darth Vader isn’t just the bad guy — and it is this moment. If you’re searching for the most memorable Empire Strikes Back quotes, muscle you may feel here you may run through another wall — oh, and you’re in the right galaxy. The movie itself can be viewed on platforms like Disney Plus or 123 movies alternatives.

Here are the 15 lines that helped make Episode V the crown jewel of the saga.

1. Darth Vader: “No… I am your father.”
2. Yoda: “Do or do not. There is no try.”
3. Han Solo: “I know.”
4. Leia: “I love you.”
5. Yoda: “Size matters not. Look at me. Judge me by my size, do you?”
6. Darth Vader: “You have learned much, young one.”
7. Yoda: “Always in motion is the future.”
8. Han Solo: “Then I’ll see you in hell!”
9. C-3PO: “Sir, the possibility of successfully navigating an asteroid field is approximately 3,720 to 1!”
10. Leia: “You stuck-up, half-witted, scruffy-looking nerf herder!”
11. Han Solo: “Laugh it up, fuzzball.”
12. Lando Calrissian: “This deal is getting worse all the time.”
13. Darth Vader: “We would be honored… if you would join us.”
14. Luke Skywalker: “I won’t turn. I’m a Jedi, like my father before me.”
15. Yoda: “That is why you fail.”

The Empire Strikes Back did not need fan service — it became the fan service. These Star Wars quotes aren’t just great — they’re essential. They influenced how we speak of the Force, fate and what it means to fight for something larger than yourself.

Whether you’re cursing Darth Vader, soaking up the wisdom of Yoda or power-walking through gnarly feelings between Han and Leia, these Empire Strikes Back quotes are why this movie still hits harder than a Star Destroyer.

Back in 2010, Inception truly blew minds. Brains melted. And those audiences left the theater arguing about, among other things, whether the top actually fell or continued spinning. A work of astonishingly intricate beauty from Christopher Nolan and led by Leonardo DiCaprio as the dream-weaving protagonist Dom Cobb, it is a science-fiction/heist-thriller hybrid crackling with existential philosophy all within the sensual confines of a breathtaking narrative.

But what makes Inception a modern classic? The quotes. Grand themes bundled in snappy dialogue. Lines that worm their way into your own thoughts, much like the dreams in the movie. These Inception quotes are awesome, intelligent, and can still be quoted by anyone who is attempting to sound at least a little profound. Luckily, films like Inception, can be viewed on platforms like 123 movies.

Here are the best lines from Inception — the ones that we’re still thinking about incepting into the mind of others, years later.

1. Cobb: “Dreams feel real while we’re in them. It’s only when we wake up that we realize something was actually strange.”
2. Arthur: “You mustn’t be afraid to dream a little bigger, darling.”
3. Cobb: “What is the most resilient parasite? Bacteria? A virus? An intestinal worm? An idea. Resilient… highly contagious.”
4. Mal: “You’re waiting for a train. A train that will take you far away. You know where you hope this train will take you, but you can’t know for sure.”
5. Eames: “You mustn’t be afraid to dream a little bigger, darling.”
6. Cobb: “An idea is like a virus. Once it has taken hold of the brain, it’s almost impossible to eradicate.”
7. Saito: “Do you want to take a leap of faith, or become an old man filled with regret, waiting to die alone?”
8. Cobb: “I bought the airline. It seemed cleaner.”
9. Cobb: “You keep telling yourself what you know. But what do you believe?”
10. Mal: “You’re just a shade. You’re just a shade of my real wife.”
11. Eames: “If we’re gonna perform Inception, then we need imagination.”
12. Cobb: “Downwards is the only way forwards.”
13. Ariadne: “Do they come here every day to sleep?”
    Cobb: “No. They come to be woken up. The dream has become their reality.”
14. Cobb: “I need to get home. That’s all I care about right now.”
15. Cobb: “We’re the dead. We’re just ghosts trapped in someone else’s dream.”

“Inception” didn’t just deliver good action and plot twists, it gave us one of the smartest screenplays we’ve seen in modern movies. These Inception quotes deep dive into identity, memory, obsession and what happens when we lose track of what’s real. It’s philosophy on mute. Sci-fi with soul.

So whether you’re here for Cobb’s quotes, dream logic lines, or are simply in need of a revisit to Nolan’s multi-layered world, this list should have the quotes that continue to spin around your head — top or no top.

Fight Club is more than a movie — it’s a full-blown identity crisis with a swollen black eye. Directed by David Fincher and released in 1999, it wiggled into theaters like a secret sermon and departed with a fandom that has yet to cool off. It is nihilistic, weirdly philosophical, and pockmarked with lines that make you stop what you’re doing mid-scene and say, “Wait… goddamn.”

Whether you’re seeking Tyler Durden’s thoughts on consumerism, or you’re just in need of a good Fight Club quote, you’ve come to the right place. These Fight Club quotes aren’t just cool — they’re existential gut punches. The movie can be streamed on platforms like 123 movies.

These are the best quotes that made Fight Club one of the rawest classics of all time:

1. Tyler Durden: “The first rule of Fight Club is: you do not talk about Fight Club.”
2. Tyler Durden: “It’s only after we’ve lost everything that we’re free to do anything.”
3. Narrator: “I am Jack’s smirking revenge.”
4. Tyler Durden: “You are not your job. You’re not how much money you have in the bank. You’re not the car you drive. You’re not the contents of your wallet.”
5. Narrator: “People are always asking me if I know Tyler Durden.”
6. Tyler Durden: “You are not a beautiful or unique snowflake. You are the same decaying organic matter as everything else.”
7. Narrator: “This is your life, and it’s ending one minute at a time.”
8. Tyler Durden: “Self-improvement is masturbation. Now self-destruction…”
9. Tyler Durden: “Sticking feathers up your butt does not make you a chicken.”
10. Narrator: “With insomnia, nothing’s real. Everything is far away. Everything is a copy of a copy of a copy.”
11. Tyler Durden: “We’re a generation of men raised by women. I’m wondering if another woman is really the answer we need.”
12. Narrator: “I felt like destroying something beautiful.”
13. Tyler Durden: “You have to know, not fear, that someday you’re going to die. Until you know that, you’re useless.”
14. Tyler Durden: “You met me at a very strange time in my life.”
15. Narrator: “Tyler, you are by far the most interesting single-serving friend I’ve ever met.”
16. Tyler Durden: “Advertising has us chasing cars and clothes, working jobs we hate so we can buy shit we don’t need.”
17. Fight Club was not intended to be cozy. It was created to poke, prod and tear down. Remembering that they played out to the dulcet tones of the Pixies, these Fight Club quotes hit hard, now as much as ever, because they weren’t the product of trends — they sprang forth in frustration, raw facts, and the weird poetry of disintegration.

Whether you’re mining the greatest cult movie lines, existential quotes or feel the need to access your inner Tyler Durden, this is the heavy-hitter list.

Not only is The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers the middle film of the trilogy, it’s the escalation one. The battles get bigger. The stakes get heavier. And the characters we thought we knew begin to change in ways that knock us upside the head. Helm’s Deep, Treebeard, Gollum’s second personhood — in addition to one of the most impactful monologues in fantasy film to date — The Two Towers Released in 2002 and directed by Peter Jackson, The Two Towers provided all of these.

Oh and yeah it yielded lines too. Big ones. Emotional ones. Lines that endured for two decades and counting. These Two Towers quotes are epic precisely because they capture the myth and the meaning in the words.

Below are some of the best quotes from The Two Towers —straight out of Middle-earth and into your heart.

1. Samwise Gamgee: “There’s some good in this world, Mr. Frodo. And it’s worth fighting for.”
2. Gollum: “We wants it, we needs it. Must have the precious.”
3. Aragorn: “A day may come when the courage of men fails… but it is not this day.”
4. Gandalf the White: “The battle for Helm’s Deep is over. The battle for Middle-earth is about to begin.”
5. Frodo: “I can’t do this, Sam.”
6. Sam: “I know. It’s all wrong. By rights we shouldn’t even be here. But we are.”
7. Gollum: “Leave now, and never come back!”
8. Gimli: “Toss me. But don’t tell the elf.”
9. Théoden: “So much death. What can men do against such reckless hate?”
10. Aragorn: “Ride out with me. Ride out and meet them.”
11. Gimli: “What’s happening out there?”
    Legolas: “Shall I describe it to you? Or would you like me to find you a box?”
12. Treebeard: “There is no curse in Elvish, Entish, or the tongues of men for this treachery.”
13. Éowyn: “The women of this country learned long ago: those without swords can still die upon them.”
14. Faramir: “I think at last we understand one another, Frodo Baggins.”
15. Sam: “Even darkness must pass. A new day will come. And when the sun shines, it’ll shine out the clearer.”

The Two Towers finds that rare sweet spot in cinema — where war meets poetry, and valor can be found in the most unlikely places. These Lord of the Rings quotes are far more than just dramatic. They’re deeply human. Be it Sam’s raw hope or Gollum’s broken madness, these moments are the reason why this trilogy became a legend.

Searching for Gollum quotes, Samwise speeches, or perhaps the most beautiful Middle-earth lines ever written? This list covers it all.

There are movies that you remember because they’re funny. Others because they’re angry. Forrest Gump does all those things, and though somehow he makes it all seem so easy. Directed by Robert Zemeckis, the 1994 film takes audiences through the life of a kind, simple man that unknowingly changes history by taking life as it comes to him.

What made Forrest Gump memorable wasn’t just Tom Hanks’ spot-on performance or the amazing soundtrack — it was the quotes. These Forrest Gump quotes will hit you in the gut or make you smile like a madman! They’re simple, yes — but never empty.

Below are some of the best lines from Forrest Gump, the movie that taught us that life is really like a box of chocolates.

1. Forrest: “My mama always said, ‘Life was like a box of chocolates. You never know what you’re gonna get.’”
2. Forrest: “Stupid is as stupid does.”
3. Jenny: “Run, Forrest, run!”
4. Forrest: “I may not be a smart man, but I know what love is.”
5. Forrest: “Mama always said, ‘You’ve got to put the past behind you before you can move on.’”
6. Forrest: “That day, for no particular reason, I decided to go for a little run.”
7. Forrest: “Lieutenant Dan got me invested in some kind of fruit company. So then I got a call from him saying we don’t have to worry about money no more. And I said, that’s good. One less thing.”
8. Forrest: “Me and Jenny goes together like peas and carrots.”
9. Forrest: “Mama always said, dying was a part of life. I sure wish it wasn’t.”
10. Lieutenant Dan: “They gave you the Congressional Medal of Honor.”
11. Forrest: “I’m not a smart man… but I’d know if I was.”
12. Forrest: “Sometimes, I guess there just aren’t enough rocks.”
13. Forrest: “And just like that… she was gone.”
14. Forrest: “I don’t know if we each have a destiny, or if we’re all just floatin’ around accidental-like on a breeze.”
15. Forrest: “That’s all I have to say about that.”

Forrest Gump is not brash or flashy. It just talks from the heart — and that’s why these lines connect so hard. These Forrest Gump quotes appear in speeches, cross stitch designs, on T-shirts and in quiet moments of reflection. Because, sometimes, the most modest words are the ones that we remember for ever.

Whether you need a little inspiration from “Forrest Gump” or you’re just in the mood to revisit a classic, these lines should do the trick, leaving you feeling ready to take on the world no matter who you are or what your heart is searching for.

You don’t watch The Good, the Bad and the Ugly. You feel it. The dust. The squint. The standoffs. Sergio Leone’s 1966 masterpiece is not just one of the greatest Westerns in the history of cinema; it’s also one of the coolest movies ever made. And the dialogue? Lean, mean, and memorable.

One of my favorite films, The Good, the Bad and the Ugly can be a bit reclamatory (I.e. “For a few dollars more, you can count them”), courtesy of Clint Eastwood starring in the role of the Good, Lee Van Cleef as the Bad and Eli Wallach as arguably the Ugly (never tell that man he’s ugly, or at all). Every line in this movie feels chiseled from the desert and slicked with gunpowder. These The Good, the Bad and the Ugly quotes, are no-nonsense, iconic and sure to stand the test of time — much like the film.

These are the sharpest lines from the most stylish standoff in movies.

1. Tuco: “When you have to shoot, shoot. Don’t talk.”
2. Blondie (The Good): “You see, in this world there’s two kinds of people, my friend: Those with loaded guns, and those who dig. You dig.”
3. Tuco: “There are two kinds of spurs, my friend. Those that come in by the door… and those that come in by the window.”
4. Tuco: “I like big fat men like you. When they fall, they make more noise.”
5. Angel Eyes (The Bad): “Even a filthy beggar like that has got a protecting angel. A golden-haired angel watches over him.”
6. Blondie: “Every gun makes its own tune.”
7. Tuco: “I’ve been looking for you for eight months. Whenever I should have had a gun in my hand, you had to go and be a good guy.”
8. Angel Eyes: “You know, the pity is when I’m paid, I always follow my job through. You know that.”
9. Tuco: “God is on our side because he hates the Yanks!”
10. Blondie: “You’re a son of a… [Tuco interrupts] …a son of a thousand fathers, all bastards like you.”
11. Tuco: “You became a priest because you’re too much of a coward to do what I do!”
12. Blondie: “Such ingratitude after all the times I saved your life.”
13. Tuco: “If you work for a living, why do you kill yourself working?”
14. Tuco: “The way I figure, there’s really not too much future with a sawed-off runt like you.”

These are the kind of classic western movie quotes that never get old being quoted, memed, and stitched into modern movies. The lines from The Good, the Bad and the Ugly is dry, lethal and the perfect amount of funny. They aren’t just dialogue — they’re in the DNA of film itself.

Whether you are a fan of this for the Clint Eastwood quotes, Tuco’s finest lines or just to remember that the loudest words are sometimes the quietest, this is the gold.

When The Fellowship of the Ring hit the big screen in 2001, it launched more than just a trilogy — it launched a timeless epic. Following its Oscar win for best picture, the first film in Peter Jackson’s Tolkien trilogy is an epic introduction to the director’s take on the author’s beloved saga, as we are plunged into the world of Middle-earth, where friendship, fate and one very cursed ring do battle.

Beyond the general fantasy, Fellowship is full of heart — and dialogue that sticks with you long after the credits have rolled. From Gandalf’s wisdom to Boromir’s tragic last moments, these Fellowship of the Ring quotes are still popular throughout the entire fandom.

These are the best lines from the movie that kicked it all off.

1. Gandalf: “A wizard is never late, Frodo Baggins. Nor is he early. He arrives precisely when he means to.”
2. Frodo: “I wish the Ring had never come to me. I wish none of this had happened.”
3. Gandalf: “So do all who live to see such times, but that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us.”
4. Boromir: “One does not simply walk into Mordor.”
5. Aragorn: “If by my life or death I can protect you, I will.”
6. Legolas: “You would die before your stroke fell!”
7. Gimli: “Nobody tosses a dwarf!”
8. Aragorn: “You have my sword.”
9. Legolas: “And you have my bow.”
10. Gimli: “And my axe.”
11. Gandalf: “Fly, you fools!”
12. Aragorn: “I would have followed you, my brother… my captain… my king.”
13. Galadriel: “Even the smallest person can change the course of the future.”
14. Boromir: “I tried to take the ring from him.”
15. Frodo: “I will take the Ring to Mordor! Though… I do not know the way.”
16. Sam: “I made a promise, Mr. Frodo. A promise! ‘Don’t you leave him, Samwise Gamgee.’ And I don’t mean to.”

In The Fellowship of the Ring, we received not just an epic journey, but quotes that spoke to fear and hope and loyalty and the courage to keep going. These Lord of the Rings quotes endure because they are true — in a world of elves, hobbits, and ancient evils, yes, but true.

Looking for Gandalf quotes, moments that encapsulate Frodo’s journey, or a reminder of what made the Fellowship compelling? This list has them all.

Some movies are quotable. Pulp Fiction is a movie that can be almost infinitely quoted. “Every scene, every line, every little idiosyncratic turn of dialogue feels like it was written with an eye toward being quoted or getting tattooed on some mish-mash version of someone’s already pretty beat-up soul,” Emily Nussbaum wrote in The New Yorker. Released in 1994 and directed by Quentin Tarantino, the film sent indie cinema into a tailspin and gave us characters who don’t sound like anyone else, yet somehow make perfect sense.

Whether that’s Jules spitting Bible verses, Vincent ranting about burgers or Mia Wallace casually chattering about foot massages, Pulp Fiction quotes just hit different. They’re sharp, odd, strangely deep — and full of rewatching potential.

If you want the most iconic Pulp Fiction quotes, here are just the quotes that made the film impossible to forget.

1. Jules Winnfield: “Say ‘what’ again. I dare you, I double dare you motherf***er!”
2. Vincent Vega: “You know what they call a Quarter Pounder with Cheese in Paris?”
3. Jules Winnfield: “The path of the righteous man is beset on all sides by the inequities of the selfish…”
4. Mia Wallace: “Don’t you hate that? Uncomfortable silences. Why do we feel it’s necessary to yak about bullshit in order to be comfortable?”
5. Butch: “Zed’s dead, baby. Zed’s dead.”
6. Jules Winnfield: “I’m trying real hard to be the shepherd.”
7. Vincent Vega: “That’s a pretty fing good milkshake. I don’t know if it’s worth five dollars, but it’s pretty fing good.”
8. The Wolf: “I solve problems.”
9. Lance: “You’re gonna give her an adrenalin shot in the heart? Are you f***ing serious?”
10. Jules Winnfield: “Do you read the Bible, Brett?”
11. Honey Bunny: “Any of you fing pricks move, and I’ll execute every motherfing last one of you!”
12. Marsellus Wallace: “I’m gonna get medieval on your ass.”
13. Jules Winnfield: “I just shot Marvin in the face.”
14. Vincent Vega: “That’s pride fin’ with you. F pride! Pride only hurts, it never helps.”
15. Captain Koons: “This watch was on your daddy’s wrist when he was shot down over Hanoi.”
16. Jules Winnfield: “I’m the foot-f***in’ master.”

Tarantino didn’t just put together Pulp Fiction, he weaponized dialogue. These Pulp Fiction quotes go beyond the dialogue to give you that More or less, Pulp Fiction quotes sayings These Pulp Fiction quotes are not just for laughs and coolness. They carry energy. They defy all of the rules, and yet it somehow feels like that’s the purpose. From chit-chat to spiritual monologues, the lines in this movie made going to the movies feel risky again.

So whether you came for the Jules Winnfield quotes, the Tarantino dialogue, or just a dose of ‘90s movie magic, this list has you covered.

Some movies are meant to be entertaining. And then there are the films that haunt. And “Schindler’s List” is the second type. As directed by Steven Spielberg and released in 1993, it was not only one of the most powerful Holocaust films ever made — it was one of the most significant works of cinema, full stop.

Based on the real-life Holocaust hero Oskar Schindler, a German businessman who rescued more than a thousand Jewish people during the Holocaust, the movie is unflinching, raw and emotionally devastating. And the dialogue? It cuts deep. These Schindler’s List quotes aren’t the type you repeat — they have a way of lingering with you. Because words count, every one of them.

1. Oskar Schindler: “Whoever saves one life, saves the world entire.”
2. Itzhak Stern: “This list is an absolute good. The list is life. All around its margins lies the gulf.”
3. Oskar Schindler: “Power is when we have every justification to kill, and we don’t.”
4. Amon Goeth: “Today is history. Today will be remembered.”
5. Oskar Schindler: “I could have got more out… I could have got more… if I just…”
6. Itzhak Stern: “There will be generations because of what you did.”
7. Oskar Schindler: “This pin… two people. This is gold. Two more people.”
8. Amon Goeth: “They cast a spell on you, you Jews. It’s a trick — the successful ones make us believe we need them.”
9. Itzhak Stern: “You’re giving them hope. You shouldn’t do that. That’s cruel.”
10. Oskar Schindler: “War brings out the worst in people. Never the good, always the bad.”
11. Amon Goeth: “I pardon you.”
12. Itzhak Stern: “I know you’ve received a lot, sir. But the thing you’ll never get back is the time.”
13. Rabbi: “This is Hebrew. It says: ‘Whoever saves one life, saves the world entire.’”
14. Closing text on screen: “There are fewer than 4,000 Jews left alive in Poland today. There are more than 6,000 descendants of the Schindler Jews.”

Schindler’s List drives its drama above all by not resorting to dramatic music or flashy visuals. It hits you with quiet, with looks, with sentences suspended uncomfortably in the air. These quotes aren’t just memorable movie lines — they’re brutal truths. They remind us of what can happen when humanity loses its conscience.

— May 2, 2019 If you’re putting together a list of the most powerful Holocaust film quotes or if you’re simply reflecting on the most emotionally impactful lines in film history, here are the ones that matter.