Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind quotes

View Quote "Adults are, like, this mess of sadness and phobias."

View Quote "He could wake up all half-baked and, gooey and, and half-baked... mmm, that sounds sooo good. I'm hungry."

View Quote ...you stop listening to what is true, and what is true is constantly changing.

View Quote Clementine: Hi!
Joel: I'm sorry?
Clementine: Why?
Joel: Why what?
Clementine: Why are you sorry? I just said 'hi.'
Joel: No, I didn't know if you were talking to me, so...
Clementine: (looking around the empty car) Really?
Joel: (embarrassed) Well, I didn't want to assume.
Clementine: Aw, c'mon, live dangerously. Take the leap and assume someone is talking to you in an otherwise empty car.
Joel: Anyway. Sorry. Hi.

View Quote Clementine: Joel, I'm not a concept. Too many guys think I'm a concept or I complete them or I'm going to make them alive, but I'm just a ****ed up girl who is looking for my own peace of mind. Don't assign me yours.
Joel: I remember that speech really well.
Clementine: I had you pegged, didn't I?
Joel: You had the whole human race pegged.
Clementine: Probably.
Joel: I still thought you were going to save me. Even after that.
Clementine: I know.

View Quote Clementine: This is it, Joel. It's going to be gone soon.
Joel: I know.
Clementine: What do we do?
Joel: Enjoy it.

View Quote Clementine: You know me, I'm impulsive.
Joel: That's what I love about you.

View Quote Clementine: You're not a stalker or anything, right?
Joel: I'm not a stalker. *You're* the one that talked to me, remember?
Clementine: That is the oldest trick in the stalker book.
Joel: Really? There's a stalker book? Great, I gotta read that one.

View Quote Joel: [In the house on the beach] I really should go! I've gotta catch my ride.
Clementine: So go.
Joel: I did. I thought maybe you were a nut... but you were exciting.
Clementine: I wish you had stayed.
Joel: I wish I had stayed too. NOW I wish I had stayed. I wish I had done a lot of things. I wish I had... I wish I had stayed. I do.
Clementine: Well I came back downstairs and you were gone!
Joel: I walked out, I walked out the door!
Clementine: Why?
Joel: I don't know. I felt like I was a scared little kid, I was like... it was above my head, I don't know.
Clementine: You were scared?
Joel: Yeah. I thought you knew that about me. I ran back to the bonfire, trying to outrun my humiliation.
Clementine: Was it something I said?
Joel: Yeah, you said "so go." With such disdain, you know?
Clementine: Oh, I'm sorry.
Joel: It's okay.

View Quote (During Joel's exploration of a memory)
Joel: Is this how it looks?
Howard: This- this is...yeah, this is about what it should look like.

View Quote (quoting Alexander Pope) "How happy is the blameless vestal's lot!
The world forgetting, by the world forgot.
Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind!
Each pray'r accepted, and each wish resign'd."

View Quote (quoting Friedrich Nietzsche) "Blessed are the forgetful: for they get the better even of their blunders."

View Quote Are we like those bored couples you feel sorry for in restaurants? Are we the dining dead?

View Quote Constantly talking isn't necessarily communicating.

View Quote Drink up young man. It'll make the whole seduction part less repugnant.