"[to Wilson] Do you have to keep bringing that up, cant you just forget it? Huh? You were right. You were right, it was a good thing we did a test, cause it wasnt going to be just a quick snap. I would have landed on the rocks. Broken my leg, or my back or my neck, bled to death, but it was the only option I had at the time though, okay? It was what, a year ago? So lets just forget it. And what is your point? Well... we might just make it. Did that thought ever cross your brain? Well, regardless, I would rather take my chance out there on the ocean, than to stay here and die on this shithole island spending the rest of my life talking TO A GODDAMN VOLLEYBALL!"
Cast Away is a 2000 American survival drama film directed and co-produced by Robert Zemeckis, written by William Broyles Jr. and starring Tom Hanks, Helen Hunt, and Nick Searcy. Hanks plays a FedEx troubleshooter who is stranded on a deserted island after his plane crashes in the South Pacific, and the plot focuses on his desperate attempts to survive and return home. Filming took place from Janua
"This is it. Thats all thats left. I checked over the whole island, and that is all thats left. So were gonna be short. Short. Well just have to make some more out of videotape. Yes. No, we have time. We do, we have time! Look, the winds still blowing in from the west. I know. Yeah, I know! I know where theres 30 feet of extra rope! But... but Im not going back up there."
"We both have done the math. Kelly added it all up and...knew she had to let me go. I added it up, and knew that I had...lost her. Because I was never going to get off that island. I was going to die there, totally alone. I was going to get sick, or get injured or something. The only choice I had, the only thing I could control was when, and how and where it was going to happen. So...I made a rope and I went up to the summit, to hang myself. I had to test it, you know? Of course, you know me. And the weight of the log, snapped the limb of the tree, so I-I-I couldnt even kill myself the way I wanted to. I had power over nothing. And thats when this feeling came over me like a warm blanket. I knew, somehow that I had to stay alive. Somehow. I had to keep breathing. Even though there was no reason to hope. And all my logic said that I would never see this place again. So thats what I did. I stayed alive. I kept breathing. And one day, the logic was proven all wrong because the tide came in, and gave me a sail. And now, here I am. Im back in Memphis, talking to you. I have ice in my glass...And Ive lost her all over again. Im so sad that I dont have Kelly. But Im so grateful that she was with me on that island. And I know what I have to do now. I got to keep breathing. Because tomorrow, the sun will rise. Who knows what the tide could bring?"
"Gotta love crab. In the nick of time too. I couldnt take much more of those coconuts. Coconut milk is a natural laxative. Thats something Gilligan never told us."
"Jerry Lovett: Im Kellys husband. Jerry Lovett. Kelly wanted... Kelly wanted to be here... Look, this is very hard for everyone. I cant even imagine how hard it is for you. Kelly, uh... shes had it rough. First when she thought she lost you, and now dealing with all of this, its confusing, its very emotional for her. Shes... shes... sort of lost. Maybe you could just give her a little more time. Anyway, uh... Im sorry that..."
"We were enroute from Memphis, for eleven and a half hours, for 475 miles an hour, so they think that were right here. But, we went out of radio contact, then flew around that storm for about an hour, so thats a distance of what, 400 miles? Four hundred miles squared, thats 160,000 times pi, 3.14... 502,400. Thats a search area of 500,000 square miles. Thats twice the size of Texas. They may never find us."
"[to Wilson] You wouldnt have a match by any chance, would you?"
"Be the change that you wish to see in the world."
Mahatma Gandhi"we are engaged in a grim experiment never before attempted. We are subjecting whole populations to exposure to chemicals which animal experiments have proved to be extremely poisonous and in many cases cumulative in their effect. These exposures now begin at or before birth and-unless we change our methods-will continue through the lifetime of those now living. No one knows what the result will be, because we have no previous experience to guide us."
"pity this busy monster, manunkind, not. Progress is a comfortable disease: your victim (death and life safely beyond) plays with the bigness of his littleness"
E. E. Cummings"I believe that the unity of man as opposed to other living things derives from the fact that man is the conscious life of himself. Man is conscious of himself, of his future, which is death, of his smallness, of his impotence; he is aware of others as others; man is in nature, subject to its laws even if he transcends it with his thought."
Erich Fromm"“We need brains, is the bottom line,” Ivy said. “We’re not hunter-gatherers anymore. We’re all living like patients in the intensive care unit of a hospital. What keeps us alive isn’t bravery, or athleticism, or any of those other skills that were valuable in a caveman society. It’s our ability to master complex technological skills. It is our ability to be nerds. We need to breed nerds.”"
"I have been clinically depressed for most of my life. I once used drugs to fix it. Then I stopped. I stopped because I decided they were making me stupid, and Id rather be miserable than stupid. I am what I am."