Donnie Darko quotes

View Quote Donnie: Do you want your sister to lose weight? Tell her to get off the couch, stop eating twinkies and maybe go out for field hockey. You know what? No one ever knows what they want to be when they grow up. You know it takes a little, little while to find that out, right, Jim? And you... yeah, you. Sick of some jerk shoving your head down the toilet? Well, you know what? Maybe... you should lift some weights, or uh, take a karate lesson and the next time he tries to do it, you kick him in the balls.
Jim Cunningham: Son... DO YOU SEE THIS? This is an Anger Prisoner. A textbook example. DO YOU SEE THE FEAR, PEOPLE? This boy is scared to death of the truth. Son, it breaks my heart to say this, but I believe you are a very troubled and confused young man. I believe you are searching for the answers in all the wrong places...
Donnie: You're right, actually. I am pretty- I'm, I'm pretty troubled and I'm, I'm pretty confused. But I. . .and I'm afraid. Really, really afraid. Really afraid. But I... I... I think you're the ****ing Antichrist.

View Quote Donnie: [taking a cigarette at the bus stop] What will happen if you tell mom about this?
Samantha Darko: You'll put Ariel in the garbage disposal.
Donnie: Goddamn right I will.
Sean Smith: Good shit, eh?
Donnie: Dude, it's a ****ing cigarette.

View Quote Prof. Kenneth Monnitoff: I am not going to be able to continue this conversation
Donnie: Why?
Prof. Kenneth Monnitoff: I could lose my job.

View Quote Elizabeth: I'm voting for Dukakis.
Eddie: Perhaps when you have children of your own that need braces, and you can't afford them because half of your husband's paycheck goes to the federal government, you'll regret that decision.
Elizabeth: I'm not gonna squeeze one out until I'm thirty.
Donnie: Will you still be working at Yarn Barn 'cause that's a great place to raise children.

View Quote Rose Darko: Our son just called me a bitch.
Edward Darko: You're not a bitch. You're bitchin', but you're not a bitch.

View Quote Donnie Darko: Why do you wear that stupid bunny suit?
Frank: Why are you wearing that stupid man suit?

View Quote Dr. Lilian Thurman: Has he ever told you about his friend Frank?
Rose Darko: Frank?
Dr. Lilian Thurman: Yes, the giant bunny rabbit...
Edward Darko: What?
Rose Darko: I don't recall him ever having mentioned a rabbit.

View Quote Donnie: How's it feel to have a wacko for a son?
Rose Darko: It feels wonderful.

View Quote Donnie: Frank, when's this gonna stop?
Frank: You should already know that.

View Quote Dr. Lillian Thurman: Do you feel alone right now?
Donnie: I... I don't know... I mean, I'd like to believe that I'm not, but I just... I've just never seen any proof, so I... I just don't debate it anymore. You know, it's like I could spend my whole life debating it over and over again, weighting the pro's and con's and in the end, I still wouldn't have any proof, so I just... I just don't debate it anymore. Heh, it's absurd...
Dr. Thurman: The search for God is absurd?
Donnie: It is if everyone dies alone.
Dr. Thurman: Does that scare you?
Donnie: I don't wanna be alone.

View Quote Dr. Lilian Thurman: What did Roberta Sparrow say to you?
Donnie: She said "Every living creature on earth dies alone".

View Quote [Seth is holding a knife to Donnie's throat as a car approaches along the road]
Seth Devlin: Did you call the ****ing cops?
Donnie: Deus ex machina.
Seth Devlin: What did you say? What the **** did you just say?
Donnie: Our saviour.

View Quote Gretchen: Hey. What's going on?
David: Horrible accident. My neighbour... got killed.
Gretchen: What happened?
David: Got smooshed by a jet engine.
Gretchen: What was his name?
David: Donnie. Donnie Darko.
Gretchen: Hmm.
David: I feel bad for his family.
Gretchen: Yeah.
David: Did you know him?
Gretchen: No.

View Quote [Discussing Watership Down]
Karen Pomeroy: This could be the death of an entire way of life, the end of an era...
Donnie: Why should we care?
Karen Pomeroy: Because the rabbits are us, Donnie.
Donnie: Why should I mourn for a rabbit like he was human?
Karen Pomeroy: Are you saying that the death of one species is less tragic than another?
Donnie: Of course. The rabbit's not like us. It has no... keen look at something in the mirror, it has no history books, no photographs, no knowledge of sorrow or regret... I mean, I'm sorry, Miss Pomeroy, don't get me wrong; y'know, I like rabbits and all. They're cute and they're horny. And if you're cute and you're horny, then you're probably happy, in that you don't know who you are and why you're even alive. And you just wanna' have sex, as many times as possible, before you die... I mean, I just don't see the point in crying over a dead rabbit! Y'know, who... who never even feared death to begin with.
[Handing a copy of Watership Down to Donnie]
Karen Pomeroy [to Donnie]: Why don't you and Frank read this one together.