Donnie Darko quotes

View Quote They say it right when they flood the house and they tear it to shreds, that destruction is a form of creation. So the fact that they burn the money is ironic. They just want to see what happens when they tear the world apart. They want to change things.

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 Dr. Lilian Thurman: Do you still think about girls a lot?
Donnie: [Under hypnosis] Yeah.
Dr. Lilian Thurman: How are things going at school?
Donnie: I think about girls a lot.
Dr. Lilian Thurman: I asked you about school, Donnie.
Donnie: I think about ****ing a lot, in school.
Dr. Lilian Thurman: What else do you think about, when you're at school?
Donnie: Married With Children.
Dr. Lilian Thurman: Do you think about your family?
Donnie: I just turn down the volume and think about ****ing Christina Applegate.
Dr. Lilian Thurman: I asked you about your family.
Donnie: [Chuckling] No, I don't think about ****ing my family, that's gross.

View Quote Wake up Donnie... I've been watching you.

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 Dr. Lilian Thurman: If the sky were to suddenly open up, there would be no law, there would be no rule. There would only be you and your memories.

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 I don't think that you have a clue what it's like to communicate with these kids. We are losing them to apathy... to this prescribed nonsense. They are slipping away.

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

View Quote Ronald Fisher: Go back to China, bitch.

View Quote Twenty-eight days... Six hours... Forty-two minutes... Twelve seconds... That is when the world will end.

View Quote Roberta Sparrow/Grandma Death: Every living creature on this earth dies alone. [Note: Is said at a nearly inaudible level, later repeated by Donnie ]

View Quote Prof. Kenneth Monnitoff: And did you stop and think that maybe infants need darkness? That maybe darkness is part of their natural development?

View Quote Gretchen: My mom had to get a restraining order against my step dad. He has emotional problems.
Donnie: Oh, I have those too. What kind of emotional problems does your dad have?
Gretchen: He stabbed my mom four times in the chest ...
Donnie: Oh.

View Quote Donnie: How do you do that?
Frank: I can do anything I want. And so can you.