The Time Machine quotes

29 total quotes

Alexander Hartdegen
Über-Morlock
Main cast
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View Quote We all have our time machines, don't we? Those that take us back... are memories. Those that carry us forward... are dreams.

View Quote I could come back a thousand times... and see her die a thousand ways.

View Quote You built your time machine because of Emma's death. If she had lived, it would never have existed, so how could you use your time machine to go back and save her? You are the inescapable result of your tragedy, just as I am the escapable result of you.

View Quote Vox:(darkly) So, Relic, you want to open Pandora's box, do you? See all the mysteries exposed?
Alexander: Yes.
Vox: And if the truth is so horrible that it will haunt your dreams for all time?
Alexander: I'm used to that.

View Quote Come a little closer, I don't bite.

View Quote Hartdegen: How did this happen?
Soldier #1: The moon. Come on, move it.
Hartdegen: That's impossible. What happened?
Soldier #1: What, you been living under a rock?
Hartdegen: Yes, I've been living under a rock! Now tell me...
Soldier #1: The demolitions for the lunar colony screwed up the orbit, okay? The moon's breaking up, all right? Now, come on.

View Quote You think I don't know you, Alexander? I can look inside your memories. Your nightmares, your dreams. You're a man haunted by those two terrible words, "What if?".

View Quote Jogger: Hey.
Hartdegen: Hello.
Jogger: Nice suit. Very retro.
Hartdegen: Thank you.
Jogger: Bet that makes a hell of a cappuccino. That thing.

View Quote Phillby: I'm glad he's gone. Maybe he's finally found a place where he can be happy.

View Quote Guy Pearce ... Alexander Hartdegen

View Quote Teacher: If you do that again, I will re-sequence your DNA.

View Quote Phillby: A professor from Columbia University should not be corresponding with a crazy German book keeper.
Hartdegen: He's a patent clerk, not a book keeper, and I think Mister Einstein needs all the support I can give him.

View Quote Phillby: Nothing can change what happened.
Hartdegen: No, you're wrong. Because I will change it.

View Quote Vox: Do you know what it's like to remember everything?

View Quote Hartdegen: My question is why can't one change the past
Vox: Because one cannot travel into the past.