Cloud Atlas (2012) quotes

View Quote ...goats, and so do herders, they're known for housing temper.

View Quote Archivist: And what if no one believes this truth?
Sonmi~451: Someone already does.

View Quote Archivist: The report said Commander Chang was killed in the assault.
Sonmi~451: That is correct.
Archivist: Would you say that you loved him?
Sonmi~451: Yes I do.
Archivist: Do you mean you are still in love with him?
Sonmi~451: I mean that I will always be.
Archivist: In your revelation you you spoke of the consequences of a individuals life rippling throughout eternity. Does this mean you believe in a afterlife? Of a heaven or hell?
Sonmi~451: I believe death is only a door, when it closes, another opens. If I care to imagine heaven. I would imagine a door opening. And behind it, I would find him there, waiting for me.
Guard: Thank you sir.
Archivist: If I may ask one last question. You had to know this union scheme was doomed to fail.
Sonmi~451: Yes.
Archivist: Then why did you agree to it?
Sonmi~451: This is what General Apis asked of me.
Archivist: What? To be executed?
Sonmi~451: If I had remained invisible, the truth would have stayed hidden. I couldn't allow that.
Archivist: And what if no one believes this truth?
Sonmi~451: Someone already does.

View Quote Autua: Mister Ewing, no fear. No harm, no shout. Please. My name Autua. You know I... see Maori whip I... You know I.
Adam Ewing: What do you want?
Autua: You help, Mr. Ewing. If you no help, I in trouble dead.
Adam Ewing: Well you are already very much in “in trouble dead”

View Quote Haskell Moore: There is a natural order to this world, and those who try to upend it do not fare well. This movement will never survive, if you join them you and your entire family will be shunned. At best you will exist at pariah to be spat at and beaten, at worse to be lynched or crucified. And for what, for what, no matter what you do it will never amount to anything more than a single drop in a limitless ocean.
Adam Ewing: What is an ocean but a multitude of drops?

View Quote Javier: What are you reading?
Luisa Rey: Old letters.
Javier: Why do you keep reading them?
Luisa Rey: I don't know. Just trying to understand something.
Javier: What?
Luisa Rey: Why we keep making the same mistakes... over and over.
Javier: Maybe you should ask... Megan.
Luisa Rey: What?
Javier: Do you know a Megan?

View Quote Meronym: Thank you Zachry. You savin' me twice, ain't ya?
Zachry: “You fall, I'll catch you.”

View Quote Sixsmith: That's a very peculiar birthmark.
Luisa Rey: Yeah. My little comet. My mother was sure it was cancer, she wanted me to get it removed, but... don't know. I kinda like it.
Sixsmith: I knew someone who had a birthmark that was... similar to that.
Luisa Rey: Really? Who was it?
Sixsmith: Someone I cared about very much.

View Quote Timothy Cavendish: Er, Perhap-perhaps... er, we could moot a provisional sum...as a basis for on-going negotiation.
The Hogginses: Okeydokey. What sum we gonna moot? Fifty K will do for starters.
Timothy Cavendish: Fifty sounds reasonable.
The Hogginses: Tomorrow afternoon.
Timothy Cavendish: Tomorrow afternoon?
The Hogginses: Cash, no bollocks, no checks. Old fashioned money.
Timothy Cavendish: Gentlemen... The Law says…
The Hogginses: The Law?! What the law do for Felix fockin' Finch?

View Quote Vyvyan Ayrs: That's it! The music from my dream.
Robert Frobisher: I call it the "Cloud Atlas Sextet".

View Quote Vyvyan Ayrs: You are naive, Robert.
Robert Frobisher: I am anything but.
Vyvyan Ayrs: There is a gulf between these chairs.
Robert Frobisher: What you want is no different from what I want. The gulf is an illusion.

View Quote Zachry: You think someone gonna hear your prayer, come down from the sky?
Meronym: Perhaps. Perhaps one day.
Zachry: One day ain't but a flea o' hope.
Meronym: Yay, and fleas ain't so easy to rid.

View Quote A half-finished book is, after all, a half-finished love affair.

View Quote A tiger cannot change his stripes.

View Quote And thus it was when I made the acquaintance of Dr. Henry Goose the man I hoped might cure me of my affliction.