"Adults are, like, this mess of sadness and phobias."
Joel Barish
Jim Carrey · 24 quotes
Clementine Kruczynski
Kate Winslet · 19 quotes
Mary Svevo
Kirsten Dunst · 11 quotes
Most scenes together: Joel Barish & Clementine Kruczynski (8), Joel Barish & Mary Svevo (7), Clementine Kruczynski & Mary Svevo (6)
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind quotes
Page 1 of 3"He could wake up all half-baked and, gooey and, and half-baked... mmm, that sounds sooo good. I'm hungry."
...you stop listening to what is true, and what is true is constantly changing.
Hi!
Excuse me?
I just said hi.
Oh! Hi, hello.
I'm Clementine … no jokes about my name.
I don't know any jokes about your name.
Huckleberry Hound.
I don't know what that is.
Huckleberry Hound! [singing] Oh my darling, oh my darling, oh my darling Clementine.
I don't know what that means.
Are you nuts?
It's been suggested.
Hi!
I'm sorry?
Why?
Why what?
Why are you sorry? I just said 'hi.'
No, I didn't know if you were talking to me, so...
Aw, c'mon, live dangerously. Take the leap and assume someone is talking to you in an otherwise empty car.
Anyway. Sorry. Hi.
Joel, I'm not a concept. Too many guys think I'm a concept or I complete them or I'm going to make them alive, but I'm just a **** up girl who is looking for my own peace of mind. Don't assign me yours.
I remember that speech really well.
I had you pegged, didn't I?
You had the whole human race pegged.
Probably.
I still thought you were going to save me. Even after that.
I know.
This is it, Joel. It's going to be gone soon.
I know.
What do we do?
Enjoy it.
You know me, I'm impulsive.
That's what I love about you.
You're not a stalker or anything, right?
I'm not a stalker. *You're* the one that talked to me, remember?
That is the oldest trick in the stalker book.
Really? There's a stalker book? Great, I gotta read that one.
So go.
I did. I thought maybe you were a nut... but you were exciting.
I wish you had stayed.
I wish I had stayed too. NOW I wish I had stayed. I wish I had done a lot of things. I wish I had... I wish I had stayed. I do.
Well I came back downstairs and you were gone!
I walked out, I walked out the door!
Why?
I don't know. I felt like I was a scared little kid, I was like... it was above my head, I don't know.
You were scared?
Yeah. I thought you knew that about me. I ran back to the bonfire, trying to outrun my humiliation.
Was it something I said?
Yeah, you said "so go." With such disdain, you know?
Oh, I'm sorry.
It's okay.
I can't see anything I don't like about you.
But you will, you will think of things and I'll get bored with you and feel trapped because that's what happens with me.
Okay.
Howard
This- this is...yeah, this is about what it should look like.
Howard
I suppose so. This – this is about what it would look like.
(quoting Alexander Pope)
"How happy is the blameless vestal's lot!
The world forgetting, by the world forgot.
Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind!
Each pray'r accepted, and each wish resign'd."
(quoting Friedrich Nietzsche)
"Blessed are the forgetful: for they get the better even of their blunders."