3rd most-quoted character in The Thin Red Line (1998): in 7 of its 27 quotes
A line from First Sergeant Edward WelshEverything's a lie. Everything you hear, everything you see. So much to spew out. They just keep coming, one after another. You're in a box. A moving box. They want you dead, or in their lie... There's only one thing a man can do - find something that's his, and make an island for himself. If I never meet you in this life, let me feel the lack; a glance from your eyes, and my life will be yours.
Do you ever feel lonely?
Only around people.
In this world, a man himself is nothing. And there ain't no world, but this one.
You're wrong, there, Top: I've seen another world. Sometimes I think it was just my imagination.
Well, then you've seen things I never will.
Where's your spark now?
We're living in a world that's blowing itself to pieces as fast as everybody can arrange it.
I might be the best friend you ever had, you don't even know it.
What difference do you think you can make, one single man in all this madness? If you die, it's gonna be for nothing. There's not some other world out there where everything's gonna be okay. There's just this world. Just this rock.
Property. The whole **** thing's about property.
