Interstellar – Movie Quotes

After you kids came along, your mom, she said something to me I never quite understood. She said, «Now, we're just here to be memories for our kids». And I think now I understand what she meant. Once you're a parent, you're the ghost of your children's future.

Absolute honesty isn't always the most diplomatic, nor the safest form of communication with emotional beings.

Murphy's Law doesn't mean that something bad will happen. What it means is whatever can happen will happen.

— Nobody believed me. But I knew you'd come back.
— How?
— Because my dad promised me.

Love is the one thing we're capable of perceiving that transcends dimensions of time and space.

— So listen to me when I say that love isn't something we invented. It's observable, powerful. It has to mean something.
— Love has meaning, yes. Social utility, social bonding, child rearing...
— We love people who have died. Where's the social utility in that?
— None.
— Maybe it means something more, something we can't yet understand. Maybe it's some evidence, some... artifact of a higher dimension that we can't
consciously perceive. I'm drawn across the universe to someone I haven't seen in a decade, who I know is probably dead. Love is the one thing we're capable of perceiving that transcends dimensions of time and space. Maybe we should trust that, even if we can't understand it yet.

Do not go gentle into that good night,
Old age should burn and rave at close of day;
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
Though wise men at their end know dark is right,
Because their words had forked no lightning they
Do not go gentle into that good night.

— Humor, 75%.
— Confirmed. Auto self-destruct T minus 10, nine...
— Let's make that 60%.

Well, we used to look up in the sky and wonder at our place in the stars. Now we just look down and worry about our place in the dirt.

I'm not afraid of death. I'm an old physicist. I'm afraid of time.

— A little caution...
— Can get you killed, Just like reckless driving!