The Bucket List

Carter Chambers: [to Edward, of the two questions asked of the dead by the gods at the entrance to heaven] Have you found joy in your life? Has your life brought joy to others?

Carter Chambers: You measure yourself by the people who measure themselves by you.

Edward Cole: We live, we die, and the wheels on the bus go round and round.

Now Is Good

Our life is a series of moments. Let them all go. Moments. All gathering towards this one.

Moments. This is one. This right here, right now, is definitely a moment.

Into The Wild

So many people live within unhappy circumstances and yet will not take the initiative to change their situation because they are conditioned to a life of security, conformity, and conservatism, all of which may appear to give one peace of mind, but in reality nothing is more dangerous to the adventurous spirit within a man than a secure future. The very basic core of a man’s living spirit is his passion for adventure. The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences, and hence there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun.

There is a pleasure in the pathless woods; / There is a rapture on the lonely shore; / There is society, where none intrudes, / By the deep sea, and music in its roar; / I love not man the less, but Nature more... / - Lord Byron

I will miss you too, but you are wrong if you think that the joy of life comes principally from the joy of human relationships. God's place is all around us, it is in everything and in anything we can experience. People just need to change the way they look at things. Society, man! You know, society! Cause, you know what I don't understand? I don't understand why people, why every fucking person is so bad to each other so fucking often. It doesn't make sense to me. Judgment. Control. All that, the whole spectrum. Well, it just...

Happiness only real when shared.

When you want something in life, you just gotta reach out and grab it.

Mr. Franz I think careers are a 20th century invention and I don't want one.

When you forgive, you love. And when you love, God's light shines upon you.

The core of mans' spirit comes from new experiences.

If we admit that human life can be ruled by reason, then all possibility of life is destroyed.

Some people feel like they don't deserve love. They walk away quietly into empty spaces, trying to close the gaps of the past.

I'm going to paraphrase Thoreau here... rather than love, than money, than faith, than fame, than fairness... give me truth.

I read somewhere... how important it is in life not necessarily to be strong... but to feel strong.
Strong. You can do anything. You can go anywhere. Money, power is an illusion. It's up here. You can be here. Me and you.

If we admit that human life can be ruled by reason, the possibility of life is destroyed.

There was clearly felt the presence of a force not bound to be kind to man. It was a place of heathenism and superstitious rites, to be inhabited by men nearer of kin to the rocks and to the wild animals than we.

I have lived through much, and now I think I have found what is needed for happiness. A quiet secluded life in the country, with the possibility of being useful to people to whom it is easy to do good, and who are not accustomed to have it done to them. And work which one hopes may be of some use. Then rest, nature, books, music, love for one's neighbor. Such is my idea of happiness. And then, on top of all that, you for a mate, and children perhaps. What more can the heart of a man desire?

For a moment she rediscovered the purpose of her life. She was here on earth to grasp the meaning of its wild enchantment, and to call each thing by its right name. By its right name.

Queer As Folk - QAF

Ted: God grant me the serenity, to accept the things I cannot change... the courage to change the things I can... and the wisdom to know the difference."

Brian Kinney: I don't believe in love; I believe in fucking. It's honest, it's efficient. You get in and out with the maximum of pleasure and minimum of bullshit. Love is something straight people tell themselves they're in so they can get laid, and then they end up hurting each other because it was all based on lies to begin with.

Tracy: Whether you're gay or you're straight, I thought we were friends.
Michael: We are.
Tracy: Well, friends trust each other. What did you think would happen if you told me? That I'd tell everyone at the store? I wouldn't have, Mike. Don't you know that?
Michael: I should've. But when you spend your entire life keeping it a secret, who you really are, you learn to stop trusting people and it becomes second nature.

Brian Kinney: If you don't earn respect when you're alive, you don't deserve it when you're dead.

Ted: Every year I always wish for the same thing - a boyfriend. Someone to love who'll love me. This year I think I'm gonna wish for something else. The wisdom and maturity to realize that I won't find what I want by looking for it. Not expect someone else to give me what I never gave myself. That I'm not a half waiting to be made a whole. And even if that special person never comes along... I'll be just fine.

[giving his speech at the Committee for Human Rights]
Michael: It's an honour to stand here today, considering a few weeks ago the doctors weren't sure I was going to make it. But I was one of the lucky ones. I'm here. And as terrifying as it was, I'd be there again to defeat a bill that would deny rights to Americans just because they're gay. I have a loving partner, two wonderful kids, a home, a small business. The truth is, I'm just like you.
[puts away prepared speech and speaks from the heart]
Michael: Actually, that's not the truth. Sure, in a lot of ways, I am just like you. I wanna be happy, I want some security, a little extra money in my pocket, but in many ways, my life is nothing like yours. Why should it be? Do we all have to have the same lives to have the same rights? I thought that diversity was what this country was all about. In the gay community, we have drag queens, leather daddies, trannies, and couples with children - every color of the rainbow. My mother's standing way in the back with some friends. My friends. She once told me that people are like snowflakes; every one special and unique... and in the morning you have to shovel 'em off the driveway. But being different is what makes us all the same. It's what makes us family.

[at the candlelight vigil for those injured or killed in the explosion at Babylon]
Drew Boyd: I was asked to say a few words tonight. I asked "why?" They said, "Because you're a hero." A hero... Because I played football? Because after a lifetime of denial I was finally honest about who I am? I don't call that heroic. What *is* heroic is standing up for the rights you deserve, no matter what the consequences. And that's exactly what those who were injured... and who lost their lives last night were doing. Or trying to before they were stopped. But they were up against a powerful opponent - hatred. Hatred spread by those that want to deny others what's rightfully theirs. In the name of *their* God, *their* family, *their* country. I guess they forgot that America belongs to everyone.

Melanie: I used to hate it when Brian would say, "There are two kinds of straight people in this world - the ones who hate you to your face, and the ones who hate you behind your back," because I knew that wasn't true, there are plenty of straight people who don't hate us. But the ones who do no longer have to do it behind our backs, they can do it in the White House, in the churches, on television, in the streets! Is that the kinda place we wanna live? Is that the kinda place we wanna raise our kids?

Debbie: A word of advice, my sweet Emmett - mourn the losses because they are many. But celebrate the victories because they are few.

Brian: We're queer. We don't need marriage. We don't need the sanction of dickless politicians and pederast priests. We fuck who we want to, when we want to. That is our God-given right.
Michael: But it is also our God-given right to have everything that straight people have. Because we're every bit as much human as they are.

Jeffrey

v Secret of life… Darling... have you ever been to a picnic... and someone blows up a balloon?... And everyone starts tossing it around... and it’s always just about to touch the ground… But someone always gets there just in time... to tap it back up… That balloon... that’s God… The very best in all of us.

v Hate AIDS, not life… How?... Just think of AIDS like... the guest that won’t leave… The one we all hate… But you have to remember... What?... It’s still our party.

Les chansons d'amour aka Love Songs

v Love me less... but love me a long time.

Adam & Steve

v Happiness is accepting life on life's terms, no matter what they happen to be. You just do your best with what you've been given.

v I now pronounce you husband and husband... You may kiss your beloved.

I Think I Do

v As they say, if you can't fall in love with your best friend, who can you fall in love with?

Shortbus

Jesse, the John: Can you describe your last orgasm?

Severin: It was great. It was like time had stopped and I was completely alone.

Jesse, the John: Were you sad afterwards?

Severin: Yeah.

Jesse, the John: Why?

Severin: 'Cause time hadn't stopped and I wasn't alone.

Velvet Goldmine

v What is true about music is true about life: that beauty reveals everything because it expresses nothing.

Brokeback Mountain

v I wish I knew how to quit you.

Love! Valour! Compassion!

v I am sick of straight people. Tell the truth, aren't you? There's just too goddamn many of them. I was in a bank the other day; they were everywhere - writing checks, making deposits. Two of them were applying for a mortgage. It's disgusting! They're taking over. No one wants to talk about it, but it's true.

Broken Hearts Club, The - A Romantic Comedy

v I can't decide if my friends are the best or worst thing to happen to me. Clearly, without them,my life would be a lot less fun... but with them... I don't know if I'll ever be able to have a life of my own.

v Everyone can't be straight. Everyone can't be beautiful. Everyone can't be the same, Patrick. Some people are just gay and average. We're the strongest I think.

v A lot of people ask me when I first knew I was gay. Fact is, I don't know. But what I do remember, what I can recall, is when I first realized it was Okay: It was when I met these guys. My friends.