The best Quotes from Downsizing

Not a very successful species, these Homo Sapiens, even with such great intelligence. Barely 200,000 years. Alligator has survived 200 million years, with a brain the size of a walnut.

When you know death comes soon, you look around things more close.

Nature is such a patient sculptor - grinding a tiny bit each day slowly, slowly for thousands of years to make such a supremely beautiful thing.

Get out and open your eyes, this small world is filled with things to see.

Okay, maybe sometimes I'm a little bit a-shole, but the world needs a-sholes. Otherwise where would shit go out?

Neighbors are friends. Friends tell friends the truth.

Harry, suffering like this proves you are still a man! This pain is part of being human.

As much money and life as you could want! The two things most human beings would choose above all - the trouble is, humans do have a knack of choosing precisely those things that are worst for them.

Mankind invented the atomic bomb, but no mouse would ever construct a mousetrap.

Mostly, I'm tired of people being ugly to each other. I'm tired of all the pain I feel and hear in the world every day. There's too much of it. It's like pieces of glass in my head all the time.

Alcohol is for people who can afford to lose a few brain-cells.

They say we only use a fraction of our brain's true potential. Now that's when we're awake. When we're asleep, we can do almost anything.

All right, brain. You don't like me and I don't like you, but let's just do this and I can get back to killing you with beer.

It is not the brains that matter most, but that which guides them - the character, the heart, generous qualities, progressive ideas.

Sometimes you must hurt in order to know, fall in order to grow, lose in order to gain. Because life's greatest lessons are learned through pain.

The world will break your heart ten ways to Sunday. That's guaranteed.

Death is Peaceful, Life is Harder.

Well you can't never let anything happen to him. Then nothing would ever happen to him!

There's no death for those who don't fear it.

Death is so close, always, a breath away, so perhaps it was wise to introduce children to that concept at an early age.

Have you no hope at all? And do you really live with the thought that when you die, you die, and nothing remains?" "Yes," I said.

For death is no more than a turning of us over from time to eternity.

What began as a common desire to secure wilderness for people to enjoy, has become a worldwide movement to preserve these areas for future generations. They're a place to escape the burdens of everyday life and an inspiration for our children. They're a haven for endangered species and a hotbed for scientific research.

Nature's creative power is far beyond man's instinct of destruction.

Nature has to be felt.

We are not to tell Nature what she's gotta be! She's clever. She's always got better imagination than we have.

Anything is possible if you got enough nerve.

To me, the very definition of the word "broken" suggests that something can be fixed.

Sometimes the right path is not the easiest one.

Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them.

I'm in love with cities I've never been to and people I've never met.

I'm in love with cities I have never been to and with people I have never met.

I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.

Home can only be discovered abroad.

It's not a crime to be an a-shole, but it's very counter-productive.

How can you speak six languages and sound like a dick in every one of them?

If you're worried about people seeing your ass, do what all the other girls do and tie a sweater around your waist.

If God didn't want us putting things up our ass, he would have given the rectum a gag reflex.

Sometimes, strangers can become more like family than blood ever could.

It's a mystery of human chemistry and I don't understand it, some people, as far as their senses are concerned, just feel like home.

He's a better person when she's around, and isn't that what friends are for, to raise you up and keep you at your best?

Nobody can avoid falling in love. They might want to deny it, but friendship is probably the most common form of love.

The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because generally they are the same people.

You know, you should always be polite to your neighbors. You never know when you might need to borrow some sugar.

You shouldn't be so grumpy to someone who's new in the neighbourhood!

To hear that your neighbor was worse off than yourself was not an altogether unpleasant experience.

Your cells age at half the rate of a normal human. When you're 40, you'll still have the leucocytes of a teenager.

I will escape for every innocent woman whose life was stolen.