Rick Deckard

From: Blade Runner

379 quotes

"Family are the people you'd die for. I don't have any."
Family
"The hope I had died with the last replicant I retired."
Hope
"Courage is muscle memory for a man who's fought too long."
Courage
"Change is inevitable. Survival is the question."
Change
"Sometimes the monster isn't the replicant—it's the man hunting it."
Philosophy
"I don't sleep well. The dead don't let me."
Death
"What's the difference between programmed and alive? I'm not sure anymore."
Science
"The rain washes nothing clean in this city."
Peace
"Tears in rain. That's what we are."
"I've been alive long enough to know the cost of everything."
Wisdom
"The only reliable thing in this world is failure."
Perseverance
"Gratitude is for people who believe in better days ahead."
Gratitude
"Create or destroy—those are the only two choices."
Creativity
"I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion."
"All I know is what I know. And what I know is that I'm tired."
Wisdom
"Sometimes I don't know how to take these people."
Relationships
"I'm not in the business of accusing anyone of murder unless I'm sure."
Truth
"You know what worries me? Not knowing what's real anymore."
Philosophy
"Replicants are like any other man. Maybe better."
Life
"I don't know why I do the things I do."
Philosophy
"Retirement? That's just another word for giving up."
Perseverance
"The line between hunter and hunted is thinner than you think."
Wisdom
"I've done questionable things. Things I'm not proud of."
Courage
"What defines a life? Actions or origins?"
Philosophy
"To be human is to ask questions about being human."
Knowledge
"I take the work that keeps me breathing."
Work
"Some questions don't have answers. Or maybe they do, and we're too afraid to face them."
Fear
"Every moment defines us. Every choice. Every action."
Change
"I've learned that the past never really stays past."
History
"You can be a good man and still do terrible things."
Justice