On the Beach Quotes

Moira Davidson I wouldn't really mind... if you could forget entirely who I am... I don't like myself very much anyway.

Moira Davidson All I want to know is: if everybody was so smart, why didn't they know what would happen?

Dwight Towers They did.

Moira Davidson Well, I, I can't take it. I, oh, yes, I can take it! But, it's unfair. It's unfair because I didn't do anything. And nobody I know did anything.

Dwight Towers Well... how'd you recognise me?

Moira Davidson I love Americans. They're so naïve.

Julian Osborn The trouble with you is you want a simple answer. There isn't any. The war started when people accepted the idiotic principle that peace could be maintained — by arranging to defend themselves with weapons they couldn't possibly use — without committing suicide. Everybody had an atomic bomb, and counter-bombs, and counter-counter bombs. The devices outgrew us; we couldn't control them. I know, I helped build them. God, help me. Somewhere, some poor bloke probably looked at a radar screen and thought he saw something. He knew that if he hesitated one-thousands of a second — his own country would be wiped off the map. So, So, he pushed a button - and the world went — crazy. And, and...

Morgan They pushed us too far! They didn't think we'd fight, no matter what they did!

Julian Osborn And they were wrong. We fought. We expunged them. And we didn't do such a bad job on ourselves.

Julian Osborn There was a choice. It was build the bombs, and use them — or risk the United States, the Soviet Union, and the rest of us, would find some way... to go on living

Morgan That's wishful thinking if ever I heard it.

Julian Osborn I'm not against wishful thinking. Not now.

Peter Holmes You remember when we first met? It was on the beach. I thought you were everything I'd always wanted.

Mary Holmes I thought you were underfed.

Mary Holmes It's all over now isn't it?

Peter Holmes Yes. It's all over.

Moira Davidson There isn't time. No time to love... nothing to remember... nothing worth remembering.

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Julian Osborn Who would ever have believed that human beings would be stupid enough to blow themselves off the face of the Earth?

Peter Holmes Now, this is a special kind of — sleeping pill. I had a devil of a time getting em. But, I wanted you to have them on hand and to make sure you knew how to use em. What happens with the radiation is that you get — you get ill — and you start feeling sick and then you are sick and you go on being sick. You can't keep anything down. You may feel better for awhile; but, but it always comes back. You get weaker.

Mary Holmes And this cures it.

Peter Holmes Darling, you know nothing cures it. This ends it.

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Peter Holmes Darling.

Mary Holmes God, God forgive us. Peter, I think I'll have that cup of tea, now.

Julian Osborn In the end, somehow granted the time for examination, we shall find that our so called civilization was gloriously destroyed by a handful of vacuum tubes and transistors. Probably faulty.

Julian Osborn We're all doomed, you know. The whole, silly, drunken, pathetic lot of us. Doomed by the air we're about to breathe. We haven't got a chance!

Mary Holmes Stop it! I won't have it, Julian. I won't! There is hope. There has to be hope. There's always hope. We just can't go on like this. We can't. We - we...

Julian Osborn I shouldn't drink, you know. I inevitably say something brilliant.