The Long Walk (2025) - Quotes

The Journey Lies Ahead

Taglines: The road awaits you.

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Potential for Victory

Taglines: You could be the next winner.

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The Choice Between Survival and Peril

Taglines: Walk or die.

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Unexpected Gifts After The Long Walk

Closing text (Alternate ending): It was an early fall morning, months after Peter McVries won the Long Walk, when the Musketeers next of kin – Ginny Garraty, Clementine Olson, and Geraldine Baker – each heard a knock at their door. When they opened it, no one was there. Instead, they each found a large envelope filled with more money than any of them had ever seen. These mysterious envelopes kept arriving, month after month, for as long as they could remember. And one day not long after the first envelopes arrived, Geraldine Baker received a small parcel. Inside was a rosary and cross.

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A Wish for a Carbine

The Major: Congratulations, Mr. McVries. The cash prize is yours. So tell me, son. What's your wish?

The Major: The whole nation is watching, son. What's your wish?

Peter McVries #23: [stands up] I want... ...I want a carbine.

The Major: You'll have one.

Peter McVries #23: [points to rifle held by a soldier] No. I want that carbine. To give to my kids one day.

Soldier: Sir?

The Major: Give him his wish. He won't shoot anyone, boys. He's won too much, and remember. This one wants to make the world a better place. Isn't that right, son?

Peter McVries #23: Hold your fire or I'll fuckin shoot!

The Major: Hold your fire, boys!

Peter McVries #23: I'll fuckin shoot!

The Major: That's all right, son. No harm done...not yet. Put the gun down. The whole world is waitin for you. There's more riches than you can possibly imagine. Put the gun down. The prize is yours for the takin'. Don't throw it away.

Peter McVries #23: This is for Ray.

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The Complexity of Violence and Humanity

Peter McVries #23: Garraty, do you have any idea how fuckin hard it is to kill a man? I'll kill a deer and that's hard enough. Like, killing a man is only easy for...for a certain kind of person.

Raymond Garraty #47: I'll become that kind of person.

Peter McVries #23: That'd be fuckin sad. Those kind of people can't see the beauty in this world.

Raymond Garraty #47: What fuckin beauty?

Peter McVries #23: The sky! The trees, the birds! Fuck, man, everything! You know what else is beautiful? Us. Cause we're...we're real friends, aren't we?

Raymond Garraty #47: Pete, what does it matter?

Peter McVries #23: Whether we have three hours, three days, or three decades, this moment? This fuckin moment? It matters, man. Say it.

Raymond Garraty #47: This matters. This moment matters.

Peter McVries #23: Yeah. Goddamn right. Let's continue.

Raymond Garraty #47: [whispering] But it doesn't really matter, does it, Pete? Cause when this moment's over... ...I'm still gonna go fuckin kill him.

Peter McVries #23: Fair enough. But realize, even if you pull it off, they'll fuckin kill you.

Raymond Garraty #47: You don't know that shit. I'll be the winner. That's uncharted territory.

Peter McVries #23: But what about your mom?

Raymond Garraty #47: Oh, don't fuckin bring up my mom, Pete!

Peter McVries #23: What about your mom? Does she know?

Raymond Garraty #47: No, she doesn't. This thing's bigger than me and my mom.

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Desire for a Simple Treat

Peter McVries #23: Do you know what I want more than anything?

Raymond Garraty #47: What, Pete?

Peter McVries #23: An Orange Julius.

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Three Great Truths of Life

Hank Olson #46: There are three great truths in the world. A good meal, a good screw, and a good shit. And that's all.

Raymond Garraty #47: Olson's a smart man. You keep saying "crap", though. What's up with that?

Arthur Baker #6: It's always sounded a little less vulgar to me than the... than the s-word.

Peter McVries #23: Well, I ain't never heard of the Bible forbidding the word "shit".

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Confrontation and Reflection in Crisis

Arthur Baker #6: What, you need a gun to your head to get up from a shit? Jesus.

Hank Olson #46: I DID IT ALL WRONG!

Arthur Baker #6: [''His last line, repeatedly''] I'm going home.

A Dedication to Ray

Peter McVries #23: [''His last line''] This is for Ray.

Confrontation and Duty in The Long Walk

Raymond Garraty #47: [''To the guard''] You're paid to shoot me, not look at me, motherfucker!

A Request for Continued Companionship

Raymond Garraty #47: [''To McVries''] Just walk with me a little longer.

A Son's Apology to His Mother

Raymond Garraty #47: I'm sorry, mom!

The Rules of Survival and Competition

The Major: [cheers from the Walkers; louder cheers; he fires a pistol into the air to start the Walk] Now, uh, I'm not going to go through the whole rule-book, but it boils down to this. Walk until there's only one of you left. Maintain a speed of three miles per hour. If you fall below the speed, you get a warning. If you can't make speed in ten seconds, you get an additional warning. Three warnings, you get your ticket. Walk one hour at speed, one warning is erased, and so on. If you step off the pavement, you will get your ticket without warning. The goal is to last the longest. There's one winner, and no finish line. Any of you can win. Any of you can do it if you walk long and steady enough, if you refuse to give up. I look at each and every one of you, and I see hope. Now, boys, who's set to fuckin win? I said, who's ready to fuckin win? Luck to all, and remember. Anyone can win.

Inspiration Through Struggle and Hard Work

The Major: [cheers from the Walkers] Boys, it takes heavy, heavy sack to sign up for this contest, and you've all got it. You're men now. As you all know, our country has been in a period of financial struggle since the war, and we did the first Long Walk all those years ago to inspire and re-integrate the value of work ethic. Each year after the event, there's a spike in production. We have the means to return to our former glory. Our problem now is an epidemic of laziness. You boys are the answer. The Long Walk is the answer. When this is broadcast for all the states, your inspiration will continue to elevate our gross national product. We will be number one in the world again!

Limits of the Body and Mind

The Major: [from trailer] You'll walk as long as you can. But sometimes, the body won't listen. For some of you, your heart will stop. For others, your brain. And the blood will flow... suddenly.