How we cite our quotes: All quotations are from Requiem for a Dream.
Quote #1
HARRY: Why you gotta make me feel so guilty, Ma?! Jesus! What are you doing? Trying to get me to break my own mother's set? Or radiator? And maybe blow up the house? Your own flesh and blood! Is that what you're trying to do? Your son? Why you play games with my head, for Christ's sake?
Harry doesn't have a job. He needs drugs. He's broke and he steals his mother's TV for drug money. Yet he blames her for it, which makes her disappointed in herself and what her life has become.
Quote #2
SARA: This isn't happening. And if it should be happening, it would be all right. So don't worry, Seymour. It'll all work out. You'll see already. In the end, it's all nice.
A more wrong thing has never been said. Rapper B.o.B. saying the earth is flat was more right than Sara thinking this movie will end up "all nice" at the end.
Quote #3
MR. RABINOWITZ: Such a son. Your mother needs you like a moose needs a hat rack.
Mr. Rabinowitz might be the one person in the movie who isn't an enabler. Most other people in the film, like Sara's old lady friends, only enable her sadness, leading her down a path of temporary relief and more disappointment.