Find the perfect quote to float your boat. Shmoop breaks down key quotations from Sunset Limited.
Compassion and Forgiveness Quotes
WHITE: This place. It's a horrible place. Full of horrible people.BLACK: Oh my. WHITE: You must know these people are not worth saving. Even if they could be saved. Which they cant. You must know t...
Happiness Quotes
BLACK: What. We done opened a can of worms here? What you got against bein happy?WHITE: It's contrary to the human condition.BLACK: Well. It's contrary to your condition. I got to agree with that....
Injustice Quotes
BLACK: You gettin ahead of the story.WHITE: The story of how a fellow prisoner became a crippled one-eyed halfwit so that you could find God. (49)
Isolation Quotes
BLACK: So you seen your birthday was comin up and that seemed like the right day.WHITE: Who knows? Maybe birthdays are dangerous. Like Christmas. Ornaments hanging from the trees, wreaths from the...
Life, Consciousness, and Existence Quotes
BLACK: I done told you. This aint none of my doin. I left out of here this mornin to go to work you wasn't no part of my plans at all. But here you is. WHITE: It doesn't mean anything. Everything t...
Mortality Quotes
WHITE: People stopped valuing [cultural things]. I stopped valuing them. To a certain extent. I'm not sure I could tell you why. That world is largely gone. Soon it will be wholly gone.BLACK: I ain...
Race Quotes
BLACK: You live in a apartment?WHITE: Yes.BLACK: What. They don't let black folks in there?WHITE: No. I mean of course they do. Look. No more jokes. I've got to go. I'm very tired. (9)
Religion Quotes
WHITE: Do you really think that Jesus is in this room?BLACK: No. I don't think he's in this room. WHITE: You don't? BLACK: I know he's in the room. […] It's the way you put it, Professor. Be like...
Suffering Quotes
BLACK: Runnin blindfold through the woods with the bit tween your teeth. Oh man. Didnt I try it though. If you can find a soul that give it a better shot than me I'd like to meet him. I surely woul...