The Motorcycle Diaries Quotes
2004 films, Foreign language films, Road films
Top Quotes
“A revolution without guns? It would never work.”
“(To Alberto): Are you talking to the motorcycle again?”
“Me, I'm not the same me, at least not the same spiritual me.”
“You gotta fight for every breath and tell death to go to hell.”
“How is it possible to feel nostalgia for a world I never knew?”
“What we had in common – our restlessness, our impassioned spirits, and a love for the open road.”
“The Motorcycle Diaries on IMDb.”
“The Official The Motorcycle Diaries Site”
“Wandering around our America has changed me more than I thought. I am not me any more. At least I'm not the same me I was.”
“The Motorcycle Diaries at Rotten Tomatoes.”
“The deeper we go into the Andes the more indigenous people we encounter, who are homeless in their own land. All across our own land.”
“I knew that when the great guiding spirit cleaves humanity into two antagonistic halves, I will be with the people ~ Ernesto 'Ché' Guevara”
“[voiceover]
We look like outlaws inspiring admiration everywhere we go. We’ve left civilization behind and we are much closer to the land.”
“What do we leave behind when we cross each frontier? Each moment seems split in two; melancholy for what was left behind and the excitement of entering a new land.”
“"What do we leave behind when we cross each frontier? Each moment seems split in two; melancholy for what was left behind and the excitement of entering a new land" ~ Ernesto 'Ché' Guevara”
“The blacks, those magnificent examples of the African race who have conserved their racial purity by a lack of affinity with washing, have seen their patch invaded by a different kind of slave: The Portuguese.”
“[narration] This isn’t a tale of heroics, nor is it merely some kind of ‘cynical account’; it isn’t meant to be, at least. It’s simply two lives running parallel for a while, with common aspirations and similar dreams.”
“[T]he black is indolent and fanciful, he spends his money on frivolity and drink; the European comes from a tradition of working and saving which follows him to this corner of America and drives him to get ahead, even independently of his own individual aspirations.”
“Even though we are too insignificant to be spokesmen for such a noble cause, we believe, and this journey has only confirmed this belief, that the division of American into unstable and illusory nations is a complete fiction. We are one single mestizo race from Mexico to the Magellan Straits. And so, in an attempt to free ourselves from narrow minded provincialism, I propose a toast to Peru and to a united America.”