Apocalypse Now Quotes – Exploring the Iconic Lines from the Classic Film
I love the smell of napalm in the morning.
The horror… the horror.
Sometimes I doubt your commitment to sparkle motion.
What are they gonna say about him? What? Are they gonna say, ‘He was a kind man? He was a wise man?’
Every man has a breaking point.
I watched a snail crawl along the edge of a straight razor. That’s my dream; that’s my nightmare.
Are my methods unsound?
Charlie don’t surf!
You’re an errand boy, sent by grocery clerks, to collect a bill.
Terminate… with extreme prejudice.
Everyone gets everything he wants. I wanted a mission, and for my sins, they gave me one.
You have the right to kill me, but you don’t have the right to judge me.
This is the end… beautiful friend.
The bullshit piled up so fast in Vietnam, you needed wings to stay above it.
I’ve seen horrors… horrors that you’ve seen. But you have no right to call me a murderer.
Someday this war’s gonna end.
Charging a man with murder in this place was like handing out speeding tickets at the Indy 500.
I wanted a mission… and for my sins, they gave me one.
Out there with these natives, you gotta sip or they’re gonna kill you.
The US military does not start wars. We finish them.
Every minute I stay in this room, I get weaker. And every minute Charlie squats in the bush, he gets stronger.
The only way to be safe is to go back to hell.
In this war, things get confused out there. Power, ideals, the old morality, and practical military necessity.
It’s judgment that defeats us.
We are the hollow men. We are the stuffed men.
I’m not alone. I’ve got two men with me. That’s at least certain. They won’t abandon me… but they won’t help me.
Who’s the commanding officer here? It’s fucking Colonel Kurtz!
Are you an assassin? I’m a soldier.
This is not Vietnam. This is bowling. There are rules.
Don’t look at the camera. They die if they’re seen.
Everyone is entitled to their own opinion, but not their own facts.
Watch movies and make your own mind, instead of just buying into this sort of herd mentality.
Those who dance are considered insane by those who can’t hear the music.
Who needs reasons when you’ve got heroin?
We train young men to drop fire on people, but their commanders won’t allow them to write ‘fuck’ on their airplanes.
You’ve seen Colonel Kurtz? Did they say why, Willard, why they want to terminate my command?
They told me that you had gone totally insane, and that your methods were unsound.
They’d seen a lot of horror and terror in their life. And they were always afraid to close their eyes.
There’s a conflict in every human heart between the rational and the irrational, between good and evil.
I worry that my son might not understand what I’ve tried to be.
Mankind’s history has proved from time to time that we have no reason to exist.
Freedom? That’s not being afraid. I’m afraid all the time.
We train young men to drop fire on people, but their commanders won’t allow them to write ‘fuck’ on their airplanes.
Looking into the hollow heart of my enemy, I see my own reflection.
The apocalypse isn’t coming, it’s already here. And it’s called humanity.
We are the architects of our own destruction.
War doesn’t determine who’s right. Only who’s left.
The world won’t end with a bang, but with silence.
In the face of the apocalypse, morality becomes relative.
We were so preoccupied with whether or not we could, we didn’t stop to think if we should.