The Outer Limits Quotes

Year:

1995 – 2002

Tagline:

«There is nothing wrong with your television. Do not attempt to adjust the picture.»

Country:

Canada, USA

Genres:

Detective, Drama, Thriller, ... Horror, Sci-Fi, Fantasy

A modern revival of the classic science fiction horror anthology show The Outer Limits (1963). Episodes often have twist-endings and involve aliens. Sometimes, a story from one episode continues in a later episode.

The human race has a gift... that sets it above all the other creatures that abound upon this planet: the gift of thought, of reasoning, of understanding. The highly-developed brain. But the human race has ceased to develop. It struggles for petty comfort and false security; there is no time for thought. Soon there will be no time for reasoning, and Man will lose sight of the truth.

humanity

— And you don't have a problem with that?
— Life is full of problems, it's how we deal with them that defines us.

problems, troubles, issues

life

Sometimes it takes a lot of courage just to play the hand you got dealt.

courage

cards

We offer knowledge, learn to ask.

There's always one moment in childhood, when the door opens and lets in the future.

childhood

future

We live in a world of cowards, Dr. Hamilton. Every man is afraid of his brother, and most men try to hide from that awful fact. Even here, the men are afraid to see the evil that is here on this base. And they are responsible for it.

Major Roger Brothers

fear

Welcome, gentlemen. The society which you have voluntarily joined is called "The Invisibles." It is subversive and illegal. It is also powerful and large and it is ready. When the invisibles have become the masters of everyone and everything on this planet, you, the vanguard of this virile and violent inevitability, will sit so high that mankind will come to recognize you by the lines in the soles of your feet.

Larry Hillerman

I don't think you understand me, General. I'm not interested in becoming a hero. Nor do I have an overdeveloped sense of duty. I'm doing this because I'm nothing more than an instrument for action. Mr. Chambers knows that also. Between missions, I cease to exist. I am what I've done, and that's not always very pretty. But being ugly is better than being nothing. I have no one, I care for no one, and I'm care for by no one. So all I have is what I can do.

Mace

Better to die than to sit and watch the world die.

inaction, passivity

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