Top 50 Quotes From The Twilight Zone

Marc: You only live... however many times, right?

Narrator: [opening narration] Here sits Professor Jeffrey Mingus Storck, a man who holds a doctorate in anthropology, but possesses little true knowledge of himself. Today, Professor Storck is surrounded by the many familiar artifacts that shaped his father's life and the one unknown object that ended it. As a scientist, he's about to embark on his darkest research project yet. His conclusion will lie somewhere between the barrel of a gun and the outer regions of the Twilight Zone.

Kanamit: Nineteen-hundred-and-forty-five, the United States defeats Japan. Nineteen-hundred-and-sixty-five, The Beatles defeat the son of your "god", and so on...
Mrs. Jane Warren: Well, no, that's not exactly right...

Claudia: Well, thanks you. Today was almost a very bad day.
Marc: A day is what you make it. Right?

[closing narration]
Narrator: Society is a fragile ecosystem. Razzle and dazzle people with the right lies and eventually they'll go blind to the madness right in front of their faces. Raff Hanks made a living selling the American dream. But, once sold, he created a true nightmare that he couldn't buy back. Especially not here... in the Twilight Zone.

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Narrator: Presenting Nina Harrison. A woman who left her past behind to provide a better future for her son. Today, however, she will have no choice but to revisit history again and again, on a fateful drive through the perilous highways of The Twilight Zone.

The: [opening narration] You might say that Claudia King has found herself on a kind of blind date. One set up not by friend, family, or co-worker. This is a match neither made in Heaven nor the Internet, but in the far darker web of the Twilight Zone.
The: [closing narration] Claudia King will, like most of us, proceed directly to a lifetime of tomorrow leaving Marc Wheeler to spend an eternity in a prison of his own design. The inability, no matter how many times he's given, to see beyond himself. An endless loop of solitary confinement here in the Twilight Zone.

The: [opening narration] A voice in your head can mean a few different things. A conscience, divine inspiration, or madness. But what if instead, it were a case of crossed wires? One made through the tangled enigmatic switchboards of the Twilight Zone.

Jill: Charge him with criminal hypnosis!

Keith/Harry: Do you have a problem dealing with stress?
Detective: I have a problem dealing with assholes.

Irene: Dousing is sensing where water is.
Madison: Yeah, we don't need to check for that one. I don't care where water is.

Rod: [closing narration] What do we do when our world is turned upside down? When everything we thought to be true is ripped away and we're forced to face a new reality? Sophie Gelson has just awoken to the fact that when we put away childish things, we may be closing our eyes instead of opening them and that perhaps our only hope is to face our reality. A multitude of truths not shrinking from that vital, arrogant, fatal, dominant X beyond imagination, but to embrace it. Top open ourselves to the unknown. Not the end of the story, but a new beginning for the Twilight Zone.

Narrator: [opening narration] Meet Annie Miller. Annie has always seen the world as a place where she can maintain control if she just played by the rules. But tonight marks the beginning of a change. Both in her and the idyllic home that she's always called home. On the eve of her sister's birthday, Annie will be forced to contend with an event way out of her control in a simmering violence about to boil over into the Twilight Zone.

Robert: Barbara, we have an alien in our basement.

Sgt. Hill: But who really knows anybody, right?
Detective: Whoa. Man, that is so deep.

The: [closing narration] We can never calculate what change our actions will bring into the world. Despite our best intentions and whether they will be for good or ill. Yet without action, the stars themselves go cold. Jason Grant wanted to change the world for the better, but the power to do so got the best of him until he lost it all. But today, perhaps losing it all both for Mr. Grant and the town of Littleton was the beginning of something new. Lonely hands find each other in the shadows both in our imperfect world and in the Twilight Zone.

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Narrator: In his final moments, Justin Sanderson made the case that he did everything he could to avert disaster. But in the end, he was an investigative reporter unwilling to investigate himself, until it was too late. Justin discovered that the flight path to hell is paved with good intentions, and it passes directly through The Twilight Zone.

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Narrator: Samir Wassan learned the hard way that sometimes, getting everything you want means losing everything you love. And after finally finding himself on the verge of becoming somebody, he chose instead to once again be a nobody. In the end, Samir's final encore is a show you can only buy a ticket to in The Twilight Zone.

Narrator: [closing narration] It is said that seeing is believing. The crew of the Bradbury heavy mission to Mars might tell you otherwise. They're about to find out that they couldn't trust their own eyes. But who or what can we trust if not ourselves? The answer lies somewhere between takeoff and landing in the Twilight Zone.

Claudia: All we are is what we do, so stop acting like a fucking creep.

Orson: Let's be honest with ourselves. We're both trying to take from this animal what we don't have. That's what human beings do. It's what we've always done.

Narrator: [opening narration] Picture if you will a storyteller finally getting to tell the story of a lifetime except the story is one of inexplicable terror and the lifetime is her own.
[cuts to Sophie Gelson off set]
Narrator: Her name is Sophie Gelson. She has little patience for childish diversions or daydreams, but she won't be able to tune out or turn away from what works blurry in the background of her own show.
[cuts to the cue cards that Jordan Peele is reading off of]
Narrator: She is about to learn that when blurry comes to focus, there can be no escape for the fate laid out for her in the Twilight Zone. OK.
[starts laughing]
Seth: [upon him and Jordan Peele breaking character] No, I did. I know. It honestly sounds like a better episode.
Jordan: [having a brief laugh] Seriously, what's going on?

The: [closing narration] Harry Pine took a dangerous risk. One that cost him his body and his soul. But in a way, he caught the big break he was waiting for. For better or worse, he'll have plenty of time to practice for his performance. If you're looking for Harry Pine, you'll find him starring in a role of a lifetime on a show that will run forever here in the Twilight Zone.

The: [closing narration] What if our role has always been not to rule this world, but to prime it? To lay the foundation for the true inheritors of Earth. The reign of humankind has come to a close today here in the dark icy waters of the Twilight Zone.

The: [opening narration] Michelle Weaver is a woman whose worked her entire life to get to where she is in the world. Now as this new chapter begins, it's the world itself that's about to change. She's about to take a break from life as she knows it and book an extended stay here in the Twilight Zone.

The: [opening narration] Jasmine Delancey has spent her entire life in search of one thing. Applause. Now that she's found it, it's given her a new sense of meaning. But what exactly is the value of an ovation so loud, it drowns out performance? Jasmine's about to find out here in the Twilight Zone.

Narrator: [opening narration] Meet Eve Martin. Loving mother, devoted wife, active in her community. Eve was raised to view the world from a bubble of comfort, safety and privilege. But that bubble is about to burst. And when it does, she will find herself within the strange and unfamiliar borders of The Twilight Zone.

The: [closing narration] What kind of compromise goes into connecting with another human being? Is it meeting in the middle or going all the way to the end of the line? Phillip Hayes found connection, but only with the darkest part of his soul. A region of self that he'll inhabit for the rest of his life here in the Twilight Zone.

Narrator: [closing narration] We are all immigrants from somewhere, be it another city, another country, or another dimension. As a child, Eve Martin escaped to what should have been a better world. A world where the skies are blue. But now those skies have darkened, and the land below them is a place she is no longer welcome. For Eve Martin, there's no passport to be stamped for passage out of The Twilight Zone.

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Narrator: Settling in for a 13-hour transatlantic flight to a land rife with ancient mysteries is Justin Sanderson. Mr. Sanderson's occupation is to uncover unbiased truth. But with an hour left before certain doom, he must ask the right questions of the right people. Landing at the truth this time will require an unscheduled stopover in The Twilight Zone.

The: [opening narration] Submitted for your approval, Mrs. Janet Warren. A woman who would seem to have everything. Every thing. But possessions have weight. We can't carry them all at the same time. Especially when taking an unscheduled trip into the Twilight Zone.
The: [closing narration] Existential dread got you down? Well, Mrs. Janet Warren finally found relief, albeit for a limited time only. But buyer beware, all sales are final, here in the Twilight Zone.

Kanamit: In a democracy, half the population wants something different than what they're getting. We've seen how that can go.

The: [opening narration] Meet Harry Pine. Up until now, he's failed to realize that he's not the center of the world. But as you can see, he's also not entirely himself at the moment. Harry's mind was an uninvited guest in an unfamiliar body. He's about to go on a journey of self-discovery. The kind that's only possible here in the Twilight Zone.

The: [opening narration] At the bottom of the world, a group of scientists is about to encounter an entity of vast intelligence. What they are about to learn will go further and deeper than anything that they hoped to learn. Beyond science, beyond fear, beyond humanity in the Twilight Zone.

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Narrator: The most dangerous lies come in the form of beautifully wrapped gifts. On this evening, Sergeant Yuka discovered that there's no difference between myth and mistruth. She unwrapped her fateful present far too late on this dark and silent night in the Twilight Zone.

The: [opening narration] Mr. Jason Grant, a man looking to make a big difference in a small town. But being the change he wished to see in the world is a lot more complicated when you got that whole world in your hands. It's all a matter of perspective here in the Twilight Zone.

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Narrator: Meet Sergeant Yuka Mongoyak, a woman with a knack for detecting the most subtle of mistruths. On this night, a night of the most powerful of myths, that skill will be tested like never before. She's about to learn that the truth can take many different forms, depending on how you look at it. Because tonight, Sergeant Yuka's vantage point is at the very heart of the Twilight Zone.

Narrator: [closing narration] Tonight, Annie Miller found herself in the center of a mysterious and violent epidemic. What she encountered was no material disease but rather a plague of conscious. One that gave men permission to ignore decency, consent, and fear. And tonight, all it took was a few an innocuous little rocks to turn men into monsters here in the Twilight Zone.

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Narrator: Samir Wassan is an artist of great principle. A man who refuses to compromise his beliefs for a cheap joke. But tonight, he felt the rush of the limelight for the first time. Now, he'll have to decide what really matters to him when the laughter stops. And how much he's willing to give to The Twilight Zone.

Marc: I'm the world's foremost leading expert on today, because I've been doing it over and over again. I know it inside and out.

The: [opening narration] When they come, what form will they choose? And if they present us with the right one, will we let them in? Welcome them with open arms? Robert and Barbara are about to find out that it may not even matter what's inside as long as it arrives in the right package. Open the doors. You just received a delivery from the Twilight Zone.
The: [closing narration] It traveled here at speeds we cannot imagine. across distances we could not understand. Single-minded, perfectly designed to conquer, to absorb only to be conquered itself by humanity. It will go on laboring now under a yoke of its own design in one of the remotest colonies of the Twilight Zone.

The: [closing narration] How would you feel if you spent your life making your dreams a reality only to find out that reality itself is a dream all along? We can never know what makes something real. But today, Michelle Weaver has found meaning in an otherwise synthetic world.
Ellen: [to Michelle] I would like to rent a room for a few weeks, please.
The: And that's good enough for her here in the Twilight Zone.

The: [opening narration] High school. It's a period that for most of us already feels like a waking nightmare. One in which we are lost in a maze searching for ourselves. But what if during this precarious phase of our development, you introduce to set of extraordinary powers. That's all it will take to send the student body of St. Mary's Boarding School on a harrowing field trip to the Twilight Zone.

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Narrator: Nina Harrison found that only by embracing her past could she protect her son's future. And it was love, not magic, that kept evil at bay. But for some evils, there are no magical, permanent solutions, and the future remains uncertain even here in The Twilight Zone.

Narrator: [opening narration] Five voyagers setting sail to a mysterious red light 35,000 miles across an empty sea, soaring in the greatest invention every created by the human spirit to escape a catastrophe made possible in the most destructive regions of the human mind. Individual madness or shared nightmare? The answer lies in their search for safe harbor here in the Twilight Zone.

Larry: I like animals, okay? Even the ones I eat, I'm cool with, yeah? But I do not want to be in a room with that little fucker.

Narrator: [Closing narration] Human beings have a funny way of treating things like people. But today, they'll learn that as long as objects are valued more than lives, tragedy will be forever manufactured here in the Twilight Zone.

The: [closing narration] On the surface, Madison appeared to have it all. But on the inside, she was lost, alone. So she created Irene, a projection in every sense. One part wish fulfillment, another part confession. An unconscious cry for help from within her psychic prison in the Twilight Zone.

Mrs. Jane Warren: You have all this unbelievable technology... and all you've been doing is watching television?

Mrs. Jane Warren: Take me to your supervisor!