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70 Of The Best Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind Quotes

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind is a quirky movie released in 2004 starring Kate Winslet and Jim Carrey. In the film, Kate Winslet’s character Clementine and Jim Carrey’s character Joel Barish fall in love. They don’t realize that they have been lovers before but have had their memories of each other erased.

In a famous scene from the film, the two characters are sad that they met at the wrong time. The film is a meditation on what it means to be together and whether we have soul mates. These quotes will inspire you while making you laugh.

Constantly talking isn’t necessarily communicating.
Joel Barish


I wish I had stayed too. NOW I wish I had stayed. I wish I had done a lot of things. I wish I had… I wish I had stayed. I do.
Joel Barish


Too many guys think I’m a concept, or I complete them, or I’m gonna make them alive. But I’m just a f*cked-up girl who’s lookin’ for my own peace of mind; don’t assign me yours.
Clementine Kruczynski

What?… What do you *want* Joel?
Clementine Kruczynski

I can’t remember anything without you.
Joel Barish

But you will! But you will. You know, you will think of things. And I’ll get bored with you and feel trapped because that’s what happens with me.
Clementine Kruczynski


This is it, Joel. It’s going to be gone soon.
Clementine Kruczynski

You’re pretty.
Joel Barish

Are we like those bored couples you feel sorry for in restaurants? Are we the dining dead? I can’t stand the idea of us being a couple people think that about.
Joel Barish

Why do i fall in love with every woman I see that shows me the least bit of attention.
Joel Barish


Look, I’m sorry if I came off a little nutso, I’m not really.
Clementine Kruczynski

I can’t see anything I don’t like about you.
Joel Barish

Aw, that’s… very sweet, but try.
Clementine Kruczynski

Yeah. I thought you knew that about me. I ran back to the bonfire, trying to outrun my humiliation, I think.
Joel Barish

Remember me. Try your best. Maybe we can.
Clementine Kruczynski

Sand is overrated. It’s just tiny, little rocks.
Joel Barish

Can it cause brain damage?
Joel Barish

I had a really nice time last night. I had the best f*cking night of my entire f*cking life, last night!
Joel Barish

I could die right now, Clem. I’m just… happy. I’ve never felt that before. I’m just exactly where I want to be.
Joel Barish

I don’t know! I want you wait for just a… a while.
Joel Barish

I don’t need nice. I don’t need myself to be it, and I don’t need anybody else to be it at me.
Clementine Kruczynski

Hi. Didn’t figure you’d show your face around me again. I guess I thought you were… humiliated. You did run away, after all.
Clementine Kruczynski

If only I could meet someone new. I guess my chances of that happening are somewhat diminished, seeing that I’m incapable of making eye contact with a woman I don’t know.
Joel Barish

Adults are, like, this mess of sadness and phobias.
Mary

You had the whole human race pegged.
Joel Barish



That’s what I love about you.
Joel Barish

I want to read some of those journals you’re constantly scribbling in. What do you write in there if you don’t have any thoughts or passions or… love?
Clementine Kruczynski

Meet me… In Montauk.
Clementine Kruczynski

You know me, I’m impulsive.
Clementine Kruczynski

Am I ugly?
Clementine Kruczynski

My embarrassing admission is I really like that you’re nice, right now.
Clementine Kruczynski

I don’t know! I DON’T KNOW! I’m lost! I’m scared! I feel like I’m disappearing! MY SKIN’S COMING OFF! I’M GETTING OLD! Nothing makes any sense to me! NOTHING MAKES ANY SENSE!
Clementine Kruczynski

Please let me keep this memory, just this one.
Joel Barish

I don’t constantly talk! Jesus! People have to share things, Joel…
Clementine Kruczynski

Joel, look at me. You’ll remember me in the morning, and you’ll come to me, and you’ll tell me about us, and we’ll start over.
Clementine Kruczynski

Not yet, not married. No, I’m not married.
Joel Barish

I walked out the door. There’s no memory left.
Joel Barish

Look at it out here! It’s all falling apart. I’m erasing you, and I’m happy! You did it to me first. I can’t believe you did this to me. Clem! Did you hear me? By morning, you’ll be gone! The perfect ending to this piece of sh*t story!
Joel Barish

I thought maybe you were a nut. But you were exciting.
Clementine Kruczynski

That’s okay, I really didn’t think you were.
Joel Barish

How happy is the blameless vestal’s lot! The world forgetting, by the world forgot. Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind! Each pray’r accepted, and each wish resign’d.
Mary

Well, technically it is brain damage.
Dr. Howard Mierzwiak

Come back and make up a good-bye at least. Let’s pretend we had one.
Clementine Kruczynski

You don’t tell me things, Joel. I’m an open book. I tell you everything, every damn, embarrassing thing.
Clementine Kruczynski

Really? There’s a stalker book? Great, I gotta read that one.
Joel Barish

What can I say, Joel? You know Clementine. She’s like that. She’s … impulsive. She decided to erase you almost as a lark.
Carrie

Blessed are the forgetful, for they get the better even of their blunders.
Mary

When I was a kid, I thought I was. I can’t believe I’m crying already. Sometimes I think people don’t understand how lonely it is to be a kid, like you don’t matter. So, I’m eight, and I have these toys, these dolls. My favorite is this ugly girl doll who I call Clementine, and I keep yelling at her, “You can’t be ugly! Be pretty!” It’s weird, like if I can transform her, I would magically change, too.
Clementine Kruczynski


Our files are confidential Mr. Barish so we can’t show you any evidence. Suffice it to say, Miss Kruczynski was not happy and she wanted to move on. We provide that possibility.
Dr. Howard Mierzwiak

Look man, I’m telling you right off the bat I’m high maintenance. So I’m not gonna tip-toe around your marriage or whatever it is ya got goin’ on there. If you wanna be with me, you’re with me.
Clementine Kruczynski

Baby, whats wrong?
Patrick

Well, it is pathetic. And it’s f**king irresponsible. You could’ve killed somebody. I don’t know, maybe you did kill somebody. Should we turn on the news and see? Should I check the grille to see if there’s children or small animals?
Joel Barish

I wish you’d stayed.
Clementine Kruczynski

Can you hear me? I don’t want this any more! I want to call it off!
Joel Barish

It’s amazing, isn’t it? What Howard gives to the world? To let people begin again. It’s beautiful, you look at a baby and it’s so pure, and so free, and so clean, and adults are like this mess of sadness and phobias, and Howard just makes it all go away.
Mary Svevo

You’re driving drunk. It’s pathetic.
Joel Barish

I was a little tipsy. Don’t call me pathetic.
Clementine Kruczynski

I don’t know, I felt like a scared little kid. It was above my head; I don’t know.
Joel Barish

I’m sorry… I just, my life isn’t that interesting.
Joel Barish

What a loss to spend that much time with someone, only to find out that she’s a stranger.
Joel Barish

I came back downstairs, and you were gone.
Clementine Kruczynski

I kinda sorta wrecked your car.
Clementine Kruczynski

We are David and Ruth Laskin. Which one do you want to be? I prefer to be Ruth, but I’m flexible.
Clementine Kruczynski

I’m not a stalker. YOU’RE the one that talked to me, remember?
Joel Barish

Joely, don’t ever leave me.
Clementine Kruczynski

Maybe you can find yourself a nice antique rocking chair to die in.
Clementine Kruczynski

You’re not a stalker, or anything, right?
Clementine Kruczynski

That is the oldest trick in the stalker book.
Clementine Kruczynski

Now, the first thing we need you to do, Mr. Barish, is go to home and collect everything you own that has some association with Clementine. Anything. We’ll use these items to create a map of Clementine in your brain, okay? So we’ll need photos, clothing, gifts, books she may have bought you, CDs you may have bought together. Journal entries. You want to empty your home, you want to empty your life, of Clementine.
Dr. Howard Mierzwiak

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