Quotes

Chuck Noland: We both had done the math. Kelly added it all up and... knew she had to let me go. I added it up, and knew that I had... lost her. 'cos I was never gonna get off that island. I was gonna die there, totally alone. I was gonna get sick, or get injured or something. The only choice I had, the only thing I could control was when, and how, and where it was going to happen. So... I made a rope and I went up to the summit, to hang myself. I had to test it, you know? Of course. You know me. And the weight of the log, snapped the limb of the tree, so I-I - , I couldn't even kill myself the way I wanted to. I had power over *nothing*. And that's when this feeling came over me like a warm blanket. I knew, somehow, that I had to stay alive. Somehow. I had to keep breathing. Even though there was no reason to hope. And all my logic said that I would never see this place again. So that's what I did. I stayed alive. I kept breathing. And one day my logic was proven all wrong because the tide came in, and gave me a sail. And now, here I am. I'm back. In Memphis, talking to you. I have ice in my glass... And I've lost her all over again. I'm so sad that I don't have Kelly. But I'm so grateful that she was with me on that island. And I know what I have to do now. I gotta keep breathing. Because tomorrow the sun will rise. Who knows what the tide could bring?

Chuck Noland: I'm sorry, Wilson. Wilson, I'm sorry! I'm sorry!

Chuck Noland: We live and we die by time, and we must not commit the sin of turning our back on time.

Kelly Frears: I always knew you were alive, I knew it. Everybody said that I had to let you go. I love you. You're the love of my life.

Chuck Noland: I love you too, Kelly. More than you'll ever know.

Chuck Noland: [to Wilson] We might just make it. Did that thought ever cross your brain? Well, regardless, I would rather take my chance out there on the ocean than to stay here and die on this shithole island, spending the rest of my life talking...

[suddenly yelling]

Chuck Noland: ...TO A GODDAMN VOLLEYBALL!

Stan: We buried you. There was a coffin, a gravestone... the whole thing.

Chuck Noland: I had a coffin?

[Stan nods]

Chuck Noland: Well what was in it?

[last lines]

Bettina Peterson: You look lost.

Chuck Noland: I do?

Bettina Peterson: Where're you headed?

Chuck Noland: Well, I was just about to figure that out.

Bettina Peterson: Well, that's 83 South. And this road here will hook you up with I-40 East. If you turn right, that'll take you to Amarillo, Flagstaff, California. And if you head back that direction, you'll find a whole lot of nothing all the way to Canada.

Chuck Noland: I got it.

Bettina Peterson: All right, then. Good luck, cowboy.

Chuck Noland: Thank you.

Chuck Noland: You wouldn't have a match by any chance would you?

Chuck Noland: I'm always going to keep this watch on Memphis time. Kelly time.

Chuck Noland: 87 hours is an eternity! The cosmos was created in less time. Wars have been fought and nations toppled in 87 hours! Fortunes made and squandered.

Chuck Noland: Do, do you have to keep bringing that up, huh? Ok, so it was a good thing we did a test because it wasn't going to be just a quick snap. Would've broken my neck, or leg or my back. Would've bled to death on the beach, but it's in the past. It was what, a year ago? SO let's just forget it.

Chuck Noland: Time rules over us without mercy, not caring if we 're healthy or ill, hungry or drunk, Russian, American, beings from Mars. It's like a fire. It could either destroy us or keep us warm. That's why every FedEx office has a clock. Because we live or we die by the clock. We never turn our back on it. And we never, ever allow ourselves the sin of losing track of time!

Chuck Noland: Hey, is all this turbulence from Santa and those eight tiny reindeer?

Kelly Frears: [picks up her phone] Hello?

Stan: Kelly it's Stan.

Kelly Frears: Oh how are you?

Stan: Good. I have something to tell you.

Kelly Frears: Okay.

Stan: A cargo ship was out at sea today and they found someone floating on a raft... It was Chuck! He's alive!

[Kelly drops her phone and faints as her husband Jerry looks up from feeding their daughter Katie]

Chuck Noland: [after seeing his "sail" fall over] This could work! This could work...

Chuck Noland: [to Kelly] You need to go home.

Chuck Noland: I'll be right back.

Chuck Noland: Hello! Anybody? Anybody? Anybody! Help! Help!

Chuck Noland: You just delivered your very first FedEx package. That deserves something special, like, a Snickers bar and a CD player and something to listen to, a CD. There, Elvis Presley. "50,000,000 Fans Can't Be Wrong."

Chuck Noland: You can program it. It vibrates. It lights up. You can see it in the dark.

Chuck Noland: If I'm here New Year's Eve, then I'm here. If I'm not, I'm not.