The Twilight Zone Tv Show Quotes
Narrator: “Once upon a time, there was a realm of myth and magic-a high, bright dream that shimmered briefly and then was gone, leaving only memories and one ageless, weary, slightly tarnished hero who proved at last that wisdom and valor go hand in hand, on Earth, in Camelot, and…in the Twilight Zone.”
Sheriff: “Go ahead, son. Why don’t you tell the major what you saw – the fiery meteor, the bug-eyed monsters, the death ray.”
Narrator: “To live life fully, one should hear the melody the world makes. Pity those who stumble through their years without ever hearing the song. The greatest gift we can bestow on those we love is to help them hear it. One life ends, another begins. But the song of life fills the universe, even into the last highest darkened balcony row…in the Twilight Zone.”
Narrator: “We know that a dream can be real, but what if reality is only a dream? We exist, of course, but how? In what way? As we believe, as flesh and blood human beings, or are we simply playing parts in someone else’s feverish, complicated nightmare? Think about it and then ask yourself, “Do you live here in this country? In this world? Or do you live instead…in the Twilight Zone?”
Narrator: “Man is a questioning creature, constantly striving for answers. But there is some knowledge for which he’s not yet ready. Secrets once learned overwhelm him. Secrets that for now are best left undisturbed…in the Twilight Zone.”
Narrator: “Often the most perplexing mysteries have the simplest solutions, the most complex questions, the simplest answers. Sometimes we seek them long and hard only to find the solutions and the answers lie right before us in a reference book, under “T” for the Twilight Zone.”
Narrator: “Centuries ago, Hell was reached by chalk-white horses pulling shuttered coaches; by Spanish galleons borne on black sails through uncharted seas. Legend has it Leonardo da Vinci was once commissioned to build a flying machine to carry souls to Hell, but it never returned from its maiden flight. But along this particular road to Hell lies redemption for the damned as well as for drivers who have found work… in The Twilight Zone.”
Rod Serling: “It’s a world much like our own, yet much unlike it. A twisted mirror of reality, in which a man can find himself cast out, made invisible by public acclamation, belonging no longer to society, but only to the gray reaches…of the Twilight Zone.”
Narrator: “Time, a handy fiction to explain why everything doesn’t happen all at once. Or maybe we’re the fiction, moving minute by minute…through the Twilight Zone.”
Narrator: “If we are pawns of dark powers, then even our highest aspirations become a grim joke. But if not, then no one will goad us toward world peace or take it away once we have achieved it. Doubters please note, you’ve just seen it achieved once, however briefly, in The Twilight Zone.”
Bendictson: “Midnight. Not twelve on the clock, but mid-night. When twilight and dawn are evenly balanced, one no stronger than the other. Each pulling against the other in the opposite direction, so that the very fabric of the night is torn apart. Midnight … when the monsters come out.”
Bendictson: “Toby, there are things in the night worse than me. Things so terrible that I’ve spent a hundred and forty seven years running from them. Things that wait and hide, and if one of my kind stays too long in a place, they come out. Real monsters, Toby. Real beasts.”
Narrator: “In the days to come, when human beings navigate the great depths of space, they’ll eventually come to a small planet in a distant galaxy. It’s a pleasant place, but quite unlike the Earth. There’s one unusual similarity, however: shamrocks grow there in great profusion. Brought they say by one Liam O’Shaughnessy, lately of Earth and now residing in one of the greener corners…of the Twilight Zone.”
Narrator: “They say every road goes somewhere. But that isn’t so. Roads are just there. It is we who do the moving. They stop where we stop, not caring whether we follow them to our chosen destination or…into the Twilight Zone.”
Rod Serling: “The perfect crime is the one nobody realizes has been committed. Every day, we commit a dozen perfect crimes in our mind, and we never get punished, because those crimes never happen. That’s the way it is in the real world. But murder, like a bad meal, has a way of repeating, especially when the bloody stroke is struck…in the Twilight Zone.”
Narrator: “There is a place where everything that’s ever been lost can be found again. A place where lost hopes, lost dreams, lost chances wait for someone to reclaim them. But before you can find them, first you must become lost…in the Twilight Zone.”
Narrator: “As we walk through life, if we learn nothing else, we learn the only sure things are death and taxes. Well, one out of two isn’t bad. And haven’t we all said “You can’t take it with you”? Another comforting adage without exceptions in the real world, that somehow goes all wonky when considering exit lines, delivered…in the Twilight Zone.”
Rod Serling: “Like a wind crying endlessly through the universe, time carries away the names and deeds of conquerors and commoners alike. And all that we were, all that remains is in the memories of those who cared we came this way for a brief moment. A blessing of the 18th Egyptian Dynasty: God be between you and harm in all the empty places you walk.”
Rod Serling: “We’re told that damned places exist. Buildings where madness permeates the very bricks and mortar. We’re told that sometimes dedication and kindness can purge the evil from those walls. This has merely been a story. Life isn’t really like this, is it? A lesson to be learned in the study halls of the Twilight Zone.”
Narrator: “The song unsung. The wish unfulfilled. Even with the dream in hand, there is the chill of an eternal loss …fading …fading. For every choice made, wrong or right, a thousand alternatives denied. When tomorrow calls, sometimes the heart must be denied. For Carol Shelton, there will be other tomorrows, other joys, and yet …fading …fading. For one trembling instant, she was given the opportunity to take snapshots of an alternate future. Snapshots forever undeveloped in the darkness…of The Twilight Zone.”
Narrator: “Imagine yourself a visitor to many worlds, drifting on the solar wind, a thousand voices singing in your memory. Now imagine you’re this man, who can only guess at the wonders he might have known, wonders that exist for him now only as a riddle…from The Twilight Zone.”
Narrator: “Wouldn’t it be nice if once in a while everyone would just shut up and stop pestering you. Wouldn’t it be great to have the time to finish a thought or spin a daydream. To think out loud without being required to explain exactly what you meant. If you had the power, would you dare to use it, even knowing that silence may have voices of it’s own… to the Twilight Zone?”
Narrator: “Species of animal brought back alive. Interesting similarity in physical characteristics to human beings in head, trunk, arms, legs, hands, feet. Very tiny undeveloped brain; comes from primitive planet named Earth. Samuel Conrad has found the Twilight Zone.”
Rod Serling: “Obscure metaphysical explanation to cover a phenomenon, reasons dredged out of the shadows to explain away that which cannot be explained. Call it parallel planes or just insanity. Whatever it is, you find it in the Twilight Zone.”
Narrator: “You unlock this door with the key of imagination. Beyond it is another dimension: a dimension of sound, a dimension of sight, a dimension of mind. You’re moving into a land of both shadow and substance, of things and ideas. You’ve just crossed over into… the Twilight Zone.”
Narrator: “Every man is put on earth condemned to die. Time and method of execution unknown.”
Rod Serling: “For the record, prejudices can kill, and suspicion can destroy, and a thoughtless frightened search for a scapegoat has a fallout all its own for the children, and the children yet unborn. And the pity of it is that these things cannot be confined to the Twilight Zone.”