The Doctor Quotes

I do not need any friends. I prefer enemies. They are better company and their feelings towards you are always genuine.

Make me immortal with a kiss.

All mothers are mothers of great people, and it is not their fault that life later disappoints them.

You and I, it's as though we have been taught to kiss in heaven and sent down to earth together, to see if we know what we were taught.

You cannot separate passion from pathology any more than you can separate a person's spirit from his body.

He realised, more vividly than ever before, that art had two constant, two unending preoccupations: it is always meditating upon death and it is always thereby creating life.

Fools that will laugh on earth, most weep in hell.

Farewell, my great one, my own, farewell, my pride, farewell, my swift, deep, dear river, how I loved your daylong splashing, how I loved to plunge into your cold waves.

He's satisfied with himself. If you have a soul you can't be satisfied.

What's the point of being a grown-up if you don't get to be immature?

We know so little about one another. We embrace a shadow and love a dream.

Salvation lies not in the faithfulness to forms, but in the liberation from them.

Art always serves beauty, and beauty is the joy of possessing form, and form is the key to organic life since no living thing can exist without it.

For any human being, freedom is essential, crucial, to our dignity and our ability to be fully human.

If it's so painful to love and absorb electricity, how much more painful it is to be a woman, to be the electricity, to inspire love.

Tragedy cannot be the end of our lives. We cannot allow it to control and defeat us.

Why do humans never do as they're told? Someone should replace you all with robots. No, on second though, they shouldn't, bad idea.

There came a time when you realized that moving on was pointless. That you took yourself with you wherever you went.

He that loves pleasure must for pleasure fall.

Anger and violence in Gaza and among Gazans is completely predictable. In a situation like ours, the absence of violence and anger would be abnormal. All of of us feel angry at least occasionally.

The last moments slipped by, one by one, irretrievable.

If you have one wish, wish for everything to be exactly as it is. Then wait patiently for your wish to come true.

I changed it. I had to. Do you know why?" She studied him, her eyes grave. "Because that was then and this is now. Because the past is gone, even though it defines the present.

FEAR stands for face everything and recover – Old AA saying

The Brigadier had no wish to shake hands with the improbable young man in the ridiculous frock-coat.

In the Vortex that lies beyond time and space tumbled a police box that was not a police box.

Don't interfere!" The Doctor silenced her angrily. "I cannot will my own destruction.

Have you met the French? My...GOD they know how to party!

There came a time when you realised that moving on was pointless. That you took yourself with you wherever you went.

Well, I've known over thirty men who've found out how to cure consumption. Why do people go on dying of it, Colly? Devilment I suppose!

The silence wasn't uncomfortable or hostile but exhausted--the quiet of people who have a great deal to think about but not a hell of a lot to say.

Feelings are invulnerable to rational thought.

We'll eat your steam and lap up your blood. But first, we'll drink your screams

Because that was then and this is now. Because the past is gone, even though it defines the present.

No, honey. Maybe you can put the things from the Overlook away in lockboxes, but not memories. Never those. They’re the real ghosts.

Only the familiar transformed by genius is truly great.

Her dark hair was scattered and its beauty stung his eyes like smoke and ate into his heart.

Hollow slogans like "Making your country great again" only lead to one result, collapse.

Look at this lot - how we all threw ourselves into a fight just for him. We're not soldiers. But we know that what we do when we're with him matters.

The only mistake you can make is not asking for help.

[H]er spare strange beauty was not that of a woman, nor even of a statue, but that of the Platonic absolute of which all beauty is but a shadow in a cave, cast by the Fire beyond fire.

But who are we, where do we come fromWhen all those yearsNothing but idle talk is leftAnd we are nowhere in the world?"= MEETING =

If you don't want me to attend the patient I'll go.''But she can't see a doctor now.''Why not?''She isn't well.

Excuse me, I must go and putt

No...No...We don't walk away but when we're holding on to something precious we run. We run away. We run as fast as we can.

Incidentally, it’s easy to write prescriptions, but difficult to come to an understanding with people.

Muslims make pilgrimages to Mecca. Dylan fans make pilgrimages to Hibbing.

I don't believe in a lot of baggage. It's such a nuisance. Life's too short to fuss with it. And it isn't really necessary

You want weapons? We´re in a library! Books! The best weapons in the world! This room´s the greatest arsenal we could have.

You said that facts are meaningless, unless meanings are put into them. Well, Christianity, the mystery of the individual, is precisely what must be put into the facts to make them meaningful.