Here are the best lines from Trainspotting, a British crime drama and cult film from the 90s. Produced by Danny Boyle and released in 1996, it is based on the novel by Irvine Welsh. The main characteristic of this work is the rawness and the very human facet with which it shows the subject of drugs.
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-About the same time, Spud, Sick Boy and I made the healthy, documented and democratic decision to get back on heroin as soon as possible. -Mark Renton.
-No matter how many times you go out, steal and screw people, you always need to get up and do it over and over again. -Mark Renton.
-We will see us again? If we don't see each other again, I'll tell the police. -Diane.
-In a hundred years from now, there will be neither boys nor girls, only idiots. Sounds great to me. -Mark Renton.
-Swanney taught us to respect the National Health Services, as they were the source of much of our business. We stole or bought drugs or prescriptions, we sold them, we exchanged them, we falsified them or we photocopied them. -Mark Renton.
-There was no such thing as a society, and even if it did exist, it would certainly have nothing to do with it. -Mark Renton.
-He appreciated us right away for who we were. Some cheap bums with accidental luck. -Mark Renton.
-We called her Mother Superior taking into account the duration of her habit. -Mark Renton.
-What's up boy? The cat ate your tongue? -Diane.
-You're not getting any younger, Mark. The world is changing. Music, and even drugs are changing. You can't stay here all day dreaming of heroin and Ziggy Pop. The point is, you have to find something new. -Diane.
"I really could take a little hot sex with a Jewish princess!" -Spud.
-It sucks to be Scottish! We are the lowest of the low. The scum of this planet! The most miserable, servile and pathetic garbage of civilization. Some hate English. Those are just idiots. We, on the other hand, were colonized by idiots. -Mark Renton.
-Heroin beats any injection of meat. That beats any fucking dick in the world. -Allison.
-I'm going to be just like you. -Mark Renton.
-She told me that she did not want our relationship to be based on the physical, as it would be primarily defined by that. -Spud.
"Mr. Murphy, are you telling me you lied on your application?" -Interviewer.
"No! Well, yes." But only to be taken into account. To show initiative and stuff. -Spud.
-It's actually a nightmare. I've been desperate to fuck someone but watching them suffer is just too much fun. You should deal with Tommy. -Gail.
-Sick Boy seriously lacks moral strength. -Mark Renton.
-Sorry Sorry. It is not my intention to upset you, but I was impressed with how capable and graceful you handled that situation. I was thinking, "That girl is special." -Mark Renton.
-There's no way I'm going to poison my body with that crap. -Francis Begbie.
-When you're stuck with heroin, you only have one concern: shopping. When you're free of it, you feel obligated to worry about other things, debt, food, a soccer team that never fucking wins, human relationships. -Mark Renton.
-The disadvantage of giving up heroin is that I knew that I needed to live with my friends again in a state of complete consciousness. It was awful. They reminded me so much of myself, I could barely see them. -Mark Renton.
-Begbie didn't do drugs either. She just messed with people. -Mark Renton.
-Armed robbery with a fake weapon. I mean like fucking it can be called armed robbery if they used a fucking replica. -Francis Begbie.
-He got headaches. So she used more heroin for pain. And then he had a stroke. He came home from the hospital and died three weeks later. She was dead for days before the neighbors complained. He was face down on his vomit. -Gavin.
-Once the pain fades, that's when the real battle begins. Depression, boredom. You feel so down that you want to get high. -Mark Renton.
-Choose your future. Choose life… But why would I do such a thing? I choose not to choose life. I choose something else. And the reasons? There are no reasons. -Mark Renton.
-Our only reaction was to go ahead and send everything to shit, pile misery on top of misery, put it on a spoon and dissolve it with a drop of bile, and then inject it into a stinky, childish vein and get on with it. -Mark Renton.
-Thank you your honor. With God's help I will conquer this terrible affliction. -Mark Renton.
-All I need is one last kick to ease the pain while the Valium takes effect. -Mark Renton.
-Heroin makes you constipated. The heroin from my last shot was fading and the suppositories had yet to melt… I'm not constipated anymore. -Mark Renton.
-Tommy never knew he could get toxoplasmosis from cat shit. It is awful. It is like an abscess in your brain. -Gavin.
-Phew! I haven't felt so good since Archie Gemmill took aim against the Netherlands in 1978! -Mark Renton.
-People think that everything is about misery, despair and death but what they forget about it is pleasure. Otherwise we would not. After all, we are not fucking stupid. -Mark Renton.
-And just for a moment, it felt really good. As if we were all in it together. As friends. As if it meant something. A moment that is capable of moving you deeply. But it wouldn't last long enough. Not like 16,000 pounds. -Mark Renton.
-Imagine the best orgasm you've ever had, multiply it by 1000, and you're not even close to feeling. -Mark Renton.
-No thank you very much. I'll proceed directly to the intravenous injection of strong drugs, please. -Mark Renton.
-Tommy knew that he had acquired the virus, but never knew that it was in an advanced state. -Gavin.
-As I sat down to watch an intimate and highly personal video, stolen just hours before from the house of one of my best friends, I realized that something important was missing in my life. -Mark Renton.
-I justified this in every possible way. It was but a minor betrayal. But you have to face it, I ripped off my friends. Begbie, I didn't give a damn. And Sick Boy, he would have done the same to me. But the truth is that I am a bad person. -Mark Renton.
'It seems, however, that I am the luckiest guy in the world. Many years of addiction in the middle of an epidemic, surrounded by the undead. But not me. I came out negative. -Mark Renton.
-A few days later Tommy told me the truth. That was one of his biggest weaknesses: he never told lies, never used drugs, and never cheated. -Mark Renton.
-If you ask me, I think we are heterosexual by default, not by choice. It's a matter of who attracts you. It's all about aesthetics and it has everything to do with morality. But try telling that to Begbie. -Mark Renton.
-The streets are full of drugs that you can get in exchange for unhappiness and pain, and we all consume them. -Mark Renton.
"Never again, Swanney." I'll quit heroin. I'll get it right this time. I will achieve it. I'll get out of this for good. -Mark Renton.
-For a vegetarian, Rents, you're a bloody shooter. -Sick Boy.
-No, it's not bad, but it's not great either. And in your heart you know that although it sounds good, it is actually pure shit. -Sick Boy.
-This was supposed to be my last shot, but let's be clear about this. There are from last to last kicks. What type was this supposed to be? -Mark Renton.
-Who needs reasons when one has heroin? -Mark Renton.
-Sick Boy, for example. He quit heroin at the same time as me, not because he wanted to, but to annoy me. Just to show me that he could easily do it, and thus make my fight less. What an elusive bastard, don't you think? -Mark Renton.
-Great. What you say is fine, sorry. You are the man. You're the one on the chair. -Spud.
-You are what is wrong! It is illegal! That's what's wrong! Do you know what they do with people like me in prison? They cut off your balls and flush them down the toilet. -Mark Renton.
-Did you think I'd leave you there crying when there's room for two? Get in, Tommy and don't die, I'm going as fast as I can be two. When we grow up, we will be soldiers, and our horses will not be toys, and we will remember our childhood. -Spud.
-Something inside Sick Boy was gone and would not return. It seemed like he had no theory to explain a moment like this. -Mark Renton.
-I can go home with you if you want, but, it's not like I'm promising anything, you know. -Mark Renton.
-Living in this way is like having a full-time job. -Mark Renton.
-He told me you useless son of a bitch. I said, sorry, but these things happen. You have to overcome this. But then he found out that I bought a ticket for Iggy Pop the same night. She went crazy. He said "Me or Iggy Pop, decide." Well, I had already paid for the ticket. -Tommy.
-I fantasize about a neat bathroom. With shiny gold taps, white ivory, a carved ebony seat, a tank full of Chanel No. 5, and a footman handing me pieces of a roll of silk. But given the situation I am satisfied with whatever. -Mark Renton.
"He's a fucking psycho, but he's a friend, you know, so what can you do to him?" -Tommy Mackenzie.
-Heroin had stolen Renton's libido, but now he had returned for revenge. And as the helplessness of those days faded from her memory, a dark despair had gripped her sex-crazed mind. -Mark Renton.
"Personality, I mean, that's what counts, right?" That is what keeps a relationship going through the years. Like the heroine, I mean, the heroine has a fucking great personality. -Sick Boy.
"We would have injected ourselves with vitamin C if only it had been made illegal!" -Mark Renton.
-For the first time in my adult life I almost felt satisfied. -Mark Renton.
-I have balls the size of watermelons, I'm telling you. -Spud.
-I still don't have the disease, but I certainly feel it close. I'm in addict limbo: too sick to sleep, too tired to wake up, but the disease is coming. -Mark Renton.