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70+ Shocking Netflix’s LEAVE THE WORLD BEHIND Movie Quotes

Leave the World Behind Movie Quotes

Netflix’s Leave the World Behind was released on the streaming service today, December 8, 2023. I will have a review of the movie coming soon, so make sure to stop back by to check it out. It will be linked below. In the meantime, I wanted to share a list of some of the best quotes from the film. Check out these 70+ of the best and most shocking Netflix’s Leave the World Behind movie quotes.

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Leave the World Behind Movie Quotes

I saw all these people starting their day with such tenacity. Such verve. All in an effort to make something of themselves. Make something of our world.

Then I remembered what the world is actually like. And I came to a more accurate realization. I f*cking hate people.

I don’t care if she farted. I care if she lies about it.

I got another idea for a good time.

Wow, it’s getting close, huh?
I think that’s the problem.

That’s a good omen, seeing deer. At least according to Mesoamerican mythology.

This is why I prefer life before the internet, because if we would have spoken on the phone, you would have recognized my voice and known that this is our house.

What she’s trying to say is we wanted to be somewhere safe.

Do you mind if I made myself a drink?
Oh yeah, make yourself at…

You don’t think he’d want to molest Archie, though?

I wish I had your faith in people.

Leave the World Behind Movie Quotes

We’re only talking about a blackout here.
A blackout is not nothing. It could be something. The symptom of something bigger, like terrorism or a bomb like the one that you said your son would sleep through.

Things always look different by the light day. I guess self-help cliches are rooted in some truth, huh?

We need to get them out of here.
We’re not going to do that by scaring them. They need to think everything is going to be okay.

I was afraid.
Afraid of what?
That it would confirm something.

This isn’t fair. We’re on vacation. Dad says on vacation we get as much screen time as we want.

Why are you being so nonplussed about all of this? Did you forget those people are still in our house?

Why would a rabbit’s ear help?

If it’s okay with you, I’d like to keep what’s going on between the adults.

I’m still figuring sh*t out, trying not to rush into anything. The last thing that I want is to be sucked into a career that I regret ten years from now, by which point I will be trapped by the pressure to stay the course because I’ll be too old to re-enter that workforce.

Aren’t you the one who always said if you’re not paranoid by now, then it’s probably too late?

Maybe it’s just where he sleeps, though? Where he hides at night.
Who?
Whoever made that impression.

Just imagine. It’s all dark out here. Your little bedside light is glowing. He could just follow that light right up to you.

No one cares what I say.
That’s probably true.

In my line of work, you have to understand the patterns that govern the world. You have to learn how to read the curve. Spend as long as I have doing it; it can help you see the future.

I saw a plane nosedive out of the sky into the ocean. And it wasn’t the first.

You seemed pretty certain a minute ago with your f*cking haunting soliloquy.

Is this what sitting sucks are? Ducks sitting waiting to be shot?

She’s an adult, you cannot protect her just like you cannot protect me right now.

Death to America. I mean, I don’t know whatthe rest of this means, but this part, it definitely means “Death to America.” I remember from the game I was playing.

This is dangerous for what you are doing for you and your family.

Does it feel like she’s gone? Because it does to me.

You look like the kind of guy to whom things come easy.

I always thought of myself as a sophisticated man. Someone who had seen the world for what it was. But I have never seen anything like this.

Some of my smartest clients have lost a lot of money  because they based their choices on preconceived beliefs instead of truth. Seeing the difference is one of the hardest things a person can do.

Nothing frightens me more than a person unwilling to learn, even at their own expense. That’s a darkness I will never understand.

The quiet is so noisy.

Leave the World Behind Movie Quotes

A conspiracy theory about a shadowy group of people running the world is far too lazy of an explanation. Especially when the truth is much scarier.
What is the truth?
No one is in control. No one is pulling the strings.

Changed my mind; I don’t think I like you anymore.

Why do you care so much about that show anyway?
They make me happy. I really need that right now, don’t you?

Please, not another one of your stories. They end up leaving me severely disturbed.

We gotta start seeing this for what it is. There is no going back to normal.

What I mean is, if the sh*t goes down, do you trust these people that are in our house? We already know that wife is no chill. That boy was sneaking pictures of me by the pool. That little girl keeps staring into the woods like Donnie Darko, and I’m pretty sure that the husband wants to f*ck me.

I’m asking for you to remember that is the world falls apart, trust should not be doled out easily to anyone, especially white people.

It’s the right thing to do.
And that right there is what’s going to f*ck us in the end.

You don’t care that I’m here. And my mom is probably at the bottom of some ocean. I don’t have anyone else in my life.

We f*ck every living thing on this planet over and think it’ll be fine because we use paper straws and order free-range chicken. And the sick thing is, I think deep down we know we’re not fooling anyone. I think we know we’re living a lie. And agreed upon mass delusion to help us ignore and keep ignoring how awful we really are.

As awful as people might be, nothing is going to change the fact that we are all that we got.

What I got isn’t your business.

When the world doesn’t make any sense, I can still do what is rational, which is protect my own.

Haven’t you been picking up with what’s going on out there, George? We’ve all been deserted.

We’ve made a lot of enemies from around the world. Maybe all this means is a few of them teamed up.

Whoever started this wants us to finish it.

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