Batman The Killing Joke Quotes

“Something like that happened to me, you know. I ... I’m not exactly sure what it was. Sometimes I remember it one way, sometimes another ... If I’m going to have a past, I prefer it to be multiple choice!”

“It’s all a joke! Everything anybody ever valued or struggled for ... it’s all a monstrous, demented gag! So why can’t you see the funny side? Why aren’t you laughing?”

“It’s like, I began as a lab assistant, right? Was a good job. Real good job. So, what I did, I quit to become a comedian. I was so sure, so sure I had talent.”

“Sir, I’m sorry, but your wife had an accident this morning, apparently testing a baby-bottle heater. There was an electrical short, and, uh ... well, she died sir. I’m sorry.”

“What’s happening tonight, it’s no little thing. Nobody backing out now remains healthy. No exceptions.”

“Now you whimpering little smear of slime, I’m going to ask you politely just one more time...where is he?”

“How can two people hate so much without knowing each other?”

“Memories are what our reason is based upon. If we can’t face them, we deny reason itself! Although, why not? We aren’t contractually tied down to rationality!”

“There were these two guys in a lunatic asylum...”

“Jeez, I have to go, I have to go and stand up there, and nobody laughs, and you think , you think I .... I don’t mean to take it out on you. You’re suh - suffering enough, being married to a loser.”

“Well, I remember you describing the white face and the green hair to me when I was a kid. Scared the hell out of me. I thought you’d be interested... Yeah, well I had some interesting nightmares.”

“I hate this. Whenever we jail him, I think ‘Please God, keep him there.’ Then he escapes and we all sit round hoping he won’t do anything too awful this time.”

“You have to go after him! I want him brought in ... and I want him brought in by the book!”

“I’ve been thinking lately. About you and me. About what’s going to happen to us, in the end. We’re going to kill each other, aren’t we? Perhaps you’ll kill me. Perhaps I’ll kill you. Perhaps sooner. Perhaps later.”

“God, How boring! The man’s a complete turnip. Take him away and put him in a cage. ”

“Because I’m doing this one by the book ... and because I don’t want to.”

“We don’t have to kill each other. What do you say? No. I’m sorry , but ... no it’s too late for that. Far too late.”

“Because I’ve heard it before ... and it wasn’t funny the first time.”

“We have to show him! We have to show him that our way works!”

“Memories can be vile, repulsive, little brutes. Like children I suppose. Haha. But can we live without them?”