The Best Desmond Hume Quotes

Desmond: She just jumped!
Captain: It's over. She's gone. Everybody get back to your posts. That was an order.

Desmond: [after looking at the printout Locke and Eko found] I think I crashed your plane.

Desmond: You're in a room full of equipment.
- There's a blinking yellow light above a switch.
- You flip the switch.
- The light goes off.
- And you drown.

Penny: Hello?
Desmond: Penny?
Penny: Desmond?
Desmond: Penny... Penny, you answered. You answered, Penny
Penny: Des, where are you?
Desmond: I'm... I'm on a boat. Um... I've been on an island, and - - Oh, my god, Penny. Is that really you?
Penny: Yeah! Yes, it's me!
Desmond: You believed me? You still care about me?
Penny: Des, I've been looking for you for the past three years. I know about the island. I've been researching and then when I spoke to your friend Charlie, that's when I knew you were still alive. That's when I knew I wasn't crazy. Des, are you still there?
Desmond: Yes, yes, I'm here! I'm still here, can you hear me?
Penny: Yeah, yeah, that's better.
Desmond: I love you, Penny. I've always loved you. I'm so sorry. I love you!
Penny: I love you too.
Desmond: I don't know where I am, but...
Penny: I'll find you, Des.
Desmond: I promise
Penny: - no matter what...
Desmond: I'll come back to you.
Penny: I won't give up.
Penny: I promise. I love you.

Desmond: You've got five seconds to talk, or I fire this gun, brother.
Mikhail: That's a flare gun.
Desmond: And how do you think it'll feel? Taking a flare to the chest at this range.
Mikhail: As your friend pointed out, I already died once this week.

Charles: You're getting yourself involved in something that goes back many, many years. Wherever you were hiding, go back there.
Desmond: Thanks for the advice.

Desmond: Listen! If you do not let me up, we are going to die.
Jack: Stop moving, or, I swear to God...
Desmond: Look at the wall! You see that? That's a timer and it's counting down. I've got to enter the code, got to push the button.
Jack: Or what?
John: Jack, let him up.
Jack: Don't tell me what to do. Or what? What's going to happen?
Desmond: Do I know you?

Desmond: [after Locke smashes the computer] You killed us. You killed us all.
John: No. I just saved us all.

Charlie: So, you're telling me you saw a flash of Claire drowning this morning, so you knew how to save her?
Desmond: I wasn't saving Claire, Charlie... I was saving you. This morning, you dove in after Claire. You tried to save her but you drowned.
Charlie: What do you mean? I didn't drown.
Desmond: When I saw the lightning hit the roof, you were electrocuted. And when Claire was in the water, you drowned trying to save her. I dove in myself so you never went in. I tried, brother. I've tried twice to save you, but the universe has a way of course-correcting, and I can't stop it forever. I'm sorry - I'm sorry because, no matter what I try to do... you're gonna die, Charlie.

[Jack's explaining his "excuse" for his tour de stade after injuring his ankle]
Jack: Just trying to work a few things out.
Desmond: Ah, a girl, right?
Jack: A patient.
Desmond: Ah, but a girl patient. What's her name?
Jack: Her name's Sarah.
Desmond: What'd you do to her, then?
Jack: Do to her?
Desmond: You must have done something worthy of this self-flagellation.
Jack: I told her... I made her a promise I couldn't keep... I told her I'd fix her and I couldn't. I failed.
Desmond: Right. Just one thing - what if you did fix her?
Jack: I didn't.
Desmond: But what if you did?
Jack: You don't know what you're talking about, man.
Desmond: I don't? Why not?
Jack: Because with her situation that would be a miracle, "brother."
Desmond: Oh, and you don't believe in miracles?
[Jack laughs and shakes his head]
Desmond: Right. Well then, I'm going to give you some advice anyway. You have to lift it up.
Jack: Lift it up?
Desmond: Your ankle. You have to keep it elevated. It's been nice chatting.
Jack: Jack.
Desmond: Jack, I'm Desmond. Good luck, brother. See you in another life, yeah?

Charlie: I want you to give this to Claire for me.
Desmond: What is it?
Charlie: It's the five best moments of my... sorry excuse for a life."My greatest hits"... You know, memories. They're all I've got.

Jack: Desmond, you've done enough. You wanna do something? Go home and be with your wife and son.
Desmond: How about *you*, Jack?
Jack: I'll see you in another life, brother.

Daniel: The rules, rules don't apply to you. You're special. You're uniquely and miraculously special.
Desmond: What are you talking about?

Desmond: How do I know you?
Charlie: I don't, um...
Desmond: Where do I know you from?
Charlie: I don't know, but I'll remember if I could get some help.
Desmond: [Sees a flashback to the island] You're Charlie!
Charlie: Yeah, name's on the sign.
Desmond: It, it was in the hatch! I remember seeing you! There was a computer, there was a button... we were on an island!
Charlie: We are on an island, mate. This is England.
Desmond: No, it was real! I remember.
Charlie: Hey, all right.
[to the crowd]
Charlie: This is why we don't do drugs.

Desmond: Well...
- Look at that.
- Look for anything that might show where they've gone.
- I'll start in here.

Daniel: Who are you calling?
Desmond: I'm calling my bloody constant.

Desmond: You don't have to do this, Charlie.
Charlie: What?
Desmond: I'll go.
Charlie: No, your flashes...
Desmond: Maybe I keep seeing you die because I'm supposed to take your place.
Charlie: What about your girl, Penny?
Desmond: What about your girl? Besides, I might be luckier than you.
[gives him back his "Greatest Hits" list]
Desmond: Keep your memories to yourself. I'll take it from here.
Charlie: I don't know what to say.
Desmond: Well, you can tell me where the, uh, weight belt is...
[Charlie knocks Desmond out with an oar when he turns around]
Charlie: You and I both know... you're not supposed to take my place, brother.

Sawyer: Hey, Oliver Twist! Where the hell's my stuff?
Charlie: What stuff?
Sawyer: You know good damn well what stuff. I had books, food, porno, a bottle of scotch.
Desmond: Apologies for the scotch, mate.
Sawyer: You drank it?
Desmond: Well, to be fair, there were three of us.
Charlie: Yeah.
Sawyer: [to Desmond] You, the munchkin, and who else?

Desmond: See you in another life then, eh brother?

Desmond: [to Locke, repeated line] Are you him?

Desmond: When I saw the lightning hit the roof, you were electrocuted.
- When you heard Claire, you drowned trying to save her.
- I dove in so you never went in!
- I've tried, brother,
- I've tried twice to save you, but no matter what I try to do, you're going to die, Charlie.

Desmond: Set your device to... 2.342 and make sure it oscillates at 11.
Daniel: OK, now, you... You're gonna tell me who told you those numbers.
Desmond: You did.
Daniel: Wait a second. This is ridiculous.
Desmond: I know about Eloise.

Desmond: Yeah, right, Radzinsky. Radzinsky figured out how to fake a lockdown. Radzinsky created this great invisible map. More and more tales about your former partner. Yet for some reason, you never want to tell me what bloody well happened to him.
Kelvin: [Inman walks over to Desmond and points to a spot on the ceiling] See that brown stain, there? That's Radzinsky. He put a shotgun in his mouth when I was asleep. The bitch of it was, I only had a 108 minutes to bury the poor bastard.

Desmond: Ignorance is bliss.

Desmond: Three days before you came down here, before we met, I heard a banging on the hatch doors, shouting. But it was you John, wasn't it? You say there isn't any purpose, there's no such thing as fate. But you saved my life, brother, so that I could save yours.
John: No, no, no, no! None of this is real! Nothing is gonna happen, we're gonna be OK!
Desmond: I've gotta go. And you've gotta get as far away from here as possible.
John: Go where? Stop!
Desmond: I'm gonna blow the dam, John! I'm sorry for whatever happened that made you stop believing. But it's all real. And now I've gotta go and make it all go away.
John: Wait! Desmond!
Desmond: I'll see ya in another life, brother!

Charlie: [Charlie is trying to wake up unconscious Eko] Hey! Can I get some help?
Desmond: [Desmond looks for something in the library and ignores him] I'm trying, brother!

Jack: Excuse me.
Desmond: I'm sorry mate, is this your seat? The stewardess said it was empty.
Jack: No, no. I'm at the window.
Desmond: Oh right.

Desmond: I won't call... for eight years. December 24, 2004. Christmas Eve. I promise. Please, Pen.
Penny: If I give you the number, will you leave?
Desmond: Aye.

Jack: Are you in contact with the people that made it... the film? Are you in contact with anyone?
Desmond: [trying to fix his computer] Do you think I'd be here if I was?
Jack: How is it that you didn't know about the crash? About us?
Desmond: I push this button every 108 minutes. I don't get out much.
Jack: So, these replacements?
Desmond: Kelvin died waiting for his replacements.
Jack: So you don't get out, you don't see anyone. Where does your food come from? You really think this is happening.
Desmond: Why wouldn't it be?
Jack: It says quarantine on the inside of the hatch to keep you down here. To keep you scared. But you know what? We've been up there for over 40 days and no one's gotten sick. You think that this is the only part of it that's true? Do you ever think that maybe they put you down here to push a button every 100 minutes just to see if you would? That all of this, the computer, the button, it's just a mind game? An experiment?
Desmond: Every... single... day. And for all our sakes, I hope it's not real. But the film says this is an electromagnetic station. And I don't know about you, brother, but every time I walk past that concrete wall out there, my fillings hurt.

Desmond: Hey, brotha'!

Desmond: Who are you? How do you know my name?

[repeated line]
Desmond: See you in another life, brother.