“It’s been six days, and we’re all still waiting. Waiting for someone to come. But what if they don’t? We have to stop waiting. We need to start figuring things out. A woman died this morning just going for a swim. He tried to save her and now you’re about to crucify him. We can’t do this. Every man for himself is not going to work. It’s time to start organizing. We need to figure out how we’re going to survive here. Now I found water. Freshwater, up in the valley. I’ll take a party up there at first daylight. If you don’t want to come then find another way to contribute! Last week most of us were strangers. But we’re all here now. And God knows how long we’re going to be here. But if we can’t live together, then we’re going to die alone.” — Jack Shephard, White Rabbit

“Baby, I am tied to a tree in the jungle of mystery. I just got tortured by a d–n spinal surgeon and a genuine Iraqi. Of course I’m serious.” ~Sawyer, “Confidence Man”

“Do you really think all this is an accident — that we, a group of strangers survived, many of us with just superficial injuries? Do you think we crashed on this place by coincidence — especially, this place? We were brought here for a purpose, for a reason, all of us. Each one of us was brought here for a reason. . . . The island brought us here. This is no ordinary place, you’ve seen that, I know you have. But the island chose you, too, Jack. It’s destiny.” ~ John Locke, “Exodus”

“See you in another life, brotha.” ~Desmond Hume, “Man of Science, Man of Faith”

“Of course, if I was one of them — these people that you seem to think are your enemies — what would I do? Well, there’d be no balloon, so I’d draw a map to a real secluded place like a cave or some underbrush. Good place for a trap — an ambush. And when your friends got there a bunch of my people would be waiting for them. Then they’d use them to trade for me. I guess it’s a good thing I’m not one of them, huh? You guys got any milk?” ~Ben Linus, “The Whole Truth”

“Well, Adam, I am the host and I do pick the book, and this is my favorite book. So I am absolutely thrilled that you can’t stand it. Silly me for sinking so low as to select something that Ben wouldn’t like. Here I am thinking that free will still actually exists on this…” ~ Juliet, A Tale of Two Cities

“Two days after I found out I had a fatal tumor on my spine, a spinal surgeon fell out of the sky… and if that’s not proof of God, I don’t know what is.” ~Ben Linus

“Look, I don’t know about you, but things have really sucked for me lately, and I could really use a victory. So let’s get one, dude! Let’s get this car started. Let’s look Death in the face and say, ‘Whatever, man!'” ~Hurley,

“All this, see all this is all variables. It’s random; it’s chaotic. Every equation needs stability, something known. It’s called a ‘constant.’ Desmond, you have no constant. When you go to the future nothing there is familiar. So if you want to stop this, then you need to find something there, something that you really, really care about, something that also exists back here in 1996.” ~Daniel Faraday, “The Constant”

“If we get any questions we don’t wanna answer, or that we can’t answer, let’s just keep our mouths shut. It’s okay, they’ll think that we’re in shock.” ~Jack Shephard, “There’s No Place Like Home”

“Time it’s like a street, all right? We can move forward on that street, we can move in reverse, but we cannot ever create a new street. If we try to do anything different, we will fail every time. Whatever happened, happened.” ~Daniel Faraday, “Because You Left”

“I heard once Winston Churchill read a book every night, even during the Blitz. He said it made him think better. It’s how I like to run things. I think. I’m sure that doesn’t mean that much to you, ’cause back when you were calling the shots, you pretty much just reacted. See, you didn’t think, Jack, and as I recall, a lot of people ended up dead.” ~Sawyer, “Namaste”

The Man in Black: “They come. They fight. They destroy. They corrupt. It always ends the same.”
Jacob: “It only ends once. Anything that happens before that is just progress.”
“The Incident”