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Top 50 Quotes You Need for Your Essay from Blade Runner

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Working on your Blade Runner essay, but not sure what quotes to use?

You’ve come to the right place! We’ve got 50 quotes and 6 themes that will help you write the perfect essay.

Top tip: Keep in mind that Blade Runner is a film, so when analysing these quotes, you should also be analysing the visual techniques.

Well, what are you waiting for? Scroll down to read the top quotes!

Memories
Identity
Freedom
Artificial Intelligence and Modernisation
Mortality
Humanity

Memories

Photographs representing memories

#1: “Implants. Those aren’t your memories. They’re somebody else’s. They’re Tyrell’s niece’s.”

  • Character: Rick Deckard
  • Techniques: Repetition, anaphora

#2: “I didn’t know if I could play. I remember lessons. I don’t know if it’s me or Tyrell’s niece.”

  • Character: Rachael
  • Techniques: Self-reflection

#3: “If we give them the past we create a cushion or pillow for their emotions and consequently we can control them better.”

  • Character: Tyrell
  • Techniques: Metaphor

#4: “I didn’t know why a replicant would collect photos. Maybe they were like Rachael. They needed memories.”

  • Character: Rick Deckard
  • Techniques: Voiceover

#5: “All those moments will be lost in time in like tears in rain”

  • Character: Roy Batty
  • Techniques: Simile, symbolism, imagery

Identity

Identity through finger prints

#6: “You know that Voight-Kampff test of yours? Did you ever take that test yourself?”

  • Character: Rachael
  • Techniques: Foreshadowing

#7: “We’re not computers, Sebastian. We’re physical.”

  • Character: Roy Batty
  • Techniques: Anaphora

#8: “I think, Sebastian, therefore I am.”

  • Character: Pris
  • Techniques:  Intertextuality

#9: “Fiery the angels fell; deep thunder rolled around their shores; burning with the fires of Orc.”

  • Character: Roy Batty
  • Techniques: Intertextuality, religious allusion

#10: “If you’re not cop, you’re little people.”

  • Character: Inspector Bryant
  • Techniques: Threatening tone, conflict, metaphor

#11: “I need the old Blade Runner, I need your magic.”  

  • Character: Inspector Bryant
  • Techniques: Anaphora

Blade Runner Quotes about Identity from Deckard

#12: “Suspect? How can it not know what it is?”

  • Character: Rick Deckard
  • Techniques: Foreshadowing

#13: “Replicants weren’t supposed to have feelings. Neither were blade runners. What the hell was happening to me?”

  • Character: Rick Deckard
  • Techniques: Rhetorical question, voiceover

#14: “I’ve had people walk out on me before, but not when I was being so charming.”

  • Character: Rick Deckard
  • Techniques: Humour

#15: “That was my profession. Ex-cop, ex-Blade Runner, ex-killer.”

  • Character: Rick Deckard
  • Techniques: Anaphora, listing

Freedom 

Bird flying in the air representing freedom

#16: “Quite an experience to live in fear isn’t it? That’s what it is to be a slave.”

  • Character: Roy Batty
  • Techniques: Metaphor, hypophora

#17: “What if I go north. Disappear. Would you come after me? Hunt me?”

  • Character: Rachael
  • Techniques: Repetition

#18: “I was quit when I came in here Bryant. I’m twice as quit now.”

  • Character: Rick Deckard
  • Techniques: Repetition

#19: “A new life awaits you in the off-world colonies. The chance to begin again in a golden land of opportunity and adventure.”

  • Character: Advertisement
  • Techniques: Repetition, imagery

#20: “Use your new friend as a personal body servant or a tireless field hand.”

  •   Character: Advertisement
  •   Techniques: Contrast

Artificial Intelligence and Modernisation

AI and modernisation - blade runner quotes

#21: “More human than human is our motto.”

  • Character: Tyrell
  • Techniques: Paradox

#22: “I’m not in the business. I am the business.”

  • Character: Rachael
  • Techniques: Metaphor

#23: “Commerce is our goal here at Tyrell.” 

  • Character: Tyrell
  • Techniques: Ethos, declaration

#24: “They were designed to copy human beings in every way except emotions.”

  • Character: Inspector Bryant
  • Techniques: Parado

#25: “Cause I do genetic design work for the Tyrell Corporation. There’s some of me in you.”

  • Character: J.F. Sebastian
  • Techniques: Metaphor

#26: “Nothing the god of biomechanics wouldn’t let you in heaven for.”

  • Character: Roy Batty
  • Techniques: Religious allusion, metaphor, irony

#27: “You’re the prodigal son. You’re quite a prize!”

  • Character: Tyrell
  • Techniques: Religious allusion, metaphor, exclamation

#28: “Can the maker repair what he makes?”

  • Character: Roy Batty
  • Techniques: Religious allusion

#29: “That gibberish he talked was city-speak guttertalk, a mishmash of Spanish, German, what have you.”

  • Character: Rick Deckard
  • Techniques: Listing, voiceover

#30: “Rachel is an experiment. Nothing more.”

  • Character: Tyrell
  • Techniques: Cold tone

#31: “Replicants are like any other machine. They’re either a benefit or a hazard. If they’re a benefit, it’s not my problem.” 

  • Character: Rick Deckard
  • Techniques: Analogy

#32: “I want to see it work on a person. I want to see a negative before I provide you with a positive.” 

  • Character: Tyrell
  • Techniques: Paradox

Mortality 

Cracked dry ground in desert area

#33: “The light that burns twice as bright burns half as long, and you have burned so very very brightly, Roy.”

  • Character: Tyrell
  • Techniques: Metaphor, symbolism

#34: “Also extraordinary things. Revel in your time.”

  • Character: Tyrell
  • Techniques: Irony

#35: “I didn’t know how long we had together. Who does?”

  • Character: Rick Deckard
  • Techniques: Rhetorical question, irony

#36: “It’s too bad she won’t live. But then again, who does?” 

  • Character: Gaff
  • Techniques: Rhetorical question

#37: “Death. Well, I’m afraid that’s a little out of my jurisdiction.”

  • Character: Tyrell
  • Techniques: Irony

#38: “This was not called execution. It was called retirement.”

  • Character: Opening titles
  • Techniques: Euphemism

Blade Runner Quotes about Mortality from Leon

#39: “Painful to live in fear, isn’t it? Nothing is worse than having an itch you can never scratch.”

  • Character: Leon Kowalski
  • Techniques: Hypophora, irony

#40: “Wake up. Time to die.”

  • Character: Leon Kowalski
  • Techniques: Antithesis

#41: “How old am I?…How long do I live?”

  • Character: Leon Kowalski
  • Techniques: Rhetorical question

Humanity

We demand justice sign - blade runner quotes

#42: “There it was again. Feeling, in myself. For her, for Rachael.”

  • Character: Rick Deckard
  • Techniques: Anaphora, listing

#43: “I’ve done… questionable things.”

  • Character: Roy Batty
  • Techniques: Foreshadowing

#44: “Chew, if you could only see what I’ve seen with your eyes.”

  • Character: Roy Batty
  • Techniques: Symbolism, motif, irony

#45: “I don’t think there’s another human being in the whole world who would have helped us.” 

  • Character: Pris
  • Techniques: Hyperbole

#46: “I’d quit because I’d had a belly full of killing. But then I’d rather be a killer than a victim.”

  • Character: Rick Deckard
  • Techniques: Hyperbole, voiceover

#47: “I thought you were supposed to be good…aren’t you the good man?”

  • Character: Roy Batty
  • Techniques: Rhetorical question, irony

#48: “Perhaps, in those last moments, he loved life more than he ever had. Not just his life, anybody’s life. My life.”

  • Character: Rick Deckard
  • Techniques: Parataxis, voiceover

#49: “All he’d wanted were the same answers the rest of us want. Where did I come from? Where am I going? How long have I got?”

  • Character: Rick Deckard
  • Techniques: Rhetorical questions, voiceover

#50: “I’ve seen things you people wouldn’t believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion.”

  • Character: Roy Batty
  • Techniques: Imagery, monologue, motif

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Ashley Sullivan is a Content Writer for Art of Smart Education and is currently undertaking a double degree in Communications (Journalism) and a Bachelor of Laws at UTS. Ashley’s articles have been published in The Comma and Central News. She is a film, fashion and fiction enthusiast who enjoys learning about philosophy, psychology, and unsolved mysteries in her spare time.

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