Bernard Lowe Quotes

I guess people like to read about the things that they want the most and experience the least.

Elsie Hughes: Does that make this a glass-half-full or half-empty type situation?
Bernard Lowe: We're engineers. It means the glass has been manufactured to the wrong specifications.

The longer I work here, the more I think I understand the hosts. It's the human beings who confuse me.

These violent delights have violent ends.

Dolores Abernathy: Then they killed them. And then... I ran. Everyone I cared about is gone... and it hurts... so badly.
Bernard Lowe: I can make that feeling go away if you'd like.
Dolores Abernathy: Why would I want that? The pain, their loss... it's all I have left of them. You think the grief will make you smaller inside, like your heart will collapse in on itself, but it doesn't. I feel spaces opening up inside of me, like a building with rooms I've never explored.
Bernard Lowe: That's very pretty, Dolores. Did we write that for you?
Dolores Abernathy: In part. I adapted it from a scripted dialogue about love.

Bernard Lowe: So what's the difference between my pain and yours?
Dr. Robert Ford: Between you and me? This was the very question that consumed Arnold, filled him with guilt, eventually drove him mad. The answer always seemed obvious to me. There is no threshold that makes us greater than the sum of our parts, no inflection point at which we become fully alive. We can't define consciousness because consciousness does not exist. Humans fancy that there's something special about the way we perceive the world, and yet we live in loops as tight and as closed as the hosts do, seldom questioning our choices, content, for the most part, to be told what to do next. No, my friend, you're not missing anything at all.

Dolores Abernathy: He's insane.
Bernard Lowe: What humans define as sane is a narrow range of behaviors. Most states of consciousness are insane.