John Locke quotes from Lost

Boone

Red shirt. You ever watch Star Trek?

Locke

No, not really.

Boone

The crew guys that would go down to the planet with the main guys, the captain and the guy with the pointy ears, they always wore red shirts and they always got killed.

Locke

Yeah?

Boone

Yeah.

Locke

Sounds like a piss poor captain.

Locke

Hi.

Sayid

I didn't hear you.

Locke

Sorry. I'm sneakier than I give myself credit for.

Boone Carlyle

So, not to be too difficult, but we've been coming here for two days just staring at this thing. I'm not really sure what we're supposed to be doing.

John Locke

Ludovico Buonarrati, Michelangelo's father. He was a wealthy man. He had no understanding of the divinity in his son, so he beat him. No child of his was going to use his hands for a living. So, Michelangelo learned not to use his hands. Years later a visiting prince came into Michelangelo's studio and found the master staring at a single 18 foot block of marble. Then he knew that the rumors were true -- that Michelangelo had come in everyday for the last four months, stared at the marble, and gone home for his supper. So the prince asked the obvious -- what are you doing? And Michelangelo turned around and looked at him, and whispered, sto lavorando, I'm working. Three years later that block of marble was the statue of David.

Boone Carlyle

We're not going to stare at this for 4 months, are we?

John Locke

Michael, I know it's been difficult to bond with your son. You know why he's formed an attachment to me? Because I treat him like an adult. You still treat him like a boy.

Michael Dawson

He's 10 years old.

John Locke

He's been through more than most people in their entire lifetimes. Maybe you haven't spent enough time with him to see it, but he's different.

Michael Dawson

What did you say?

John Locke

And we're not back home, Michael. As long as we're here, I think Walt should be allowed to realize his potential.

Michael Dawson

Stay away from my son. And me.

John Locke

My sister, Jeanie, died when I was a boy. Fell off the monkey bars and broke her neck. And my mother, well, my foster mother, she blamed herself, of course. She thought she wasn't watching close enough. So, she stopped eating, stopped sleeping. The neighbors started talking, afraid she might do something to herself, I guess. [Sipping coffee] Oh, that's good. Anyway, about 6 months after Jeanie's funeral, this golden retriever comes padding up our driveway, walks right into our house, sits down on the floor, and looks right at my mother, there on the couch. And my mother looks back at the dog. After about a minute of this, of them both staring at each other like that, my mother burst into tears. Beautiful dog, no tags, no collar, healthy, and sweet. The dog slept in Jeanie's old room, on Jeanie's old bed and stayed with us until my mother passed 5 years later. Then, disappeared back to wherever it was she came from in the first place.

Kate Austen

So, you're saying the dog was your sister?

John Locke

Well, that would be silly. But my mother thought it was, thought that Jeanie had come back to tell her the accident wasn't her fault, let her off the hook.

Locke

Sure, you can yell at Boone 'til you're blue in the face, but all you're doing is giving him what he wants.

Shannon

Yeah? What's that?

Locke

Your attention.

John Locke

[about Emily Locke] She said that I didn't have a father -- that I was immaculately conceived.

Anthony Cooper

[laughing] Really? Well, I guess that makes me god, huh?

Sayid

Take me to the hatch.

Locke

What? I already showed you....

Sayid

John! No more lies.

Sayid

[noticing the scar where Locke's kidney was removed] What's that?

Locke

War wound.

Sayid

Looks more like a surgical scar.

Locke

Like I said, war wound.

Locke

Why would Kate poison Michael?

Hurley

Well, you know, the whole fugitive thing. [Jack gawks at Hurley] He doesn't know? [Jack shakes his head]. Well how am I supposed to keep straight who knows what around here? I mean, Steve didn't even know about the polar bear.

John Locke

You booby-trapped your shelter with explosives. You have any more?

Danielle Rousseau

Dynamite, at the Black Rock, in the dark territory.

Well, that's 3 reasons to go right there.

Jack

What the hell was all that about back there, John?

Locke

What was what about?

Jack

You asked me to let you go.

Locke

That's right.

Jack

That thing was taking you down the hole and you asked me to let you go.

Locke

It wasn't going to hurt me.

Jack

No, John, it was going to kill you.

Locke

I seriously doubt that.

Jack

Look, I need for you -- I need for you to explain to me what the hell's going on inside your head, John. I need to know why you believe that that thing wasn't going to...

Locke

I believe that I was being tested.

Jack

Tested?

Locke

Yeah, tested.

Jack

I think...

Locke

That's why you and I don't see eye-to-eye sometimes, Jack -- because you're a man of science.

Jack

Yeah, and what does that make you?

Locke

Me, well, I'm a man of faith. 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.

Jack

Brought here? And who brought us here, John?

Locke

The island. 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.

Jack

Did you talk with Boone about destiny, John?

Locke

Boone was a sacrifice that the island demanded. What happened to him at that plane was a part of a chain of events that led us here -- that led us down a path -- that led you and me to this day, to right now.

Jack

And where does that path end, John?

Locke

The path ends at the hatch. The hatch, Jack -- all of it -- all of it happened so that we could open the hatch.

Jack

No, no, we're opening the hatch so that we can survive.

Locke

Survival is all relative, Jack.

Jack

I don't believe in destiny.

Locke

Yes, you do. You just don't know it yet.

Desmond

[showing Locke an Apple II computer] Can you use this?

Locke

I haven't seen one of these in twenty years!

Desmond

What did one snowman say to the other snowman?

Locke

I don't know what you're talking about...

Desmond

Get rid of the knife. You're not HIM!

Locke

I just don't think 30 dollars are worth getting angry about.

Well, Francine feels like 30 dollars...

Locke

Francine feels a little too much if you ask me. You all do. I mean, seriously: "So-and-so never called me back", "my mother stole 30 dollars from me". I never even knew who my parents were. A couple of years ago, my birth mother found me, and... She told me, I was special! And through her, I met my real father. Great news, right? Well, he pretended to love me just long enough to steal my kidney because he needed a transplant! And then he dropped me back in the world like a piece of trash. Just like he did on the day that I was born! You want your damned 30 dollars back? I want my kidney back!!!