Desmond David Hume quotes from Lost

Desmond

We're here.

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 are all I've got.

Charlie

What about your girl? Penny?

Desmond

What about your girl?

Daniel Faraday

I think Eloise's brain short-circuited. The jumps between the present and the future eventually, she eventually, she couldn't tell which was which. She had no anchor.

Desmond

What do you mean, "anchor"?

Daniel Faraday

Something familiar in both times. 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.

Desmond

This constant, can it be a person?

Daniel Faraday

Yeah, maybe. But you have to make contact. Didn't you say you were out on a boat in the middle of nowhere? [Desmond picks up a phone and begins dialing] Uh, who are you calling?

Desmond

Calling my bloody constant.

Desmond

I love you, Penny. I've always loved you. I'm so sorry. I love you.

Penelope

I love you too.

Desmond

I don't know where I am but,

Penelope

I'll find you, Des,

Desmond

I promise,

Penelope

no matter what-

Desmond

I'll come back to you.

Penelope

I won't give up.

Desmond

I promise.

Penelope

I promise.

I love you.

Dan

Don't shoot.

Desmond

Then you'd best explain why you've been bangin' on my door for the last 20 minutes, brother.

Dan

Desmond.

Dan

"Him"? Who?

Desmond

My replacment.

Dan

No, I'm not. (Desmond points the rifle at him again) I'm not. I'm not. I'm...

Desmond

Do I know you?

Dan

Yeah... in a way. But listen, that's not important. What is important, Desmond, is what I'm about to say to you. I need you to listen. You're the only person who can help us because, Desmond... The rules... The rules don't apply to you. You're special. You're uniquely and miraculously special.

Desmond

What are you talking about?

Dan

Okay, listen to me. Listen! If the helicopter somehow made it off the island, if you got home...

Desmond

What helicopter? What are you talking about?!

Dan

Listen, I need you to listen, or people are gonna die. My name is Daniel Faraday, and right now me and everyone else you left behind. We're in serious danger. You're the only person who can help us. I need you to go back to Oxford University. Go back to where we met. I need you to go there and find my mother. Her name is...

Kate Austen

Who died?

Desmond Hume

A man named Christian Shephard.

Kate Austen

"Christian Shephard"? Seriously?

Widmore

I'm sorry to do this to you, but you are going to have to make a sacrifice.

Desmond

Yeah, and what would you know about sacrifice?

Widmore

My son is dead. My daughter hates me. And I have never even met my grandson. I know quite a bit.

Daniel

Do you believe in love at first sight; Mr. Hume?

Desmond

Excuse me?

Daniel

The first time I saw her, I was walking through this museum a few weeks ago. She... she works here. She was on the lunch break. She was eating a chocolate bar. She has these incredible blue, blue eyes, red hair. And as soon as I saw her, right... right in that moment, it was like... it was like I already loved her. And that's when things got weird.

Daniel

That same night after I saw that woman... I woke up and I wrote this.

Desmond

So what is it?

Daniel

I'm a musician. I have no idea. So I took it to a friend of mine at Caltech. He's a math whiz. He said this is Quantum mechanics. He said these equations are so advanced that only someone who'd been studying physics their entire life could've come up with them.

Desmond

So... so what do they mean?

Daniel

Okay, imagine... imagine something terrible is about to happen, something catastrophic. And the only way to stop it from happening was by... releasing a huge amount of energy. Like setting off a nuclear bomb.

Desmond

You wanna set off a nuclear bomb?

Daniel

Just listen. What if this... all this... what if this wasn't supposed to be our life? What if we... we had some other life and for some reason, we changed things? I don't want to set off a nuclear bomb, Mr. Hume. I think I already did.

Desmond

Listen, mate, um... I don't know what any of this has to do with me. So...

Daniel

Why did you ask my mother about a woman named, Penny? It happened to you too, didn't it? You felt it.

Desmond

I don't know... I don't know what I felt.

Daniel

Yes, you do. You felt love.

Desmond

That's impossible because I don't know anything about this woman. I don't know... I don't know where she is. I don't even know if she exist. She's... She's an idea.

Daniel

No, Mr. Hume. She's my half-sister. And I can tell you exactly where and when you can find her.

Desmond Hume

Sacrifice? What the bloody Hell do you know about sacrifice?

Charles Widmore

My son died here for the sake of this island. Your wife - my own daughter - hates me. And I've never even met my grandson. But if you won't help me, Desmond, all of it will be for nothing. Penny, your son, and everyone else, will be gone forever.

Charles Widmore

You heard of a band called Drive Shaft?

Desmond Hume

No, can't say I have.

Charles Widmore

Their bass guitarist overdosed and uh, got himself arrested. And now, if I don't get this junkie to my wife's event she will, simply put, destroy me.

The Man in Black

Remind me, Desmond, how long were you pressing the button down in that hatch?

Desmond

Three years.

The Man in Black

And here you are, back for more. If I didn't know better, I'd say the Island has it in for you.

Desmond

Oh there's nothing special about me, brother.

The Man in Black

I'm sorry.

Desmond

You're here too. If I didn't know better, I'd say the Island has it in for all of us.

The Man in Black

I couldn't agree more.

Desmond

Who is that?

The Man in Black

...Just ignore him.

Desmond

Do you know that boy?

The Man in Black

I said ignore him!

The Man in Black

Why aren't you afraid?

Desmond

Excuse me?

The Man in Black

You're out here in the jungle, alone, with me. No one else on earth knows you're here. So I wanna know, why aren't you afraid?

Desmond

What's the point in being afraid? [MIB looks slightly intimidated, before smiling and then throwing Desmond down the well they were standing beside]

Jack

Desmond, you've done enough. You want to do something, go home and be with your wife and son.

Desmond

What about you, Jack?

Jack

I'll see you in another life, brother.