Emmanuelle Riva credited as playing...
- Elle: I'm beginning to forget you. Forgetting so much love is terrifying.
- Elle: All these years I've been looking for an impossible love.
- Elle: Like you, I have fought with all my might not to forget. Like you, I have forgotten.
- Elle: Sometimes we have to avoid thinking about the problems life presents. Otherwise we'd suffocate.
- Elle: They make advertisements for soap. Why not for peace?
- Elle: You destroy me. You are good for me.
- Elle: I have dubious morals, you know.
- Lui: What do you call "having dubious morals"?
- Elle: Being dubious about other people's morals.
- Elle: Time will pass. Only time. And time will come. A time will come, when we can no longer name what it is that unites us. The name will gradually fade from our memory. Then it will disappear entirely.
- Elle: The illusion, quite simply, is so perfect, that tourists weep. It's easy to be cynical. But what else can a tourist possibly do, but weep?
- Elle: [Last lines] Hi-ro-shi-ma. Hiroshima. That is your name.
- Lui: Yes, that is my name. And your name is Nevers. Nevers, in France.
- Lui: What did Hiroshima mean to you, in France?
- Elle: [pauses for a second] The end of the war... completely, I mean. Amazement that they dared, amazement that they succeeded. And for us, the start of an unknown fear. Then, indifference. And fear of that indifference.
- Elle: I have time. I beg you. Devour me. Deform me, make me ugly. Why not you? Why not you, in this city and on this night, so indistinguishable from any other? I beg you.
- Elle: Just as in love, there is this illusion, this illusion that you will never be able to forget, the way I had the illusion, faced with Hiroshima, that I would never forget. Just as in love.
- Elle: As it was with him ,forgetting will begin with your eyes.
- Elle: Then as with him, it will swallow your voice.
- Elle: Then as with him, it will consume you entirely, little by little.
- Elle: You will become a song.
- Elle: I loved the taste of blood since I tasted yours.
- Lui: [First lines] You saw nothing in Hiroshima. Nothing.
- Elle: I saw everything. Everything.
- Elle: Why deny the obvious necessity for memory?
- Elle: I meet you. I remember you. Who are you?
- Elle: Sometimes it's important to ignore the difficulties this world presents. Otherwise, it would become unbearable.
- Elle: One thinks one knows. But, no. Never.
