- [English subtitled version]
- Alpha 60: Once we know the number one, we believe that we know the number two, because one plus one equals two. We forget that first we must know the meaning of plus.
- [English subtitled version]
- Natacha von Braun: Your voice, your eyes, your hands, your lips. Our silences, our words. Light that goes, light that returns. A single smile between us. In quest of knowledge, I watched the night create day while we seemed unchanged. O beloved of all, beloved of one alone, your mouth silently promised to be happy. Away, away, says hate; closer, closer, says love. A caress leads us from our infancy. Increasingly I see the human form as a lover's dialogue. The heart has but one mouth. Everything by chance. All words without thought. Sentiments adrift. Men roam the city. A glance, a word. Because I love you. Everything moves. We must advance to live. Aim straight ahead toward those you love. I went toward you, endlessly toward the light. If you smile, it enfolds me all the better. The rays of your arms pierce the mist.
- [English subtitled version]
- Alpha 60: What is your religion?
- Lemmy Caution: I believe in the inspirations of conscience.
- [English subtitled version]
- Alpha 60: I shall calculate so that failure is impossible.
- Lemmy Caution: I shall fight so that failure is possible.
- [English subtitled version]
- Alpha 60: Time is the substance of which I am made. Time is a river which carries me along. But I am time. It's a tiger, tearing me apart; but I am the tiger.
- [English subtitled version]
- Alpha 60: What is the privilege of the dead?
- Lemmy Caution: To die no more.
- [English subtitled version]
- Alpha 60: Everything has been said, provided words do not change their meanings, and meanings their words.
- [English subtitled version]
- Alpha 60: What is your secret? Tell me, Mr. Caution.
- Lemmy Caution: Something which never changes, day or night. The past represents its future. It advances in a straight line, yet it ends by coming full circle.
- [English subtitled version]
- Lemmy Caution: This isn't a bible, this is a dictionary!
- Natacha von Braun: Aren't they the same in the outlands?
- [English subtitled version]
- Alpha 60: No-one has ever lived in the past. No-one will ever live in the future. The present is the form of all life.
- [English subtitled version]
- Natacha von Braun: Got a light?
- Lemmy Caution: I've traveled 9,000 kilometers to give it to you.
- [English subtitled version]
- [last lines]
- Natacha von Braun: You're looking at me oddly.
- Lemmy Caution: Yes.
- Natacha von Braun: It's as if you're waiting for me to say something.
- Lemmy Caution: Yes.
- Natacha von Braun: I don't know what to say. I don't know the words. I was never taught them. Help me.
- Lemmy Caution: I can't, princess. You have to get there by yourself to be saved. If you can't, then you're as lost as the dead souls of Alphaville.
- Natacha von Braun: I... love... you. I love you.
- [English subtitled version]
- [first lines]
- Alpha 60: Sometimes reality can be too complex to be conveyed by the spoken word. Legend remolds it into a form that can be spread all across the world.
- [English subtitled version]
- Alpha 60: Is it not obvious that someone who customarily lives in a state of suffering requires a different sort of religion from a person habitually in a state of well-being?
- [English subtitled version]
- [repeated line]
- Various: I'm fine, thanks. Don't mention it.
- [English subtitled version]
- Alpha 60: Before us, nothing existed here. No one. We are totally alone here. We are unique, dreadfully unique.
- [English subtitled version]
- Alpha 60: The meaning of words and of expressions, is no longer grasped. An isolated word, or a detail of a design can be understood. But the meaning of the whole escapes.
- [English subtitled version]
- Alpha 60: Time is like a circle which is endlessly described. The declining arc is the past. The inclining arc is the future.
- [English subtitled version]
- Léonard von Braun: Men of your type will soon become extinct. You'll become something worse than dead. You'll become a legend.
- [English subtitled version]
- Lemmy Caution: [voice over] It's always like that. You never understand anything. Yes, it's always like that. You never understand anything. And one night, you end it in death.
- [English subtitled version]
- Alpha 60: The essence of the so-called capitalist world or the communist world, is not an evil volition to subject their people by the power of indoctrination or the power of finance; but simply the natural ambition of any organization to plan all its actions.
- [English subtitled version]
- Alpha 60: The present is terrifying because it is irreversible and because it is of iron.
- [English subtitled version]
- Lemmy Caution: Don't budge.
- [Caution shoots]
- Lemmy Caution: That way I'm sure you'll keep your word.
- [English subtitled version]
- Lemmy Caution: Yes, I am afraid of death. But for a humble secret agent, it's an everyday thing, like whiskey. And I've been drinking all my life.
- [English subtitled version]
- Natacha von Braun: In life, one can only know the present. No one's lived in the past, or will live in the future.
- [English subtitled version]
- Lemmy Caution: And what's Alpha 60?
- Henri Dickson: A giant computer, like they used to have in big business.
- Lemmy Caution: Nueva York... IBM...
- Henri Dickson: Olivetti... General Electric... Tokyorama... Alpha 60 is one hundred and fifty light years more powerful.
- Lemmy Caution: I see. People have become slaves of probabilities.
- Henri Dickson: The ideal here, in Alphaville is a technocracy, like that of termites and ants.
- Lemmy Caution: I don't understand.
- Henri Dickson: Probably one hundred and fifty light years ago, one hundred and fifty two hundred, there were artist in the ant society. Yes, artists, novelists, musicians, painters. Today, no more.
- [English subtitled version]
- Natacha von Braun: In love? What's that?
- Lemmy Caution: This.
- Natacha von Braun: No. I know what that is: it's sensuality.
- Lemmy Caution: No, sensuality is a consequence. It cannot exist without love.
- Natacha von Braun: So what is love, then?
- [English subtitled version]
- Lemmy Caution: You never have love affairs?
- Natacha von Braun: What?
- Lemmy Caution: Has no one ever fallen in love with you?
- Natacha von Braun: In love? What's that?
- [English subtitled version]
- Alpha 60: The acts of men carried over from past centuries will gradually destroy them logically. I, Alpha 60, am merely the logical means of this destruction.
- [English subtitled version]
- Lemmy Caution: I left because I couldn't understand a word he was saying.
- Natacha von Braun: But it's very simple. We learned this evening that death and life are found within the same circle.
- [English subtitled version]
- Condemned Man #2: Listen to me, normals. We see the truth you no longer see. The truth is that the essence of man is love and faith, courage, tenderness, generosity and sacrifice. The rest is the obstacle created by the progress of your blind ignorance. One day... One day..
- [he is executed]
- [English subtitled version]
- Red Star Hotel Manager: Why don't you hurry up and commit suicide? We need the room for our cousin from the south.
- Lemmy Caution: Anyway, it's my Journey to the End of the Night. It was my first night in Alphaville, but it seemed to me that centuries had passed.
- Alpha 60: Do you know what illuminates the night?
- Lemmy Caution: Poetry.
- Alpha 60: What is your religion?
- Lemmy Caution: I believe in the inspirations of conscience.
- Alpha 60: Do you make any distinction between the mystery of the laws of knowledge and the laws of love?
- Lemmy Caution: In my opinion, there is no mystery of love.
- Alpha 60: The Central Memory is thus named because of the primordial role that it plays in the logic-organization of Alpha 60. But no one has lived in the past and no one will live in the future. The present is the form of all life. This quality cannot be changed by any means. Time is like a circle which is endlessly described. The declining arc is the past. The inclining arc is the future. Everything has been said provided words do not change their meanings and meanings their words. Is it not obvious that someone who customarily live in a state of suffering requires a different sort of religion from a person habitually living in a state of well-being? Before us, nothing existed here. No one. We are totally alone here. We are unique, dreadfully unique. The meaning of words and of expressions is no longer grasped. An isolated word or a detail of a design can be understood. But the meaning of the whole escapes. Once we know the number one we believe that we know the number two because one plus one equals two. We forget that first we must know the meaning of plus.
- Engineer: They flood us with spies. Perhaps you are a spy, Mister Johnson.
- Lemmy Caution: You know I'm not, since I'm a free man.
- Engineer: [blinks] A meaningless reply. We know nothing. We record, calculate, draw conclusions.
- Alpha 60: I felt that my existence here was becoming a distorted, twilight memory of an awesome destiny. There was only one solution.
- Lemmy Caution: Don't count on it; I have a secret, too.
- Alpha 60: What is your secret? Tell me, Mister Caution.
- Lemmy Caution: Something which never changes, day or night. The past represents its future, it advances in a straight line, yet it ends by coming full circle.
- Alpha 60: I cannot trace what it is.
- Lemmy Caution: I won't tell you.
- Alpha 60, Lemmy Caution: Several of my circuits are looking for the solution to your riddle. I will find it.
- Lemmy Caution: If you find it, you will destroy yourself simultaneously, because you will become my kin, my brother.
- Alpha 60: Those who are not born, do not weep, and do not regret.
- Lemmy Caution: Such people will serve as terrible examples to those who want to play the world when technical power is the only act in their repertoire.
- [English subtitled version]
- Lemmy Caution: Her name was Beatrice. She said she was a seductress, third class. I was struck by the sadness and durability of her face.
- [English subtitled version]
- Lemmy Caution: Are you finished taking me for an ass? Or, are you beginning?
- [English subtitled version]
- Lemmy Caution: [voice over] Her smile and her small pointed teeth reminded me of the old vampire films - the sort they used to show at cinerama museums.
- [English subtitled version]
- Lemmy Caution: [voice over] Natasha spoke to me in her pretty sphinx voice, pretty sphinx, pretty sphinx, pretty sphinx, pretty sphinx.