everything will be ok
- Throughout the film, Bill is tortured by frightening thoughts and hallucinations and finds out he is terminally ill. But by the end, the film lives up to its name as he finds out his time hasn't come yet and he goes home in a beautifully relaxing scene as the bus drives him home in the rain.
i am so proud of you
- As a kid, Bill's mother would leave notes for him in his lunchbox. Later on, Bill finds his mother's notebook where she practiced her handwriting over and over just so she could give Bill the best-looking notes. Discovering how dedicated his mother was to such a simple kind act, probably without any thanks or returned favors, is heart-wrenching.
- His mother's Title Drop note has more weight when one thinks about it. She's telling him she's proud because he's strong enough to keep himself afloat even though madness runs in his blood, his father leaves them, and his mother goes through an episode all while he's still a very young little boy. Any other child would've cried at least a dozen times, but Bill goes through his days as if nothing bad is happening.
it's such a beautiful day
- After his doctor tells him he doesn't have very long to live, Bill takes yet another walk. But this time everything is much more vivid and colorful and detailed as beautiful, extravagant music plays. The narrator explains that "it's as though he's been sleepwalking and something has finally shaken him awake". In the wake of his death, Bill is gaining back the sense of wonder and love and innocence he had when he was a child, realizing once again just how beautiful this world is. Every single detail seems gorgeous to him, and he truly appreciates his existence.
- "He's alive. He's alive. He's alive. He's alive."
- "Isn't everything amazing?"
- Bill finally meets his birth father, who had ran away from him and his mother before he was even born. Both he and Bill are suffering from memory loss, and don't know who the other is or why they are visiting. Even so, they spend some time together. The most gut-wrenching part of this are Bill's final words to his father:Bill: You are forgiven.
- The ending. Bill accepts his past and fate, whatever they may be. Whether he became immortal or died, it doesn't really matter. Everything is clear to him now. His endless sense of wonder and love for his world and existence returns to him.Narrator: He will spend hundreds of years traveling the world, learning all there is to know. He will learn every language; he will read every book; he will know every land. He will spend thousands of years creating stunning works of art. He will learn to meditate to control all pain. As wars will be fought, and great loves found... and lost... and found. Lost... and found... and found... and found. And memories built upon memories until life runs on an endless loop. He will father hundreds of thousands of children whose own exponential offspring he'll slowly lose track of over the years, whose millions of beautiful lives will all eventually be swept again from the Earth. And still, Bill will continue. He will learn more about life than any being in history, but death will forever be a stranger to him. People will come and go until names lose all meaning to him, until people lose all meaning and vanish entirely from the world. And still, Bill will live on. He will befriend the next inhabitants of the Earth, beings of light who revere him as a God, and Bill will outlive them all, for millions and millions of years, exploring, learning, living... until the Earth is swallowed beneath his feet. Until the sun is long since gone. Until time loses all meaning and the moment comes that he knows only the positions of the stars and sees them whether his eyes are closed or open. Until he forgets his name and the place where he'd once come from. He lives and he lives, until all of the lights go out.
