In some instances it is impossible to separate human emotion from the truth.

One thing that's very important to me in life is, through having a realationship with somebody and loving that person and being allowed to feel the whole emotion of love despite all of the risks, you can find out who you are...

For the ship was not destroyed by an iceberg alone... it was also destroyed by a state of mind.

(...)...the Titanic is not a myth. Not only did it exist... it still exists. She sits now on the seabed, two-and-a-half miles below where she hit the iceberg all those years ago. And if you are enterprising enough, you can go there and see it.

God is greater than all of us, and if you are so arrogant as to say something is unsinkable, you will get slapped in your face.

(...) when I read the script I was in floods tears, because it takes you to the point where you would do anything - absolutely anything - to stop that ship from sinking.

Cameron found a kindred spirit in historical Andrews: "As an engineer he never would have believed his own publicity, so to speak. The ship was made of iron. Of course she could sink if the conditions were right. Imagine what it must have felt like, standing in the foyer of the Grand Staircase - architecturally the most beautiful place on the ship - a ship that he had designed - knowing that in an hour or so all of it was going to be at the bottom of Atlantic. Can you imagine the responsibility he must have felt?

Oh, they loaded up the boats so very far from shore/ but the riched refused to associate with the poor./So they put the poor below,/ where they were the first to go./ It was sad when the great ship went down.

This movie is as close as you can get to being in a time machine and going back to the ship.