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Existentialism
Woody Allen (1935)
Quotes
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I love the rain, It washes the memories off the sidewalk
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The
last time I was inside a woman was when I went to the Statue
of Liberty
I went into a store, I bought a rifle. I was gonna. . . you
know, if they told me that I had a tumor, I was going to kill
myself. The only thing that might've stopped me, might've, is
my parents would be devastated. I would, I woulda' had to shoot
them, also, first. And then, I have an aunt and an uncle, I
would have, you know, it would have been a bloodbath. (Hannah
and her sisters)
I know exactly what I think about all this, but I can never
find words to put it in. Maybe if I get a little drunk I could
dance it for you. (Shadows and Fog)
I don't know enough to be incompetent. (Shadows and Fog)
All men are mortal. Socrates was mortal. Therefore, all men
are Socrates. Which means that all men are homosexuals. (Love
and Death)
To love is to suffer. To avoid suffering one must not love,
but then one suffers from not loving. Therefore, to love is
to suffer, not to love is to suffer, to suffer is to suffer.
To be happy is to love, to be happy then is to suffer but suffering
makes one unhappy, therefore to be unhappy one must love or
love to suffer or suffer from too much happiness. I hope you're
getting this down... (Love and Death)
Carol: "You know, I've been seriously thinking about starting
a little restaurant. But, well, Larry, he's trying to talk me
out of it."
Larry: "Oh, she's a great cook, though, really. Her duck
and fennel omelette on a bed of scallops and Hollandaise sauce
with truffles and sweetbreads'll make you snap into a fetal
position and have you in bed screaming for a month." (Love
and Death)
I feel that life is divided into the horrible and the miserable.That's
the two categories. The horrible be like, I don't know,terminal
cases, you know, and blind people, crippled.I don't know how
they get through life.It's amazing to me. And the miserable
is everyone else. So you should be thankful that you're miserable,
because that's very lucky, to be miserable
I don't want to achieve immortality through my work. I want
to achieve it through not dying.
It seemed the world was divided into good and bad people.The
good ones slept better ...while the bad ones seemed to enjoy
the waking hours much more. (Side Effects)
Ce
qu'on fait n'est jamais compris mais seulement loué ou blâmé.
Nietzsche, Gay Science |
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