Woody Allen

"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."

"E se tudo for uma ilusão e nada existe? Nesse caso, definitivamente eu paguei caro demais pelo meu carpete."

"Não é só Deus que não existe, tente chamar o encanador nos finais de semana."

"I think crime pays. The hours are good, you meet a lot of interesting people, you travel a lot."

• Take the Money and Run (1969)

"E se nada existe e estivermos todos no sonho de alguém? Ou o que é pior, e se somente aquele cara gordo na terceira fileira existe?"

"O interessante é que, de acordo com os astrônomos modernos, o espaço é limitado. Esta conclusão é muito reconfortante, principalmente para as pessoas que nunca lembram onde deixaram suas coisas."


Allen: That's quite a lovely Jackson Pollock, isn't it?
Woman: Yes, it is.
Allen: What does it say to you?
Woman: It restates the negativeness of the universe. The hideous lonely emptiness of existence. Nothingness. The predicament of man forced to live in a barren, godless eternity like a tiny flame flickering in an immense void with nothing but waste, horror, and degradation, forming a useless, bleak straitjacket in a black, absurd cosmos.
Allen: What are you doing Saturday night?
Woman: Committing suicide.
Allen: What about Friday night?

• Play It Again, Sam (1972)

"O homem explora o homem e por vezes é o contrário."

"Meu pai trabalhou na mesma empresa durante doze anos. Eles o demitiram e o substituíram por uma maquininha deste tamanho, que faz tudo o que o meu pai fazia, só que muito melhor. O deprimente é que minha mãe também comprou uma igual".

"The man who said "I'd rather be lucky than good" saw deeply into life. People are afraid to face how great a part of life is dependent on luck. It's scary to think so much is out of one's control. There are moments in a match when the ball hits the top of the net and for a split second it can either go forward or fall back. With a little luck it goes forward and you win. Or maybe it doesn't and you lose."