"You know you really need som help. A regular psychiatrist couldn't even help you. You need to go to Vienna or something. You know what I mean? You need to get involved at the university level. Like where Freud studied, and have all those people looking and checking up on you. That's the kind of help you need. Not the once-a-week for 80 bucks. No. You need a team. A team of psychiatrists working round the clock thinking about you, having conferences. Observing you, like the way they did with the Elephant Man. That's what I'm talking about. Because that's the only way you're gonna be better."

Jerry to George Costanza in "The Pitch/The Ticket", Seinfeld - Season 4

The sea's only gifts are harsh blows, and occasionally the chance to feel strong. Now I don't know much about the sea, but I do know that that's the way it is here. And I also know how important it is in life not necessarily to be strong but to feel strong. To measure yourself at least once. To find yourself at least once in the most ancient of human conditions. Facing the blind death stone alone, with nothing to help you but your hands and your own head.

Sean Penn, Into the Wild (2007)

'Ah ! Lord Henry, I wish you would tell me how to become young again.'
He thought for a moment. 'Can you rember any great error that you committed in your early days. Duchess?' he asked, looking at her across the table.
'A great many, I fear.' she cried.
'Then commit them over again.' he said gravely. To get back one's youth, one has merely to repeat one's follies.'
'A delightful theory!' she exclaimed. 'I must put it into practice.'
'A dangerous theory!' came from Sir Thomas's tight lips.
Lady Agatha shook her head, but could not help being amused.
Me Erskine listened.
'Yes,' he countinued, 'that is one of the great secrets of life. Nowadays most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regret are one's mistakes.'

-- Oscar Wilde, "The Picture of Dorian Gray"

Just nu på TV: Red River:

"There are only two things more beautiful than a gun: a Swiss watch
or a woman from anywhere. Ever had a good... Swiss watch?"

--- Cherry Valance, Hollywood Cowboy

"I'm disturbed, I'm depressed, I'm inadequate, I've got it all!"

--- George Costanza

Seinfeld

"Warning: If you are reading this then this warning is for you. Every word you read of this useless fine print is another second off your life. Don't you have other things to do? Is your life so empty that you honestly can't think of a better way to spend these moments? Or are you so impressed with authority that you give respect and credence to all that claim it? Do you read everything you're supposed to read? Do you think every thing you're supposed to think? Buy what you're told to want? Get out of your apartment. Meet a member of the opposite sex. Stop the excessive shopping and masturbation. Quit your job. Start a fight. Prove you're alive. If you don't claim your humanity you will become a statistic. You have been warned- Tyler"

Fight Club, David Fincher

Sopii kuin nyrkki silmään!

[Passar som knytnäven i ögat...]

"Och sådan leda bryter ner en bra frisyr och du blir tråkig, ful och trött."

/Lars Winnerbäck

"Vi tränade hårt, men varje gång vi började få fram fungerande grupper skulle vi omorganiseras. Jag lärde mig senare i livet att vi är benägna att möta varje ny situation genom omorganisation och också vilken underbar metod detta är för att skapa illusionen av framsteg, medan den åstadkommer kaos, ineffektivitet och demoralisering."

Gaius Petronius, romersk ståthållare och hovman hos Nero, d 66 e kr

"Jag tror inte att vägen till lycka går genom ny datorteknik. Det handlar snarare om god vätskebalans."

-- Alf Henriksson

"Markel: Ja herregud, behåll din lycka, jag tar vällusten. Skål! Men om jag också går med på ditt språkbruk, så blir det inte därför sant att alla sträva efter lycka. Det finns människor som sakna alla anlag för lycka och som känna det med pinsam, obeveklig klarhet. Sådana människor sträva inte efter lycka utan efter att få lite form och stil på sin olycka.
   Och han tillade plötsligt, oförmodat:
   - Glas hör till dem.
   Det sista kom så förbluffande att jag satt svarslös. Ända tills jag hörde honom nämna mitt namn trodde jag att han talade om sig själv. Jag tror det ännu, och att det för att dölja det som han slog ner på mig. Det blev en tryckande tystnad."

ur Doktor glas, 1905
Hjalmar Söderberg

Your beauty was the cause of that effect
Your beauty, that did haunt me in my sleep
To undertake the death of all the world,
So I might live one hour in your sweet bosom

Richard III, 16xx (William Shakespear)

[Alvy addresses a pair of strangers on the street]
Alvy Singer: Here, you look like a very happy couple, um, are you?
Female street stranger: Yeah.
Alvy Singer: Yeah? So, so, how do you account for it?
Female street stranger: Uh, I'm very shallow and empty and I have no ideas and nothing interesting to say.
Male street stranger: And I'm exactly the same way.
Alvy Singer: I see. Wow. That's very interesting. So you've managed to work out something?

Annie Hall: La-di-da, la-di-da, la la.

Alvy Signer: They did not take me in the Army. I was, um, interestingly enough, I was, I was a 4-P. Yes. In the, in the event of war, I'm a hostage.

Annie Hall, 1977 (Woody Allen)

"how I dearly wish I was not here"
in the seaside town
...that they forgot to bomb
Come! Come! Come - nuclear bomb!

and they give you nothing real
for yourself in return
and when they've used you
and they've broken you
and wasted all your money
and cast your shell aside
and when they've bought you
and they've sold you
and they've billed you for the peasure
and they've made your parents cry
I will be here
BELIEVE ME
I will be here
...believe me
Angel, don't take your life
some people have got no pride
they do not understand
the Urgency of life
but I love you more than life
I love you more than life
I love you more than life
I love you more than life

Viva Hate, 1988 (Morrissey)

Say goodbye on a night like this
If it's the last thing we ever do
You never looked as lost as this
Sometimes it doesn't even look like you
It goes dark
It goes darker still
Please stay
But I watch you like I'm made of stone
As you walk away

This is stranger than I thought
Six different ways inside my heart
and every one I'll keep tonight
six different ways go deep inside

-- The Head on the Door, 1985 (R. Smith)