The Ultimate Movie Guide to INFJ Personality
"INFJ (introverted, intuitive, feeling, and judging) is one of the 16 personality types identified by the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI). Sometimes referred to as the "Advocate" or the "Idealist," people with INFJ personalities are creative, gentle, and caring. INFJs are usually reserved but highly sensitive to how others feel. They are typically idealistic, with high moral standards and a strong focus on the future. INFJs enjoy thinking about deep topics and contemplating the meaning of life. The INFJ type is said to be one of the rarest with just one to three percent of the population exhibiting this personality type.
INFJs live in a world of quiet introspection and imagination. They have an uncanny ability to see through people, situations, and words to find hidden meanings, motives, and outcomes. They care very little about how something appears to be on the surface but instead try to peer deeply into what something means, what its essence or core truth is.
INFJs are known for their strong insights about people and situations. They get these insights through the use of their dominant cognitive function; Introverted Intuition. They also are extremely aware of people’s emotions and moods using their auxiliary function; Extraverted Feeling. This combination of skills means that an INFJ can easily pick up on even the slightest mood changes and inconsistencies in behavior and then intuitively grasp what may be bothering a person. They are constantly aware of other people’s body language, tone of voice, and facial expressions to pick up on hidden meanings, motives, or feelings. This can give them an aura of seeing “through” someone, and it helps them to deeply empathize with and understand others."
INFJs live in a world of quiet introspection and imagination. They have an uncanny ability to see through people, situations, and words to find hidden meanings, motives, and outcomes. They care very little about how something appears to be on the surface but instead try to peer deeply into what something means, what its essence or core truth is.
INFJs are known for their strong insights about people and situations. They get these insights through the use of their dominant cognitive function; Introverted Intuition. They also are extremely aware of people’s emotions and moods using their auxiliary function; Extraverted Feeling. This combination of skills means that an INFJ can easily pick up on even the slightest mood changes and inconsistencies in behavior and then intuitively grasp what may be bothering a person. They are constantly aware of other people’s body language, tone of voice, and facial expressions to pick up on hidden meanings, motives, or feelings. This can give them an aura of seeing “through” someone, and it helps them to deeply empathize with and understand others."
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- DirectorMatthew Ryan HogeStarsRyan GoslingDon CheadleKevin SpaceyA young man's experience in a juvenile detention center that touches on the tumultuous changes that befall his family and the community in which he lives."I think there are two ways you can see the world. You either see the sadness that's behind everything or you choose to keep it all out. Your heart can't break if you don't let the world touch it."
"It covers my eyes. It's all I can see. Say there's some kids playing baseball. All I see is the one kid they won't let play because he tells corny jokes. And no-one thinks they're funny. Or I see a boy and a girl in love and kissing, you know. I just see that they're gonna be one of those sad old couples one day who just cheats on each other and can't even look at each other in the eye. And I feel it. I feel all of their sadness. I feel it probably even worse than that sad old couple or that corny kid will ever feel it."
"I saw in Ryan worse than anybody. All the words they were teaching him were things to stay away from.There weren't any words like "strawberry, or "kiss". You could tell he really liked this girl who worked there, but she just smiled at him like a little child. He knew he could never have a girl like that around his arm. I started to think that he knew. He knew that nobody looked at him like a normal kid. People either laughed at him or felt sorry for him. He couldn't do anything about it. He was trapped. He knew everything"
"The electricity wasn't in her eyes, any more. Her eyes were still reflecting what was there, but now it was the sadness. I was begging to think it was never there to begin with. I started to see it everywhere. Every face was different, but the same "
"And that's when I figured out that tears couldn't make somebody who was dead alive again. There's another thing to learn about tears, they can't make somebody who doesn't love you any more love you again. It's the same with prayers. I wonder how much of their lives people waste crying and praying to God. If you ask me, the devil makes more sense than God does. I can at least see why people would want him around. It's good to have somebody to blame for the bad stuff they do. Maybe God's there because people get scared of all the bad stuff they do. They figure that God and the Devil are always playing this game of tug-of-war game with them. And they never know which side they're gonna wind up on. I guess that tug-of-war idea explains how sometimes, even when people try to do something good, it still turns out bad."
"The worst part is knowing that there is goodness in people. Mostly it stays deep down and buried. Maybe we don't have God because we're scared of the bad stuff. Maybe we're really scared of the good stuff. Because if there's no God, well, that means it's inside of us and we could be good all the time if we wanted. So when we do bad things, it'd be because we want to or because we have to. Or maybe we just need the bad stuff to remind us what the good stuff is in the first place."
"This one is something a friend of mine said to me. "You have to believe that life is more than the sum of its parts, kiddo." I remember it right now to the "kiddo" part. But when I think about what she said, the same thing always comes into my head. What if you can't put the pieces together in the first place?"
"I recall when our lives were unusual and electric. When we burned with something close to fire. But now we sway to a different rhythm. Lives lived without meaning or even directed hope. The passage of time measured only by loss. Loss of a job, loss of a minivan... a son."
"I know what they want from me. They want a reason. Something to tie up with a little bow and bury in the backyard. Bury it down so deep it's like it never happened. They want me to say how I'm so sorry, and it was my mom's fault. Or maybe it was my dad's fault. Or it happened because of TV or movies or some junk like that. Or maybe I blame some girl."
"When I say I don't remember that day, I'm not lying. I wish I did, but I just don't. Sometimes the most important stuff goes away. Goes away so bad it's like it was never there to begin with."
"When I say I don't remember that day, I'm not lying. Wish I did, but I just don't. Sometimes the most important stuff goes away. Goes away so bad, it's like it was never there to begin with. It's funny the stuff that sticks in your head. I could tell you forward and backward about one day when I was five, and my dad bought me a stupid ice cream cone. I could tell you the flavor of the ice cream. It was pick bubblegum. Even stuff about the girl who scooped it out. Her hair was fire red. All that stuff is there like it was happening right now, but I don't remember that day."
"Because of the sadness, your sadness."
"Becky: I don't want to hurt you.
Leland Fitzgerald: Then don't." - DirectorSofia CoppolaStarsBill MurrayScarlett JohanssonGiovanni RibisiA faded movie star and a neglected young woman form an unlikely bond after crossing paths in Tokyo."Let's never come here again because it would never be as much fun."
"I just feel so alone, even when I'm surrounded by other people."
"Charlotte: I just don't know what I'm supposed to be.
Bob: You'll figure that out. The more you know who you are, and what you want, the less you let things upset you." - DirectorLouis MalleStarsMaurice RonetLéna SkerlaYvonne ClechDepressed Alain Leroy leaves the clinic where he was detoxified. He meets friends, acquaintances and women, trying to find a reason to continue living. Will this help him?"I'm killing myself because you didn't love me, because I didn't love you. Because our ties were loose, I'm killing myself to tighten them. I leave you with an indelible stain."
"Tomorrow, I kill myself."
"Dubourg: How are you now?
Alain Leroy: Feeling empty. With some atrocious moments."
"Sleep is all I believe in."
"Dr. La Barbinais: Life's good.
Alain Leroy: Good for what?"
"Life flows too slowly on me. So I speed it up. I set it right."
"I'm older. The hopes are gone, but I have certainties now."
"The sensitivity was in my heart, not my hands."
"You've spent the last ten years in gilded mediocrity."
"One day I realised I'd spent my life waiting. For women. Money. Action. So I drank myself stupid."
"The peace of mind of these people!"
"I know I'm leaving you with your worst enemy, yourself."
"Dorothy isn't the woman for you. She isn't rich enough. She lets you do what you want. You need a woman who won't let you out of her sight. Otherwise you get depressed and act foolishly."
"Dr. La Barbinais: You still have feelings of anxiety?
Alain Leroy: It's not feelings of anxiety, Doctor. It's a single feeling of constant anxiety."
"Alain Leroy: I left my youth for another life.
Brancion: You turn your back. You reject adulthood. You're stuck in adolescence. Hence your anxiety. It's hard to be a man. You have to want to be one."
"I don't find it funny to sleep on a tomb... when it's so easy to open it and sleep inside."
"A patient's life is ordered and simple. It shelters us. I'm not eager for a life again. Paris scares me."
"It's not life itself I blame, but what's contemptible in it."
"We poets have no need for drugs to attain the borderline between life and death."
"Don't go. Don't leave me. I need you. Don't leave, I'm begging you. It's serious."
"I'm drowning in debt."
"Alain Leroy: I've had enough. I'm calling it a day. I refuse to grow old.
Brancion: You miss your youth as if you'd lived it to the fullest.
Alain Leroy: It was a promise. And a lie. I was the liar."
"To leave without having touched anything."
"I drink because I'm a bad lover."
"I'd have liked to captivate people, hold on to them, bind them close."
"I have no power over them. I was handsome at 20. They still find me fun and nice. But it's not enough. I have no hold on them. And yet, it's only through women... that I've felt some hold on life."
"Five minutes with her and l'd feel like an insect. l'd vanish into the woodwork."
"Once again the feeling had eluded him, like a snake between stones."
"I am patient. I've done nothing but wait. All my life. Waiting - for something to happen. For what, I don't know."
"You can work miracles. Touch the leper."
"I'm awkward, inept."
"So I'll try with death. She should be more accommodating."
"Alain Leroy: It's all over for me. I'm leaving. Don't you understand?
Dubourg: Life still has things to offer. You must have a sense of your life. That sense can't perish. I hate things that stay locked up. A man's got to show what he's made of. Doing something well is wonderful.
Alain Leroy: I never knew what that meant. I've only run after money, like everybody else."
"Dubourg: Funny lives we lead, clinging to women.
Alain Leroy: You don't seem to cling to Fanny.
Dubourg: I wallow in her warmth like a pig in a trough."
"Alain Leroy: Dubourg, what will you do tonight?
Dubourg: Tonight, I'll write a few pages on my Egyptians, then make love to Fanny. I fall into her silence as into a well. At the bottom is a great sun that warms the earth."
"Eva: You look like death warmed over.
Alain Leroy: You're no spring chicken yourself."
"The humiliation of it all."
"We drunks are poor cousins, and we know it. Anyway, we fade away fast."
"When I get depressed, I do foolish things."
"Money. It slips right through your fingers."
"I feel at home here. You're my family."
"Dr. La Barbinais: I can't keep you here without reason.
Alain Leroy: Doctor, I'll start again. If I leave, I'll start drinking again. Sooner or later."
"Don't worry. I'll be gone by the end of the week, come what may."
"Brancion: You work in Versailles?
Alain Leroy: I don't work.
Brancion: Private income?
Alain Leroy: I'm sick.
Brancion: So that's why.
Alain Leroy: What?
Brancion: Why you look so pale. What's the problem?
Alain Leroy: My heart."
"Brancion: Where did all this start? If I knew, maybe I could help you.
Alain Leroy: Alcohol was in my blood before I realized it."
"Alain's old acquaintance: See that face?
Alain's old acquaintance: Alcohol.
Alain's old acquaintance: He's done for.
Alain's old acquaintance: A shame. He was good-Looking."
"I'm not feeling well. I'm early. I fainted in the street."
"I'm a poor drunkard."
"Maria: Alain, you're too far gone.
Alain Leroy: I'm not gone yet, but I'm going."
"The thing is... I can't reach out with my hands. I can't touch things. And when I do touch things, I feel nothing."
"Frédéric: Congratulations on finding Maria. You have a woman.
Alain Leroy: I have nothing.
Frédéric: Come now!
Alain Leroy: You don't know what it's like, being unable to touch anything. I'm incapable of wanting. I can't even desire. The women here tonight... I can't desire them. They scare me. Scare me!"
"Five minutes with her and I'd feel like an insect. I'd vanish into the woodwork"
"Maria: What's wrong, Alain? You're a bit tipsy. And so sad. What is it now?
Alain Leroy: You're life itself. Yes, life. But I can't touch you. It's horrible. You're here in front of me, but there's no way."
"You're a beautiful woman. A good woman. You love making love. And yet... between the two of us nothing's possible."
"I'm not eager to face life again." - DirectorDarren AronofskyStarsHugh JackmanRachel WeiszSean Patrick ThomasAs a modern-day scientist, Tommy is struggling with mortality, desperately searching for the medical breakthrough that will save the life of his cancer-stricken wife, Izzi."For every shadow, no matter how deep, is threatened by morning light."
"All these years, all these memories, there was you. You pull me through time."
"Izzi: Remember Moses Morales?
Tom Creo: Who?
Izzi: The Mayan guide I told you about.
Tom Creo: From your trip.
Izzi: Yeah. The last night I was with him, he told me about his father, who had died. Well Moses wouldn't believe it.
Tom Creo: Izzi...
Izzi: [embraces Tom] No, no. Listen, listen. He said that if they dug his father's body up, it would be gone. They planted a seed over his grave. The seed became a tree. Moses said his father became a part of that tree. He grew into the wood, into the bloom. And when a sparrow ate the tree's fruit, his father flew with the birds. He said... death was his father's road to awe. That's what he called it. The road to awe. Now, I've been trying to write the last chapter and I haven't been able to get that out of my head!
Tom Creo: Why are you telling me this?
Izzi: I'm not afraid anymore, Tommy."
"Our bodies are prisons for our souls. Our skin and blood, the iron bars of confinement. But fear not. All flesh decays. Death turns all to ash. And thus, death frees every soul."
"Death is the road to awe."
"Izzi: [as a vision of Izzi in 2500] Finish it.
Tom Creo: Stop... Stop it!
[he rises from beside the tree and marches to her]
Tom Creo: What do you want? Leave me, leave me alone! Please, please... It's not my...
[kneels and breaks into sobs]
Izzi: [she touches his head with a robed arm; he looks up and sees Queen Isabella, smiles, and stands] Will you deliver Spain from bondage?
Tom Creo: I don't know... I'm trying, trying... I don't know how.
Izzi: You do. You will.
[cut to Tom, then cut to Izzi]
Izzi: You do... You will.
[assorted silent flashbacks; Izzi's voiceover: "I'm not afraid anymore, Tommy."]
Tom Creo: I'm going to die.
[Izzi smiles]
Tom Creo: I'm going to die!
[he smiles, laughing]
Izzi: Together we will live forever.
[sheds a tear]
Tom Creo: Forever.
[smiling]
Izzi: [as Queen Isabella] Forever.
Tom Creo: [walks back to the tree] Forever.
[looks at it]
Tom Creo: We will live forever.
Izzi: [as Izzi] Finish it.
Tom Creo: OK."
"Tom Creo: There you are.
Izzi: Hey, what are you doing here?
Tom Creo: Babe we have a
[inaudible]
Tom Creo: at three.
Izzi: This is an actual Mayan book. It explains the Creation myth. You see that's first father. He's the very first human.
Tom Creo: Hum. Is he dead?
Izzi: He sacrificed himself to make the world.
[pause]
Izzi: That's the tree of life bursting out of his stomach.
Tom Creo: Hey come.
Izzi: Listen. His body became the trees' roots. They spread and formed the earth. His soul became the branches rising up forming the sky. All the remained is first father's head. His children hung in in the heavens creating Xibalba.
Tom Creo: Xibalba. The star, eh,
[corrects himself]
Tom Creo: nebula
Izzi: So what do you think?
Izzi: About?
Izzi: That idea. Death as an act of creation.
Tom Creo: [looks away, withdrawing] I'll pull out the car and meet you out front."
"Death is a disease, it's like any other. And there's a cure. A cure - and I will find it."
"It's all done except the last chapter. I want you to help me. Finish it..."
"Through that last dark cloud is a dying star. And soon enough, Xibalbia will die. And when it explodes, it will be reborn. You will bloom..."
"I'm sorry father, for you there is only death. But our destiny is life!"
"Isabel: Kneel, Conquistador.
[Tomas kneels before her]
Isabel: Let in the morning light.
[the doors are opened; light floods into the hall]
Isabel: The beast runs amok in my kingdom. He has isolated me, and now he is sharpening his talons for one more fateful push. But salvation lies in the jungles of New Spain. Will you deliver Spain from bondage?"
"Will you deliver Spain from bondage?"
"Isabel: Will you deliver Spain from bondage?
Tomas Verde: Upon my honor and my life.
Isabel: Then you shall take this ring to remind you of your promise.
[hands him the ring]
Isabel: You shall wear it when you find Eden, and when you return, I shall be your Eve.
[he looks at her]
Isabel: Together we will live forever."
"Therefore, the Lord God banished Adam and Eve from the garden of Eden and placed a flaming sword to protect the tree of life. - Genesis 3:24"
"There's no hope for us here, there is only death."
"Tom Creo: There's been progress at work...
Izzi: [laughs] My conquistador! Always conquering..."
"It's alright, I only need a little." - DirectorJill SprecherStarsAlan ArkinJohn TurturroMatthew McConaugheyIn New York City, the lives of a lawyer, an actuary, a house-cleaner, a professor and the people around them intersect as they ponder order and happiness in the face of life's cold unpredictability."I believe that if there is such thing as luck. I just hope I'm lucky enough to notice it when it comes my way."
"Troy: Luck is the lazy man's excuse.
Gene: Ah, spoken like a man who's had nothing but luck."
"I wish we could see into the future sometimes. That's the problem, isn't it? I mean, life, it only makes sense when you look at it backwards. Too bad we gotta live it forwards"
"It seems that in the court of law there's no way to prove the effectiveness of prayer, or as judge put it: "Faith is the antithesis of proof""
"it's perverse, isn't it? people spend years developing their minds and educating themselves, but in the end, they just want to shut them off."
"Walker: Why do you wanna be a doctor anyhow?
Chris Hammond: So I can help people.
Walker: How? By keeping them alive today so you can prolong their misery until tomorrow?"
"[Angrily] What is it? What are you smiling at?"
"My eyes have been opened, I can never go back."
"Ask yourself if you're happy and you cease to be so."
"I knew a happy man once. It was a curse."
"Show me a happy man and I'll show you a disaster waiting to happen."
"Fortune smiles at some and laughs at others."
"What everyone wants: to wake up enthused, to experience life, to be happy."
"The mind is its own place."
"Wisdom comes suddenly."
"You look so serious."
"The Lord giveth and the Lord taketh away..."
"I'm ready to surrender."
"Eighteen inches of personal space." - DirectorMike FiggisStarsNicolas CageElisabeth ShueJulian SandsBen Sanderson, a Hollywood screenwriter who lost everything because of his alcoholism, arrives in Las Vegas to drink himself to death. There, he meets and forms an uneasy friendship and non-interference pact with prostitute Sera."I don't know if I started drinking 'cause my wife left me or my wife left me 'cause I started drinking, but fuck it anyway."
"I think the thing is, we both realized that we didn't have that much time. And I accepted him for who he was, and I didn't expect him to change, and I think he felt that for me, too. I liked his drama, and he needed me. And I loved him. I really loved him."
"We both know that I'm a drunk. And I know you are a hooker. I hope you understand that I am a person who is totally at ease with that. Which is not to say that I'm indifferent or I don't care, I do. It simple means that I trust and accept your judgment."
"I'll tell you, right now... I'm in love with you. But, be that as it may, i am not here to force my twisted soul into your life."
"Sera: Don't you like me, Ben?
Ben Sanderson: Sera... what you don't understand is - no, see, no. You can never, never ask me to stop drinking. Do you understand?
Sera: I do. I really do."
"Sera: So why are you a drunk?
Ben Sanderson: Why am I a drunk? Is that really what you wanna ask me?
Sera: Yes.
Ben Sanderson: Well, then, this is our first date, or our last. Until now I wasn't sure it was either."
"Sera: Is drinking a way of killing yourself?
Ben Sanderson: Or, is killing myself a way of drinking?"
"Ben Sanderson: Don't you think you'd get a little bored, living with a drunk?
Sera: Well... that's what I want.
Ben Sanderson: You haven't seen the worst of it. I knock things over... throw up all the time. These past few days I've been very controlled. You're like some sort of antidote that mixes with the liquor and keeps me in balance. But, that won't last forever."
"Ben Sanderson: I think when I'm done with this I'll have a gin and tonic.
L.A. Bartender: Do you know what time it is? You should be drinking coffee. You're a young guy. It's none of my business, but if you could see what I see, you wouldn't be doing this to yourself.
Ben Sanderson: I understand what you're saying. I appreciate your concern. It's not my intention to make you uncomfortable. Please, serve me today, and I'll never come in here again. If I do, you can 86 me.
L.A. Bartender: Stop fucking with me! I can 86 you anytime I want to. Hey, I don't give a fuck what you do. That one's on the house, son."
"Ben Sanderson: Giving you money makes me want to come.
Sera: Then come."
"You go back to your hotel and I'll go back to my glamorous life of being alone. The only thing I have to come home to is a bottle of mouthwash to get the taste of cum out of my mouth. I'm tired of being alone. That's what I'm tired of."
"[to Sera as he is dying] See how hard you make me, angel?"
"I came here to drink myself to death."
"I need my drinky."
"You're sick... that's all I have in cash. Now please, don't drink it in here."
"I want you to see a doctor."
"I think the tough times are finally behind me. There'll always be bad things, but... my life is good. It is as I want it to be. It's good. It's good being here with you."
"Sera: So... why are you killing yourself?
Ben Sanderson: Interesting choice of words. I don't remember. I just know that I want to." - CreatorChris CarterStarsDavid DuchovnyGillian AndersonMitch PileggiTwo F.B.I. Agents, Fox Mulder the believer and Dana Scully the skeptic, investigate the strange and unexplained, while hidden forces work to impede their efforts."I'm not concerned with where I am or how I got there. I'm at peace and it's then that I realize I'm dead. My body begins to turn a greenish-white with spots of purple. Next, the insects arrive. The inevitable follows, putridity and liquescence. Before I know it, I'm nothing but bones. When I start fading to dust, I lose whatever care I still might have had about where my clothes are and as I begin to feel myself slipping away towards I know not what..."
"At times I almost dream I too have spent a life the sages' way, and tread once more familiar paths. Perchance I perished in an arrogant self-reliance an age ago. And in that act a prayer for one more chance went up so earnest, so... Instinct with better light let in by death that life was blotted out not so completely, but scattered, wrecks enough of it to remain dim memories, as now, when seems, once more, the goal in sight again..."
"I'm afraid that God is speaking and no one is listening." - CreatorAlan BallStarsPeter KrauseMichael C. HallFrances ConroyA chronicle of the lives of a dysfunctional family who run an independent funeral home in Los Angeles."You can't take a picture of this, it's already gone."
"I go to a funeral every time I can. Funerals of people I don't even know. In my opinion Harold and Maude is one of the most beautiful films of all time. I saw it when I was in Junior High, it profoundly affected me. It conditioned my life."
“Well, we’re all wounded. We carry our wounds around with is through life, and eventually they kill us. Things happen that leave a mark in space, in time. In us.”
“I’m surrounded by relics of a life that no longer exists.”
“You know what I find interesting? If you lose a spouse, you’re called a widow or widower. If you’re a child and you lose your parents, then you’re an orphan. But what’s the word to describe a parent who loses a child? I guess that’s just too fucking awful to even have a name.”
“We were such children when we met. Then we watched those children disappear.”
“All that lives, lives forever. Only the shell, the perishable passes away. The spirit is without end. Eternal. Deathless.”
“People might wonder what point there is in leading a life where you don’t touch any other lives. But it would be arrogant of us to assume that. Every life is a contribution, we just may not see how. I’m going to encounter Emily Previn, even if it is in death. Everyone comes into our life for a reason, and it is our responsibility to learn what they have to teach us.”
“Maybe your soulmate is the one who forces your soul to grow the most?”
“All we have is this moment, right here, right now. The future is just a fucking concept that we use to avoid being alive today. So be here now.”
“I wouldn’t change anything. If you change one thing, that changes everything. And some things are the way they should be.” - DirectorAbel FerraraStarsLili TaylorChristopher WalkenAnnabella SciorraA New York philosophy grad student turns into a vampire after getting bitten by one, and then tries to come to terms with her new lifestyle and frequent craving for human blood."To face what we are in the end, we stand before the light and our true nature is revealed. Self-revelation is annihilation of self."
"We drink to escape the fact we're alcoholics. Existence is the search for relief from our habit, and our habit is the only relief we can find."
"Seventh Circle, huh? Dante described it perfectly. Bleeding trees waiting for Judgment Day, where we can all hang ourselves from our own branches. It's not that easy... "Doctor." To find rest takes a real genius. It's all a matter of discernment. Now, R.C. Sproul said we're not sinners because we sin, but we sin because we are sinners. In more accessible terms, we're not evil because of the evil we do, but we do evil because we *are* evil. Yeah. Now what choices do such people have? It's not like we have any options."
"Dependency is a marvelous thing. It does more for the soul than any formulation of doctoral material."
"[voice-over] Oh, the stench here is worse than a charnel house. This is a graveyard. Rows of crumbling tombstones. Vicious libelous epitaphs. And we're all drawn here like flies."
"You think hell shuts down after a couple of years? You think what you've done isn't, isn't floating around somewhere in space? What makes you think you've been forgiven for lying to your mother as a child, huh? Or of having slept with married men in adultery or paying taxes that turn Central America into a mud puddle, huh?"
"You know how long I've been fasting? Forty years. The last time I shot up, I had a dozen and a half in one night. They fall like flies before the hunger, don't they? You can never get enough, can you? But you learn to control it. You learn, like the Tibetans, to survive on a little."
"The entire world's a graveyard, and we, the birds of prey picking at the bones. That's all we are. We're the ones who let the dying know the hour has come."
"I'm not like you. You're nothing. That's something you ought not to forget. You're not a person. You're nothing!"
"I will Not Submit!"
"Anthropology Student: Look what you've done to me! How could you do this? Doesn't this affect you at all?
Kathleen Conklin: No. It was your decision. Your friend Feuerbach wrote that all men counting stars are equivalent in every way to God. My indifference is not the concern here. It's your astonishment that needs studying."
"You know, this obtuseness, it's disheartening, especially in a doctoral candidate. You ought to know better."
"Jean: You're hurting me.
Kathleen Conklin: Are you kidding me? I'll crush you like cardboard."
"Kathleen Conklin: What's gonna happen to me?
Peina: Read the books. Sartre, Beckett, Burroughs. Who do you think they're talking about? You think they're works of fiction?"
"We are not sinners because we sin. We sin because we're sinners."
"[Priest is giving last rites] God, forgive me."
"You want me to take you someplace dark?"
"You can't kill what's dead. Eternity's a long time. Get used to it."
"Essence is revealed through praxis. The philosopher's words, his ideas, his actions, cannot be separated from his value, his meaning. That's what it's all about, isn't it? Our impact on other egos."
"Mankind has striven to exist beyond good and evil, from the beginning. And you know what they found? Me."
"[narrating] I finally understand what all this is, how it was all possible. Now I see, good lord, how we must look from out there. Our addiction is evil. The propensity for this evil lies in our weakness before it. Kierkegaard was right - there is an awful precipice before us. But he was wrong about the leap - there's a difference between jumping and being pushed. You reach a point where you are forced to face your own needs, and the fact that you can't terminate the situation settles on you with full force."
"[Kathleen Conklin and Jean are discussing the concept of war criminals]
Kathleen Conklin: It was the whole country. They were all guilty. How can you single out one man?
Jean: Well, you can't jail a whole country, you know. They needed a scapegoat. He was the unlucky one who got caught.
Kathleen Conklin: No, I don't think luck had anything to do with it. I mean, how did he get over there? Who put the gun in his hand? They say that he was guilty of killing women and babies. How many bombs were dropped that did the exact same thing? How many homes were destroyed? And who's in, who's in jail for that?"
"The old adage from Santayana, that those who don't learn from history are doomed to repeat it, is a lie. There is no history. Everything we are is eternally with us."
"Kathleen Conklin: What's your major?
Anthropology Student: Anthropology.
Kathleen Conklin: Do you like it?
Anthropology Student: What else is there? "Man is the measure of all things."
Kathleen Conklin: Protagoras, right?
Anthropology Student: [makes affirmative noise] What are you studying?
Kathleen Conklin: Adversity's sweet milk: philosophy." - DirectorDavid FrankelStarsWill SmithEdward NortonKate WinsletRetreating from life after a tragedy, a man questions the universe by writing to Love, Time, and Death. Receiving unexpected answers, he begins to see how these things interlock and how even loss can reveal moments of meaning and beauty."Just make sure you notice the collateral beauty."
"I *did* trust you! And you betrayed me! I saw you every day in her eyes, and I heard you in her voice when she laughed, and I felt you inside of me when she called me "Daddy." And you betrayed me! You broke my heart."
"Time, they say you heal all wounds, but they don't talk about how you destroy all that's good in the world, how you turn beauty into ash. Now that's some bullshit, Howard. Now, if love is creation and death is destruction, I'm just the terrain in between. You don't understand time, no one understands time. Einstein was close when he said I was just an illusion."
Howard: [to Brigitte, personification of Death] I've heard all of your platitudes. I got them, I know. "She's in a better place." And, "This is all a part of a master plan." Heard that one, too. Here's my favorite. "God looked down and saw the most beautiful rose, so beautiful that he picked it to have it in Heaven all for Himself." Then there's the science, biocentrism, and we're all living and dying in infinite universes all at the same time. And then the religion, the Christians and their salvation, and the Buddhists and their Samsara, and the Hindus and their 41st sacrament. And can't forget the poetry. Oh, the poetry. "To die is different from what anyone supposed and luckier." Whitman. And, "Rage... Rage against the dying of the light. Though wise men at their end know dark is right." Thomas. And then...
Howard: [singing] Row, row, row your boat, gently down the stream Merrily, merrily merrily, merrily, life is but a dream! I got it. I got it! It all basically says that you're a natural part of life, we shouldn't hate you, we shouldn't fear you. I guess we should just accept you, right? That's it? I get it. Here's the thing. It's all a bunch of intellectual bullshit because she's not here holding my fucking hand.
"But you never know, nothing's ever really dead if you look at it right."
"Love. Time. Death. Now these three abstractions connect every single human being on Earth. Everything that we covet, everything that we fear not having, everything that we ultimately end up buying is because at the end of the day we long for love, we wish we had more time, and we fear death."
"You’ve been given a gift, this profound connection to everything. Just look for it, and I promise you it’s there, the collateral beauty." - DirectorMick JacksonStarsJack LemmonHank AzariaWendy MonizA journalist finds himself questioning his own life when his best friend, a dying man, offers him some very powerful wisdom and advice for coping in relationships, careers and society."When he shall die,
Take him and cut him out in little stars,
And he will make the face of heaven so fine
That all the world will be in love with night
And pay no worship to the garish sun."
"When you learn how to die, you learn how to live."
"Death ends a life, not a relationship."
"The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and to let it come in."
"Dying is just one thing to be sad about. Living unhappily, that's another matter."
"If we accept the fact that we can die at anytime we lead our lives differently."
"Sometimes you cannot believe what you see, you have to believe what you feel. And if you are ever going to have other people trust you, you must feel that you can trust them, too - even when you're in the dark. Even when you're falling."
"Morrie Schwartz: My father was afraid of love. He couldn't give it and he couldn't receive it either. Maybe that's worse.
Mitch Albom: Morrie, Morrie, we should stop.
Morrie Schwartz: Not letting ourselves be loved because we're too afraid of giving ourselves to someone we might lose."
"When we're infants, we need others to survive. When we're dying, we need others to survive. But here's the secret. In between, we need others even more."
"[quoting W.H. Auden] "All I have is a voice - to undo the folded lie - the lie of authority - whose buildings grope the sky. No one exists alone. Hunger allows no choice to the citizen or police. We must love one another... or die."
"Morrie Schwartz: Usually in the morning, you know, before everybody gets up, I get so angry, so bitter. Just, what the hell did I ever do to deserve this? Where's the fairness? I cry and I rage. I mourn. And then I detach. It's over; that's it; all over. No more. I just look back on how I've been feeling and I say, well, that's self-pity and that's enough of that for today.
Mitch Albom: Just like that? You just stop?
Morrie Schwartz: Yeah, that's all the time I give it. Start thinking about the day ahead, you know? The people that are going to come to see me, the stories I'm going to hear, and all the stuff I'm going to learn."
""To spare people's feel..." I never have understood that. How can you spare someone's feelings by denying them?"
"Another wave says to him, "Why do you look so sad?" And the little waves says, "Because we're gonna crash. All us waves are gonna be nothin', don't ya understand?" And the other wave says, "*You* don't understand. You're not a wave. You're part of the ocean."
"Have you ever had a special teacher? One who taught you things you may not understand, but who never gives up? Who knows the really tough lessons take a lifetime to learn? The last class of my old professor's life took place once a week on Tuesdays. The subject was the meaning of life. The teaching goes on." - DirectorSam MendesStarsKevin SpaceyAnnette BeningThora BirchA sexually frustrated suburban father has a mid-life crisis after becoming infatuated with his daughter's best friend."It was one of those days when it's a minute away from snowing and there's this electricity in the air, you can almost hear it. Right? And this bag was just dancing with me. Like a little kid begging me to play with it. For fifteen minutes. That's the day I realized that there was this entire life behind things, and this incredibly benevolent force that wanted me to know there was no reason to be afraid, ever. Video's a poor excuse, I know. But it helps me remember... I need to remember... Sometimes there's so much beauty in the world, I feel like I can't take it, and my heart is just going to cave in."
"[narrating] I had always heard your entire life flashes in front of your eyes the second before you die. First of all, that one second isn't a second at all, it stretches on forever, like an ocean of time... For me, it was lying on my back at Boy Scout camp, watching falling stars... And yellow leaves, from the maple trees, that lined our street... Or my grandmother's hands, and the way her skin seemed like paper... And the first time I saw my cousin Tony's brand new Firebird... And Janie... And Janie... And... Carolyn. I guess I could be pretty pissed off about what happened to me... but it's hard to stay mad, when there's so much beauty in the world. Sometimes I feel like I'm seeing it all at once, and it's too much, my heart fills up like a balloon that's about to burst... And then I remember to relax, and stop trying to hold on to it, and then it flows through me like rain and I can't feel anything but gratitude for every single moment of my stupid little life... You have no idea what I'm talking about, I'm sure. But don't worry... you will someday."
"My name is Lester Burnham. This is my neighborhood; this is my street; this is my life. I am 42 years old; in less than a year I will be dead. Of course I don't know that yet, and in a way, I am dead already."
"Ricky Fitts: It's like God's looking right at you, just for a second, and if you're careful... you can look right back.
Jane Burnham: And what do you see?
Ricky Fitts: Beauty."
"Look at me, jerking off in the shower... This will be the high point of my day; it's all downhill from here."
"It helps me remember... I need to remember..."
"We were lucky to have found each other." - DirectorJeff KanewStarsHal HolbrookLouise FletcherPeter ArmstrongA man plots to kill his wife and children, seeking advice by disguising his plan as a fictional story for his business."That must be the loneliness that we all carry around."
"What were you expecting? Outrage? This in 1978 the youth care only about tennis and discos!"
"Life today is not all that different from the Holocaust."
"I WANT TO DIE"
"What is the point in killing myself? I am dead already."
"It is the times." - DirectorAndrew ParkinsonStarsGiles AspenEllen SoftleyDean SiplingA young man gets infected and gradually starts turning into a zombie."His soul was the last to go."
"This is no life." - DirectorSimon HeseraStarsMark BurnsBeatie EdneyFiona LewisBernie, a self-destructive alcoholic, is given watch over his niece Winnie. He tests the patience of the various people he knows and Winnie is often left on her own."You would do best to drop the affection. It won't stand up to time. You will hear rumours about me."
"Anxiety is universal."
"You can see my weakness." - DirectorCorrado FarinaStarsAdolfo CeliGeraldine HooperGiuliano EsperatiIn this allegory on capitalism, director of a known car corporation invites one of his employees to his country villa to give him the good news. He just got promoted. However, the old man is not what he seems and promotion has a price."Great men aren't born - they are made."
- DirectorBernard QueysanneStarsJacques SpiesserLudmila MikaëlA 25-year-old male student in Paris becomes indifferent to the world around him, and subsequently feels a strong sense of alienation and hopelessness."It is on a day like this one, a little later, a little earlier, that you discover, without surprise, that something is wrong, that you don't know how to live and that you never will. Something has broken. You no longer feel some thing which until then fortified you. The feeling of your existence, the impression of belonging to or being in the world, is starting to slip away from you. Your past, your present and your future merge into one. You are 25 years old, you have 29 teeth, three shirts and eight socks, 500 francs a month to live on, a few books you no longer read, a few records you no longer play. You don't want to remember anything else. Here you sit, and you only want to wait, just to wait until there's nothing left to wait. You go back to your room, you undress, you slip between the sheets, you turn out the light, you close your eyes. Now is the time when dream-women, too quickly undressed, crowd in around you, the time when you reread ad nauseam books you've a read a thousand times before, when you toss and turn for hours without getting to sleep. This is the hour when your eyes wide open in the darkness, you hand groping towards the foot of the narrow bed in search of an ashtray, matches, a last cigarette, you calmly measure the sticky extent of your unhappiness. Unhappiness did not swoop down on you, it insinuated itself almost ingratiatingly. It meticulously impregnated your life, your movements, the hours you keep, your room, it took possession of the cracks in the ceiling, of the lines in your face in the cracked mirror, of the pack of cards; it slipped furtively into the dripping tap on the landing, it echoes in sympathy with the chimes of each quarter-hour from the bell of Saint-Roch. How many times you have repeated the same amputated gesture, the same journey's that lead nowhere? All you have left to fall back on are your tuppeny-halfpenny boltholes, your idiotic patience, the thousand and one detours that always lead you back unfailingly to your starting point. All that counts is your solitude: whatever you do, wherever you go, nothing that you see has any importance, everything you do, you do in vain, nothing that seek is real. Solitude alone exists, every time you are confronted, every time you face yourself."
"It is a life without surprises. You sleep, you walk, you continue to live. Like a laboratory rat abandoned in its maze by some absent-minded scientist."
"The snare: the dangerous illusion of being impenetrable, of offering no purchase to the outside world, silently sliding, inaccessible, just two open eyes looking forward, perceiving everything, retaining nothing."
"You are just a murky shadow, a hard kernel of indifference, a neutral gaze avoiding the gaze of others."
"You are not dead and you are no wiser."
"Stop talking like a man in a dream."
"Your room is the center of the world." - DirectorDalton TrumboStarsTimothy BottomsKathy FieldsMarsha HuntDuring World War I, a patriotic young American is rendered blind, deaf, limbless, and mute by a horrific artillery shell attack. Trapped in what's left of his body, he desperately looks for a way to end his life."Hospital Offical: He won't wait for an answer. All he says is, "Kill me, kill me, kill me."
Third Doctor: Don't you have some message for him, Padre?
[Priest shakes his head and looks to the floor]
Third Doctor: You could at least tell him to put his faith in God, couldn't you?
Priest: I'll pray for him for the rest of my days. But I will not risk testing his faith against your stupidity.
Third Doctor: Well you're a hell of a priest, aren't you?
Priest: He's the product of your profession, not mine."
"I don't know whether I'm alive and dreaming or dead and remembering."
"Inside me, I'm screaming and yelling and howling like a trapped animal... and nobody pays any attention. If I had arms, I could kill myself. If I had legs, I could run away. If I had a voice, I could talk and be some kind of company for myself. I could yell for help, but nobody would help me."
"S.O.S. Help me."
"The way I am, Kareen, the way it is with me, you'll never grow old. Because I keep you right here in my mind. And in my heart. Just the way you were when I saw you last. So you see, with me, you can't get old. Your hair will always stay brown, your skin will always be fresh like rain. I won't let one little wrinkle mark your face. I'll keep you beside me, young and beautiful forever. Because of all the people in the world, only with me will you be safe from time."
"There's a game out there, and the stakes are high. And the guy who runs it figures the averages all day long and all night long. Once in a while he lets you steal a pot. But if you stay in the game long enough, you've got to lose. And once you've lost there's no way back, no way at all."
"Put your arms around me. I need to feel their warmth, to keep the chill of death away."
"What you need is a miracle." - DirectorJohn NewlandStarsAngie DickinsonDavid JanssenMariclare CostelloThe marriage of a wealthy, outwardly happy couple is threatened by the husband's alcoholism."He is not a bum."
- DirectorAlexander PayneStarsGeorge ClooneyShailene WoodleyAmara MillerA land baron tries to reconnect with his two daughters after his wife is seriously injured in a boating accident."Goodbye, Elizabeth. Goodbye, my love, my friend, my pain, my joy. Goodbye. Goodbye. Goodbye."
"What is it that makes the women in my life destroy themselves?" - DirectorMark PellingtonStarsRichard GereLaura LinneyDavid EigenbergA reporter is drawn to a small West Virginia town to investigate a series of strange events, including psychic visions and the appearance of bizarre entities."Two weeks ago, we were house hunting. One day you're just driving along in your car, and the universe just points at you and says, "Ah, there you are, a happy couple. I've been looking for you. I've been looking for you."
"John Klein: I think we can assume that these entities are more advanced than us. Why don't they just come right out and tell us what's on their minds?
Alexander Leek: You're more advanced than a cockroach, have you ever tried explaining yourself to one of them?"
"Mary Klein cannot be found by looking. You will see her in time."
"John Klein: What do you look like?
Indrid Cold: It depends on who is looking."
"Wake up, Number Thirty Seven."
"That's when I heard the voice. The same voice that I heard two nights ago. He said: "Do not be afraid. My name is Indrid Cold." - DirectorConstantin WernerStarsHaim AbramskyBeth GondekKen CypertJoey snaps when his girlfriend Laura dies. He takes her corpse from New York City to West Virginia. As she decomposes, he slips further into madness.
- DirectorJohn CarpenterStarsJeff BridgesKaren AllenCharles Martin SmithAn alien takes the form of a young Wisconsin widow's husband and makes her drive him to his departure point in Arizona. Distrustful government agents, along with a more ambivalent scientist, give pursuit in hopes of intercepting them."Environment: hostile"
"This body has a terrible emptiness." - DirectorDana Heinz PerryStarsEvan Scott PerryDana Heinz PerryHart PerryFilmmaker Dana Perry documents the life of her son, Evan, a 15-year-old who committed suicide."What happened to him?"
- DirectorDanny CarralesStarsDaniel KruseEmilie Jo TisdaleTerry JerniganA man induces cardiac arrest in order to have a near-death experience. His journey takes him to The Gates of Hell.