28 Thought-Provoking Ingmar Bergman Quotes That Are Sure To Cast Their Spell

Only someone who is well prepared has the opportunity to improvise.

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Film as dream, film as music. No art passes our conscience in the way film does, and goes directly to our feelings, deep down into the dark rooms of our souls.

Art Music

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I hope I never get so old I get religious.

Never Hope I

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I'm planning, you see, to try to confine myself to the truth. That's hard for an old, inveterate fantasy martyr and liar who has never hesitated to give truth the form he felt the occasion demanded.

You Never

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Death: Do you never stop questioning? Antonius Block: No. I never stop.

You Never I

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Faith is a torment, did you know that? It is like loving someone who is out there in the darkness but never appears, no matter how loudly you call.

You Never Like

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To feel. To trust the feeling. I long for that

I

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We make each other alive; it doesn't make a difference if it hurts.

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I am living permanently in my dream, from which I make brief forays into reality.

Living I

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I have always had the ability to attach my demons to my chariot. And they have been forced to make themselves useful.

I

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Everyone likes happiness, no one likes pain. But you can't have a rainbow without a little rain.

You Happiness

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Occasionally I sense an insane wail deep down in the pit, the echo alone reaching me, striking without warning, a child weeping uninhibitedly, imprisoned forever.

Me Alone I

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One of ennui's most terribel components is the overwhelming feeling of ennui that comes over you whenever you try to explain it.

You

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DESIREE: Don't forget, Madame, that love is a perpetual juggling of three balls. Their names are heart, word and sex. How easily these three balls can be juggled, and how easily one of them can be dropped.

Love Heart

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One has to manage alone as best one can. (Karin Bergman)

Alone

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Reality is perhaps not at all what I imagine. Perhaps it doesn't exist, in fact. Perhaps it only exists as a longing.

I

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Only he who is well prepared has any opportunity to improvise.

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Necessary illusions enable us to live.

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It's so horrible to see your own confusion and understand it.

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One will probably have to manage alone as best one can. (Karin Bergman)

Alone Will

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You never know when I'm lying. So it would be more practical to believe what I say -Pauline in "In the Presence of a Clown

You Never Believe I

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Here, in my solitude, I have the feeling that I contain too much humanity.

I

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They said you were mentally healthy, but your madness is the worst

You

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Every inflection and every gesture a lie, every smile a grimace.

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We're thankful for the horrors we are used to. The unknown ones are worst

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I would have been happier if I'd been anonymous.

I

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