“Autumn Sonata” quotes
(1978)
Ingmar Bergman
directed this movie
in 1978
Title Autumn Sonata
Original title Höstsonaten
Year 1978
Director Ingmar Bergman
Genre Drama, Music
Original title Höstsonaten
Year 1978
Director Ingmar Bergman
Genre Drama, Music
All actors – Ingrid Bergman, Liv Ullmann, Lena Nyman, Halvar Björk, Marianne Aminoff, Arne Bang-Hansen, Gunnar Björnstrand, Erland Josephson, Georg Løkkeberg, Mimi Pollak, Linn Ullmann, Eva von Hanno, Knut Wigert
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“The mother's injuries are to be handed down to the daughter. The mother's failures are to be paid for by the daughter. The mother's unhappiness is to be the daughter's unhappiness. It's as if the umbilical cord had never been cut.”
“You managed to injure me for life, just as you are injured.”
“I'm seized by fear and see a horrible picture of myself. I have never grown up. My face and my body have aged. I acquire memories and experiences but inside all that I haven't even been born. I can't remember any faces not even my own.”
“You talk of my hatred. Your hatred was no less.”
“Sometimes, when I lie awake at night, I wonder whether I've lived at all. Is it the same for everybody? Do some people have a greater talent for living than others or do some people never live, but just exist?”
“You're shut up inside yourself and always standing your own light.”
“One thing I did understand: not a shred of the real me could be loved or accepted. I didn't dare to be myself even when I was alone because I hated what was my own.”
“You said my hair was too long and you had it cut short, it was hideous! Then you thought that I had crooked teeth, and you got me braces, I looked so grotesque! You would buy me books and I would read them and not understand them, and you would make me talk about them, and I would always be afraid that you would show up my stupidity.”
“There can be no forgiveness.”
“- Charlotte Andergast: You can't blame me entirely.
- Eva: You expect an exception for you. You've set up a sort of discount system with life but one day you'll see that your agreement is one-sided.”“All that was sensitive and delicate, you attacked. All that was alive, you tried to smother.”
“A sense of reality is a matter of talent. Most people lack that talent and maybe it's just as well.”
“Everything is possible and is done in the name of love and solicitude.”
“A mother and a daughter, what a terrible combination.”
“Chopin was emotional, but not mawkish. Feeling is very far from sentimentality, The preulde tells of pain, not reverie. It hurts, but he doesn't show it.”
“To me, man is a tremendous creation, an inconceivable thought. In man is everything, from the highest to lowest.”
“It's disgraceful how lazy I've been of life.”
“Maybe everything is already too late.”
“Are the daughter's miseries the mother's triumphs?”
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