178 Quotes by Ingmar Bergman

"Death: When next we meet, the hour will strike for you and your friends.Antonius Block: And will you reveal your secrets?Death: I have no secrets.Antonius Block: So do you know nothing?Death: I am unknowing."

"The time between midnight and dawn when most people die, when sleep is deepest, when nightmares are most palatable. It is the hour when the sleepless are pursued by their sharpest anxieties, when ghosts and demons hold sway. The hour of the wolf is also the hour when most children are born."

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

"When I was a child, I imagined the soul to be a dragon, a shadow floating in the air like blue smoke—a huge winged creature, half bird, half fish. But inside the dragon, everything was red."

"Actually it deals ("as usual" I was about to say!) with Life, Love and Death. Because nothing in fact is more important. To occupy oneself with. To think of. To worry over. To be happy about. And so on."

"مرة أو مرتين في حياتي كلها روادتني فكرة الانتحار، وفي شبابي أقدمت على محاولة فاشلة، لكنني لم أنظر إليها بجدية. لقد كان فضولي عظيمًا وحبي للحياة قويًا وخوفي من الموت لا يتزعزع.ومع ذلك فإن موقفي من الحياة يفترض وجود سيطرة مستمرة ولائقة على العلاقة بالواقع والتخيلات والأحلام. وعندما كانت تتعطل هذه السيطرة –وهو أمر لم يحدث لي من قبل حتى في طفولتي المبكرة- كانت انظمتي تصاب بالخلل وتتعرض هويتي للخطر، فأسمع صوت أنيني يشبه كلب جريح، نهضت من الكرسي وكنت على وشك أن أُلقي بنفسي من النافذة."

"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."

"Everything is worth precisely as much as a belch, the difference being that a belch is more satisfying."

"I write scripts to serve as skeletons awaiting the flesh and sinew of images."

"I hope I never get so old I get religious."