memento mori

Doctor's Wife: The only thing more terrifying than blindness is being the only one who can see.  Blindness (2008) Julie Vignon: Now I have only one thing left to do: nothing. I don't want any belongings, any memories. No friends, no love. Those are all traps.  Three Colors: Blue (1993) Justine: You want to meet on the terrace, and sip wine, the three of us?   Claire: It would make me happy.   Justine: Do you know what I think of your plan?  Claire: No. I was hoping that you might like it.  Justine: I think it's a piece of shit.  Claire: Please, Justine. I just want it to be nice...  Justine: Nice? Why don't we meet on the fucking toilet?  Claire: Fine, then - let's not...  Justine: You're damn right let's not!  Claire: I really hate you sometimes...  Melancholia (2011)

Queen Elizabeth: I TOO can command the wind sir! I have a hurricane in me that will strip Spain bare if you dare to try me!  Elizabeth: The Golden Age (2007) Benjamin Button: It's a funny thing about comin' home. Looks the same, smells the same, feels the same. You'll realize what's changed is you.  The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008) April Wheeler: If being crazy means living life as if it matters, then I don't mind being completely insane.  Revolutionary Road (2008) Christine Collins: He's not my son!  Capt. J.J. Jones: Why are you doing this, Mrs. Collins? Why are you doing this? You seem perfectly capable of taking care of the boy. Your job pays you enough to attend to his personal needs, so I don't understand why you're running away from your responsibilities as a mother.  Christine Collins: I am not running away from anything! Least of all my responsibilities! I am even taking care of that boy right now, bec...

Sister Alma: If she won't speak or move because she decides not to, which it must be if she isn't ill, then it shows that she is mentally very strong. I might not be equal to it.   (Persona, 1966, Ingmar Bergman)   Selma: You like the movies, don't you?  Bill Houston: I love the movies. I just love the musicals.  Selma: But isn't it annoying when they do the last song in the films?  Bill Houston: Why?  Selma: Because you just know when it goes really big... and the camera goes like out of the roof... and you just know it's going to end. I hate that. I would leave just after the next to last song... and the film would just go on forever. (Dancer in the Dark, 2000, Lars Von Trier) George: It takes time in the morning for me to become George, time to adjust to what is expected of George and how he is to behave. By the time I have dressed and put the final layer of polish on the now slightly stiff but quite perfect George I know fully what part I'...

[ HAL's shutdown ]  HAL: I'm afraid. I'm afraid, Dave. Dave, my mind is going. I can feel it. I can feel it. My mind is going. There is no question about it. I can feel it. I can feel it. I can feel it. I'm a... fraid. Good afternoon, gentlemen. I am a HAL 9000 computer. I became operational at the H.A.L. plant in Urbana, Illinois on the 12th of January 1992. My instructor was Mr. Langley, and he taught me to sing a song. If you'd like to hear it I can sing it for you.  Dave Bowman: Yes, I'd like to hear it, HAL. Sing it for me.  HAL: It's called "Daisy."  [ sings while slowing down ]  HAL: Daisy, Daisy, give me your answer do. I'm half crazy all for the love of you. It won't be a stylish marriage, I can't afford a carriage. But you'll look sweet upon the seat of a bicycle built for two.  (2001: A Space Oddissey, 1968) " Suddenly, I viddied what I had to do, and what I had wanted to do, and that was to do myself in; ...

"Millions of years of evolution, right? Right? Men have to stick it in every place they can, but for women... women it is just about security and commitment and whatever the fuck else!" , Alice Harford - Eyes Wide Shut (1999) "Whether by knife or whether by gun, losing your life can sometimes be fun.", Paul - Funny Games (1997; 2007) "This is my right; it is the right of every human being. I choose not the suffocating anesthetic of the suburbs, but the violent jolt of the Capital, that is my choice. The meanest patient, yes, even the very lowest is allowed some say in the matter of her own prescription. Thereby she defines her humanity. I wish, for your sake, Leonard, I could be happy in this quietness.  [ pause ]  But if it is a choice between Richmond and death, I choose death." , Virginia Woolf - The Hours (2002) "Dear Leonard. To look life in the face, always, to look life in the face and to know it for what it is. At last to know it, to...

"Do you know what people did in the old days when they had secrets they didn't want to share? They'd climb a moutain, find a tree, carve a hole in it, whisper the secret into the hole and cover it up with mud. That way, nobody else would ever learn the secret...", Tak - 2046 (2004) "I will be dying and so will you, and so will everyone here. That's what I want to explore. We're all hurtling towards death, yet here we are for the moment, alive. Each of us knowing we're going to die, each of us secretly believing we won't.", Caden Cotard   - Synecdoche, New York (2008) [ voiceover ] "Do I have an original thought in my head? My bald head. Maybe if I were happier, my hair wouldn't be falling out. Life is short. I need to make the most of it. Today is the first day of the rest of my life. I'm a walking cliché. I really need to go to the doctor and have my leg checked. There's something wrong. A bump. The dentist calle...