"Nietzsche says that we will live the same life, over and over again. God - I'll have to sit through the Ice Capades again."
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Woody Allen quotes (page 8 of 41)
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"To love is to suffer. To avoid suffering one must not love. But then one suffers from not loving. Therefore, to love is to suffer. Not to love is to suffer."
"The prettiest women are almost always the most boring, and that is why some people feel there is no God."
"In formulating any philosophy the first consideration must always be: What can we know? That is, what can we be sure we know, or sure that we know we knew it, if indeed it is at all knowable. Or have we simply forgotten it and are too embarrassed to say anything? Descartes hinted at the problem when he wrote, 'My mind can never know my body, although it has become quite friendly with my legs."
"No, I don't think you're paranoid. I think you're the opposite of paranoid. I think you walk around with the insane delusion that people like you."
"I am plagued by doubts."
"Honey, you're the one who stopped sleeping with me, OK? It'll be a year come April 20th. I remember the date exactly, because it was Hitler's birthday"
"History is the same thing over and over again."
"I don't respond well to mellow, you know what I mean, I have a tendency to... if I get too mellow, I ripen and then rot."
"Time is nature's way of keeping everything from happening at once."
"Standing in a garage no more makes you a car than standing in a church makes you a Christian."
"The only love that lasts is unrequited love."
"I sold my memoirs of my love life to Parker Brothers and they are going to make a game out of it."
"Life is a concentration camp. You're stuck here and there's no way out and you can only rage impotently against your persecutors."
"The government is unresponsive to the needs of the little man. Under 5' 7", it is impossible to get your congressman on the phone."
"God is either cruel or incompetent."
"He was so depressed, he tried to commit suicide by inhaling next to an Armenian."
"My analyst warned me, but you were so beautiful I got another analyst."
"Skeptic that I was as an adolescent, I had recently come to believe in a Supreme Being after thumbing through a Victoria's Secret catalogue."
"Life is hard for insects. And don't think mice are having any fun either."