💬 Quotes

"The lady doth protest too much, methinks."

"There's a divinity that shapes our ends, rough-hew them how we will."

"The film is not a theological tract; it is a visceral experience of the collision between the rational and the irrational."

"Horror cinema is a way of confronting the things we are too frightened to discuss in polite society."

"Friedkin’s approach was not to explain the evil, but to force the viewer to endure its presence."

"The Exorcist remains the ultimate religious horror movie precisely because it refuses to provide easy answers to the question of faith."

"By grounding the supernatural in the mundanity of modern medicine and scientific skepticism, the film makes the demonic manifestation all the more terrifying."

"It is a film about the disintegration of the family unit, with the devil acting as the catalyst for a much deeper, more secular rot."

"The stream of consciousness is the fundamental fact of psychology; thoughts do not come in chops or chunks, but flow like a river."

"Habit is the enormous flywheel of society, its most precious conservative agent."

"The greatest revolution of our generation is the discovery that human beings, by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives."

"My experience is what I agree to attend to. Only those items which I notice shape my mind—without selective interest, experience is an utter chaos."

"We do not tremble because we are sorry; we feel sorry because we tremble. We do not run because we are afraid; we are afraid because we run."

"The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook."

"Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, it can achieve."

"Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything."

"Every adversity, every failure, every heartbreak carries with it the seed of an equivalent or greater benefit."

"The way of success is the way of continuous pursuit of knowledge."

"The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail."

"No two minds ever come together without thereby creating a third, invisible, intangible force which may be likened to a third mind."