💬 Quotes

"We are all damaged, in one way or another. We are all broken. But we can learn to live with our broken pieces."

"Wer ein Warum zum Leben hat, erträgt fast jedes Wie."

"Die letzte der menschlichen Freiheiten besteht in der Wahl der Einstellung zu den Dingen in einer gegebenen Lebenslage."

"Es kommt nicht darauf an, was wir vom Leben zu erwarten haben, sondern vielmehr darauf, was das Leben von uns erwartet."

"Was den Menschen ausmacht, ist nicht das, was er ist, sondern das, was er in seiner Freiheit aus sich macht."

"Der Mensch ist zu einer solchen Tat fähig, wie er auch zu einer solchen Tat fähig ist; er kann zum Schwein werden, er kann aber auch zum Heiligen werden."

"Call me Ishmael."

"Man kann dem Menschen alles nehmen, außer einem: die letzte der menschlichen Freiheiten – die Einstellung unter beliebigen Umständen wählen zu können, den eigenen Weg zu wählen."

"This above all: to thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man."

"To be, or not to be, that is the question: Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, or to take arms against a sea of troubles and by opposing end them."

"There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy."

"Madness in great ones must not unwatch'd go."

"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."