I wrote down in my notebooks (or posted in my blog). From Western movies I only got one or two lines from.

  • Somehow, silence seemed to connect us in a way that words never could.- Juli Baker (Flipped, 2010)
  • Things that move apart faster than light can't ever see one another becaues the light from one never catches up with the other. - Adam (2009)
  • I thought of that old joke, y'know, the, this... this guy goes to a psychiatrist and says, "Doc, uh, my brother's crazy; he thinks he's a chicken." And, uh, the doctor says, "Well, why don't you turn him in?" The guy says, "I would, but I need the eggs." Well, I guess that's pretty much now how I feel about relationships; y'know, they're totally irrational, and crazy, and absurd, and... but, uh, I guess we keep goin' through it because, uh, most of us... need the eggs. - Annie Hall (1977)
  • “Do we live in the physical world that we can touch, or do we live in the world that we create in our minds?” - My Sassy Girl (2008)
  • "You're 18, you don't know what you want. And you won't know what you want 'til you're 45, and even if you get it, you'll be too old to use it." - 10 Things I Hate About You (1999)
  • ‎"Maybe my life hasn't been so chaotic. It's just the world that is and the only real trap is getting attached to any of it. Ruin is a gift. Ruin is the road to transformation."

- Eat Pray Love (2010)

It's Kind of A Funny Story (2010)

  • Time felt different back then. Like there was more of it.
  • Sometimes I wish I had an easy answer for why I'm depressed. Like my father beat me, or I was sexually abused. But my problems are less dramatic than that.

Garden State (2004)

  • I don't know, it was the only thing I ever liked doing. Pretending to be someone else.
  • What do you do? You laugh, you know. I'm not saying I don't cry -- but, in between, I laugh, and I realize how silly it is to take anything too seriously. Plus, I look forward to a good cry. It feels pretty good.
  • That actually made me sadder than anything: the fact that I felt so numb.
  • It's like you feel homesick for a place that doesn't even exist.

Elizabethtown (2005)

  • I don't need an ice cream cone. [...] You know. "Here's a little something to make you happy, something sweet that melts in five minutes."
  • We are the substitute people.
  • I'm impossible to forget but I'm hard to remember.
  • I'm going to miss your lips. And everything attached to them.
  • Sadness is easier because it's surrender.

Up in the Air (2009)

  • "You're awfully isolated, the way you live." / "Isolated? I'm surrounded."
  • At a certain point, you stop with the deadlines. It can be a little counterproductive.
  • You're young. Right now you see settling as some sort of failure.
  • I can't stop thinking: What's the point?

Amelie (2001)

  • You mean she'd rather imagine herself relating to an absent person than build relationships with those around her?
  • Failure teaches us that life is but a draft -- a long rehearsal for a show that will never play.

The Art of Getting By (2011)

  • We live alone; we die alone. Everything else is just an illusion.
  • "That's pathetic." / "At least it's the truth."

Midnight in Paris (2011)

  • Inez: He works in a nostalgia shop. [...] / Paul: I don't know who buys those stuff, who'd want it? / Inez: Well, people who live in the past. People who think that their lives would be happier if they lived in an earlier time. / Paul: Y'know, nostalgia is denial -- denial of the painful present. / Inez: Oh, well Gil is a complete romantic. I mean, he would be more than happy living in a complete state of perpetual denial. / Paul: And the name for this fallacy is called 'Golden Age thinking' -- the erroneous notion that a different time period is better than the one one's living in. It's a flaw in the romantic imagination of those people who find it difficult to cope with the present.
  • The artist's job is not to succumb to despair but to find an antidote for the emptiness of existence.
  • Adriana, if you stay here though, and this becomes your present then pretty soon you'll start imagining another time was really your... You know, was really the golden time. Yeah, that's what the present is. It's a little unsatisfying because life's a little unsatisfying.
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