Echoes

“Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions, and can never pretend to any other office than to serve and obey them.”

“Wovon man nicht sprechen kann, darüber muss man schweigen.”

“Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.”

“On ne naît pas femme : on le devient.”

“One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.”

“Человек есть тайна. Её надо разгадать, и ежели будешь её разгадывать всю жизнь, то не говори, что потерял время. Я занимаюсь этой тайной, ибо хочу быть человеком.”

“Man is a mystery. If you spend your entire life trying to puzzle it out, do not say that you have wasted your time. I occupy myself with this mystery, because I want to be a man.”

“L’inferno dei viventi non è qualcosa che sarà; se ce n’è uno, è quello che è già qui, l’inferno che abitiamo tutti i giorni, che formiamo stando insieme.”

“The inferno of the living is not something that will be; if there is one, it is what is already here, the inferno where we live every day, that we form by being together.”

“Très vite dans ma vie il a été trop tard.”

“Very early in my life it was too late.”

“一切都是命运，一切都是烟云，一切都是没有结局的开始，一切都是稍纵即逝的追寻，一切欢乐都没有微笑，一切苦难都没有泪痕，一切语言都是重复，一切交往都是初逢。”

“All is fate, all is cloud, all is a beginning without an end, all is a fleeting search, all joy is without smiles, all suffering is without tears, all language is repetition, all encounters are first meetings.”

“En un beso, sabrás todo lo que he callado.”

“In one kiss, you'll know all I haven't said.”

“行到水穷处，坐看云起时。”

“I walk to the place where the water ends, / and sit watching the clouds as they rise.”

“I would rather be ignorant than knowledgeable of evils.”

“Tusind Ord vil ikke efterlade saa dybt et Indtryk som en Handling.”

“A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed.”

“Così è (se vi pare).”

“It is so, if you think so.”

“The moment we choose to love we begin to move against domination, against oppression.”

“Every single empire in its official discourse has said that it is not like all the others.”

“一个人至少拥有一个梦想，有一个理由去坚强。心若没有栖息的地方，到哪里都是在流浪。”

“A person must have at least one dream, one reason to be strong. If the heart has no place to rest, wherever you go is wandering.”

“We think too much and feel too little.”

“Have you ever noticed that anybody driving slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac?”

“You can't be that kid standing at the top of the waterslide, overthinking it. You have to go down the chute.”

“A wall is a very big weapon. It's one of the nastiest things you can hit someone with.”

“All art is erotic.”

“Choose only one master—Nature.”

“Every great architect is — necessarily — a great poet. He must be a great original interpreter of his time, his day, his age.”

“Une maison est une machine à habiter.”

“A house is a machine for living in.”

“I am not attracted to straight angles or to the straight line, hard and inflexible, created by man. I am attracted to free-flowing, sensual curves.”

“I want to take photographs that are like fossils of light and time.”

“I used to think I couldn't lose anyone if I photographed them enough. In fact, my pictures show me how much I've lost.”

“Black and white are the colors of photography. To me they symbolize the alternatives of hope and despair to which mankind is forever subjected.”

“There is a hidden agenda in the fragility of romance.”

“If you can design one thing, you can design everything.”

“It's through mistakes that you actually can grow. You have to get bad in order to get good.”

“How many roads must a man walk down before you call him a man?”

“I don't know where I'm going from here, but I promise it won't be boring.”

“Wenn du glaubst, dein Publikum zu langweilen, so spiele langsamer, nicht schneller.”

“If you think you are boring your audience, go slower not faster.”

“I'm a very selfish filmmaker. I make films for me. And then I share them with the audience.”

“I love to put the audience in a state of dreaming. I want people to come out of the movie theatre and feel like they need to readjust to reality.”

“我觉得电影不应该解释自己。人们需要自己去探索、去感受它在讲什么。”

“I feel that a movie shouldn't explain itself. People have to search, to feel what it's about.”

“My methods are really methods of working and thinking; this is why they have crept in everywhere anonymously.”

“I do not think there is any thrill that can go through the human heart like that felt by the inventor as he sees some creation of the brain unfolding to success.”

“What we observe is not nature itself, but nature exposed to our method of questioning.”

“The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.”

“Nothing in life is as important as you think it is, while you are thinking about it.”

“When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.”

“Radical simply means grasping things at the root.”

“Once social change begins, it cannot be reversed. You cannot uneducate the person who has learned to read.”

“If we could change ourselves, the tendencies in the world would also change. As a man changes his own nature, so does the attitude of the world change towards him.”

“Once you've met someone you never really forget them. It just takes a while for your memories to return.”

“Weakness is a great thing, and strength is nothing. When a man is just born, he is weak and flexible. When he dies, he is hard and insensitive.”

“I'm gonna make him an offer he can't refuse.”