Movie Quotes and My Life
I find that when I visit my grandfather, when I enter his house, the juices in my mind start flowing. I start thinking. I feel bad because at times I tune him out and blaze my own trail. I ignore whatever story he is telling me and just… sink. Here’s to a new depth.
“I can’t even stand the face I see in the mirror. You know, when you get old in life, things get taken from you. I mean… that’s part of life. But you only learn that when you start losing stuff.”
-Tony D’Amato, Any Given Sunday
“Existentialism is often discussed as if it were a philosophy of despair, but I think the truth is just the opposite. Sartre, once interviewed, said he never felt once minute of despair in his life. One thing that comes out from reading these guys is not a sense of anguish about life so much as a real kind of exuberance, of feeling on top of it, it’s like your life is yours to create.”
-Philosophy Professor, Waking Life
“And I've lost her all over again. I'm so sad that I don't have Kelly. But I'm so grateful that she was with me on that island. And I know what I have to do now. I gotta keep breathing. Because tomorrow the sun will rise. Who knows what the tide could bring?”
-Chuck Noland, Cast Away
I don’t feel I am where I should be in my life. I feel that I passed up on some great things in my life. Now that I crave them, I can never have them. I’ve seen my own world die around me. This deep seated regret is my own of course and that just kills me. I want to break every damn mirror around me sometimes. I look in I and all I see staring back at me are faces of people that mean the most to me shaking their heads, I see people smiling because they are so happy and I see faces of people I never got a chance to meet. I see my life dying metaphorically. I see people dying just the same. Dying in the sense that I can never be someone I would want to be in their life be it a better friend, a better cousin or something more.
I look around and I hear how people I know or knew are married, working, going to school or not going to school and I feel tiny. I feel like such a child. I feel as if I am not living my life. I feel that I should be somewhere else. I should be doing something. I should be with someone. The truth is I am where I am. I am going to school and not having someone in my life, someone I can devote myself to at this point in my life, makes it so empty, almost, if not practically, meaningless. Patience is a virtue. I’ve never been very virtuous. My life is still mine though? I mean, I can wake up tomorrow and I can… I can do something different. I can take a chance tomorrow. I can put in all my chips on the table. But I won’t. I never do. I don’t plan to. My life is mine. I just wish I could live it every once in a while. It’s no matter. I know exactly how my life works out. I am completely out of control.
The tide has come before. I chose not to even bother with what washed ashore because each tide looked exactly the same as the last. Many things have washed up and I decided to toss them back into the sea, away from me. Now I can never get them back. I feel fucked. I was given the opportunity of a lifetime. A chance at true happiness, a chance at love, a chance at a different life, a better one, a happier one and I just… threw it back in. It won’t come back. I am still on this island of mine. Maybe tomorrow will be different. I hope so.
This isn’t the result of a funk or of the top of a soapbox. This is just me. This is just how I feel at this instant.
“There's only one instant, and it's right now. And it's eternity.”
-Pinball Play Man, Waking Life
“I can’t even stand the face I see in the mirror. You know, when you get old in life, things get taken from you. I mean… that’s part of life. But you only learn that when you start losing stuff.”
-Tony D’Amato, Any Given Sunday
“Existentialism is often discussed as if it were a philosophy of despair, but I think the truth is just the opposite. Sartre, once interviewed, said he never felt once minute of despair in his life. One thing that comes out from reading these guys is not a sense of anguish about life so much as a real kind of exuberance, of feeling on top of it, it’s like your life is yours to create.”
-Philosophy Professor, Waking Life
“And I've lost her all over again. I'm so sad that I don't have Kelly. But I'm so grateful that she was with me on that island. And I know what I have to do now. I gotta keep breathing. Because tomorrow the sun will rise. Who knows what the tide could bring?”
-Chuck Noland, Cast Away
I don’t feel I am where I should be in my life. I feel that I passed up on some great things in my life. Now that I crave them, I can never have them. I’ve seen my own world die around me. This deep seated regret is my own of course and that just kills me. I want to break every damn mirror around me sometimes. I look in I and all I see staring back at me are faces of people that mean the most to me shaking their heads, I see people smiling because they are so happy and I see faces of people I never got a chance to meet. I see my life dying metaphorically. I see people dying just the same. Dying in the sense that I can never be someone I would want to be in their life be it a better friend, a better cousin or something more.
I look around and I hear how people I know or knew are married, working, going to school or not going to school and I feel tiny. I feel like such a child. I feel as if I am not living my life. I feel that I should be somewhere else. I should be doing something. I should be with someone. The truth is I am where I am. I am going to school and not having someone in my life, someone I can devote myself to at this point in my life, makes it so empty, almost, if not practically, meaningless. Patience is a virtue. I’ve never been very virtuous. My life is still mine though? I mean, I can wake up tomorrow and I can… I can do something different. I can take a chance tomorrow. I can put in all my chips on the table. But I won’t. I never do. I don’t plan to. My life is mine. I just wish I could live it every once in a while. It’s no matter. I know exactly how my life works out. I am completely out of control.
The tide has come before. I chose not to even bother with what washed ashore because each tide looked exactly the same as the last. Many things have washed up and I decided to toss them back into the sea, away from me. Now I can never get them back. I feel fucked. I was given the opportunity of a lifetime. A chance at true happiness, a chance at love, a chance at a different life, a better one, a happier one and I just… threw it back in. It won’t come back. I am still on this island of mine. Maybe tomorrow will be different. I hope so.
This isn’t the result of a funk or of the top of a soapbox. This is just me. This is just how I feel at this instant.
“There's only one instant, and it's right now. And it's eternity.”
-Pinball Play Man, Waking Life