01c. 1935 ADTo love is to suffer. To avoid suffering one must not love. But then one suffers from not loving. Therefore, to love is to suffer; not to love is to suffer; to suffer is to suffer. To be happy is to love. To be happy, then, is to suffer, but suffering makes one unhappy. Therefore, to be happy one must love or love to suffer or suffer from too much happiness.Woody Allen / quote ↗
02c. 1935 ADSex without love is a meaningless experience, but as far as meaningless experiences go its pretty damn good.Woody Allen / quote ↗
07c. 1935 ADI feel that life is divided into the horrible and the miserable. That's the two categories. The horrible are like, I don't know, terminal cases, you know, and blind people, crippled. I don't know how they get through life. It's amazing to me. And the miserable is everyone else. So you should be thankful that you're miserable, because that's very lucky, to be miserable.Woody Allen / quote ↗
08c. 1935 ADLife is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon.Woody Allen / quote ↗
10c. 1935 ADThere's an old joke - um... two elderly women are at a Catskill mountain resort, and one of 'em says, "Boy, the food at this place is really terrible." The other one says, "Yeah, I know; and such small portions." Well, that's essentially how I feel about life - full of loneliness, and misery, and suffering, and unhappiness, and it's all over much too quickly.Woody Allen / quote ↗
12c. 1935 ADAll people know the same truth. Our lives consist of how we choose to distort it.Woody Allen / quote ↗
16c. 1935 ADI just can't listen to any more Wagner, you know...I'm starting to get the urge to conquer Poland.Woody Allen / quote ↗
17c. 1935 ADI took a test in Existentialism. I left all the answers blank and got 100.Woody Allen / quote ↗
18c. 1935 ADYou can live to be a hundred if you give up all the things that make you want to live to be a hundred.Woody Allen / quote ↗
19c. 1935 ADI did not marry the first girl that I fell in love with, because there was a tremendous religious conflict, at the time. She was an atheist, and I was an agnostic.Woody Allen / quote ↗
21c. 1935 ADIf Jesus came back and saw what was being done in his name, he'd never stop throwing up.Woody Allen / quote ↗
24c. 1935 ADHow can I believe in God when just last week I got my tongue caught in the roller of an electric typewriter?Woody Allen / quote ↗
