Images Quotes

“I am living permanently in my dream, from which I make brief forays into reality.”
― Ingmar Bergman, Images: My Life in Film

“I have always had the ability to attach my demons to my chariot. And they have been forced to make themselves useful.”
― Ingmar Bergman, Images: My Life in Film

“وبطبيعة الأمور أصبحت السينما وسيلتي للتعبير. صرت أعبر عن نفسي بلغة لا تمر بطريق الكلام الذي أفتقر له, بالموسيقى التي لست متمكنا منها وبالرسم الذي أشعر نحوه ببرودة. فجأة صار لدي إمكانية للاتصال مع العالم المحيط بلغة تنتقل من الروح إلى الروح وبصور بيانية تفلت, بشكل سبق تقريبا, من سيطرة العقل.”
― Ingmar Bergman, Images: My Life in Film

“Here in my solitude, I have the feeling that I contain too much humanity. It oozes out of me like a broken tube of toothpaste; it doesn't want to stay within the confines of my body. A strange feeling of weight and volume. Soul volume perhaps, which rises like clouds of smoke and envelops my body.”
― Ingmar Bergman, Images: My Life in Film

“My parents spoke of piety, of love, and of humility. I have really tried hard. But as long as there was a God in my world, I couldn't even get close to my goals. My humility was not humble enough. My love remained nonetheless far less than the love of Christ or of the saints or even my own mother's love. And my piety was forever poisoned by grave doubts. Now that God is gone, I feel that all this is mine; piety toward life, humility before my meaningless fate, and love for the other children who are afraid, who are ill, who are cruel.”
― Ingmar Bergman, Images: My Life in Film

“I believe a human being carries his or her own holiness, which lies within the realm of the earth; there are no otherworldly explanations.”
― Ingmar Bergman, Images: My Life in Film