Al Forman Quotes

But still, I find the need to remind myself of the temporariness of a day, to reassure myself that I got through yesterday, I'll get through today.

I get out of the taxi and it's probably the only city which in reality looks better than on the postcards, New York.

Sometimes you can only feel something by its absence. By the empty spaces it leaves behind.

I know that all the magic kisses in the world probably couldn't have helped him today. But I would do anything to have been able to give him one.

Well, I wouldn't say that this experience had any influence on my decision to do this film about Andy, because Andy was apolitical. Andy was never political.

Forward momentum. That's my new motto. No regrets. And no going back.

Success lies, not in achieving what you aim at, but in aiming at what you ought to achieve, and pressing forward, sure of achievement here, or if not here, hereafter.

I needed to hate someone and you’re the one I love the most, so it fell on you.

There’s a difference between losing something you knew you had and losing something you discovered you had. One is a disappointment. The other feels like losing a piece of yourself.

Sometimes you make choices in life and sometimes choices make you.

Don't be scared...Women can handle the worst kind of pain. You'll find out one day.

I have a feeling that once you live through something like this, you become a little bit invincible.

I'll be your mess, you be mine That was the deal that we had signed

We can change in one day. We can fall in love in one day. Anything can happen in one day.

I'm so tired of missing things I don't have.

But the you who you are tonight is the same you I was in love with yesterday, the same you I’ll be in love with tomorrow.

So I left with Jean Claude and went to Paris, so when the Russians came to Prague, I was in Paris.

Memories are doing funny things to us.

There are so many things that demand to be said. Where did you go? Do you ever think about me? You've ruined me. Are you okay? But of course, I can't say any of that.

A day might just be twenty-four hours but sometimes getting through one seems as impossible as scaling Everest.

You were so busy trying to be my savior that you left me all alone.

And that's just it, isn't it? That's how we manage to survive the loss. Because love, it never dies, it never goes away, it never fades, so long as you hang on to it.

Sometimes the best way to find out what you’re supposed to do is by doing the thing you’re not supposed to do.

We kiss again. This next kiss is the kind that breaks open the sky. It steals my breath and gives it back. It shows me that every other kiss I've had in my life has been wrong.

And something tells me if it matters, maybe it shouldn't be easy.

Are you happy in your misery? Resting peaceful in desolation? It’s the final tie that binds us The sole source of my consolation" “blue

Her eyes flutter up to meet mine. “Are you hungry?”she asks. Am I ever.

You don’t share me. You own me.

The line between true self and feigned self is blurred on all sides. Which I think is a rather handy metaphor for falling in love.

All relationships are tough. Just like with music, sometimes you have harmony and other times you have cacophony.

Losing me will hurt; it will be the kind of pain that won't feel real at first, and when it does, it will take her breath away.

I don't know who I am. Or maybe I do know who I am and I just don't want to be her anymore.

First you inspect me Then you dissect me Then you reject me I wait for the day That you'll resurrect me "Animate

Therefore, whether the desire for prayer is on you or not, get to your closet at the set time; shut yourself in with God; wait upon Him; seek His face; realize Him; pray.

It's quiet now. So quiet that can almost hear other people's dreams.

Neither sleet nor rain nor a half inch of snow will compel me to dress like a lumberjack.

I am adrenaline slammed into inertia: a fast car stuck in traffic.

You know what happened, you know, in 1938: France, England, you know, just sold out Czechoslovakia to Hitler.

Love can make you immortal

Love is not something you protect. It’s something you risk.

Girlfriend is such a stupid word. I couldn't stand calling her that. So, we had to get married, so I could call her 'wife.

I'm surrounded by people and feel alone.

Life is a big fat gigantic stinking mess, that's the beauty of it, too.

I might have been eleven years old and a little socially immature, but I recognized a gauntlet being thrown down when I saw it, and I had no choice but to take it up.

People must not think that all bad in man which is unleashed, the moment you impose censorship disappears from man.

Letting go. Everyone talks about it like it's the easiest thing. Unfurl your fingers one by one until your hand is open.

I understood all that in my head, but I still didn‟t believe it in my heart.

If you can't trust me with a choice, how can you trust me with a child?

I realize now that dying is easy. Living is hard.

Quitting’s not hard. Deciding to quit is hard. Once you make that mental leap, the rest is easy.” “Really? Was that how you quit me?