the-dionysian-mysteries

[the-dionysian-mysteries]

Conor: Your stories never made sense to me.

The Monster: Because humans are complicated beasts. You believe comforting lies, while knowing full well the painful truth that makes those lies necessary. In the end, Conor, it is not important what you think. It is only important what you do.

Conor: So what do I do?

The Monster: What you did just now. You speak the truth.

Conor: That's all?

The Monster: You think it's easy? You were willing to die rather than speak it.

- A Monster Calls (2016)

[the-dionysian-mysteries]

“ You want to know how you can tell if you're meant to be with someone? Just sit and have a conversation, some people when you talk to them, its like trying to listen to classical music on a radio with no antenna. You can push that dial back and forth all you want, but you only get the static. But when you're meant to be with someone, and they truly are the one, you just sit, start talking and a Beethoven sonata will begin to play “ 

- The Perfect Date (2019)

[the-dionysian-mysteries]

“ There are no more, one mores. I met you when everything was new and exiting and the possibilities of the world seemed endless. And they still are, for you, for me, but not for us. Somewhere between then and now, here and there, I guess we didn’t just grow apart, we grew up. When something breaks, and the pieces are big enough, you can fix it. I guess sometimes things don’t break, they shatter, but when you let the light in, shattered glass will glitter. “

- Someone Great (2019)

[the-dionysian-mysteries]

“You mean she would rather imagine herself relating to an absent person than build relationships with those around her? “

- Amélie (2001)

[the-dionysian-mysteries]

“ We're gonna die. That's a thought. Everybody dies. I'm sorry if this makes me weird or you don't understand, but I wish I was dead again. “

- Swiss Army Man (2016)

[the-dionysian-mysteries]

“ I think I'm sick, and I don't know if my ailment has a name. It's just me sitting and staring at the internet or the television for long periods of time, interspersed by trying to not do that and then lying about what I've been doing. And then I'll get so excited about something that the excitement overwhelms me and I can't sleep or do anything and I just am in love with everything but can't figure out how to make myself work in the world. “

- Mistress America (2015)

[the-dionysian-mysteries]

“ Cleo: I like being dead. “

- Roma (2018)

[the-dionysian-mysteries]

“Jasper: So, the Human Project is havin' this dinner and all the wisest men in the world are there...

Theo: Human Project, why do people believe this crap? You know even if these people existed with these facilities in these secret locations, Even if they discovered the cure for infertility, doesn't matter! Too late. World went to shit. Know what? It was too late before the infertility thing happened, for fuck's sake.”

- Children of Men (2006)

[the-dionysian-mysteries]

" Maybe God made me a painter for people who aren't born yet."

- At Eternity's Gate (2018) 

[the-dionysian-mysteries]

" I would like to not be a great disappointment "

- Unicorn store (2019)

[the-dionysian-mysteries]

"I am not a shirker, a scrounger, a beggar, nor a thief. "I'm not a National Insurance Number or blip on a screen. "I paid my dues, never a penny short, and proud to do so. "I don't tug the forelock, but look my neighbour in the eye and help him if I can. "I don't accept or seek charity. "My name is Daniel Blake. I am a man, not a dog. "As such, I demand my rights. "I demand you treat me with respect. "I, Daniel Blake, am a citizen, "nothing more and nothing less."

- I, Daniel Blake (2016)

[the-dionysian-mysteries]

" It’s that thing when you’re with someone and you love them and they know it and they love you and you know it but it’s a party and you’re both talking to other people and you’re laughing and shining and you look across the room and catch each other’s eyes. But not because you’re possessive, or it’s precisely sexual, but because that is your person in this life and it’s funny and sad but only because this life will end and it’s this secret world that exists right there. In public. Unnoticed. That no one else knows about. It’s sort of like how they say that other dimensions exist all around us but we don’t have the ability to perceive them. That’s what I want out of a relationship. Or just life, I guess. "

- Frances Ha (2012)

[the-dionysian-mysteries]

“Never mistranslate!”

“Translations are sacred.”

-Okja (2017)

[the-dionysian-mysteries]

“ But he never believed in anything except Charlie Kane. He never had a conviction except Charlie Kane in his life. I suppose he died without one. It must have been pretty unpleasant. Of course, a lot of us check out without having any special convictions about death, but we do know what we believe in, we do believe in something. “

Jedediah Leland -  Citizen Kane (1941)