Robert Bresson Quotes

Someone may offer you a freshly caught whole large fish, like a salmon or striped bass. Don't panic - take it!

I'll say anything to live.

In war time you will do almost anything. You just have to.

Desperate maladies require desperate remedies.

If you want to catch fish, don’t throw your net into the bathtub.

I was always rather nasty. I was willing to be friends with the Devil, just to cross the bridge.

I would have given him everything. I would have pulled down planets to make our life work.

For a desperate disease a desperate cure.

The limits of prudence: one cannot jump out of a burning building gradually.

I would consent to have a limb amputated to recover my spirits

To save my son, I would plot with the devil himself.

Fish," he said, "I love you and respect you very much. But I will kill you dead before this day ends.

Cormac interrupted. 'Maybe I oughta shoot you both, put you both out of your misery.

Fish," the old man said. "Fish, you are going to have to die anyway. Do you have to kill me too?

If our kids were hungry, we'd step into slavery.

There is no working middle course in wartime.

I kissed thee ere I killed thee. No way but this, Killing myself, to die upon a kiss.

When you've tried all the salves in the world and they don't work, you start thinking about fire

When if or chance or hunger's powerful sway Directs the roving trout this fatal way, He greedily sucks in the twining bait, And tugs and nibbles the fallacious meat. Now, happy fisherman; now twitch the line! How thy rod bends! behold, the prize is thine!

One man's life or death were but a small price to pay for the acquirement of the knowledge which I sought

You can recover from the writing malady only by falling mortally ill and dying.

There is no one as dangerous as he or she who has nothing to lose.

It may be that the life I desire for her no longer even exists, yet I know what she does not. That there is nothing to lose.