Ingmar Bergman Quotes

The individualists stare into each other's eyes and yet deny each other's existence. We walk in circles, so limited by our own anxieties that we can no longer distinguish between true and false, between the gangster's whim and the purest ideal.

I worry too much.

Perhaps not being very self-aware in the past masked depression. I think I was confused. I think I was immature. I think I probably was quite depressed.

Being slightly paranoid is like being slightly pregnant - it tends to get worse.

One of the definitions of sanity is the ability to tell real from unreal. Soon we'll need a new definition.

A question that sometimes drives me hazy: am I or are the others crazy?

I think that what people imagine they're going through is much worse than what they are going through.

I think so much about everything. I'm obsessive.

If there is something to worry about, my mind has a tendency to worry about it. That can cut two ways. It can really keep you on the ball, but if you worry about every little thing, it's not a good use of time and energy.

You can't 'work through worry and fear rationally,' because fear isn't rational!

Paranoia can be such a powerful hallucinogen if you're not careful - but it's great to kind of recognize it as that.

I kind of want everyone to think I'm a crazy person.

All worry is fear-based.

The neurotic longs to touch bottom, so at least he won't have that to worry about anymore.

Belief and delusion are incestuous siblings.

Do I walk? Have I feet still? I raise my eyes, I let them move round, and turn myself with them, one circle, one circle, and I stand in the midst. All is as usual. Only the Militiaman Stanislaus Katczinsky has died. Then I know nothing more.

Sometimes I worry that I've lost the plot My twitching muscles tease my flippant thoughts I never really dreamed of heaven much Until we put him in the ground. There is nothing as lucky, as easy, or free

And yet still I worried. I like being a person. I wanted to keep at it. Worry is yet another side effect of dying.

Zaphod felt he was teetering on the edge of madness and wondered if he shouldn't just jump over and have done with it.

Anxiety is the mark of spiritual insecurity.

The neurotic circles ceaselessly above a fogged-in airport.

Charlie Brown: "Life is just too much for me... I've been confused right from the day I was born... I think the whole trouble is that we're thrown into life too fast... We're not really prepared..." Linus: "What did you want... A chance to warm up first?"

Worrying, obsessing, and controlling are illusions. They are tricks we play on ourselves.

Smart people understand that there is no such thing as paranoia. It is just another mask for ignorance.

There is no actual stress or anxiety in the world, your thoughts create these false beliefs.