Why

The two most important days in your life are the day you are born

and the day you find out why.

Mark Twain

Happy Days

Driver: Can I talk to you? I won’t keep you long.

I have to go somewhere and I don’t think I can come back. 

But I just wanted you to know, getting to be around you and Benicio

was the best thing that ever happened to me.

Drive (2011)

Cats

The only escape from the miseries of life

are music and cats.

Albert Schweitzer

Children

I'd always wanted children, but I just never met the guy.

So I decided to go to a sperm bank.

I started trying when I was 42, and I had her when I was 45.

People always ask me if it's hard being a single mother.

I say: "Yes. But not as hard as it would be if I didn't have her".

Humans of New York, 2015

There Are Still a Few Men Who Love Desperately (4)

Valmont: I want you somehow...somehow...

to get to see Madame de Tourvel.

I understand she is very ill.

That is why this is most important to me.

I want you to tell her that I cannot explain why I broke with her as I did.

But that since then, my life has been worth nothing.

I pushed the blade in deeper than you just have my boy...

and now I need you to help me withdraw it.

Tell her it is lucky for her that I have gone...

and I am glad not to have to live without her.

Tell her, her love was the only real happiness that I have ever known.

Will you do that for me?

Dangerous Liaisons (1988)

Lost In Translation

Lösch mir die Augen aus: ich kann dich sehn,
wirf mir die Ohren zu: ich kann dich hören,
und ohne Füße kann ich zu dir gehen,
und ohne Mund noch kann ich dich beschwören.
Brich mir die Arme ab, ich fasse dich
mit meinem Herzen wie mit einer Hand,
halt mir das Herz zu, und mein Hirn wird schlagen,
und wirfst du in mein Hirn den Brand,
so werd ich dich auf meinem Blute tragen.

Rainer Maria Rilke

Garbage

Love is everywhere.

That’s why it is so simple.

You only have to wait and let the garbage pass by.

 Lisbon, 11.15pm



For Real

It is a risk to love.

What if it doesn't work out?

Ah, but what if it does!

Peter McWilliams

Common

Noah: I am nothing special;

just a common man with common thoughts, and I've led a common life.

There are no momuments dedicated to me and my name will soon be forgotten.

But in one respect I have succeeded as gloriously as anyone who's ever lived;

I've loved another with all my heart and soul;

and to me, this has always been enough.

The Notebook

Enough

I have loved and I have been loved.
That is enough.

Lamartine

Butterfly on a Wheel (2)

Westley: Can you move at all?

Buttercup: Move? You're alive! If you want I can fly!

The Princess Bride (1987)

There are still a few men who love desperately (3)

Don Juan: There are only four questions of value in life, Don Octavio.

What is sacred?

Of what is the spirit made?

What is worth living for,

and what is worth dying for?

The answer to each is the same: only love.

Don Juan DeMarco

There are still a few men who love desperately (2)

Do you believe in destiny?

That even the powers of time can be altered for a single purpose?

That the luckiest man who walks on this earth

is the one who finds... true love?

Dracula (1992)

Butterfly on a Wheel

Silver and gold and it's growing cold,

Autumn leaves lay as thick as thieves
Shivers down your spine chill you to the bone,

'Cos the mandolin wind is the melody that turns your heart to stone
The heat of your breath carving shadows on the mist
Every angel has the wish that she's never been kissed
A broken dream haunting in your sleep
And hiding in your smile a secret you must keep,

love cuts you deep
Love breaks the wings of a butterfly on a wheel
Love breaks the wings of a butterfly on a wheel

The Mission – Butterfly on a wheel

There are still a few men who love desperately

"Catherine Earnshaw, may you not rest as long as I am living!
You said I killed you--haunt me, then!
The murdered do haunt their murderers.
I believe--I know that ghosts have wandered on earth.
Be with me always--take any form--drive me mad!
Only do not leave me in this abyss, where I cannot find you!
Oh God! It is unutterable! I cannot live without my life!
I cannot live without my soul!"
Emily Brontë - Wuthering Heights