“Everybody is supposed to be quiet after a massacre, and it always is, except for the birds.”
- Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse Five
“His dislike of mankind, of the mass of mankind, amounted almost to an illness.”
- D.H. Lawrence, Women in Love
“I want to confess as best I can, but my heart is void. The void is a mirror. I see my face and feel loathing and horror. My indifference to man has shut me out. I live now in a world of ghosts, a prisoner in my dreams.”
- Ingmar Bergman, The Seventh Seal
“I had a dream. I was walking a beautiful street. On one side were white buildings with columns. On the other side, a park. And under the trees along the street was a dark green band. Then I came to a high wall, covered completely by roses. A plane came and set fire to the roses. It was not such a bad thing, since it was so beautiful. I looked into the water. How the roses were burning.”
- Ingmar Bergman, Shame
“It takes a great deal of courage to see the world in all its tainted glory, and still to love it.”
- Oscar Wilde, An Ideal Husband
