Through a Glass Darkly (film) Quotes

Through a Glass Darkly (film) is a TV show that was first aired in 1970 . Through a Glass Darkly completed its run in 1970.

It features Allan Ekelund as producer, Erik Nordgren in charge of musical score, and Sven Nykvist as head of cinematography.

Through a Glass Darkly (film) is recorded in Swedish and originally aired in Sweden. Each episode of Through a Glass Darkly (film) is 91 minutessfn Through a Glass Darkly (film) is distributed by Janus Films.

Through a Glass Darkly (film) Quotes

• (Fredrik) "Father, I'm scared. When I was hugging Karin in the boat, reality was revealed. Do you know what I mean?"
• (David) "I do."
• (Fredrik) "Reality was revealed, and I collapsed. It's like a dream. Anything can happen. Anything."
• (David) "I know."
• (Fredrik) "I can't live in this new world."
• (David) "Yes, you can. But you must have a support."
• (Fredrik) "What kind of support? You mean a God? Give me a proof of his existance. You can't."
• (David) "I can. But you gotta pay attention to what I say."
• (Fredrik) "Yes. I need to listen."
• (David) "I can only tell you a thought of my own hopes. It is to know that love exists for real in the human world."
• (Fredrik) "A sort of special love, I suppose?"
• (David) "All kinds of it. The bigger and the smaller, the most absurd one and the most sublime one. All kinds of love."
• (Fredrik) "What about the desire for love?"
• (David) "Desire and denying. Trust and distrust."
• (Fredrik) "Then love is the proof?"
• (David) "I don't know if love is the proof of God's existance or if it's God itself."
• (Fredrik) "To you, love and God are the same thing."
• (David) "That thought makes me feel less empty; Makes my desperation less worse."
• (Fredrik) "Go on, dad."
• (David) "All of a sudden, emptiness turns into abundance, and desperation turns into life. It's like a temporary death's sentence strike."
• (Fredrik) "Dad -- if it's like how you say it is, then God is all over Karin. We love her so much."
• (David) "Yes."
• (Fredrik) "Can't that help her?"
• (David) "I think so."

• (Fredrik) "I'm an artist."
• (Karin) "Artist?"
• (Fredrik) "Yes, Princess, a thoroughbred artist: a poet with no poems, a painter with no pictures, a musician with no music. I despise ready -- made art, the banal result of vulgar effort. My life is my work and dedicated to my love for you."

• (Martin) "You're hunting for themes. Your own daughter's mental illness. What a great bloody idea."

• (Karin) "It's so horrible to see your own confusion and understand it."

• (Fredrik) "Thanks, I can give myself all the pity I want."

• (Fredrik) "Papa spoke to me."

• (Martin) "You're empty but capable. And now you're trying to fill your void with Karin's extinction. But how will God fit into that? It must make him more inscrutable than ever."

• (Karin) "Funny, you always say and do the very right thing -- and it's always wrong."

• (David) "Virility means more than health."
• (Martin) "If Hemingway could, we can. Let's go."

• (David) "We draw a magic circle and shut out everything that doesn't agree with our secret games. Each time life breaks the circle, the games turn grey and ridiculous. Then we draw a new circle and build a new defense."
• (Karin) "Poor little daddy."
• (David) "Yes, poor little daddy, forced to live in reality."

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