Woody Allen Quotes About Universe

Quotes about: Universe

• I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way around Chinatown.

  Woody Allen

  Funny, Humor, Science

• Once munching has begun, Schopenhauer held, the human will cannot resist further munching, and the result is a universe with crumbs over everything.

  Woody Allen

  Crumbs, Results, Humans

  Woody Allen (2007). “Mere Anarchy”, Random House Incorporated

• [The universe is] haphazard, morally neutral, and unimaginably violent.

  Woody Allen

  Violent, Haphazard, Universe

  "September", 1987.

• Astronomers say the universe is finite, which is a comforting thought for those people who can't remember where they leave things.

  Woody Allen

  Science, People, Comforting

• The universe is merely a fleeting idea in God's mind -- a pretty uncomfortable thought, particularly if you've just made a down payment on a house.

  Woody Allen

  Funny, Laughter, Ideas

  Woody Allen (2007). “The Insanity Defense: The Complete Prose”, Random House Incorporated

• Events unfold so unpredictably, so unfairly, human happiness does not seem to be included in the design of creation. It is only we, with our capacity to love that give meaning to the indifferent universe. And yet, most human beings seem to have the ability to keep trying and even try to find joy from simple things, like their family, their work, and from the hope that future generations might understand more.

  Woody Allen

  Simple, Capacity To Love, Giving

• I'm really impotent against the overwhelming bleakness of the universe and the only thing I can do is my little gift [filmmaking] and do it the best I can, [...] which is cold comfort.

  Woody Allen

  Comfort, Littles, Cold

  "Woody Allen's World: Whatever Works". Interview with Robert E. Lauder, www.commonwealmagazine.org. April 15, 2010.

• You can be distracted by your love life, by the baseball game, movies, by the nonsense. "Can I get my kid into this private school? Can I get this girl to go out with me Saturday night? Am I going to get the promotion in my office?" All this stuff, but in the end the universe burns out. So I think it's completely meaningless.

  Woody Allen

  Girl, Baseball, School

• What do I dislike about death? Must be the hours.

  Woody Allen

  Hours, Dislike, Universe

• I think there is too much wrong with the world to ever get too relaxed and happy. The more natural state, and the better one, I think, is one of some anxiety and tension over man's plight in this mysterious universe.

  Woody Allen

  Men, Thinking, Mysterious Universe

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

• Let's say there was no terrorism whatsoever and we were all very nice to one another and we were all kind, we still would be faced with an extremely cruel and hostile universe and existence and so I'm a great pessimist and I feel that it's impossible really to be happy, and that the best you can hope for is to be distracted.

  Woody Allen

  Nice, Would Be, Impossible

  Interview with Geoff Andrew, www.theguardian.com. September 27, 2001.

• I feel that humor, just like Fred Astaire dance numbers or these lightweight musicals, gives you a little oasis. You are in this horrible world and for an hour and a half you duck into a dark room and it's air-conditioned and the sun is not blinding you and you leave the terror of the universe behind and you are completely transported into an escapist situation. The women are beautiful, the men are witty and heroic, nobody has terrible problems and this is a delightful escapist thing, and you leave the theater refreshed.

  Woody Allen

  Beautiful, Witty, Dark

  Source: www.commonwealmagazine.org

• I think, on both sides of the camera or the novel: Distraction. I'm obsessed with: Can I get this actress or my third act to work? I'm distracted. I'm interested in that so I don't sit home and think, "Gee, life is meaningless. We're all going to die. The universe is pulling apart at breakneck speed."

  Woody Allen

  Home, Thinking, Sides

  "Filmmaking Woody Allen's way". Interview, www.stuff.co.nz. June 25, 2012.

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