Woody Allen Love Quotes and Sayings

Woody Allen Love Quotes and Sayings

#1 A Midsummer Night’s Sex Comedy, 1982

1. Sex alleviates tension. Love causes it.

#2 Hannah and Her Sisters, 1986

2. Maybe the poets are right. Maybe love is the only answer.

#3 Love and Death, 1975

3. To love is to suffer. To avoid suffering, one must not love. But, then one suffers from not loving. Therefore, to love is to suffer, not to love is to suffer, to suffer is to suffer. To be happy is to love, to be happy, then, is to suffer, but suffering makes one unhappy, therefore, to be unhappy one must love, or love to suffer, or suffer from too much happiness — I hope you’re getting this down.

#4 New York Times article “Everything You Wanted to Know About Woody Allen at 40” by Mel Gussow, 1 December 1975 [S]

4. Love is the answer. But while you’re waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good questions.

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Excerpt from Wikipedia: Woody Allen (born Allen Stewart Konigsberg; December 1, 1935) is an American screenwriter, film director, actor, comedian, writer, musician, and playwright.
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Sayings by Woody Allen

#1-2 New York Times article “Everything You Wanted to Know About Woody Allen at 40” by Mel Gussow, 1 December 1975

1. On bisexuality: It immediately doubles your chances for a date on Saturday night.

2. The difference between sex and death is, with death you can do it alone and nobody’s going to make fun of you.

#3 Hannah and Her Sisters, 1986

3. …I should stop ruining my life searching for answers I’m never gonna get, and just enjoy it while it lasts.

#4 Mere Anarchy

4. What I do know about physics is that to a man standing on the shore, time passes quicker than to a man on a boat—especially if the man on the boat is with his wife.

#5 Side Effects

5. It seemed the world was divided into good and bad people. The good ones slept better, Cloquet thought, while the bad ones seemed to enjoy the waking hours much more.

#6 New York Times interview, 2010 [S]

6. To me there’s no real difference between a fortune teller or a fortune cookie and any of the organized religions. They’re all equally valid or invalid, really. And equally helpful.

#7 Love and Death, 1975

7. Human beings are divided into mind and body. The mind embraces all the nobler aspirations, like poetry and philosophy, but the body has all the fun.

#8 God (A Play), Without Feathers, 1975

8. What if nothing exists and we’re all in somebody’s dream? Or what’s worse, what if only that fat guy in the third row exists?

#9 Death (A Play), Without Feathers, 1975

9. It’s not that I’m afraid to die. I just don’t want to be there when it happens.

#10 My Speech To the Graduates, 10 August 1979 [S]

10. More than any other time in history, mankind faces a crossroads. One path leads to despair and utter hopeless- ness. The other, to total extinction. Let us pray we have the wisdom to choose correctly.

#11 Woody Allen Volume Two (Colpix CP 488) side 4, band 6

11. A fast word about oral contraception. I asked a girl to go to bed with me and she said ‘no’.