Woody Allen

There are three rings involved with marriage. The engagement ring, the wedding ring, and the suffering.

Woody Allen

There are worse things than death. Many of them playing at a theater near you.

Woody Allen

There’s no way to prove that there is no God. You just have to take it on faith.

Woody Allen

Time is nature’s way of keeping everything from happening at once.

Woody Allen

To be loved, certainly, is different from being admired, as one can be admired from afar but to really love someone it is essential to be in the same room with the person, crouching behind the drapes.

Woody Allen

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.

Woody Allen

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.

Woody Allen

To me, movies are valuable as an art form and as a wonderful means of popular entertainment. But I think movies have gone terribly wrong.

Woody Allen

Tradition is the illusion of permanence.

Woody Allen

Until you’ve been kissed on a rainy Parisian afternoon – you’ve never been kissed.

Woody Allen