Smultronstället

Sten Alman:
Me and my wife are dependent on each other. It is out of selfish reasons we haven't beaten each other to death a long time ago.

Sara:
Good-bye, father Isak. Can't you see you're the one I love? Today, tomorrow and forever

Professor Isak Borg:
If I have been feeling worried or sad during the day, I have a habit of recalling scenes from childhood to calm me. So it was this evening.

Sten Alman:
Me and my wife are dependent on each other. It is out of selfish reasons we haven't beaten each other to death a long time ago.

Sara:
Good-bye, father Isak. Can't you see you're the one I love? Today, tomorrow and forever

Isak Borg:
I'll keep that in mind

Teacher in dream:
Would you please diagnose this patient, professor Borg?

Isak Borg:
But, this patient is dead.

[the patient bursts into laughter]

Professor Isak Borg:
If I have been feeling worried or sad during the day, I have a habit of recalling scenes from childhood to calm me. So it was this evening.

Isak Borg:
[under his breath, while preparing for his journey] Honorary Doctor! They might as well appoint me Honorary Idiot.

Viktor:
[to his friend who wants to become a priest] When your were little you belived in Santa Claus, now you belive in God.

Professor Isak Borg:
What is the punishment?

Sten Alman:
The punishment? Well, I guess it'll be the usual.

Professor Isak Borg:
The usual?

Sten Alman:
Yes. The punishment is loneliness.

Professor Isak Borg:
Is there no way out?

Sten Alman:
Don't ask me. I don't know anything about these things.

Professor Isak Borg:
I like you, Marianne.

Marianne Borg:
I like you too, uncle Isak.

Marianne Borg:
All along the line, there's nothing but cold and death and loneliness

Dr. Evald Borg:
It's absurd to bring children into this world and think they'll be better off than we were.

Marianne Borg:
That's just an excuse.

Dr. Evald Borg:
Call it what you want. I was an unwanted child in a hellish marriage.

Marianne Borg:
You're a coward.

Dr. Evald Borg:
Yes. This life sickens me. I will not be forced to take on a responsibility that will make me live for one day longer than I want to. And you know that I mean what I say.

Marianne Borg:
I know that this is wrong.

Dr. Evald Borg:
There's neither right nor wrong. We act according to our needs.

Marianne Borg:
I saw you with your mother, and I was panic-stricken.

Professor Isak Borg:
I don't understand.

Marianne Borg:
I thought: That's his mother. An old woman, cold as ice, more forbidding than death. And this is her son, and there are light years between them. He himself says he's a living corpse. And Evald is growing just as lonely, cold and dead. And I thought of the baby inside me. All along the line, there's nothing but cold and death and loneliness. It must end somewhere.

Professor Isak Borg:
I have liked having you about the house.

Marianne Borg:
Like a cat.

Professor Isak Borg:
A cat, or a human being.

Sara:
As professor emeritus, you ought to know why it hurts. But you don't know.

Sara:
You know so much, and you don't know anything.

Sara:
[a man studing to be a priest and another studying science returns from a fight] So, did God exist?