The Sweet Life Quotes

  • Marcello Rubini: [to Sylvia] You are everything... everything! You are the first woman on the first day of creation. You are mother, sister, lover, friend, angel, devil, earth, home.

  • Steiner: Don't be like me. Salvation doesn't lie within four walls. I'm too serious to be a dilettante and too much a dabbler to be a professional. Even the most miserable life is better than a sheltered existence in an organized society where everything is calculated and perfected.

  • Travestito: By 1965 there'll be total depravity. How squalid everything will be.

  • Marcello Rubini: [to Emma] A man who agrees to live like this is a finished man, he's nothing but a worm! I don't believe in your aggressive, sticky, maternal love! I don't want it, I have no use for it! This isn't love, it's brutalization!

  • Steiner: We must get beyond passions, like a great work of art. In such miraculous harmony. We should love each other outside of time... detached.

  • Paparazzo: What do you think you like most in life?

    Sylvia: I like lots of things. But there are three things I like most. Love, love and love.

  • Laura: [to Marcello] Stay free, available, like me. Never get married. Never choose. Even in love, it's better to be chosen.

  • Emma: Come home, I'll make Ravioli! I want to make love!

  • Poetess at Steiner's Party: The great thing is to burn, and not to freeze.

  • Poetess at Steiner's Party: [Le tre grandi evasioni -- fume, bere, letto.] The three great escapes -- smoking, drinking, bed.

  • Sylvia: [when a reporter asked her, "How do you sleep, with pajamas or nightgown?"] Neither. I sleep only in 2 drops of French perfume.

  • Emma: [to Paparazzo] How can you be this way? It's not possible to be like you! Hyenas! You're worse than hyenas! You don't respect anyone! You make me sick! Cowards!

  • Steiner: [to Emma] The day you understand that you love Marcello more than he does, you'll be happy.

  • Poetess at Steiner's Party: We must all think about tomorrow, but without forgetting to live today.

  • Steiner: I'm too serious to be an amateur, but not enough to be a professional.

  • Marcello Rubini: I'm wasting time. I won't manage anything anymore. Once I had ambitions, but maybe I'm losing everything. I forgot everything.

Extended Reading
  • Tamia 2022-03-27 09:01:09

    10.0; from the sweetness you can see the collapse and it's still growing

  • Brett 2022-03-28 09:01:04

    Three hours of moaning. In terms of self-reflection towards Fellini himself, it always makes people feel uncomfortable to have such a melancholy general as Mastroianni pretending to be his avatar; in terms of ridicule and criticism of the flashy upper class society, it is too superficial. Superficial; if it is about the presentation of the mental state of modern people, I might as well watch a documentary. He couldn't grasp the point he wanted to express throughout the article, he could only say that Fellini's "cancer" was quite unique.