Our social relationships are limited, most of the time, to gossip and criticizing people's behavior. This observation slowly pushed me to isolate from the so-called social life. My days pass by in solitude.
About this quote
- What does it mean?
- Bergman criticizes social life as mostly gossip and criticism. He chose isolation as a result.
- In plain terms
- Social interactions are limited to gossip, so he lives alone.
- What can you take from it?
- Superficial socializing can drive isolation.
Where it applies
Putting it to work
Questions to consider
- Is isolation a valid response to superficial socializing?
- What makes social connection meaningful?
Another view
It generalizes all social relationships as negative.
More from Ingmar Bergman
This damned ranting about doom. Is that food for the minds of modern people? Do they really expect us to take them seriously?
Permalink to quote #2 When we experience a film, we consciously prime ourselves for illusion. Putting aside will and intellect, we make way for it in our imagination. The sequence o…
Permalink to quote #4 Self-portraiture is something one should never get involved in, since it is wrong to lie even though one endeavours to tell the truth.
Permalink to quote #1
Related quotes
How dreary - to be - Somebody! How public - like a Frog - To tell one's name - the livelong June - To an admiring Bog!
Emily DickinsonEmily Dickinson quote #6 The denunciation of the young is a necessary part of the hygiene of older people, and greatly assists in the circulation of their blood.
Logan Pearsall SmithLogan Pearsall Smith quote #1 It is true that for us art is not an end in itself, we have lost too many of our illusions for that. Art is for us an occasion for social criticism, and for re…
Hugo BallHugo Ball quote #1