Life Lesson:

“Hell is other people.”

— Jean-Paul Sartre

Movie Scene:

Colonel Barrow: When you’re dying, when you really believe you’re dying, you think of the most absurd things.

Captain Jimmy Cairns (Gordon Jackson): In my war, I never had time to think.

Colonel Barrow: Oh, they gave me time alright, again and again. When I was in the prison camp, nearly drowned me, then they brought me around, put a wet cloth over my mouth and kept it wet until I nearly drowned again. And the only thing that pulled me through was the thought that one day I’d come back and sit in the middle of that table as colonel of this battalion, like my grandfather and his father before him, only I was going to be the best of the lot.

Jimmy: Well, then, it did pull you through. You survived. Surely nothing could seem too hard now.

Colonel Barrow: Who said I survived?

Life Lesson:

Losing memories is not the same as losing yourself; you’re still you, an individual.

Movie Scene:

Lydia Howland (Kristen Stewart): “Nothing is lost forever. In this world, there’s a kind of painful progress, a longing for what we’ve left behind and dreaming ahead. At least I think that’s so.” That’s it. Hey, did you like that? What I just read, did you like it?

Alice: Hm. Yeah.

Lydia: And what, what was it about?

Alice: Love. Yeah. Love.

Lydia: Yeah, Mom. It was about love.