Songs from the Second Floor Quotes

  • Business Man: We have already sacrificed our youth. Can we do more?

  • [repeated line]

    Stefan: Blessed be the one who sits down.

  • [about his son]

    Kalle: He wrote poetry till he went nuts!

  • [throwing away Christ crucifixes he couldn't sell]

    Business Man: I am so embarrassed, my face is red. I staked everything on a loser.

  • Kalle: What can I say? It's not easy being human.

  • The speechwriter: My approach was a rather philosophical one. About being human year after year. This is how I see it. Life is time, and time is a stretch of road. That makes life a journey, a trip. Don't you think so?

    Stefan: Yes. I guess you could look at it that way.

    The speechwriter: Yet in order to travel you need a map and a compass. Otherwise you wouldn't know where you were. Would you?

    Stefan: No.

    The speechwriter: And our map and compass are our traditions. Our heritage, our history. Aren't they?

    Stefan: Yeah, sure.

    The speechwriter: If we don't understand this... Before we know it, we're fumbling around in the dark. Where are we?