It's in the past

Nina 2022-10-20 11:51:06

Everything is more complicated than you believe, you only see a little bit of the truth, every decision you make drives thousands of relationships in motion, and you can choose to ruin your life at any time. But maybe you won't understand it in 20 years, you may never go back to its beginning, and you only have one chance to get it right.

Everyone says that there is no so-called destiny, there is only something you create, even if the world turns year after year, you are only a tiny fragment in this second. While you were alive, you just waited in vain, wasting decades waiting for a call, a letter, or a meeting from someone or something to reassure yourself. But that never will or seems to be happening, it really won't. So again you spend time blankly regretting...or blankly hoping that something good will happen next, making you feel like you're not isolated, making you feel your presence, making you feel loved....

And the truth is, I'm angry; and the truth is, I'm sad; and the truth is, I feel like I've been hurt for so many fucking years. And at the same time, I kept pretending I was okay, adjusting, going...

I don't know why, maybe it's because nobody wants to hear about my misery, because they have their own misfortunes.

I just want to find a place to put it.

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  • Caden Cotard: I breathe your name on every exhalation.

  • Caden Cotard: I won't settle for anything less than the brutal truth. Brutal. Brutal. Each day I'll hand you a paper, it'll tell you what happened to you that day. You felt a lump in your breast. You looked at your wife and saw a stranger, et cetera.

    Needleman Actor: Caden?

    Caden Cotard: What?

    Needleman Actor: When are we gonna get an audience in here? It's been seventeen years.

    Caden Cotard: All right, I'm not excusing myself from this either. I will have someone play me, to delve into the murky, cowardly depths of my lonely, fucked-up being. And he'll get notes too, and those notes will correspond to the notes I truly receive every day from my god! Get to work!