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> [It isn't easy to accept that suffering can also be beautiful... it's difficult. It's something you can only understand if you dig deeply into yourself.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rainer-werner-fassbinder/it-isn-t-easy-to-accept-that-suffering-can-also-be-beautiful-it-s/)

[Rainer Werner Fassbinder](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rainer-werner-fassbinder/)

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## More by Rainer Werner Fassbinder

> [I detest the idea that love between two persons can lead to salvation. All my life I have fought against this oppressive type of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rainer-werner-fassbinder/i-detest-the-idea-that-love-between-two-persons-can-lead-to-salvation/)

[Rainer Werner Fassbinder](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rainer-werner-fassbinder/)

> [The more real things get, the more like myths they become. There have always been myths, but the myths of earlier times were, Im…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rainer-werner-fassbinder/the-more-real-things-get-the-more-like-myths-they-become-there-have/)

[Rainer Werner Fassbinder](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rainer-werner-fassbinder/)

> [For all of us it’s the things that won’t work that keep our interest.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rainer-werner-fassbinder/for-all-of-us-it-s-the-things-that-won-t-work-that-keep-our-interest/)

[Rainer Werner Fassbinder](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rainer-werner-fassbinder/)

> [Since I'm not a second Marx or Freud who can offer people alternatives, I have to let them keep their own wrong feelings. And…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rainer-werner-fassbinder/since-i-m-not-a-second-marx-or-freud-who-can-offer-people/)

[Rainer Werner Fassbinder](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rainer-werner-fassbinder/)

> [People are terrible. They can bear anything. Anything! People are hard and brutal. And everyone is disposable. Everyone! That's the lesson.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rainer-werner-fassbinder/people-are-terrible-they-can-bear-anything-anything-people-are-hard/)

[Rainer Werner Fassbinder](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rainer-werner-fassbinder/)

> [I'd like to be for cinema what Shakespeare was for theatre, Marx for politics and Freud for psychology: someone after whom nothing is as…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rainer-werner-fassbinder/i-d-like-to-be-for-cinema-what-shakespeare-was-for-theatre-marx-for/)

[Rainer Werner Fassbinder](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rainer-werner-fassbinder/)

> [People often criticize my films for being pessimistic; there are certainly many reasons for being pessimistic but I don’t see my films that way.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rainer-werner-fassbinder/people-often-criticize-my-films-for-being-pessimistic-there-are/)

[Rainer Werner Fassbinder](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rainer-werner-fassbinder/)

> [ Women think in \[Douglas\] Sirk’s films. Something which has never struck me with other directors. None of them. Usually women are always reacting, doing… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rainer-werner-fassbinder/women-think-in-douglas-sirk-s-films-something-which-has-never-struck/)

[Rainer Werner Fassbinder](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rainer-werner-fassbinder/)

> [So certainly, if we can tell evil stories to make people sick, we can also tell good myths that make them well.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rainer-werner-fassbinder/so-certainly-if-we-can-tell-evil-stories-to-make-people-sick-we-can/)

[Rainer Werner Fassbinder](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rainer-werner-fassbinder/)

> [The best thing I can think of would be to create a union between something as beautiful and powerful and wonderful as Hollywood films…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rainer-werner-fassbinder/the-best-thing-i-can-think-of-would-be-to-create-a-union-between/)

[Rainer Werner Fassbinder](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rainer-werner-fassbinder/)

> [Yes, actually ever since I saw his films and tried to write about them, Sirk's been in everything I've done. Not Sirk himself, but…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rainer-werner-fassbinder/yes-actually-ever-since-i-saw-his-films-and-tried-to-write-about-them/)

[Rainer Werner Fassbinder](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rainer-werner-fassbinder/)

> [The Jews have never been ashamed of being Jews, whereas homosexuals have been stupid enough to be ashamed of their homosexuality.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rainer-werner-fassbinder/the-jews-have-never-been-ashamed-of-being-jews-whereas-homosexuals/)

[Rainer Werner Fassbinder](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rainer-werner-fassbinder/)

> [And I don't believe that melodramatic feelings are laughable - they should be taken absolutely seriously.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rainer-werner-fassbinder/and-i-don-t-believe-that-melodramatic-feelings-are-laughable-they/)

[Rainer Werner Fassbinder](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rainer-werner-fassbinder/)

> [In the last analysis, terrorism is an idea generated by capitalism to justify better defense measures to safeguard capitalism.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rainer-werner-fassbinder/in-the-last-analysis-terrorism-is-an-idea-generated-by-capitalism-to/)

[Rainer Werner Fassbinder](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rainer-werner-fassbinder/)

> [Love is the best, most insidious, most effective instrument of social repression.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rainer-werner-fassbinder/love-is-the-best-most-insidious-most-effective-instrument-of-social/)

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