Vienna Blood - TV Series Quotes
SEASON 1
EPISODE 1 - The Last Seance
Max Liebermann
1. There is a shadow self, a secret identity that everyone is struggling to hide.
- Max Liebermann
2. The deeper my journey into other people’s madness, the less I know myself.
- Max Liebermann
3. The Beethoven Frieze.
Gustav Klimt. I wanted you to see it before it’s gone.
It’s …
Extraordinary, don’t you think?
You don’t like it?
- Max Liebermann
I find it frightening, to be honest, Max.
Almost like a nightmare. Yes.
Image of madness.
Forbidden wishes.
- Clara Weiss
4. To every age it’s art.
- Max Liebermann
5. The mind can play tricks on us.
- Max Liebermann
6. Memories can be suppressed, especially painful ones.
- Max Liebermann
7. “She’s bewitching.
But she is dark and oddly dangerous, a deep reservoir of anger.
In truth, I’m desperate to help her.”
- Leah Liebermann
(Quoting from Max Liebermann's Journal)
8. I see desperation.
Lives cut short.
Broken relationships.
Unfinished conversations.
I see the pain of loss.
- Max Liebermann
9. If I told you I could make it stop … all the pain … would you do as I ask?
I … I know you have no reason to trust me.
- Max Liebermann
10. You’re the architect of your own warped mortality.
- Max Liebermann
11. There is a shadow self, a secret identity that everyone is struggling to hide.
The deeper my journey into other people's madness, the less I know myself.
- Max Liebermann
EPISODE 2 - Queen of the Night
1. Christ be my salvation.
They say that a man is never so weak, so defenseless against suffering as when he is in love.
Love is still an enigma to science.
Perhaps it is just a state of madness.
I was told this legend as a child.
Human beings were once double-headed creatures.
The Gods resolved that we should all be humbled.
They devised a punishment – cutting each body in half.
Now, everyone is looking for their missing counterpart.
Everyone one of us has perfect pre-ordained love.
The other self that the Gods took from us.
- Max Liebermann
2. If love is just a state of madness, then perhaps it can be cured.
But where does the madness begin and end?
Where does the border lie between love and obsession?
- Max Liebermann
3. Insane is not a catch-all, inspector.
Even the most disturbed mind has its own kind of logic.
- Max Liebermann
4. I knew it was her.
I knew she was signaling to me.
How did you know the signal was meant for you?
When you meet your true love, Doctor, the power of this attraction is just irresistible.
So you believe you and the Duchess were pre-ordained as lovers?
Everyone has a true love, Doctor.
Surely you believe that?
- Max Liebermann
5. Do you think obsession is the same as love?
- Max Liebermann
6. You and I have had a strange beginning.
Most people when they meet, they stand behind the veil of politeness.
They dance around each other, never saying what they mean.
You and I have never done that, just …
Force of circumstance.
- Amelia Lydgate
7. Expressed emotions do not merely sink without a trace, Professor.
They bubble up to the surface.
- Max Liebermann
EPISODE 3 - The Lost Child
1. Children remind us what we gained but also, what we lost.
They make us come face-to-face with our own mortality.
They are the people that we once were, the land to which can we never return.
- Max Liebermann
2. He was running.
He was trying to escape from someone.
He was being hunted.
- Max Liebermann
3. Silence is our weapon.
- Stephen Wolf
4. You can't kill a rumour.
It's like a
It's like a hydra
You cut off one head, two others grow back in its place.
- Stephen Wolf
5. Can't resist a mystery, can you?
Always drawn to an enigma.
- Clara Weiss
SEASON 2
EPISODE 1 - The Melancholy Countess
1. There are no mysteries.
Not anymore.
No fairy-tales. No fables.
The giants have been banished.
The dragons have been bled.
Science has found a way
to eradicate them.
Reason has vanquished
the human imagination.
There is only one frontier
that is unexplored by man.
Only one place
where the dragons roam free.
The human brain is the only
uncharted land.
- Max Liebermann
2. "One she said she'd been having
"again and again
and again and again."
I'm in the park. Alone.
The place is shrouded in mist.
A nanny pushes a pram
along the path, just out of reach.
There's a large...
There's a large white building
in the park
like a fairy-tale palace.
I go in.
Animals live wild inside, they're
watching me from the shadows.
There are sweets and candy.
Like in the fairy tale, the witch's house
in Hansel And Gretel.
I find the woman sitting inside.
I hold out my arms
to take care of the little child.
But it turns into a bundle of...
of rags and dust.
- Countess Sophi Nazady
3. The unconscious mind,
it's like a pool of dark water.
And then, when we dream, images
shoot up and out, like a fountain.
- Max Liebermann
4. Well, I sense that something
or maybe someone,
has frightened you
and you're trying to find a way
to tell me.
Do you think you can ever
truly know someone?
- Max Liebermann
5. What if...
What if somebody you loved
had done something truly
terrible in the past,
a secret so dark, so frightening...
Hm.
What if they appeared so charming ...
... but underneath the mask...
- Max Liebermann
6. Whoever
they are, they're in this dream.
This is where our darkest fears
rise to the surface.
- Max Liebermann
7. At first I thought it was just
a displacement technique,
that the feelings were too painful
so she was ascribing them
to someone else,
to a fantasy character.
- Max Liebermann
8. I believe we were talking
about deception.
Someone close to you
deceiving you in some way.
Do you harbour feelings of...
anger or betrayal?
- Max Liebermann
9. Anyone who's had a broken relationship
some time in their past,
they spend
their days trying to mend it.
- Max Liebermann
10. My time will come.
There is no greater need for
a child than the love
and acceptance of a parent.
Perhaps that child is
still inside us all,
still craving their approval.
The love of a parent
can be powerful,
sometimes all-consuming.
Some parents will sacrifice
anything for their child,
even themselves.
- Max Liebermann
EPISODE 2 - The Devil's Kiss
1. A writer once said,
"If the devil did not exist
then man would create him
"In his own image and likeness."
We look at people all around us yet
we don't see them for what they are.
We see instead what
we want them to be.
A projection of our own needs
and desires.
- Max Liebermann
2. He's no more than a shadow,
a whisper.
They're trying to find a man
that no one has ever laid eyes on.
- Oskar Reinhardt
3. There's nothing complicated.
I want to be with you and...
... and I think you want to be
with me.
A simple chemical equation.
- Max Liebermann
4. You were expecting
the devil.
You're disappointed he's just flesh
and blood, that he's real.
- Oskar Reinhardt
5. It was a hunt and the girl
was the one who left the scent.
She was the fox.
- Max Liebermann
EPISODE 3 - Darkness Rising
1. How many thousands of years
has man been living an illusion?
We live in a world of dreams,
a powerful hallucination.
We turn our backs
on the sensory world
into which we have been born
and choose, instead, to live
in a fantasy.
A fantasy we call "religion".
- Max Liebermann
2. He's a bigot.
A dangerous fanatic.
The only thing that comes
out of his pen is pure poison.
- Max Liebermann
3. There is no puzzle for you to solve.
At least let me talk to him?
That's usually when things start
to unravel.
- Oskar Reinhardt and Max Liebermann
SEASON 3
EPISODE 1 - Deadly Communion
1. Welcome to the fairy tale.
Please, sit.
A painter once wrote,
"There is nothing in this world
"that is not beautiful.
"You can take the plainest,
most unprepossessing thing,
"change the light,
"change the perspective,
and voila...
"..it becomes dazzling."
100 year later,
a Viennese doctor wrote
that beauty is redundant.
It has no use...
..and yet it can become
the most dangerous thing
in the world.
It can become the source
of an addiction.
- Max Liebermann
2. It's not the dead that excites
him, Oskar. It's death itself.
- Max Liebermann
3. It's like two stars colliding
whenever we come together.
We agreed never to meet again.
It always seems to end
in devastation.
- Max Liebermann
4. "If there is beauty in all things,
then surely death is among them."
"Consider the roses
cut from their stems
at the exact moment of blooming."
"You are looking for me, I know."
"But maybe you have already met me.
Maybe I am closer than you think."
"I am the man who killed her."
"If there is beauty in all things,
then surely death is among them."
It's just as I thought, Oskar.
He finds death sexually alluring.
- Max Liebermann (Reading killer's letter)
5. I think he wants company
on his journey.
I think his madness
is a lonely place to live.
- Max Liebermann
6. Some time in his past,
perhaps in his youth,
he's witnessed death close at hand.
He's seen someone die and yet...
It only rendered them more beautiful.
- Max Liebermann
7. Everyone at some time in their life suffers a bereavement.
- Max Liebermann
8. Like a hound, a hunting dog
bringing gifts to its master,
begging for his approval.
- Max Liebermann
9. Women used to paint their faces
in lead white.
Ended up with poison in
their bloodstream.
They put drops of belladonna
in their eyes just to make them
sparkle, and ended up blind.
This mask is just another
one of life's cruel tortures.
The painful price of beauty.
Rich women wore it to shield
their faces from the sun.
Simply to have pale skin.
- Kristina Vogl
EPISODE 2 - The God of Shadow
1. We are the sum of our experiences,
uniquely defined by our memories.
Sometimes a simple object
can summon up a recollection.
It can be the door to a
secret, forgotten past.
We spend a lifetime gathering
a collection of treasured objects
and symbols, each of them holding
a tiny fragment of our identity -
a key to our emotions.
- Max Liebermann
2. Once evil has been
released into the world,
it cannot rest until
it has claimed its victim.
- Captain Georg Steiner.
3. It's like we're dealing
with a ghost.
Someone who can slip
between the shadows.
- Max Liebermann
4. Someone who already
doubts his sanity,
how easy to drive him into madness.
- Max Liebermann
EPISODE 3 - Death Is Now a Welcome Guest
1. Humans are storytellers.
All through history, we have been
the authors of legends and fables,
the Greeks and their celestial
beings, the Egyptians
and their mythology of the universe.
Somehow, our stories make
sense of who we are.
But why do we so desperately feel
the need for heroes and idols?
Are they simply a vehicle for our
own hidden feelings and desires?
Perhaps they expose a darkness
in us.
- Max Liebermann
2. I think something deeply
dangerous is happening here.
A woman stands in front of a camera
and she becomes an empty vessel.
People fill her with their dreams,
their fantasies.
- Max Liebermann
3. It wasn't love,
whatever we had.
It was toxic.
Twisted.
Perverted.
One moment,
we were consumed by passion,
and the next,
by rage.
- Professor Neumann
4. The most dangerous
mistake a person can make
is to project their own shadow
onto another human being, to pretend
they are an embodiment
of one's fantasy.
The route to happiness is
to accept people as they are,
not as we wish them to be.
To see them
in the clear light of day...
..and still love them.
That is the mark of a true friend.
- Max Liebermann