Mahler (1974)

Andrew Faulds: Doctor on Train

Quotes 

• Doctor on Train : The more I see of life and death, the more I think it's nothing but a huge, terrible joke. Why do we live? And why do we suffer? And do we have to die to find out?

• Gustav Mahler : I had my first heart attack shortly after the death of one of my children.

  Doctor on Train : Yes, I read about that. Not on the heart, the coincidence, I mean: the child's death and those - those morbid songs of yours.

  Gustav Mahler : I was terrified all the time I was writing them that something might happen. But I had to go on, whatever the consequences.