How we cite our quotes: All quotations are from Annie Hall.
Quote #4
ALVY: I feel that life is divided up into the horrible and the miserable. Those are the two categories, you know. The horrible would be like, um, I don't know, terminal cases, you know, and blind people, cripples. I don't know how they get through life. It's amazing to me. And, you know, the miserable is everyone else. So when you go through life, you should be thankful that you're miserable, because you're very lucky to be miserable.
Here he goes again: riffing on that idea that life stinks. Alvy's rampant negativity and cynicism underline all of his actions. A big, squiggly, nauseated underline.
Quote #5
ALVY: You joke about me, make fun of me, but I'm prepared for anything: an emergency, a tidal wave, an earthquake.
This quote, which comes when Annie calls him over to her apartment to kill a spider the size of a Buick in the dead of night, shows not only that Alvy's aware of his neuroses, but also that he thinks that they might actually be useful sometimes.