The Seventh Seal Quotes
Antonius Block : I shall remember this moment: the silence, the twilight, the bowl of strawberries, the bowl of milk. Your faces in the evening light. Mikael asleep, Jof with his lyre. I shall try to remember our talk. I shall carry this memory carefully in my hands as if it were a bowl brimful of fresh milk. It will be a sign to me, and a great sufficiency.
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Antonius Block : Nothing escapes you!
Death : Nothing escapes me. No one escapes me.
Death : Nothing escapes me. No one escapes me.
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[ In response to Death coming for him ]
Jonas Skat : Is there no exemption for actors?
Jonas Skat : Is there no exemption for actors?
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Jöns : Love is the blackest of all plagues... if one could die of it, there would be some pleasure in love, but you don't die of it.
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Antonius Block : I want to confess as best I can, but my heart is void. The void is a mirror. I see my face and feel loathing and horror. My indifference to men has shut me out. I live now in a world of ghosts, a prisoner in my dreams.
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Antonius Block : Who are you?
Death : I am Death.
Antonius Block : Have you come for me?
Death : I have long walked by your side.
Antonius Block : So I have noticed.
Death : Are you ready?
Antonius Block : My body is ready, but I am not.
Death : I am Death.
Antonius Block : Have you come for me?
Death : I have long walked by your side.
Antonius Block : So I have noticed.
Death : Are you ready?
Antonius Block : My body is ready, but I am not.
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Antonius Block : Have you met the devil? I want to meet him too.
Witch : Why do you want to do that?
Antonius Block : I want to ask him about God. He must know. He, if anyone.
Witch : Why do you want to do that?
Antonius Block : I want to ask him about God. He must know. He, if anyone.
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Jöns : Who will take care of that child. God, the devil, the nothingness? The nothingness, perhaps?
Antonius Block : It can't be so!
Antonius Block : It can't be so!
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Death : Don't you ever stop asking?
Antonius Block : No. I never stop.
Death : But you're not getting an answer.
Antonius Block : No. I never stop.
Death : But you're not getting an answer.
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[ Death approaches Antonius Block ]
Antonius Block : Wait a moment.
Death : You all say that. But I grant no reprieves.
Antonius Block : Wait a moment.
Death : You all say that. But I grant no reprieves.
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[ Antonius Block lets Death choose which chess pieces to play ]
Antonius Block : You drew black.
Death : Appropriate, don't you think?
Antonius Block : You drew black.
Death : Appropriate, don't you think?
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[ the church painter explains why he is painting a mural about death ]
Church Painter : Why should one always make people happy? It might be a good idea to scare them once in a while.
Jöns : Then they'll close their eyes and refuse to look.
Church Painter : They'll look. A skull is more interesting than a naked woman.
Jöns : If you do scare them...
Church Painter : Then they think.
Jöns : And then?
Church Painter : They'll become more scared.
Church Painter : Why should one always make people happy? It might be a good idea to scare them once in a while.
Jöns : Then they'll close their eyes and refuse to look.
Church Painter : They'll look. A skull is more interesting than a naked woman.
Jöns : If you do scare them...
Church Painter : Then they think.
Jöns : And then?
Church Painter : They'll become more scared.
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Jöns : Do you have any brandy? I've had nothing but water. It's made me as thirsty as a camel in the desert.
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Jöns : Our crusade was such madness that only a real idealist could have thought it up.
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Mia : You don't look so happy.
Antonius Block : No.
Mia : Are you tired?
Antonius Block : Yes. I have boring company.
Mia : You mean your squire?
Antonius Block : No, not him.
Mia : Who do you mean, then?
Antonius Block : Myself.
Antonius Block : No.
Mia : Are you tired?
Antonius Block : Yes. I have boring company.
Mia : You mean your squire?
Antonius Block : No, not him.
Mia : Who do you mean, then?
Antonius Block : Myself.
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Antonius Block : Faith is a torment. It is like loving someone who is out there in the darkness but never appears, no matter how loudly you call.
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Jöns : Love is as contagious as a cold. It eats away at your strength, morale... If everything is imperfect in this world, love is perfect in its imperfection.
Blacksmith Plog : You're happy, you with your oily words. You believe your own twaddle.
Jöns : Believe it? Who said? But I love to give pieces of advice.
Blacksmith Plog : You're happy, you with your oily words. You believe your own twaddle.
Jöns : Believe it? Who said? But I love to give pieces of advice.
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Blacksmith Plog : Jons, between you and me, isn't life a dirty mess?
Jöns : Yes, but don't think of that now.
Blacksmith Plog : It's what you make it.
Jöns : Yes, but don't think of that now.
Blacksmith Plog : It's what you make it.
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[ Jonas Skat is in a tree which Death is cutting down ]
Jonas Skat : Hey, you scurvy knave, what are you doing with my tree? You might at least answer. Who are you?
Death : I'm felling your tree. Your time is up.
Jonas Skat : You can't. I haven't time.
Death : So you haven't time?
Jonas Skat : No. My performance...
Death : Cancelled... because of Death.
Jonas Skat : Hey, you scurvy knave, what are you doing with my tree? You might at least answer. Who are you?
Death : I'm felling your tree. Your time is up.
Jonas Skat : You can't. I haven't time.
Death : So you haven't time?
Jonas Skat : No. My performance...
Death : Cancelled... because of Death.
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Jöns : It's hell with women, and hell without. Best to kill them all while the fun lasts.
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Blacksmith Plog : I'm going to pinch them in the nose with my pliers. I'm going to pound them on the chest with my little hammer. I'm going to crack them lightly on the head with my sledgehammer
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Antonius Block : This is my hand. I can turn it. The blood is still running in it. The sun is still in the sky and the wind is blowing. And I... I, Antonius Block, play chess with Death.
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