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Sjunde inseglet, Det Quotes (1957)
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Famous Sjunde inseglet, Det Quotations
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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. »
- 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. »
- Antonius Block: I met Death today. We are playing chess. »
- 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. »
- 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. »
- Antonius Block: Nothing escapes you!
Death: Nothing escapes me. No one escapes me. »
- Antonius Block: Wait a moment.
Death: You all say that. But I grant no reprieves. »
- 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 prepared?
Antonius Block: My body is frightened, but I am not. »
- Antonius Block: You drew black.
Death: Appropriate, don't you think? »
- 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. »
- 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. »
- Death: Don't you ever stop asking?
Antonius Block: No. I never stop.
Death: But you're not getting an answer. »
- Jöns: Do you have any brandy? I've had nothing but water. It's made me as thirsty as a camel in the desert. »
- 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 drivel.
Jöns: Believe it? Who said? But I love to give pieces of advice. »
- 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. »
- Jöns: Our crusade was such madness that only a real idealist could have thought it up. »
- Jöns: Who will take care of that child. God, the devil, the nothingness? The nothingness, perhaps?
Antonius Block: It can't be so! »
- 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: Is there no exemption for actors? »
- Jonas Skat: Kill me. I'll thank you afterwards. »
- 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. »
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