Other Titles • The Seventh Seal (1958) • Det Sjunde inseglet • Das Siebente Siegel (1962) • The Seven Seal • Sjunde inseglet, Det (1957)
Quotes from The Seventh Seal (1957)
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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 prepared? Antonius Block: My body is frightened, but I am not.
(18 votes)
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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.
(16 votes)
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Antonius Block: Nothing escapes you! Death: Nothing escapes me. No one escapes me.
(17 votes)
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"Love is the blackest of all plagues."--Jöns (Gunnar Björnstrand) to Plog the blacksmith (Ake Fridell)
(15 votes)
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"No one escapes me."--Death (Bengt Ekerot) to Antonius Block (Max Von Sydow)
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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.
(8 votes)
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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.
(3 votes)
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Antonius Block: I met Death today. We are playing chess.
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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.
(2 votes)
10
[In response to Death coming for him] Jonas Skat: Is there no exemption for actors?
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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.
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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!
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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.
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[Death approaches Antonius Block] 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?
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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.
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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.
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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 drivel. Jöns: Believe it? Who said? But I love to give pieces of advice.
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Jonas Skat: Kill me. I'll thank you afterwards.
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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.
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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.
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Jof: And the strict lord Death bids them to dance.
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Antonius Block: We must make an idol of our fear, and call it god.
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