The Seventh Seal (1957)
Bengt Ekerot: Death
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Quotes
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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.
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Antonius Block : I want knowledge! Not faith, not assumptions, but knowledge. I want God to stretch out His hand, uncover His face and speak to me.
Death : But He remains silent.
Antonius Block : I call out to Him in the darkness. But it's as if no one was there.
Death : Perhaps there isn't anyone.
Antonius Block : Then life is a preposterous horror. No man can live faced with Death, knowing everything's nothingness.
Death : Most people think neither of death nor nothingness.
Antonius Block : But one day you stand at the edge of life and face darkness.
Death : That day.
Antonius Block : I understand what you mean.
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Death : When next we meet, the hour will strike for you and your friends.
Antonius Block : And will you reveal your secrets?
Death : I have no secrets.
Antonius Block : So do you know nothing?
Death : I am unknowing.
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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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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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Antonius Block : Nothing escapes you!
Death : Nothing escapes me. No one escapes me.
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Death : Ingenting undgår mig. Ingen undgår mig.
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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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[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.
