The Seventh Seal Quotes

The Seventh Seal is a television program that appeared on TV in 1970 . The Seventh Seal stopped airing in 1970.

It features Allan Ekelund as producer, Erik Nordgren in charge of musical score, and Gunnar Fischer as head of cinematography.

The Seventh Seal is recorded in Swedish, and Latin and originally aired in Sweden. Each episode of The Seventh Seal is 96 minutes long. The Seventh Seal is distributed by AB Svensk Filmindustri.

The cast includes: Max von Sydow as Antonius Block, Bengt Ekerot as Death, Gunnar Björnstrand as Jöns, Åke Fridell as Blacksmith Plog, Bibi Andersson as Mia, Maud Hansson as Witch, Erik Strandmark as Jonas Skat, and Nils Poppe as Jof.

The Seventh Seal Quotes

Gunnar Björnstrand as Jöns

• (Gunnar Björnstrand) "Love is nothing but lust and cheating and lies."

• (Gunnar Björnstrand) "Do you have any brandy? I've had nothing but water. It's made me as thirsty as a camel in the desert."

• (Gunnar Björnstrand) "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."
• (Åke Fridell) "You're happy, you with your oily words. You believe your own twaddle."
• (Gunnar Björnstrand) "Believe it? Who said? But I love to give pieces of advice."

• (Gunnar Björnstrand) "It's hell with women and hell without women. No matter how you reason it seems like the logic thing to do is to kill them while it's still fun."
• (Åke Fridell) "Bickering and swill."
• (Gunnar Björnstrand) "Screaming babies and diapers full of piss."
• (Åke Fridell) "Sharp nails and malice."
• (Gunnar Björnstrand) "Scuffle, fits and the devil's aunt as a mother in law."
• (Åke Fridell) "And then when you're going to sleep --"
• (Gunnar Björnstrand) "Then they change they're tune."
• (Åke Fridell) "Tears, complaints and wailing to high heaven."
• (Gunnar Björnstrand) ""Why won't you kiss me good night?" --"
• (Åke Fridell) ""Why won't you sing a song?" --"
• (Gunnar Björnstrand) ""How come you don't love me like when we first met?" --"
• (Åke Fridell) ""Why aren't you looking at my new shift?" --"
• (Gunnar Björnstrand) ""Just turn your back and snore." --"
• (Åke Fridell) "Damn it."
• (Gunnar Björnstrand) "Damn it. Now she's gone; Rejoice."

• (Gunnar Björnstrand) "Is this what we offer to modern men's minds? Do they really believe we will take all of this seriously?"

• (Gunnar Björnstrand) "Only fools die of love."

• (Gunnar Björnstrand) "Our crusade was such madness that only a real idealist could have thought it up."

• (Gunnar Björnstrand) "Between a scarlet woman's knees, a man like me can take his ease."

• (Gunnar Björnstrand) "It's hell with women, and hell without. Best to kill them all while the fun lasts."

• (Church Painter) "Why should one always make people happy? It might be a good idea to scare them once in a while."
• (Gunnar Björnstrand) "Then they'll close their eyes and refuse to look."
• (Church Painter) "They'll look. A skull is more interesting than a naked woman."
• (Gunnar Björnstrand) "If you do scare them --"
• (Church Painter) "Then they think."
• (Gunnar Björnstrand) "And then?"
• (Church Painter) "They'll become more scared."

• (Gunnar Björnstrand) "Who will take care care of that child? Is it the angels or God or Satan or the emptiness? The emptiness, Sire?"
• (Max von Sydow) "It can't be so."

Bengt Ekerot as Death

• (Bengt Ekerot) "Don't you ever stop asking?"
• (Max von Sydow) "No. I never stop."
• (Bengt Ekerot) "But you're not getting an answer."

• (Bengt Ekerot) "When next we meet, the hour will strike for you and your friends."
• (Max von Sydow) "And will you reveal your secrets?"
• (Bengt Ekerot) "I have no secrets."
• (Max von Sydow) "So do you know nothing?"
• (Bengt Ekerot) "I am unknowing."

Max von Sydow as Antonius Block

• (Max von Sydow) "They say you have consorted with the devil?"
• (Maud Hansson) "Why do you ask that?"
• (Max von Sydow) "It's not out of curiosity, but because of utterly personal reasons. I would also like to meet him."
• (Maud Hansson) "Why?"
• (Max von Sydow) "I want to ask him about God. He must know. He, if anyone."

• (Max von Sydow) "We must make an idol of our fear, and call it god."

• (Max von Sydow) "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."

• (Max von Sydow) "I want knowledge. Not faith, not assumptions, but knowledge. I want God to stretch out His hand, uncover His face and speak to me."
• (Bengt Ekerot) "But He remains silent."
• (Max von Sydow) "I call out to Him in the darkness. But it's as if no one was there."
• (Bengt Ekerot) "Perhaps there isn't anyone."
• (Max von Sydow) "Then life is a preposterous horror. No man can live faced with Death, knowing everything's nothingness."
• (Bengt Ekerot) "Most people think neither of death nor nothingness."
• (Max von Sydow) "But one day you stand at the edge of life and face darkness."
• (Bengt Ekerot) "That day."
• (Max von Sydow) "I understand what you mean."

• (Max von Sydow) "Wait a moment."
• (Bengt Ekerot) "You all say that. But I grant no reprieves."

• (Max von Sydow) "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."

• (Max von Sydow) "I met Death today. We are playing chess."

• (Max von Sydow) "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."

• (Max von Sydow) "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."

• (Max von Sydow) "Who are you?"
• (Bengt Ekerot) "I am Death."
• (Max von Sydow) "Have you come for me?"
• (Bengt Ekerot) "I have long walked by your side."
• (Max von Sydow) "So I have noticed."
• (Bengt Ekerot) "Are you ready?"
• (Max von Sydow) "My body is ready, but I am not."

• (Max von Sydow) "You drew black."
• (Bengt Ekerot) "Appropriate, don't you think?"

• (Max von Sydow) "Is it so terribly inconceivable to comprehend God with one's senses? Why does he hide in a cloud of half-promises and unseen miracles? How can we believe in the faithful when we lack faith? What will happen to us who want to believe, but can not? What about those who neither want to nor can believe? Why can't I kill God in me? Why does He live on in me in a humiliating way; despite my wanting to evict Him from my heart? Why is He, despite all, a mocking reality I can't be rid of?"

Erik Strandmark as Jonas Skat

• (Erik Strandmark) "Hey, you scurvy knave, what are you doing with my tree? You might at least answer. Who are you?"
• (Bengt Ekerot) "I'm felling your tree. Your time is up."
• (Erik Strandmark) "You can't. I haven't time."
• (Bengt Ekerot) "So you haven't time?"
• (Erik Strandmark) "No. My performance --"
• (Bengt Ekerot) "Cancelled -- because of Death."

• (Erik Strandmark) "Kill me. I'll thank you afterwards."

Åke Fridell as Blacksmith Plog

• (Åke Fridell) "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"

• (Åke Fridell) "Hey Jöns, purely confidential, isn't life quite?"
• (Gunnar Björnstrand) "Yes, it is -- but don't think about that now."
• (Åke Fridell) "It's ludicrous, that's what it is."

Bibi Andersson as Mia

• (Bibi Andersson) "You don't look so happy."
• (Max von Sydow) "No."
• (Bibi Andersson) "Are you tired?"
• (Max von Sydow) "Yes. I have boring company."
• (Bibi Andersson) "You mean your squire?"
• (Max von Sydow) "No, not him."
• (Bibi Andersson) "Who do you mean, then?"
• (Max von Sydow) "Myself."

Nils Poppe as Jof

• (Nils Poppe) "And the strict lord Death bids them to dance."

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