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.
Antonius Block: I met Death today. We are playing chess.
[watching a young woman get burned at the stake] Jöns: Who will take care care of that child? Is it the angels or God or Satan or the emptiness? The emptiness, Sire? Antonius Block: It can't be so!
Blacksmith Plog: Hey Jöns, purely confidential, isn't life quite...? Jöns: [interrupts Plog] Yes, it is... but don't think about that now. Blacksmith Plog: [to himself] It's ludicrous, that's what it is.
Jöns: Love is nothing but lust and cheating and lies.
[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. De...
[In response to Death coming for him] Jonas Skat: Is there no exemption for actors?
Jöns: Our crusade was such madness that only a real idealist could have thought it up.
Jonas Skat: Kill me. I'll thank you afterwards.
Jof: And the strict lord Death bids them to dance.
Jöns: Only fools die of love.
Jöns: But feel, to the very end, the triumph of being alive!
Jöns: Between a scarlet woman's knees, a man like me can take his ease.
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: It's hell with women, and hell without. Best to kill them all while the fun lasts.
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
