Girl: It is finished.
Antonius Block: Nothing escapes you!
Death: Nothing escapes me. No one escapes me.
Jöns: But feel, to the very end, the triumph of being alive!
Antonius Block: I met Death today. We are playing chess.
Jöns: Only fools die of love.
[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!
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.
[In response to Death coming for him]
Jonas Skat: Is there no exemption for actors?
Jöns: It's hell with women, and hell without. Best to kill them all while the fun lasts.
Jöns: Between a scarlet woman's knees, a man like me can take his ease.
Jöns: [Looking at the religious procession] Is this what we offer to modern men's minds? Do they really believe we will take all of this seriously?
Jöns: Do you have any brandy? I've had nothing but water. It's made me as thirsty as a camel in the desert.
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.
Jof: And the strict lord Death bids them to dance.
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
Jöns: The actor plays on the emotions. That's half the battle.
