The most impressive lines of "The Seventh Seal" (excerpted from the 96-minute subtitle version of Station B)

Ken 2022-01-27 08:06:58

1. "In the dark it's said that's where you are

Probably that's where we are now

In the dark no one hears your cry

no one is touched by your pain

wipe away tears

Face it all with your own indifference

i have a herb

Can relieve your anxiety about eternity

But it's too late

But please feel this last minute victory

Move your toes while you can roll your eyes"

2. "I want to confess to you honestly, but my heart is empty... This emptiness is reflected in my face like a mirror, and I see myself in it, full of hatred and fear.

My indifference made me out of tune with others. Now I live in the world of ghosts and become a prisoner of my own dreams. "

"Yet you don't want to die."

"No, I don't want to die."

"What are you expecting?"

"I want to gain knowledge."

"What you want is a guarantee."

"Whatever you say...Is it so difficult to feel the existence of God with the human senses? Why does he hide in vague foreshadowings and unseen miracles? When we lose faith, how do we trust those believers again? What happens to us when we want to believe in God but can't? What about those who neither want nor believe? Why can't I kill God in my heart? Why does he live in such a painful and humiliating way My heart? Even if I wanted to rip him off...why would he be such a trickster that I couldn't get rid of it?

"Are you listening?"

"I heard."

"What I want is knowledge! Not faith, not speculation, but knowledge! I want God to reach out, show his face, and speak to me! But he has remained silent... I cried to him in the dark, but Sometimes I feel like there's no one there..."

"Maybe there was no one there."

"Then life is too scary and meaningless. No one can live in the face of death, knowing that everything is empty."

"Most people don't think about it: death and nothingness."

"But one day their lives will come to an end, staring into the dark abyss."

"Yes, one day."

"Hmph, I understand what you mean. Out of fear, we made an idol and called it God."

"Are you troubled?"

"The god of death came to me this morning. We played chess together. He temporarily opened the door and gave me the opportunity to complete an important mission."

"What mission?"

"I've spent my whole life wandering and searching in vain, talking to people in vain, and getting nowhere. I say this...not out of distress or self-blame, as most people are. And I'm going to borrow it time to accomplish something meaningful.”

"That's why you play chess with Death?"

"Death is a resourceful opponent, and I haven't lost a son yet."

3. "It was such a pleasure!"

"…but very briefly."

"That's what life is like, every day is the same, nothing to wonder. Summer is better than winter because it doesn't freeze, but spring is the best."

"Faith is a heavy burden, like falling in love with someone in the dark, no matter how much you cry, he won't show up... But when I'm sitting here with your couple, it all becomes unreal … suddenly becomes insignificant.”

"You don't look so serious now."

"...I will always remember this moment, this silence, this twilight, this bowl of wild strawberries and fresh milk, and your faces in the afterglow... Mikael sleeping, Jove playing the piano, I I will try to remember what we said, and I will hold this memory in my hands like a bowl full of fresh milk."

"For me, it's a symptom and a great satisfaction."

4. "Mia, I saw them, I saw them! Under the dark stormy sky, they were all there! The blacksmith and Lisa, the knight, Laval, Jones and Scarter... Reaper, the grim master, was He ordered them to dance. He told them to hold hands and dance in a line... Death was leading the way, with scythe and hourglass, and Scart was playing at the back... They were dancing, in the middle of the morning Leaving, marching solemn dance steps, into the kingdom of darkness... The rain slid down their faces, washing away the dry tears from their cheeks..."

"...You're talking about your hallucinations again."

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Extended Reading
  • Humberto 2022-01-27 08:06:58

    Having experienced wars, met a more advanced Byzantine civilization, and witnessed the death brought about by the plague, the knight lost his life, doubted God, his belief was frustrated, and he sought verification from the god of death, which also doomed his final destiny. Faith is a simple thing and a happy thing. Only with faith can people live happily and survive.

  • Megane 2022-04-24 07:01:05

    "What is she looking at. Angel God or Satan. Still nothing." "It can't be nothing. Look at her." "It's nothing. Nothing under the moonlight."

The Seventh Seal quotes

  • Antonius Block: From our darkness, we call out to Thee, Lord. Have mercy on us because we are small and frightened and ignorant.

    Jöns: [bitterly] In the darkness where you are supposed to be, where all of us probably are... In the darkness you will find no one to listen to your cries or be touched by your sufferings. Wash your tears and mirror yourself in your indifference.

    Antonius Block: God, You who are somewhere, who must be somewhere, have mercy upon us.

    Jöns: I could have given you an herb to purge you of your worries about eternity. Now it seems to be too late. But in any case, feel the immense triumph of this last minute when you can still roll your eyes and move your toes.

    Karin, Block's Wife: Quiet, quiet.

    Jöns: I shall be silent, but under protest.

  • Witch: Look into my eyes.

    [the knight meets her gaze. They stare at each other for a long time]

    Witch: What do you see? Do you see him?

    Antonius Block: I see fear in your eyes, an empty, numb fear. But nothing else.

    Witch: No one, nothing, no one?

    Antonius Block: [shakes his head] No.

    Witch: Can't you see him behind your back?

    Antonius Block: [turns around] No, there is no one there.