Death Takes a Holiday Quotes
Alda: [the clock has just chimed loudly and startled the Baron Cesarea] Midnight - and everyone's calm and collected excepting the Baron.
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Death: [as Prince Sirki] Do not worry, my friend. Your sacred privilege of blowing each other to bits is still safe.
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Death: Can you conceive how lonely I am - when there is nothing that doesn't shrink from me?
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Death: I bound myself to life, and with it, to the little rules by which it is lived. And now I must bow to it. What a monstrous comedy!
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Death: I shall feel blood flowing in my veins, the warm blood of life. I shall know what you know, feel what you feel! My hunger shall be appeased for an hour... my hunger that is as old as time - and those I love can feel they are not afraid... not afraid... NOT AFRAID!
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Death: I wish that we may never meet when you are less beautiful, and I must be less kind.
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Death: Now suddenly I know for the first time that men bear a dream within them, a dream that lifts them above their dust... and their little days.
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Death: Now suddenly I know for the first time that men bear a dream within them, a dream that lifts them above their dust... and their little days.
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Duke Lambert: I've had a glimpse of deep waters tonight, and I didn't like it.
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Death: There is something about me that men fear and that makes them cling to their existence. I must find out what it is.
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Alda: [the clock has just chimed loudly and startled the Baron Cesarea] Midnight - and everyone's calm and collected excepting the Baron.
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Baron Cesarea: [Corrado is driving the car at full speed] Apparently, my reward for a misspent life is not to be a peaceful death in bed!
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Death: [as Prince Sirki] Do not worry, my friend. Your sacred privilege of blowing each other to bits is still safe.
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Death: Can you conceive how lonely I am - when there is nothing that doesn't shrink from me?
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Death: I am - how shall I pursue it - a sort of vagabond of space. I am the point of contact between time and eternity.
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Death: I wish that we may never meet when you are less beautiful, and I must be less kind.
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Grazia: Who are you?
Death: Sirki.
Grazia: I don't mean that. You seem to come from a distant place. When I'm with you, I see depths in your eyes that are like the worlds I visit in sleep. And beneath your words is a sound I've heard in dreams. When you leave me, the light goes from the sky. You're like the mystery that's just beyond sight and sound. Always just beyond my reach. Something that draws and... frightens.
Death: Sirki.
Grazia: I don't mean that. You seem to come from a distant place. When I'm with you, I see depths in your eyes that are like the worlds I visit in sleep. And beneath your words is a sound I've heard in dreams. When you leave me, the light goes from the sky. You're like the mystery that's just beyond sight and sound. Always just beyond my reach. Something that draws and... frightens.
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Baron Cesarea: [hearing that someone has just narrowly escaped death] Well, it just wasn't time for the Old Man to take him.
Death: [as Prince Sirki]
[offended]
Death: I beg your pardon! The Old Man?
[realizing the humor in the remark]
Death: [as Prince Sirki] Ah yes... the Old Man!
Death: [as Prince Sirki]
[offended]
Death: I beg your pardon! The Old Man?
[realizing the humor in the remark]
Death: [as Prince Sirki] Ah yes... the Old Man!
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Baron Cesarea: [Corrado is driving the car at full speed] Apparently, my reward for a misspent life is not to be a peaceful death in bed!
Movie: Death Takes a Holiday
Baron Cesarea: [hearing that someone has just narrowly escaped death] Well, it just wasn't time for the Old Man to take him.
Death: [offended] I beg your pardon! The Old Man?
[realizing the humor in the remark]
Death: Ah yes... the Old Man!
Death: [offended] I beg your pardon! The Old Man?
[realizing the humor in the remark]
Death: Ah yes... the Old Man!
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Death: [Death has realized that he cannot take Grazia, whom he loves, because her family also loves her and wants her to live] What a monstrous comedy!
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Death: I shall feel blood flowing in my veins, the warm blood of life. I shall know what you know, feel what you feel! My hunger shall be appeased for an hour... my hunger that is as old as time - and those I love can feel they are not afraid... not afraid... NOT AFRAID!
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Death: My holiday is just caprice - a mad joke that I play on life. But what a monstrous, what a sublime joke! I, Death, do hereby take on the World, the Flesh, and the Devil!
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Death: Perhaps you can tell me what I have been doing.
Grazia: I think I can, almost.
Death: Tell me.
Grazia: I think you've been holding life in your hands, as I do some times. I think you've been a little afraid of its beauty.
Death: Oh, you do know.
Grazia: I think I can, almost.
Death: Tell me.
Grazia: I think you've been holding life in your hands, as I do some times. I think you've been a little afraid of its beauty.
Death: Oh, you do know.
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Death: My holiday is just caprice - a mad joke that I play on life. But what a monstrous, what a sublime joke! I, Death, do hereby take on the World, the Flesh, and the Devil!
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Death: I am - how shall I pursue it - a sort of vagabond of space. I am the point of contact between time and eternity.
Movie: Death Takes a Holiday