Antonius Block: 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?


--Max von Sydow (as Antonius Block) in The Seventh Seal

Antonius Block: 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 (as Antonius Block) in The Seventh Seal

Antonius Block: We must make an idol of our fear, and call it god.


--Max von Sydow (as Antonius Block) in The Seventh Seal

Antonius Block: Who are you?
Death: I am Death.
Antonius Block: Have you come for me?
Death: I have long walked by your side.
Antonius Block: So I have noticed.
Death: Are you ready?
Antonius Block: My body is ready, but I am not.


--Max von Sydow (as Antonius Block) in The Seventh Seal

Johan Borg: The old ones called it "the hour of the wolf". It is the hour when the most people die, and the most are born. At this time, nightmares come to us. And when we awake, we are afraid.


--Max von Sydow (as Johan Borg) in Hour of the Wolf

Martin: You're empty but capable. And now you're trying to fill your void with Karin's extinction. But how will God fit into that? It must make him more inscrutable than ever!


--Max von Sydow (as ) in Through a Glass Darkly

Martin: You're hunting for themes. Your own daughter's mental illness. What a great bloody idea!


--Max von Sydow (as ) in Through a Glass Darkly

Oktober: Don't blame it on me, blame it on the Bosa Nova.


--Max von Sydow (as Oktober) in The Quiller Memorandum

Töre: Heavenly Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, with Your host of angels, deliver us today from the devil's chokehold. God, grant that neither temptation, shame, nor danger befall thy servants this day. Amen.


--Max von Sydow (as ) in The Virgin Spring

Töre: You are not alone, Mareta. And God alone bears our guilt.


--Max von Sydow (as ) in The Virgin Spring