"In heathen times, you might have been a great priestess of Isis. Yet in this strange and modern world, your purpose i…"

"[to young Ellen] You awakened me from an eternity of darkness. You... You... You are not for the living. You are not …"

"[to Thomas] You are late. The midnight hour is passed, and my attendants have all retired."

"[to Thomas] I will be addressed as the honour of my blood commands it."

"[to Knock] Silence, dog! Your entreaties grow insolent. You shall crave of me nothing."

"It was our wedding, yet not in chapel walls. The scent of the lilacs was strong in the rain... and when I reached the…"

"Do you ever feel at times as if you're not a person? What I wish to say is that you're not truly present, nor alive, …"

"[as he, Hutter and Sievers burn the Hardings' bodies] "In the name of Jehovah, and by the power and dignity of these …"

"And now, I have been entertaining dealings with a foreign count. Very old line of nobility, very old and... eccentric…"

"I have seen things in this world that would make Isaac Newton crawl back into his mother's womb! We have not become s…"