The Abbot Quotes in Black Death (2010)

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The Abbot Quotes:

  • [Wolfstan has brought Osmund back to the monastery]

    Wolfstan: Look after him.

    The Abbot: There's no need. He's back with God.

  • The Abbot: [after Shi Yan-sheng finished shaving his head] Feels so good! Just like what man and woman do together.

    [laughs]

  • Shi Yan-sheng: [says the evening prayer]

    The Abbot: So noisy! Even the birds can't sleep! Didn't you want peace?

    Shi Yan-sheng: I want to say the evening prayers.

    The Abbot: Go sleep in your room!

    Shi Yan-sheng: I can't sleep, my heart's not at peace.

    The Abbot: Go find something to eat!

    Shi Yan-sheng: Not hungry.

    The Abbot: You don't eat, tummy's empty, heart's not!

  • Shi Yan-sheng: Got it! I've got it... Starved to death, I'm the same as the others. Fundamentally, all are the same. Fighting in battles, killing countless people. Did I have innate mercy? Xuan Wu Gate, was it for righteousness?

    [points at his heart]

    Shi Yan-sheng: He'd thought about titles and fame! He wanted to be grade one generalissimo! Leading armies of millions, acquiring great fame, betraying his lord! This heart, same as those curs. Base, black, filthy, cold-blooded!

    [voluntarily bangs repeatedly his head against the wall]

    The Abbot: Careful!

    Shi Yan-sheng: This vile skin bag of a body! What use is it?

    [bangs more violently his head]

    The Abbot: I've yet to dwell herein.

    Shi Yan-sheng: Can't calm down... Can't forget... Can't...

    The Abbot: If you're 100 years old like me, you will forget even if you don't want to.

  • The Abbot: Here is here, there is there. Why use your heart to think?

  • Qing-shou: [kneeling] My worldly name is Qing-shou. My late husband was General Zhang Jin. He led an attack on Eastern Turks. Was ambushed, alas. Died on reaching home. His family is Buddhist. Long connected with your temple. Hope he could be cremated here.

    The Abbot: Our temple's dilapidated, unfit for funerals.

    Qing-shou: It's my late husband's last wish.

    The Abbot: There's no extra hands. Madam, please rise.

    Qing-shou: [stays knelt]

    The Abbot: I, Madam... I'm 100 years old. I've forgotten the "Great Deliverance Chant".

  • The Abbot: How do you know her heart? Do you know your heart?

  • The Abbot: We found the body after a hailstorm, horribly mutilated, dashed against a rock at the foot of the tower, under a window which was, uh, how shall I say this? I trust...

    William of Baskerville: Which was found closed.

    The Abbot: Somebody told you?

    William of Baskerville: Had it been found open, you would not have spoken of spiritual unease - you would have concluded that he'd fallen.

    The Abbot: Brother William, the window cannot be opened! Nor was the glass shattered, nor is there any access to the roof above.

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