Tirzah Quotes in Ben-Hur (1959)

Miriam: [speaking of Christ] As though he were carrying that cross the pain of the world.

[she whispers]

Miriam: So fearful.

Tirzah: And yet why is it... I'm not afraid anymore?

[thunder rumbles]

Esther: The shadow of a storm.

[they go inside a nearby cave; the sky goes dark outside]

Esther: A strange darkness, but still day.

[a violent storm begins]

Miriam: His life is over.

[lightning cracks]

Tirzah: He's here. It's tearing... I feel the pain!

Miriam: I feel it too.

[They seem to faint]

Esther: [concerned] Miriam?

[Miriam presses Esther's hand]

Esther: I thought that... Miriam! Do you see your hand?

[They look; Tirzah sits up, healed]

Esther: Tirzah! Miriam!

[They touch each other's faces, feel their hands, embrace as they realize they've been healed]

[Christ passes, bearing the cross]

Esther: How can this be?

Judah Ben-Hur: [shocked] I *know* this man!

[Jesus stumbles and is whipped by the centurions]

Miriam: [pleading] Won't someone help him?

[Jesus is whipped again]

Tirzah: Pity on him!

Miriam: [wonderingly] In his pain... there's a look of peace.

Judah Ben-Hur: Watch over them, Esther.

[he goes after Jesus]

Miriam: We must go back.

Esther: [sadly] I brought you here to this... when I hoped...

Miriam: [looking after Christ] You haven't failed, Esther.

[immediately after Miriam and Tirzah were healed of their long time of having leprosy, they walk out of the cave, they were in, into the rain, that was occurring]

Tirzah: Thank You.

[numerously and silently]

Tirzah: You can read her lips.

Tirzah: Back! Back! Come no nearer! Unclean! Unclean!