Isle of the Dead (1945) Quotes with Sound Clips

Hear the most memorable quotes from the classic 1945 horror film Isle of the Dead, with sound bites!

Actors: Boris Karloff (General Pherides), Ellen Drew (Thea), Marc Cramer (Oliver Davis)

4 more actors

, Katherine Emery (Mrs. Mary St. Aubyn), Jason Robards Sr. (Aubrecht), Ernst Deutsch (Dr. Drossos), Helene Thimig (Madame Kyra)

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1 The symptoms are wavering gait, convulsions, weakness, sometimes blindness, and then death, always death. Always death, and very quickly.

— Dr. Drossos (Ernst Deutsch)

2 It may be an ill omen to sing in a cemetery, but there's no law against it.

— Oliver Davis (Marc Cramer)

3 Laws can be wrong and laws can be cruel, and the people who live only by the law are both wrong and cruel.

— Thea (Ellen Drew)

4 Thank you. To believe, to pray, even if only to some pagan god, so long as belief is there, it brings comfort.

— Aubrecht (Jason Robards Sr.)

5 The doctor is the doctor, and we'll do as he says. -Certainly. But one might as well go out on the cliff, and build a votive fire to Hermes. Not that I believe in Hermes, either.

— Aubrecht (Jason Robards Sr.)

6 The horseman on the pale horse is pestilence. He follows the wars.

— General Pherides (Boris Karloff)

7 The soldiers are exhausted. Why don't you use horses? -Horses cannot understand why they have to work beyond endurance for their country. But the men understand.

— General Pherides (Boris Karloff), Oliver Davis (Marc Cramer)

8 We'll make a wager. The doctor can use his science, I'll pray to Hermes. We'll see who dies and who is saved.

— Aubrecht (Jason Robards Sr.)

9 A fool's courage. Fight death all your days then die, knowing you know nothing.

— Dr. Drossos (Ernst Deutsch)

10 Better to watch the wind and hope that it changes than to watch each other and have no hope at all.

— Dr. Drossos (Ernst Deutsch)

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