Antonius Block: Wait a moment.Death: You all say that. But I grant no reprieves.
I met Death today. We are playing chess.
Antonius Block: I want knowledge! Not faith, not assumptions, but knowledge. I want God to stretch out His hand, uncover His face and speak to me.Death: But He remains silent.Antonius Block: I call out to Him in the darkness. But it's as if no one was there.Death: Perhaps there isn't anyone.Antonius Block: Then life is a preposterous horror. No man can live faced with Death, knowing everything's nothingness.Death: Most people think neither of death nor nothingness.Antonius Block: But one day you stand at the edge of life and face darkness.Death: That day.Antonius Block: I understand what you mean.
We must make an idol of our fear, and call it god.
