Anna Harding
Ellen, what is this insufferable darkness?
Nosferatu (2024) quotes
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Anna Harding
Our friendship is a precious balm to my heart. Forgive my chiding you.
Ellen Hutter
Thank you for loving me.
Ellen Hutter
You. I have felt you... crawling like a serpent in my body.
Count Orlok
It is not me. It is your own nature.
Ellen Hutter
No. I love Thomas.
Count Orlok
Love is inferior to you. I told you, you are not of humankind.
Ellen Hutter
You are a villain to speak so.
Count Orlok
I am an appetite, nothing more. O'er centuries, a loathsome beast, I lay within the darkest pit. 'Til you did wake me, enchantress, and stir me from my grave. You are my affliction.
Ellen Hutter
I care nothing of your afflications!
Count Orlok
Yet, even now, we are fated. Your husband has signed his name covenanted you to my person for but a sack of gold.
Ellen Hutter
Lies!
Count Orlok
For gold did he absolve his nuptial bond.
Ellen Hutter
You know nothing of him-
Count Orlok
And the resignation must be completed by you, freely of thine own will.
Ellen Hutter
You are a deceiver!
Count Orlok
You deceive yourself.
Ellen Hutter
I was but an innocent child-
Count Orlok
And thought you I would not return? Thought you I would not? Your passion is bound to me.
Ellen Hutter
You cannot love.
Count Orlok
I cannot. Yet, I cannot be sated without you.
Count Orlok
[Ellen draws closer, seemingly drawn in by Orlok's very presence]
Remember how once we were? A moment. Remember?
Ellen Hutter
[A moment of silence between them both]
I... abhor you.
Count Orlok
Then you are FALSE!
Count Orlok
[He angrily throws Ellen to the floor]
So you wish me to prove my enmity as well?! I will leave you three nights! Tonight was the first! Tonight you denied yourself, and thereby you suffer me to vanish up the lives of those you love!
Ellen Hutter
Denied myself?! You revel in my torture!
Count Orlok
Upon the third night you will submit, or he you call your husband shall perish by my hand.
Ellen Hutter
No...
Count Orlok
‘Til you bid me come, shall you watch the world become as naught.
Ellen Hutter
NO!
[Orlok roars at Ellen, who suddenly wakes]
Herr Knock
A new husband requires new wages.
Thomas Hutter
You're too generous, sir.
Herr Knock
Allow me to extend my congratulations to your wife.
Thomas Hutter
Thank you, sir.
Herr Knock
She truly is beautiful. A... a nonpareil, almost a... sylph. [chuckles]
Thomas Hutter
[awkwardly]
Yes, thank you, sir...
Thomas Hutter
I have been enduring the most irregular dreams. I fear I have taken ill.
Count Orlok
It is a black omen to journey in poor health. You will remain and well rest yourself.
Thomas Hutter
I must object, my lord.
Count Orlok
You will obey this, my counsel.
Thomas Hutter
I have-- My lord, I have questions about the, um... unfamiliar customs of the peasantry and the... errant wanderers. Last night, I saw... or rather, I believe I saw a band of gypsies, they... ventured to a small birch grove and--
Count Orlok
I fear we yet keep close many superstitions here that may seem backward to a young man of your high learning.
Thomas Hutter
These gypsies, they... exhumed a corpse.
Count Orlok
It is their filthy ritual.
Thomas Hutter
What manner of ritual?
Count Orlok
SPEAK NOT OF IT AGAIN!
Professor Albin Eberhart von Franz
[as he, Hutter and Sievers burn the Hardings' bodies]
"In the name of Jehovah, and by the power and dignity of these three names, Tetragrammaton, Anexhexeton, Primematum, cast thee, O thou disobedient spirit Nosferatu, into the Lake of Fire, there to remain until the Day of Doom and not to be remembered before the face of God who shall come to judge the quick and the dead and the world with fire."
Herr Knock
[regarding headless rats and a still-living pigeon]
Lives... [picks up the pigeon and pets it] gifts, bestowed upon me by His Lordship. Look, this is a pretty one. His Lordship likes the pretty ones best...
Count Orlok
[to Knock]
Silence, dog! Your entreaties grow insolent. You shall crave of me nothing.
Count Orlok
[to Thomas]
I will be addressed as the honour of my blood commands it.
Count Orlok
[to Thomas]
You are late. The midnight hour is passed, and my attendants have all retired.
Count Orlok
[to young Ellen]
You awakened me from an eternity of darkness. You... You... You are not for the living. You are not for humankind.
Herr Knock
And now, I have been entertaining dealings with a foreign count. Very old line of nobility, very old and... eccentric. He wishes to acquire a home here in our Wisborg, to retire here. He has one foot in the grave, so to speak. [laughs]
Ellen Hutter
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 if you're at the whim of another, like a dog. Someone or something had the power to breath life into you, to move you.
Herr Knock
He is coming... Twas he that invoked me! Twas I that was chosen to serve him! I know what he covets! [laughs madly] And he shall cast upon you curses, confusion, afflictions, rebukes, for you have forsaken me, and he shall reign over all of your empty corpses! Devourance... DEVOURANCE! [attacks Dr. Sievers]