A character in The Physician (2013)

Karim quotes from The Physician (2013)

Elyas M'Barek

3rd most-quoted character in The Physician (2013): in 2 of its 14 quotes

A line from Karim

My father believed feelings and emotions were beneath a true ruler. When I was a child, to drive them from my heart, he would take me to witness executions. I watched condemned men beg for their lives. I watched the swarms of flies feasting on twitching corpses. But then, over time, I became used to the sight, the smell, and the screams. In time I felt nothing. My father had succeeded in turning death into a subject of objective study. And now I am the Shah, ruler of all we see. The king of feeling nothing.

Scenes with Karim

1 scene

You have all these virgins waiting for you. How many was it again?

Karim

Some say 99, some say 20. What about yours?

None.

Karim

None? Then what's the point in dying?

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