- Wilhelm Grimm: The future lies in victory not in freedom. The war will be continued until it's won, that's our destiny.
- Wilhelm Grimm: I love you Marja- you're the only human being in the world that I love. The others I hate, all of them. Not only these village clowns who babble idiotically in the market square, but the German people too. They lost the war, not our army.
- Marja Pacierkowski: If I were to marry him now it would be like marrying a stranger. I can't do it. He frightens me.
- Wilhelm Grimm: I suppose it's kind after all the years I've waited to walk out and leave me three days before my marriage, making me the laughingstock of the village idiots!