Claude Laydu credited as playing...
Priest of Ambricourt (Curé d'Ambricourt)
- [subtitled version]
- Countess: Love is stronger than death. Your scriptures say so.
- Curé d'Ambricourt: We did not invent love. It has its order, its law.
- Countess: God is its master.
- Curé d'Ambricourt: He is not the master of love. He is love itself. If you would love, don't place yourself beyond love's reach.
- Curé d'Ambricourt: I said to her, "Peace be with you," and she'd received that peace on her knees. What wonder, that one can give what one doesn't possess! Oh, miracle of our empty hands!
- Curé d'Ambricourt: [voiceover] Behind me, there was no longer familiar daily life from which one escapes with a single bound. Behind me there was nothing. And in front of me, a wall. A black wall.
- Chantal: I want everything. I'll try everything. I may be young, but I know lots of people die before succeeding. Even if life disappoints me, too bad. I will sin for sin's sake.
- Curé d'Ambricourt: That's when you will find God.
- Curé d'Ambricourt: [voiceover] What wouldn't I have given this morning for a word of compassion or kindness.
- Curé d'Ambricourt: What madness.
- Countess: Forgive me.
- Curé d'Ambricourt: God is no torturer. He wants us to be merciful with ourselves.
- Countess: What's done is done. I can't help it now.
- Curé d'Ambricourt: Peace be with you.
- Curé d'Ambricourt: Where have I gone wrong?
- Curé de Torcy: You fidget about too much. You look like a hornet in a bottle.
- Curé d'Ambricourt: [voiceover] Suddenly, God granted me the revelation through the old mentor's lips, that nothing could tear me from the place eternally chosen for me, that I was a prisoner of His Agony.
- Curé d'Ambricourt: [voiceover] Dawn's deliverance is always sweet. Blessed are the mornings. I pray better.
- Chantal: Do you have some secret?
- Curé d'Ambricourt: A lost secret. You'll find it, and lose it again. Others will pass it on after you.
- Curé d'Ambricourt: In your shoes, if I'd broken my ordination vows, I'd rather it had been for a woman's love, than what you call your intellectual evolution.
- Curé d'Ambricourt: [voiceover] Awful night. No sooner had I shut my eyes than sadness overwhelmed me.
- Curé d'Ambricourt: [voiceover] I wanted to say something about his cabaret. He holds a dance every Sunday. He calls it the Family Ball. It attracts even the young girls whom the boys enjoy getting drunk.
- Curé d'Ambricourt: Are you eager to take Communion?
- Séraphita Dumontel: No.
- Curé d'Ambricourt: Why not?
- Séraphita Dumontel: It will come when it will.
- Curé d'Ambricourt: But you understand. You listen so carefully.
- Séraphita Dumontel: It's because you have lovely eyes.
- Curé d'Ambricourt: [voiceover] I reproach myself for praying so little or so poorly. But have I the time to pray?