Stanislaus Pilgrin: [voicing his thoughts] The simple closing of a door has brought me to the guillotine.

- Maximilian Schell in Return from the Ashes (1965)

Stanislaus Pilgrin: If there is no God, no devil, no heaven, no hell, and no immortality, then anything is permissible.

- Maximilian Schell in Return from the Ashes (1965)

Dr. Michele 'Mischa' Wolf: Don't grovel. If I have to remember you at all I want to remember Stan the actor, the cynic, the complete bastard.

- Ingrid Thulin in Return from the Ashes (1965)