“- Topper's Chauffeur: It's awful dark down there.
- Mrs. Topper: Darkness never hurt anyone.
- Topper's Chauffeur: It ain't the darkness, Mrs. Topper. It's what's in it!”
Eddie "Rochester" Anderson - Topper's Chauffeur
Billie Burke - Mrs. Topper

“It's not pain that breaks them. It's fear. Knowing that they are absolutely helpless. You are helpless, aren't you? I can do anything I please to you. And there's nothing you can do.”
Roger Cudney - Hofrax

“We are glorious! We will no longer be afraid. Only through pain can you achieve your greatness! The impure are the untouched, the unburned, the unslain. Those who have not been torn have no value in themselves and no place in this world!”
James McAvoy - The Beast

“- Eddie Jessup: I can't live with it Emily, the pain is unbearable.
- Emily Jessup: We all live with it. That unbearable terror is what makes us such singular creatures. We hide from it, we succumb to it, mostly we defy it! We build fragile little structures to keep it out. We love, we raise families, we work, we make friends. We write poems...”

William Hurt - Eddie Jessup
Blair Brown - Emily Jessup

“- Lina McLaidlaw Aysgarth: Is whatever it is, painful?
- Isobel Sedbusk: Not in the least. In fact I should think it'd be a most pleasant death.”

Joan Fontaine - Lina McLaidlaw Aysgarth
Auriol Lee - Isobel Sedbusk