A Prayer for the Dying (1987)

Mickey Rourke: Martin Fallon

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• Martin Fallon : There's no reason for killing or dying anymore. What's more, there's no reason for living!

  Anna : That's a terrible thing to say!

• Martin Fallon : I could've closed your mouth with a bullet.

  Father Michael Da Costa : Well why didn't you?

  Martin Fallon : There's been enough killin'

• Martin Fallon : Nobody touches the priest.

• Martin Fallon : Listen, I don't want to keep waking up every night hearing the screams of young children. I lost something a long time ago, Malachy. Everything. Everything got very black, like dried blood. And something started to stink. Every day it got worse, sometimes so bad I couldn't get out of my bed. I sat there In the dark like a wee scared boy, not being able to breathe or speak my name. I saw myself lying in the street, dying, not wanting to die. Maybe there's something wrong with me.

• Father Michael Da Costa : Have you something to say?

  Martin Fallon : We are fundamentally alone. Nothing lasts. There's no purpose to any of it.

  Father Michael Da Costa : That's a bit of a statement. Can you explain it to God?

  Martin Fallon : No, Father. Wrong way around. Can he explain it to me? Can he explain my lost faith and how I lost it?