- [repeated lines]
- Isolde: [reading] My face in thine eyes, thine in mine appears, And true plain hearts do in the faces rest; Where can we find two better hemispheres Without sharp north, without declining west? Whatever dies, was not mixed equally; If our two loves be one, or thou and I love so alike - that none can slacken, none can die.
- Isolde: Yesterday at the market, I saw a couple holding hands... and I realized we'll never do that. Never anything like it. No picnics or unguarded smiles. No rings. Just... stolen moments that leave too quickly.
- Isolde: Why be capable of feelings if we're not to have them? Why long for things if they are not meant to be ours?
- Lord Marke: Isolde, I was trying to explain to Tristan the importance of love. Seems he might live without it.
- Isolde: Why?
- Tristan: There are other things to live for: duty, honor.
- Isolde: But they are not life Tristan. They are the shells of life, and empty ones if in the end all they hold are days and days without love. Love is made by God. Ignore it and you suffer as you cannot imagine.
- Tristan: Then I will no longer live without it.
- Isolde: I'm not permitted a single moment without mourning. I'm living with this, Tristan, as you said we must.
- Tristan: I live in torture thinking of these moments. With every look he gives you, I get sicker and sicker. There's a burning in me I feel on fire, and there's guilt and I can't comidify. Does it make you happy to know that?
- Isolde: The Roman Bridge, I can get to it without being seen, and I'd go there any time to be with you.
- Lord Marke: Do you find no comfort in your home, these stearn walls that you helped build?
- Tristan: I find these walls a prison.
- Lord Marke: Why?
- Tristan: Everything I wanted seems meaningless.
- Isolde: You risked your life to give me to another man.
- Tristan: You said your name was Bragnae. Why did you do that?
- Isolde: Oh, what have I done? Stop this, please, Tristan, say something.
- Tristan: I can't. I won you in my King's name.
- Isolde: But I'm your's. You touched me and I you.
- Tristan: It doesn't matter.
- Isolde: It's the only thing that matters, Tristan. Leave with me, I'll go anywhere!
- Lord Marke: [on the affair] How long?
- Isolde: Since you thought he was dead. I found him wounded on a beach in Ireland. And I told him my name was Bragnae. So when he came to the tournament at Dunluce to win Doncadh's daughter he didnt realize it was me. All this time, my heart has been his. And I'm sorry. He tried, harder than you can possible imagine because he loves you.
- Melot: [lying in the tunnel] A dozen Irish have blazed your way.
- Tristan: Melot, I swear I did not lead them here.
- Melot: No, I did.
- Tristan: Why?
- Melot: I thought someone believed in me.
- Tristan: It will be undone.
- Melot: I am for the worms, Tristan. Swear to me that you are true.
- Tristan: As we were brothers.
- Tristan: Come with me. Come with me!
- Isolde: I can't!
- Tristan: Why not? Please!
- Isolde: Tristan, we both know this can't be, we've known it from the start. That doesn't mean it isn't true, it is, it just cannot be. I want to know that you're alive somewhere thinking of me from time to time. I want to know that there's more to this life and I can't know that if they kill you. Please! Go.
- Young Isolde: Why did she die, Bragnae? Why?
- Bragnae: It was an ill vapor that took her. A fever.
- Young Isolde: No. It was her heart.
- Tristan: What's your name?
- Isolde: Oh, I think it's better if we don't bother with names.
- Tristan: How can I thank you if I don't have your name?
- Isolde: You just did. If you insist, my name is Bragnae. I'm a lady in waiting at the court. My parents are dead. My mother is the source of the kindness you find so puzzling. My father would've left you where you fell.
- Tristan: Tristan of Aragon.
- Isolde: Well Tristan of Aragon, I'd guess about you too, but I think I've already seen everything.
- Lord Marke: What if she's a hag? Or what if she simply won't have me?
- Edyth: She'll have you. You're the prize.
- [from trailer]
- Isolde: I want to know that there's more to this life, and I can't know that if they kill you.
- [she Kisses Tristan]
- Lord Marke: [to Tristan] Is it possible a man blinded by love might not see treachery right in front of him?
- Isolde: [Reading from a bible] There she who bore you, brought you forth. Set me as a seal upon your heart, as a seal upon your arm. For love is as strong as death.
- Tristan: Ridiculous.
- Isolde: I happen to believe what this says. Don't you think there's more to life?
- Tristan: Than what?
- Isolde: Something more than duty and death.
- Lord Marke: You're trembling. You're far from home. I'm a stranger still and I understand. But, you mustn't fear me. My only wish is to make you happy - as a wife - as a woman.
- Lord Marke: I came to apologize. I've been selfish, arrogantly thinking that perhaps I'd given enough in these past nine years to merit if not your love, then at least your respect. A home, a kingdom, your very life. Why was it not enough? Tell me. TELL ME! Do you not know what you have done? Everything is destroyed! Everything! All because you did not have enough! 'She is loyal to you, I am sure of it.' You bloodsucker. What I could have been had I not stretched out this hand to save your wretched life, how I curse that day. How I curse it. Well, insult me with your defense.
- Isolde: His heart falters.
- [Disrobes and cradles a naked, unconscious Tristan]
- Bragnae: What are you doing?
- Isolde: He needs heat, now! Get your clothes off, quickly! Hurry! Quickly! Smell that? Smell the poison? When he warms, we need thistle and bark.
- Bragnae: I've not been naked with a man for 15 years.
- Lord Marke: If we lose we could end up following Wictred. I'd need an infallible champion.
- Tristan: Me.
- Lord Marke: [chuckles] You are not yet healed.
- Tristan: Then this trip will be my tonic.
- [first lines]
- Aragon: A year younger than I was for my first.
- Young Tristan: When can I have a stag?
- Aragon: A stag?
- Young Tristan: Come on!
- Aragon: Tell me again what you said last week...
- Morholt: [Discussing elixirs with Isolde] Makes a hard man, even harder. The only cure: wild abandon. Until our wedding day.
- King Donnchadh: Impressive victory. Of course, the man who defeats Morholt might be expected to triumph here.
- Tristan: On behalf of Cornwall, I offer your daughter a place on our throne. As royal of England. United behind one leader.
- King Donnchadh: Isolde. Perhaps it is just that he who took a husband, provides one.
- Isolde: I'm yours!
- King Donnchadh: No, Tristan of Aragon has won you on behalf of Lorde Marke of Cornwall.
- Tristan: What's this about a tournament?
- Lord Marke: The king has offered his daughter to whichever man wins.
- Tristan: Let me go and win you a wife.