The Physician

Rob Cole: "I already miss him."
Rebecca: "No. No one is dead. As long as we all remember them, his spirit will live on. But it is in your hands to keep it alive."
Rob Cole: "How can I do that?"
Rebecca: "Be a great physician."

Rob Cole: "My lord, to stand any chance of survival, you must rest."
Shah Ala ad Daula: "The hour of my demise is already waiting. Thanks to you, the angel of death will not find me in bed like a simpering old man, but on the battlefield like a king."

"Only the road of excess can lead to the palace of wisdom."

Quasim: "Would you do me a favor? When I am gone, take my corpse to the tower and leave it for the birds."
Rob Cole: "You don't want to be buried or cremated?"
Quasim: "We Zoroastrians leave our bodies to the vultures. They cleanse our souls of earthly remains."
Rob Cole: "What about resurrection?"
Quasim: "Muslims, Jews, Christians, doubt the immortality of the soul. They want to take their bones with them, just in case."
Rob Cole: "So you care nothing for your body?"
Quasim: "Why should God worry about the house, when he can have the fruit inside?"

Rob Cole: "Do you never doubt your calling?"
Ibn Sina: "Every morning and every evening. In between I work too hard to think about it."

"My father believed feelings and emotions were beneath a true ruler. When I was a child, to drive them from my heart, he would take me to witness executions. I watched condemned men beg for their lives. I watched the swarms of flies feasting on twitching corpses. But then, over time, I became used to the sight, the smell, and the screams. In time I felt nothing. My father had succeeded in turning death into a subject of objective study... And now I am the Shah, ruler of all we see. The king of feeling nothing."

Mirdin: "God gives us life, and God takes it back."
Rob Cole: "Why does he always take more than he gives?"

Rob Cole: "You have all these virgins waiting for you. How many was it again?"
Karim: "Some say 99, some say 20. What about yours?"
Rob Cole: "None."
Karim: "None? Then what's the point in dying?"