Meet Joe Black. A. Casella, B. Goldman, R. Osborn, J. Reno, K. Wade

JOE: I love her, Bill. She is all that I ever wanted, and I've never wanted for anything because I've never wanted anything before, if you can understand.

PARRISH: How perfect for you -- to take whatever you want because it pleases you.  It's not love --

JOE: Then what is it?

PARRISH: Some aimless infatuation in which, for the moment, you feel like indulging.  It's missing everything that matters.

JOE: Which is what?

PARRISH. Trust, responsibility, taking the weight for your choices and feelings and spending the rest of your life living up to them.  And above all, not hurting the object of your love.

JOE: So that's what love is?

PARRISH: Multiply it by infinity and take it to the death of forever and you will still have barely a glimpse of what I am talking about.

Meet Joe Black. A. Casella, B. Goldman, R. Osborn, J. Reno, K. Wade

PARRISH: Be deliriously happy. Or at least leave yourself open to be.

SUSAN: 'Be deliriously happy'.  I'm going to do my utmost --

He smiles.

PARRISH: I know it's a cornball thing but love is passion, obsession, someone you can't live without. If you don't start with that, what are you going to end up with?  I say fall head over heels.

Find someone you can love like crazy and who'll love you the same way back. And how do you find him? Forget your head and listen to your heart. I'm not hearing any heart.

(a moment)

Run the risk, if you get hurt, you'll come back.  Because, the truth is there is no sense living your life without this. To make the journey and not fall deeply in love -- well, you haven't lived a life at all. You have to try.  Because if you haven't tried, you haven't lived.

Meet Joe Black. A. Casella, B. Goldman, R. Osborn, J. Reno, K. Wade

JOE: But she loves you?

Quince smiles, nods embarrassedly.

JOE (cont'd): How do you know?

QUINCE: Because there's nothing we don't know about each other and it's okay. I mean the deeper, darkest secrets -- they don't matter.

JOE: 'The deepest, darkest secrets --'?

QUINCE. Yeah, it's like you know every inch of each other's souls -- and then you're free.

JOE. What do you mean 'free'?

QUINCE. Free to love each other. Completely. Totally. No fear.