There are only four questions of value in life. What is sacred? Of what is the spirit made? What is worth living for, and what is worth dying for? The answer to each is the same: only love.

This line is attributed to the title character in the 1994 romantic drama film *Don Juan DeMarco* (released 1995), in which a young man (Johnny Depp) insists he is the legendary lover Don Juan and is treated by psychiatrist Dr. Jack Mickler (Marlon Brando). The quote reflects the film’s recurring motif: Don Juan’s extravagant romantic philosophy gradually affects those around him, especially the doctor, by reawakening a sense of passion, meaning, and tenderness in ordinary life. The “four questions” formulation functions like a personal credo, distilling the character’s worldview into a memorable aphorism delivered in the film’s heightened, poetic register.

The quote frames life’s deepest ethical and existential concerns—what is holy, what the soul consists of, and what justifies living or dying—as ultimately reducible to a single principle: love. By collapsing sacredness, spirituality, and ultimate value into one answer, it argues that love is not merely an emotion but the substance of meaning itself. The rhetorical structure (four questions, one answer) gives the statement the feel of a catechism, suggesting love as a universal measure for evaluating purpose and sacrifice. In the film’s context, it also serves as a corrective to cynicism: love is presented as the force that dignifies life and makes it worth risking oneself for.