Quotes from The Ancient One:
No one ever is. We don't get to choose our time. Death is what gives life meaning. To know your days are numbered. Your time is shortYou'd think after all this time, I'd be ready. But look at me. Stretching one moment out into a thousand...just so that I can watch the snow.
You're a man looking at the world through a keyhole, you've spent your whole life trying to widen that keyhole. To see more, to know more. And now, on hearing that it can be widen in ways you can't imagine, you reject the possibility?
You think that this material universe What is real? What mysteries lie beyond the reach of your senses? At the root of existence...mind and matter meet. Thoughts shape reality. This universe is only one of an infinite number. Worlds without end. Some benevolent and life giving. Others filled with malice and hunger. Dark places...where powers older than timelie ravenous...and waiting. Who are you in this vast Multiverse, Mr. Strange?
You want to go back to the delusion that you can control anything...even death...which no one can control. Not even the great Doctor Stephen Strange.
Time is relative. Your body hasn't even hit the floor yet. I've spent so many years...peering through time...looking at this exact moment. But I can't see past it. I've prevented countless, terrible futures. And after each one, there's always another. And they all lead here...but never further.
- The Ancient One: You cannot beat a river into submission. You have to surrender to its current, and use its power as your own.
- Dr. Stephen Strange: I... I control it by surrendering control? That doesn't make any sense.
- The Ancient One: Not everything does. Not everything has to. Your intellect has taken you far in life. But it will take you no further. Surrender, Stephen. Silence your ego and your power will rise.
Quotes from Dr. Stephen Strange:
Dormammu, I've come to bargain.
- Dr. Stephen Strange: What's this? My mantra?
- Mordo: The Wi-Fi password. We're not savages.
- Dr. Stephen Strange: You and me, trapped in this moment, endlessly.
- Dormammu: Then you will spend eternity dying.
- Dr. Stephen Strange: Yes. But everyone on Earth will live.
- Dormammu: But you will suffer.
- Dr. Stephen Strange: Pain's an old friend.
- Dr. Stephen Strange: even if my fingers could do that, my hands would just be waving in the air. I mean, how do I get from here to there?
- The Ancient One: How did you get to reattach severed nerves, and put a human spine back together bone by bone?
- Dr. Stephen Strange: Study and practice. Years of it.
Quotes from Kaecilius:
- Kaecilius: People think in terms of good and evil, when really, time is the true enemy of us all. Time kills everything.
- Dr. Stephen Strange: What about the people you killed?
- Kaecilius: Tiny, momentary specks within an indifferent universe.
The world is not what it ought to be. Humanity longs for the eternal...for a world beyond time, because time is what enslaves us. Time is an insult. Death is an insult.
Quotes from Mordo:
You still think there will be no consequences, Strange? No price to pay? We broke our rules, just like her. The bill comes due. Always. A reckoning.
I see, at long last, what's wrong with the world. Too many sorcerers.