Doctor Strange Quotes

Dormammu, I've come to bargain!

Stop!

You came back from a place there's no way back from. I... I-I-I'm trying to find my own way back.

Christine Palmer : Where have you been?
Dr. Stephen Strange : Well, after Western medicine failed me, I headed east, and I ended up in Kathmandu.
Christine Palmer : Kathmandu?
Dr. Stephen Strange : Yeah.
Christine Palmer : What? Like the Bob Seger Song?
Dr. Stephen Strange : 1975, Beautiful Loser, side A. Yeah. And I went to a place called Kamar-Taj and I... talked to someone called "The Ancient One." And I...
Christine Palmer : Oh. So you joined a cult.
Dr. Stephen Strange : No, I didn't. No, not exactly. No. I mean... They did teach me to tap into powers that I never even knew existed.
Christine Palmer : Yeah. That sounds like a cult.
Dr. Stephen Strange : It's not a cult.
Christine Palmer : Well, that's what a cultist would say.

Time will tell how much I love you.

Wong. Just Wong? Like Adele? Or Aristotle. Drake. Bono... Eminem.

Thank you for the books and for the horrifying story and... for the threat upon my life.

Christine Palmer : Hey. It's OK. It's gonna be OK.
Dr. Stephen Strange : Wha... What did they do?
Christine Palmer : They... rushed you in a chopper. But it took a little while to find you. The golden hours for nerve damage went by while you were in the car.
Dr. Stephen Strange : What... did they do?
Christine Palmer : Eleven stainless steel pins in the bones. Multiple torn ligaments... severe nerve damage in both hands. You were on the table for eleven hours.
Dr. Stephen Strange : Look at these fixators.
Christine Palmer : No one could have done better.
Dr. Stephen Strange : I could have done better.

The Ancient One : Have you ever seen that before in a gift shop?
Dr. Stephen Strange : Teach me.
The Ancient One : No.

Dr. Stephen Strange : I'm not ready.
The Ancient One : No one ever is. We don't get to choose our time.
The Ancient One : Death is what gives life meaning. To know your days are numbered. Your time is short. You'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.

he patient's not dead, but he is dying. Still want to harvest his organs?

Dr. Stephen Strange : I'm gonna have to vanish now.
Christine Palmer : What?
Dr. Stephen Strange : Keep me alive, will you?

Dr. Stephen Strange : I'm talking tonight at a Neurological Society dinner. Come with me.
Christine Palmer : Another speaking engagement? So romantic.
Dr. Stephen Strange : You used to love coming to those things with me. We had fun together.
Christine Palmer : No, you had fun. They weren't about us, they were about you.
Dr. Stephen Strange : Not only about me.
Christine Palmer : Stephen. Everything is about you.

The Ancient One : Arrogance and fear still keep you from learning the simplest and most significant lesson of all.
Dr. Stephen Strange : Which is?
The Ancient One : It's not about you.

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 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.

The Ancient One :Stubbornness, arrogance, ambition. I've seen it all before.
Baron Mordo : He reminds you of Kaecilius.

The Ancient One : You think I was wrong to cast him out?
Baron Mordo : Five hours later, he's still on your doorstep. There's a strength to him.

Baron Mordo : How's our new recruit?
The Ancient One : We shall see... Any second now.
Baron Mordo : Oh no, not again.

The bill comes due. Don't you see? Her transgressions led to the Zealots to Dormammu. Kaecilius... was her fault! And here we are... in the consequence of her deception. A world on fire.

I once stood in your place. And I, too, was... disrespectful. So, might I offer you some advice? Forget everything you think you know.

Jonathan Pangborn : Can I help you?
Baron Mordo : They carried you into Kamar-Taj on a stretcher. Look at you now, Pangborn.
Jonathan Pangborn : Mordo. So what can I do for you, man?
Baron Mordo : I've been away for many months now and I've had a revelation. The true purpose of a sorcerer is to twist things out of their proper shape. Stealing power. Perverting nature. Like you.
Jonathan Pangborn : I've stolen nothing. This is my power. Mine.
Baron Mordo : Power has a purpose.
Jonathan Pangborn : Why are you doing this?
Baron Mordo : Because I see, at long last, what's wrong with the world. Too many sorcerers.

Dr. Stephen Strange : 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.

Look at your face. Dormannu made you a murderer. Just how good can his kingdom be?

Dr. Stephen Strange : I don't believe in fairytales about chakras or energy or the power of belief.
The Ancient One : You wonder what I see in your future? Possibility.

Yeah, you know, you really should have stolen the whole book because the warnings... the warnings come after the spells.

Dr. Stephen Strange : Hah!
Kaecilius : You don't know how to use that, do you?
Dr. Stephen Strange : Uh...

Kaecilius : How long have you been at Kamar-Taj, Mister...
Dr. Stephen Strange : Doctor!
Kaecilius : Mr. Doctor?
Dr. Stephen Strange : It's Strange.
Kaecilius : Maybe. Who am I to judge?

The Ancient One : 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 widened, in ways you can't imagine, you reject the possibility.
Dr. Stephen Strange : No, I reject it because I do not believe in fairy tales about chakras or energy or the power of belief. There is no such thing as spirit! We are made of matter and nothing more. You're just another tiny, momentary speck within an indifferent universe.

I'm breaking the laws of nature. I know.
Wong : Well, don't stop now.

Kaecilius : What have you done?
Dr. Stephen Strange : I made a bargain.
Kaecilius : What is this?
Dr. Stephen Strange : Well, it's everything you've ever wanted. Eternal life as part of the One. You're not gonna like it.
Dr. Stephen Strange : Yeah, you know, you really should have stolen the whole book because the warnings... The warnings come after the spells.

Dr. Stephen Strange : Who's laughing now, asshole?
Kaecilius : I am.

Dr. Stephen Strange : What did you just do to me?
The Ancient One : I pushed your astral form out of your physical form.
Dr. Stephen Strange : What's in that tea? Psilocybin? LSD?
The Ancient One : It's just tea... with a little honey.
Dr. Stephen Strange : What just happened?
The Ancient One : For a moment, you entered the astral dimension.
Dr. Stephen Strange : The what?
The Ancient One : A place where the soul exists apart from the body.
Dr. Stephen Strange : Why are you doing this to me?
The Ancient One : To show you just how much you don't know. Open your eye.

Dr. Stephen Strange : on the verge of tears] Don't shut me out. I haven't got anywhere else to go...
Dr. Stephen Strange : Thank you.