Dr. Stephen 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.

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

Time will tell how much I love you.

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

Wong : How's your Sanskrit?
Dr. Stephen Strange : I'm fluent in Google Translate.

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 : This one's got pages missing.
Wong : That's The Book of Cagliostro. A study of time. One of the rituals was stolen by a former master. The Zealot, Kaecilius. Just after he strung up the former librarian and relieved him of his head. I am now the guardian of these books. So if a volume from this collection should be stolen again I'd know it and you'd be dead before you ever left the compound.
Dr. Stephen Strange : What if it's just overdue? Any late fees I should know about? Maiming, perhaps?

Wong : I am now the guardian of these books. So if a volume from this collection should be stolen again, I'd know it, and you'd be dead before you ever left the compound.
Dr. Stephen Strange : What if it's just overdue? You know. Any late fees I should know about? Maiming, perhaps?

Wong : Word of the Ancient One's death will spread through the Multiverse. Earth has no Sorcerer Supreme to defend it. We must be ready.
Dr. Stephen Strange : We'll be ready.

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

Wong : What do you want, Strange?
Dr. Stephen Strange : Books on Astral Projection.
Wong : You're not ready for that.
Dr. Stephen Strange : Try me, Beyoncé.
Dr. Stephen Strange : Come on! You've heard of her, she's a huge star, right?
Dr. Stephen Strange : Do you ever laugh? Come on, just give me the book.
Wong : No.

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.

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 : 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 : 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.

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.

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?

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

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 : 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 : 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.