The Last Unicorn (1982) - Quotes

King Haggard's Warning of Disinterest

King Haggard: You are losing my interest, and that is very dangerous.

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The Illusion of Happy Endings

Schmendrick the Magician: There are no happy endings because nothing ever ends.

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The Heart's Memory Beyond Time and Tales

Schmendrick the Magician: She will remember your heart when men are fairy tales, and books are written by rabbits.

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The Transformation of Emotion and Magic

Schmendrick the Magician: Don't cry. If you have become human enough to cry, then all the magic in the world cannot change you back.

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The Last Unicorn's Sole Survivor

Schmendrick the Magician: Haggard has them all now, drifting on the waves to his delight. All but one, and that one is the Lady Amalthea.

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Transformation and Freedom in The Last Unicorn

Schmendrick the Magician: *After transforming the tree he was tied to.

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Unexpected Engagement with a Tree

Schmendrick the Magician: Oh, God! I'm engaged to a Douglas fir!

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Embracing the Power of Magic

Schmendrick the Magician: Magic, do as you will! Magic, do as you will!

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Caution Against Provoking a Magician

Schmendrick the Magician: Be rary of wousing a wizard's wrath — rousing a rizard's — Be wary of making a magician angry! If I chose, I could turn you into a frog!

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A Second-Rate Pickpocket's Humble Offer

Schmendrick the Magician: You deserve the services of a great wizard, but I'm afraid you'll have to be glad of aid of a second-rate pickpocket.

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The Rarity of True Recognition

Schmendrick the Magician: It's a very rare person who is taken for what he truly is.

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Introduction of Schmendrick the Magician

Schmendrick the Magician: I am Schmendrick, the Magician, the last of the Red Hot Swamis!

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The Transformation of Innocence and Wisdom

Unicorn / Lady Amalthea: [[Now] Once, I can't remember, I was long ago, someone strange. I was innocent and wise, and full of pain. ] that I'm a woman, everything has changed. Once, when I was searching, somewhere out of reach, far away, in a place I could not find, or heart obey. Now that I'm a woman, everything is strange.

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A Unicorn's Reflection on Identity

Unicorn / Lady Amalthea: * To Schmendrick

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Embracing Joy Amidst Sorrow

Unicorn / Lady Amalthea: [[joy] Unicorns are in the world again. No sorrow will live in me as long as that ], save one...and I thank you for that part, too.

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Desire for shared fate in mortality

Unicorn / Lady Amalthea: Everything dies! I want to die when YOU die!

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Searching for Identity and Purpose

Unicorn / Lady Amalthea: Molly, who am I? Why am I here? What is it that I am seeking in this strange place, day after day? I knew a moment ago, but I have forgotten.

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Endless Journey of Existence

Unicorn / Lady Amalthea: [[dreaming] But, I am always ], even when I'm awake; it is never finished.

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Transformation and Identity in The Last Unicorn

Unicorn / Lady Amalthea: [[magic] * After ] transforms her into a woman.

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Struggling with Identity and Existence

Unicorn / Lady Amalthea: I wish you had let the Red Bull take me! I wish you had left me to the harpy! I can feel this body DYING all around me!

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Morning Reflections of a Transformed Unicorn

Unicorn / Lady Amalthea: * To Schmendrick, on the morning after escaping from The Midnight Carnival

The Nature of Regret and Feeling

Unicorn / Lady Amalthea: [[sorrow] I can never regret. I can feel ], but it's not the same thing.

Facing the Consequences of Actions

Unicorn / Lady Amalthea: [[w:Harpy|harpy; [w:Celaeno|Celaeno] * To Schmendrick, as the ] ] kills Mommy Fortuna

Facing Immortality Without Fear

Unicorn / Lady Amalthea: Don't look back, and don't run. You must never run from anything immortal; it attracts their attention.

A Unicorn's Reflection on Identity

Unicorn / Lady Amalthea: * To Mommy Fortuna

A Warning About Pride and Mortality

Unicorn / Lady Amalthea: Do not boast, old woman. Your death sits in that cage, and she hears you.

The Hidden Existence of Unicorns

Unicorn / Lady Amalthea: [[horse] Mare? Mare? I — a ]! Is that what you take me for? Is that what you see? … I have forgotten that men cannot see Unicorns. If men no longer know what they're looking at, there may well be other unicorns in the world yet — unknown — and glad of it.

A Unicorn's Quest for Companionship

Unicorn / Lady Amalthea: [[world] I could never leave this forest, but I must know if I'm the only unicorn left in the ]! Suppose they're hiding together... somewhere far away? What if they're waiting for me? In need of my help? … I must go quickly, and come back as soon as I can.

Searching for Kindred Spirits

Unicorn / Lady Amalthea: Please, all I want to know is if you've seen other unicorns like me somewhere in the world.

Existence and Loneliness of the Last Unicorn

Unicorn / Lady Amalthea: [[Unicorn; [time; [unicorns; [live; [sky; [moon] I am the only ] there is? The Last? … That cannot be. Why would I be the last? What do men know? Because they have seen no unicorns for a while does not mean we have all vanished. We do not vanish. … There has never been a ] without ]. We ] forever! We are as old as the ], old as the ]! We can be hunted, trapped; we can even be killed if we leave our forests, but we do not vanish. … Am I truly the last?