The Best Ancient One Quotes

Ancient One: I've spent so many year 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.

Stephen Strange: I'm not ready.

Ancient One: No one ever is. We don't get to choose our time.

Ancient One: You cannot beat a river into submission; you have to surrender to its current, and use its power as your own.

Stephen Strange: I control it by surrendering control? That doesn't make any sense.

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.

Ancient One: Arrogance and fear still keep you from learning the simplest and most significant lesson of all.

Stephen Strange: Which is?

Ancient One: It's not about you.

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.

Ancient One: We never lose our demons, Mordo. We only learn to live above them.