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The 100 Best Quotes from Marvel Studios’ Doctor Strange

Doctor Stephen Strange is one of the more elusive characters in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Although his back story is somewhat traumatic, his imprint on the MCU has been everlasting. The ‘doctor’ in Doctor Strange comes from his background in the medical field. He had a career-ending car accident that left him unemployed and hopeless.

Upon his arrival in Nepal, he is looking for anything that would heal his fingers so he could return to being a world-renowned surgeon in New York. What he doesn’t know is that he will change the universe forever and become the Sorcerer Supreme after saving the world in three different cities.

Benedict Cumberbatch tells the story of Doctor Strange and has since reprised his role for multiple other Marvel movies. After his own movie, Doctor Strange joined forces with the Avengers in 2018 for Infinity War and again in 2019 for Endgame. You can find these movies and other Marvel movies all on Disney+!

Here’s the scoop on the best Doctor Strange Quotes!

Warning! This article may contain Doctor Strange movie spoilers!

Official Doctor Strange Poster.
Official Doctor Strange Poster.

1. “Arrogance and fear still keep you from learning the simplest and most significant lesson of all.” – The Ancient One

2. “Another speaking engagement? So romantic.” – Christine Palmer

Marvel's DOCTOR STRANGE L to R: The Ancient One (Tilda Swinton) and Doctor Stephen Strange (Benedict Cumberbatch) Photo Credit: Film Frame  ©2016 Marvel. All Rights Reserved.
Marvel’s DOCTOR STRANGE L to R: The Ancient One (Tilda Swinton) and Doctor Stephen Strange (Benedict Cumberbatch) Photo Credit: Film Frame ©2016 Marvel. All Rights Reserved.

3. “Try me, Beyoncé.” – Doctor Strange

4. “Death is what gives life meaning. To know your days are numbered. Your time is short.” – The Ancient One

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Marvel’s DOCTOR STRANGE: Doctor Stephen Strange (Benedict Cumberbatch) Photo Credit: Film Frame ©2016 Marvel. All Rights Reserved.

5. “This is no time for showing off, Strange.” – Dr. West

6. “I don’t believe in fairytales about chakras or energy or the power of belief.” – Doctor Strange

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Marvel’s DOCTOR STRANGE L to R: The Ancient One (Tilda Swinton) and Mordo (Chiwetel Ejiofor) Photo Credit: Jay Maidment ©2016 Marvel. All Rights Reserved.

7. “Where did you learn the litany of spells to even understand it?” – Mordo

8. “Doctor… we don’t seek to rule this world. We seek to save it… to hand it over to Dormammu, who is the intent of all evolution… the why of all existence.” – Kaecilius

 Wong (Benedict Wong) and Doctor Stephen Strange (Benedict Cumberbatch) in Doctor Strange (2016)
Marvel’s DOCTOR STRANGE: Wong (Benedict Wong) and Doctor Stephen Strange (Benedict Cumberbatch) in Doctor Strange (2016)

9. “We never lose our demons. We only learn to live above them.” – The Ancient One

10. “Okay. Don’t tell me. Fine.” – Christine Palmer

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Marvel’s DOCTOR STRANGE: Doctor Stephen Strange (Benedict Cumberbatch) Photo Credit: Film Frame ©2016 Marvel. All Rights Reserved.

11. “You really should stole the whole book because the warnings come after the spells.” – Doctor Strange

12. “I’ve got a 35-year-old Air Force Colonel, crushed his lower spine in some kind of experimental armor. Mid-thoracic burst fracture.” – Nurse Billy

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Marvel’s DOCTOR STRANGE: Doctor Stephen Strange (Benedict Cumberbatch) Photo Credit: Film Frame ©2016 Marvel. All Rights Reserved.

13. ” I’m gonna have to vanish now.” – Doctor Strange

14. “Daniel, I see they made you master of this Sanctum.” – Kaecilius

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Marvel’s DOCTOR STRANGE: Doctor Stephen Strange (Benedict Cumberbatch) Photo Credit: Film Frame ©2016 Marvel. All Rights Reserved.

15. “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.” – Wong

16. “No, Stephen. You lack a spine.” – Mordo

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Marvel’s DOCTOR STRANGE L to R: Mordo (Chiwetel Ejiofor) and Doctor Stephen Strange (Benedict Cumberbatch) Photo Credit: Jay Maidment ©2016 Marvel. All Rights Reserved.

17. ” Is still a life. This isn’t the end, there are other things that can give your life meaning.” – Christine Palmer

18. “Oh no, not again.” – Mordo

Doctor Strange (2016)
Doctor Strange (2016)

19. “Wise choice. You’ll wear the Eye of Agamotto… once you’ve mastered its powers. Until then… best not to walk down the streets wearing an Infinity Stone.” – Wong

20. ” I spent so many years peering through time… looking at this exact moment. But I can’t see past it.” – The Ancient One

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21. “Thank you for the books and for the horrifying story and… for the threat upon my life.” – Doctor Strange

22. “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.” – Mordo

L to R: The Ancient One (Tilda Swinton) and Doctor Stephen Strange (Benedict Cumberbatch) Photo Credit: Film Frame  ©2016 Marvel. All Rights Reserved.
Marvel’s DOCTOR STRANGE L to R: The Ancient One (Tilda Swinton) and Doctor Stephen Strange (Benedict Cumberbatch) Photo Credit: Film Frame ©2016 Marvel. All Rights Reserved.

23. “That is hilarious!” – Man on Bus

24. “Master Kaecilius. That ritual will bring you only sorrow.” – The Ancient One

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Marvel’s DOCTOR STRANGE Doctor Stephen Strange (Benedict Cumberbatch) Photo Credit: Jay Maidment ©2016 Marvel. All Rights Reserved.

25. “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.” – Christine Palmer

26. “I could’ve done better.” – Doctor Strange

Mordo (Chiwetel Ejiofor) Photo Credit: Jay Maidment ©2016 Marvel. All Rights Reserved.
Marvel’s DOCTOR STRANGE Mordo (Chiwetel Ejiofor) Photo Credit: Jay Maidment ©2016 Marvel. All Rights Reserved.

27. “You became a doctor to save one life above all others. Your own.” – The Ancient One

28. “I once stood in your place. And I, too, was… disrespectful. So, might I offer you some advice? Forget everything you think you know.” – Mordo

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Marvel’s DOCTOR STRANGE Doctor Stephen Strange (Benedict Cumberbatch) Photo Credit: Film Frame ©2016 Marvel. All Rights Reserved.

29. “Teach me.” – Doctor Strange

30. “No.” – The Ancient One

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Marvel’s DOCTOR STRANGE L to R: Doctor Stephen Strange (Benedict Cumberbatch) and Christine Palmer (Rachel McAdams) Photo Credit: Jay Maidment ©2016 Marvel. All Rights Reserved.

31. “You cannot do this forever.” – Dormammu

32. “Dormammu, I’ve come to bargain!” – Doctor. Strange

Clem So and Linda Louise Duan in Doctor Strange (2016)
Marvel’s DOCTOR STRANGE: Clem So and Linda Louise Duan in Doctor Strange (2016)

33. “The Wi-Fi password. We’re not savages.” – Mordo

34. “Then you will spend eternity dying!” – Dormammu

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Marvel’s DOCTOR STRANGE: Doctor Stephen Strange (Benedict Cumberbatch) ©2016 Marvel. All Rights Reserved.

35. “Well, that’s what a cultist would say.” – Christine Palmer

36. “Stop! Tampering with continuum probabilities is forbidden!” – Mordo

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Marvel’s DOCTOR STRANGE: Doctor Stephen Strange (Benedict Cumberbatch) ©2016 Marvel. All Rights Reserved.

37. “They really should put the warnings before this spell.” – Doctor Strange

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

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Marvel’s DOCTOR STRANGE Doctor Stephen Strange (Benedict Cumberbatch) ©2016 Marvel. All Rights Reserved.

39. “While heroes like the Avengers protect the world from physical dangers, we sorcerers safeguard it against more mystical threats.” – Wong

40. ” I pushed your astral form out of your physical form.” – The Ancient One

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Doctor Strange (2016)

41. “Wong. Just Wong? Like Adele? Or Aristotle. Drake. Bono… Eminem.” – Doctor Strange

42. ” It’s not about you! When you first came to me, you asked me how I was able to heal Jonathan Pangborn. I didn’t. He channels dimensional energy directly into his own body.” – The Ancient One

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Marvel’s DOCTOR STRANGE L to R: Doctor Stephen Strange (Benedict Cumberbatch) and Christine Palmer (Rachel McAdams) ©2016 Marvel. All Rights Reserved.

43. “How long have you been at Kamar-Taj, Mister…” – Mordo

44. “Well, it’s everything you’ve ever wanted. Eternal life as part of the One. You’re not gonna like it.” – Doctor Strange

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Marvel’s DOCTOR STRANGE L to R: Doctor Stephen Strange (Benedict Cumberbatch) and The Ancient One (Tilda Swinton) ©2016 Marvel. All Rights Reserved.

45. ” I’m breaking the laws of nature. I know.” – Doctor Strange

46. “Stephen. Everything is about you.” – Christine Palmer

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Marvel’s DOCTOR STRANGE: The Ancient One (Tilda Swinton) ©2016 Marvel. All Rights Reserved.

47. “Do you ever laugh? Come on, just give me the book.” – Doctor Strange

48. “You think there will be no consequences, Strange? No price to pay? We broke our rules, just like her. The bill comes due. Always!” – Mordo

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Marvel’s DOCTOR STRANGE: Mordo (Chiwetel Ejiofor) ©2016 Marvel. All Rights Reserved.

49. “Word of the Ancient One’s death will spread through the Multiverse. Earth has no Sorcerer Supreme to defend it. We must be ready.” – Wong

50. “We’ll be ready.” – Doctor Strange

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Doctor Stephen Strange (Benedict Cumberbatch) ©2016 Marvel. All Rights Reserved.

51. “Maybe. Who am I to judge?” – Kaecilius

52. “You’ve come to die. Your world is now my… What is this? Illusion?” – Darmammu

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53. “Pain’s an old friend.” – Doctor Strange

54. “I never saw your future, only its possibilities. You have such a capacity for goodness. You’ve always excelled, but not because you crave success but because of your fear of failure.” – The Ancient One

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Doctor Strange (2016)

55. “Stephen, you always spent money as fast as you can make it, but now you’re spending money you don’t even have. Maybe it’s time to consider stopping.” – Christine Palmer

56. “This is the part where you leave.” – Doctor Strange

L to R: Mordo(Chiwetel Ejiofor), Stan Lee, and Doctor Stephen Strange (Benedict Cumberbatch) in Doctor Strange (2016)
Marvel’s DOCTOR STRANGE L to R: Mordo(Chiwetel Ejiofor), Stan Lee, and Doctor Stephen Strange (Benedict Cumberbatch) in Doctor Strange (2016)

57. “Really just roll off the tongue, don’t they?” – Doctor Strange

58. “You wonder what I see in your future? Possibility.” – The Ancient One

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Marvel’s DOCTOR STRANGE L to R: Doctor Stephen Strange (Benedict Cumberbatch) and Christine Palmer (Rachel McAdams) ©2016 Marvel. All Rights Reserved.

59. “This is insane.” – Christine Palmer

60. “Give your body time to heal.” – West

Marvel's DOCTOR STRANGE L to R:  Scott Adkins, Mads Mikkelsen, Zara Phythian, Alaa Safi, and Katrina Durden in Doctor Strange (2016)
Marvel’s DOCTOR STRANGE L to R: Scott Adkins, Mads Mikkelsen, Zara Phythian, Alaa Safi, and Katrina Durden in Doctor Strange (2016)

61. “How about ten minutes ago when you called the wrong time of death?” – Doctor Strange

62. “Just after he strung up the former librarian and relieved him of his head. I am now the guardian of these books.” – Wong

Doctor Strange (2016)
Doctor Strange (2016)

63. “This is a relic. Some magic is too powerful to sustain so we imbue objects with it… allowing them to take the strain we cannot.” – Mordo

64. “Billy. What have you got for me?” – Doctor Strange

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65. “He reminds you of Kaecilius.” – Mordo

66. “You think I was wrong to cast him out?” – The Ancient One

Marvel's DOCTOR STRANGE L to R: Tilda Swinton, Benedict Cumberbatch, and Topo Wresniwiro in Doctor Strange (2016)
Marvel’s DOCTOR STRANGE L to R: Tilda Swinton, Benedict Cumberbatch, and Topo Wresniwiro in Doctor Strange (2016)

67. “You lack imagination!” – Doctor Strange

68. “But this isn’t medicine anymore, this is mania. Some things just can’t be fixed.” – Christine Palmer

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Doctor Strange (2016)

69. “You don’t know how to use that, do you?” – Kaecilius

70. “We shall see… Any second now.” – The Ancient One

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Marvel’s DOCTOR STRANGE: Doctor Stephen Strange (Benedict Cumberbatch) ©2016 Marvel. All Rights Reserved.

71. “Eleven stainless steel pins in the bones. Multiple torn ligaments… severe nerve damage in both hands. You were on the table for eleven hours.” – Christine Palmer

72. “What… did they do?” – Doctor Strange

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Marvel’s DOCTOR STRANGE: The Ancient One (Tilda Swinton) ©2016 Marvel. All Rights Reserved.

73. “How did you get to reattach severed nerves and put a human spine back together bone by bone?” – The Ancient One

74. “Stop!” – Doctor Strange

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Doctor Strange (2016)

75. “Don’t shut me out. I haven’t got anywhere else to go…”- Doctor Strange

76. “Mordo. So what can I do for you, man?” – Pangborn

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Marvel’s DOCTOR STRANGE: Doctor Stephen Strange (Benedict Cumberbatch) ©2016 Marvel. All Rights Reserved.

77. “They carried you into Kamar-Taj on a stretcher. Look at you now, Pangborn.” – Mordo

78. “And what did the book say about the dangers of performing that ritual?” – Wong

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79. “Oh. So you joined a cult.” – Christine Palmer

80. “Well, after Western medicine failed me, I headed east, and I ended up in Kathmandu.” – Doctor Strange

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Marvel’s DOCTOR STRANGE: Doctor Stephen Strange (Benedict Cumberbatch) ©2016 Marvel. All Rights Reserved.

81. “No one ever is. We don’t get to choose our time.” The Ancient One

82. “Well, what’s this? My mantra?” – Doctor Strange

Doctor Strange (2016)
Doctor Strange (2016)

83. “Since you gave Kaecilius power from your dimension, I brought some power from mine. This is time. Endless, looped time!” – Doctor Strange

84. “No! Stop! Make this stop! Set me free!” – Dormammu

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85. “How’s your Sanskrit?” – Wong

86. “I’m fluent in Google Translate.” – Doctor Strange

Marvel's DOCTOR STRANGE L to R: Mordo(Chiwetel Ejiofor) and Doctor Stephen Strange (Benedict Cumberbatch) in Doctor Strange (2016)
Marvel’s DOCTOR STRANGE L to R: Mordo(Chiwetel Ejiofor) and Doctor Stephen Strange (Benedict Cumberbatch) in Doctor Strange (2016)

87. “What? Like the Bob Seger Song?” – Christine Palmer

88. “Temporal manipulations can create branches in time. Unstable dimensional openings. Spatial paradoxes! Time loops! You wanna get stuck reliving the same moment over and over forever or never having existed at all?” – Mordo

 Mads Mikkelsen in Doctor Strange (2016)
Marvel’s DOCTOR STRANGE Mads Mikkelsen in Doctor Strange (2016)

89. “Time will tell how much I love you.” – Christine Palmer

90. “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.” – The Ancient One

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Marvel’s DOCTOR STRANGE: Doctor Stephen Strange (Benedict Cumberbatch) ©2016 Marvel. All Rights Reserved.

91. “He uses magic to walk.” – Doctor Strange

92. “Have you ever seen *that* before in a gift shop?” – The Ancient One

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Marvel’s DOCTOR STRANGE: Doctor Stephen Strange (Benedict Cumberbatch) and Mads Mikkelsen  ©2016 Marvel. All Rights Reserved.

93. “Books on Astral Projection.” – Doctor Strange

94. “Stubbornness, arrogance, ambition. I’ve seen it all before.” – The Ancient One

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Marvel’s DOCTOR STRANGE: Linda Louise Duan ©2016 Marvel. All Rights Reserved.

95. “Yeah, well, I could help… but so could 50 other people. Find me something worth my time.” – Doctor Strange

96. “That’s the Book of Cagliostro. A study of time. One of the rituals was stolen by a former master, the Zealot, Kaecilius.” – Wong

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Marvel’s DOCTOR STRANGE: Mads Mikkelsen and Alaa Safi ©2016 Marvel. All Rights Reserved.

97. “What you just did… takes more than a good memory. You were born for the mystic arts.” – Mordo

98. “People think in terms of good and evil, but really, time is the true enemy of us all. Time kills everything.” – Kaecilius

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Marvel’s DOCTOR STRANGE L to R: Doctor Stephen Strange (Benedict Cumberbatch) and Christine Palmer (Rachel McAdams) ©2016 Marvel. All Rights Reserved.

99. “But I left him chained up in Greenwich Village and the quickest way back there is through a dimensional gateway that I opened up in the mop closet.” – Doctor Strange

100. “Power has a purpose.” – Mordo

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Marvel’s DOCTOR STRANGE: Doctor Stephen Strange (Benedict Cumberbatch) ©2016 Marvel. All Rights Reserved.

Fans are anxiously waiting for the next Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness that is set to premiere in May of this year. Elizabeth Olsen will be reprising her role as Scarlet Witch, who has become a fan favorite quickly.

Avid MCU watchers are excited for the movie, hoping to see the special effects similar to the first Doctor Strange. They are also excited for a new branch of characters expecting to make an appearance in the movie.

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