Cold Mountain (film)

"To have traveled so far... From east to west, a thousand terrible miles; my feet treading all God's surface - his Ocean, his swamps, his slopes and ridges - to find myself at last a mark in the aching snow from whence I beheld through a blue haze a world of mountains piled upon mountains."

"If you are fighting, stop fighting. If you are marching, stop marching. Come back to me. Come back to me is my request."

"All this while I've been packing ice around my heart. How will I make it melt...?"

"[reading from Wuthering Heights: My love for Linton is like the foliage in the wood. Time will change it I'm well aware, as winter changes the trees. My love for Heathcliff resembles the eternal rocks beneath, a source of little visible delight, but necessary. Nellie, I AM Heathcliff! He's always, always on my mind. Not as a pleasure any more than I am always a pleasure to myself, but as part of my own being."

"I could be at killing for days, my feet against the feet of my enemy. And I always killed him. He never killed me."

"Maybe you can't see my face, but if you could see my inside, my whatever you want to call it, my spirit, that's the fear I have deeper than any gash on my neck. I think I'm ruined. They kept trying to put me in the ground, but I wasn't ready. But if I had goodness, I lost it. If I had anything tender in me I shot it dead."

"She gave me a book. Ada Monroe. Man by the name of Bartram. Wrote about his travels. Sometimes just reading the name of a place near home - Sorell Cove, Bishop's Creek. Those places belonged to people before us, to the Cherokee - What did he call Cold Mountain? How can a name, not even a real name, break your heart? It's her...She's the place I'm heading. And I hardly know her. I hardly know her!"

"Old Lady Swanger says you need help. Here I am!"

"I despise a flogging rooster."

"If I cried one tear for my daddy I stole it off a crocodile!"

"Every piece of this is man's bullshit. They call this war a cloud over the land, but they made the weather and then they stand in the rain and say, "Shit! Its rainin'!""

"This war won't stand long. God won't let it stand this way long."

"[To Ada] So, you have never wrapped your legs around this Inman? [Ada hits her]"

"There's a design for each and every one of us. You look at nature. Bird flies somewhere, picks up a seed, shits the seed out, plant grows. Bird's got a job, shit's got a job, seed's got a job."

"Jude Law as Inman"

"Nicole Kidman as Ada Monroe"

"Renée Zellweger as Ruby Thewes"

"Eileen Atkins as Maddy"

"Brendan Gleeson as Stobrod Thewes"

"Philip Seymour Hoffman as Reverend Veasey"

"Natalie Portman as Sara"

"Giovanni Ribisi as Junior"

"Donald Sutherland as Reverend Monroe"

"Ray Winstone as Teague"

"Kathy Baker as Sally Swanger"

"James Gammon as Esco Swanger"

"Charlie Hunnam as Bosie"

"Jack White as Georgia"

"Ethan Suplee as Pangle"