God of War (2018 video game)

"[calls to his deceased second wife Faye] Find your way home. You are free."

"Close your heart to it. On our journey, we will be attacked by all manner of creature. Close your heart to their desperation. Close your heart to their suffering. Do not allow yourself to feel for them. They will not feel for you."

"Keep your expectations low, boy, and you will never be disappointed."

"Do not concern yourself with what might be. Focus on what is, and be vigilant."

"A broken quiver will slow your draw. Pain, we endure... faulty weaponry, we do not."

"Fate is another lie told by the gods. Nothing is written that cannot be unwritten."

"Stay still."

"[scolds an arrogant Atreus in Helheim] You will LISTEN to me and not speak a word. I am your father—and you, boy, are not yourself! You are too quick to temper. You are rash, insubordinate, and out of control! This will not stand. You will honor your mother, and abandon this path you have chosen. It is not too late... [picks up Atreus after a beat] This discussion is far from over. We are here because of you, boy. Never forget that."

"[to Baldur] This path you walk... vengeance. You will find no peace. I know."

"The cycle ends here. We must be better than this."

"Dwarves are resourceful creatures. Annoying, but resourceful."

"Anger can be a weapon. If you can control it, use it. You clearly cannot."

"[To Athena's spirit] Athena.....Get out of my head."

"[to Atreus after he says he is sorry] Do not be sorry. Be Better."

"[while beating Baldur on the back of his dragon] STAY.....AWAY.....FROM.....MY......SON!"

"[After Atreus falls ill] Freya! Open the door! We need your help! [no response] WOMAN, DO YOU HEAR ME?! IT IS URGENT!"

"Odin and Thor... ruining everything for everybody."

"I guess there’s just one thing I don’t understand... My name on the wall. The Giants called me... Loki?"

"[after killing Daudi Kapmadr, he angrily starts stabbing and slicing the troll's corpse] THAT'S WHAT YOU GET! [he continues stabbing the corpse and starts coughing] THINK I'M AFRAID OF YOU?! [Kratos: Boy!] [He keeps stabbing and coughing heavier and heavier] YOU'RE NOTHING TO ME! [Kratos: Boy! Look at me, boy!] NOTHING! [after Kratos restrains him and calms him down] We did it."

"Your father won't let me go, Baldur, and he won't let you kill me. You have nothing to offer me. So take your questions, take your threats, take these two worthless wankers and piss off!"

"[to Atreus, on his time working for Odin] It's my career! And if you mean to make your career as a counsellor to kings, you can't very well rule out petty maniacs - available positions are scare enough! My first master was a cruel piece of work as well, but I learned through him the enduring power of wit, which served me well with kings and gods alike. I couldn't have been much older than you when I started - a faerie king's errand boy and unofficial jester. By night, my mates and I had the run of the forest. Goodfellows, they called us, knavish sprites to the last! We'd get up to all manner of mischief, making fools of the local mortals! But as long as our lord was kept amused, we were spared the consequences! [sighs] Then, one day, he was not amused, and I saw fit to move on. Thankfully, the ages and roads travelled since then have turned me from that merry wanderer into the paragon of virtue you see before you today."

"[to Atreus] Lad, there comes a time in every man's life when he changes his name and heads north to make a new start. If you live long enough to do this many times over, you might end up as far north as this place. By the time I arrived, I already knew Odin by his reputation, and so I set to demonstrate my worth by coming to him with something I knew he'd value: a mystic well of knowledge. Or rather, I should say, a well of water laced with enough mystic mushrooms to make a god see visions. Oh, he was rightly impressed! Can't say for sure what he saw that led him to try gouging out his own eyes, but I managed to restrain him before he finished the job. Then I persuaded him it had been his sacrifice, made for an even higher form of sight to be bestowed, blah-di-blah-di-blah-di-blah! I used to think he never caught on. But the day he took my eye, I realized he had never been fooled. He knew I'd outwitted him, called the lesson wisdom, and hired me to make sure from then on I was on his side - and for a long, long time, I truly was. Doesn't mean he didn't hold a grudge."

"[on why Odin is called the Lord of the Hanged] That refers to a modest example of Odin's thirst for knowledge - the time he spent nine days a dead man. Aye! Hung himself by the neck from Yggdrasil's branches, put his spear through his own side, and bled down into the Well of Destiny. He roamed the realms of the dead and plundered the World Tree of its secrets until, I think, quite rightly, it got fed up with him and sent him back to the land of the living... Did I not mention he was barking mad?"

"[after Kratos' conversation with Athena's spirit] Well, I'm pretty sure you weren't talking to me back there. Anything you'd like to get off your chest, brother? [Kratos is silent] I can assure you I'm unsurpassed in keeping confidences. [still no reply] Well, you know where to find me. And for the record, I'd already guessed you were Greek. "Athena"? Dead giveaway."

"Your father was Zeus?! Well, that explains a lot."

"[after Kratos returns his eye] Thank you, brother. You don't miss depth perception until it's gone."

"[looks at his decapitated body] Well, that's a sight no man should ever see. Thanks for that."

"Tell me what I want... Pain stops. Real simple."

"When Odin sent me here, I just needed answers, but... YOU, you had to act all proud. Throw whatever you have at me... I'll keep coming. That old body will give out. But before I end this, I want you to know one thing... I can't feel any of this."

"You've seen it with your own eyes; you can't hurt me. Nothing can. This fight is pointless. Your struggle is pointless. It didn't have to be this way."

"[moments before having his neck snapped by Kratos] I'd hope that you, of everyone I'd faced, would finally make me feel something, but you can't."

"[slow-clapping after Atreus shoots a shock arrow at Kratos] And here I thought my family was fucked up..."

"[after Freya claims to know how he feels] Feel? [increduosly] How I feel?!"

"I've spent the last one hundred years dreaming of this moment. I've rehearsed everything I ever wanted to say to you, every word, to make you understand exactly what you stole from me. But now i realise... i dont need you to understand anything. I don't need you at all."

"You just can't help yourself, can you mother? No matter what I do or say, you won't stop interfering in my life!"

"[after his mother pleads for his forgiveness] No. We can't. Because I will never forgive you. You still need to pay for the lifetime that you stole from me."

"[after Atreus accidentally breaks the spell of invulnerability on him] Before you die, I want to thank you - both of you. You've done what even the Allfather himself could not! [laughing] I've never felt more alive! Ironic, isn't it?"

"WHY?! WON'T?! YOU?! DIE?!"