30 Best Mononoke-hime Quotes

Lady: Stay here. Help me kill the Forest Spirit, Ashitaka.
Prince: You would do that? Kill the very heart of the forest?
Lady: Without that ancient god, the animals here would be nothing but dumb beasts once again. Once the forest has been cleared and the wolves wiped out, this desolate place will become the richest land in the world... and Princess Mononoke will become human.
Prince: "Princess Mononoke"?
Lady: Princess of the spirits of ghouls, beasts, and ancient gods. The wolf stole her soul, and now she lives to kill me.

Boar: We are here to kill the humans and save the forest. Why are there humans here, Moro?
Moro: Humans are everywhere these days. Go back to your own mountain. Kill them there. The girl is San, my daughter.
Boar: We will kill them here. We will save this forest. What is that other human doing here?
San,: He was shot, and then the Great Spirit healed his wound. This man is not our enemy!

Moro: Now leave this place at sunrise. Return, and I shall kill you.

Boar: The Forest Spirit saved *him?* Saved the life of this loathsome runt? Why didn't he save Nago? Is he not the guardian of the forest? Why?
Moro: The Forest Spirit gives life and takes life away. Life and death are his alone. Or have you boars forgotten than?
Boar: *You lie!* You must have begged the Forest Spirit to spare his life! But you did not beg for Nago, did you?
Moro: Nago was afraid to die. Now, I too, carry within my breast a poisoned human bullet. Nago fled, and the darkness took him. I remain, and contemplate my death.
San,: Mother, please ask the Forest Spirit to save you!
Moro: I have lived long enough, San. Soon, the Great Forest Sprit will let me rest forever.
San,: All these years, you've defended the Forest Spirit! He *must* save you!
Boar: You are not fooling us! Nago was beautiful and strong! He would not have run from anything! You wolves must have eaten him!
San,: Quiet! Watch what you say, you filthy pig!

Jigo: [Japanese dub] Wanting everything between Heaven and Hell is the human condition.

Kôhroku: Huh, I didn't know the Forest Spirit made the flowers grow.

Jigo: Well, I give up. Can't win against fools.

Toki: I wish the wolves *had* eaten you! Then maybe I could've found a real husband.

[San's first line]
San,: Go away.

Lady: Now watch closely, everyone. I'm going to show you how to kill a god. A god of life and death. The trick is not to fear him.

Osa: Life is suffering. It is hard. The world is cursed. But still, you find reasons to keep living.

Prince: Well, they say that happy women make a happy village.

Lady: [readying her rifle] It's Moro!

San,: You two go on ahead. I'll stay here and deal with the human.
San's: What about the elk?
San's: Yes... Can we eat him?
[starts panting]
San,: No, you may not. Go home!

San,: [seeing the humans cutting down trees] Why chop the trees down?
Moro: [about the boars] To make them angry. Which makes them stupid.

[first lines]
Narrator: In ancient times, the land lay covered in forests, where, from ages long past, dwelt the spirits of the gods. Back then, man and beast lived in harmony, but as time went by, most of the great forests were destroyed. Those that remained were guarded by gigantic beasts who owed their allegiances to the Great Forest Spirit. For those were the days of gods and of demons...

San,: [to the apes] All right, what do you want here?
San's: Apes! How *dare* you show such disrespect to the wolf clan!
Ape: This is our forest.
Ape: The human... Give him to us.
Ape: Give us the human and go.
San's: *You* go, before my *fangs* find you.
Ape: We will not go.
Ape: We will eat the human.
Ape: Yes... we will eat the man creature.

Toki: [to Gonza] Even if you were a woman, you'd *still* be an idiot!

Hii: My prince, are you prepared to learn what fate the stones have foretold you?
Prince: Yes. I was prepared the very moment that I let my arrow fly.

Jigo: What do you say we give 'em a little demonstration of how fast we can run, huh?

San,: [trapped in Okkoto's corruption] No! I don't wanna become a demon! Please stop, Okkoto!

San,: Ugh, I smell like a human.

Jigo: These days, there are angry ghosts all around us - dead from wars, sickness, starvation - and nobody cares. So you say you're under a curse? So what? So's the whole damn world.

San,: Are you crazy? Just what happened to make the ape tribe change this way? Since when do apes eat the flesh of a man?
Ape: If we eat the human, we will steal his strength, and we will drive the other humans away.
Ape: Give us the man creature.
San,: Stop this. You know you can't possess the humans' strength by eating them. All that'll do is make you into something else, something even worse than human.
Ape: We plant trees. Humans tear them up. The forest does not come back. If we kill the humans, we will save the forest.
Ape: You mustn't give up. We'll find a way. The Forest Spirit is with us. Go on planting your trees and someday we'll beat them.
San's: ENOUGH! I'll *bite* your head off, you chattering ape.
[they started charging]
San,: Stop! Wait! Come back! Leave them alone!
[they statred coming back not to fight them back]
San,: Don't worry about them. It's all right.

Moro: [about Ashitaka] You know, that boy wanted to share his life with you.
San,: [burying her face in her fur] I hate him! I hate all humans!

San,: Why did you stop me from killing her? Tell me while you're still alive!
Prince: I didn't want them to kill you. That's why.
San,: I'm not afraid to die. I'd do anything to get you humans out of my forest!
Prince: I knew that... from the first moment I saw you.
San,: And I'm not afraid of you! I should *kill* you for saving her!
[San turns Ashitaka around, takes out his sword, and aims it inches over his neck]
San,: That woman is evil, and there's no one who can stop me from killing her.
Prince: No... Live...
San,: That's enough! I'm not listening to you anymore!
[presses tip to throat]
Prince: [opening his eyes] You're... beautiful...
[San gasps, jumps back]
San's: What is it, San? Want me to crunch his face off?
[all stare at Ashitaka for a moment... until a rock sails in and breaks the moment]

Moro: Ah, you're awake. I was hoping you'd cry out in your sleep, then I would have bitten your head off to silence you.

Lady: [Ashitaka interrupts the fight] What do you think you're doing, boy?
Prince: Stay your hand. The girl's life is now mine.
[San viciously bites Ashitaka's arm]
Lady: I'm sure she'll make a lovely wife for you.
Prince: There's a demon inside you. It's inside both of you.
[the curse remanifests as a mass of worm-like tendrils, shocking everyone]
Prince: [to the crowd] Look, everyone! *This* is what hatred looks like! This is what it does when it catches hold of you! It's eating me alive, and very soon it will kill me!
[San tries to make the curse leave her alone]
Prince: Fear and anger only make it grow faster!
Lady: I'm getting a little bored of this curse of yours, Ashitaka. Let me just cut the damn thing - *off!*
[swings her needle at Ashitaka]

Amishi: I am the eldest of the Amishi. Our tribe was driven here by the ravages of the Emperor. Now our youngest warrior must cut his hair and go off into the unknown? Sometimes I think the Gods are laughing at us.

Jigo: Are you selling soup or donkey piss?