The Best Thanos Quotes

Gamora: I was a child when you took me.
Thanos: I saved you.
Gamora: No. We were happy on my home planet.
Thanos: You were going to bed hungry, scrounging for scraps. Your planet was on the brink of collapse. I'm the one who stopped that. You know what's happened since then? The children born have known nothing but full bellies and clear skies. It's a paradise.
Gamora: Because you murdered half the planet.
Thanos: A small price to pay for salvation.
Gamora: You're insane.
Thanos: Little one, it's a simple calculus. This universe is finite, its resources, finite. If life is left unchecked, life will cease to exist. It needs correcting.
Gamora: You don't know that!
Thanos: I'm the only one who knows that. At least, I'm the only one with the will to act on it.

Thanos: I am... inevitable.
[Thanos snaps his fingers, but nothing happens. He discovers that the gauntlet no longer has the Infinity Stones, and that Stark used his armor's nano-technology to transfer the Stones to his arm]
Tony: And I... am... Iron Man!
[Stark snaps his fingers, and Thanos' army slowly fades into dust]

Peter: [while teleporting and beating up Thanos] Magic. More Magic. Magic with a Kick. Mag...
[Thanos graps Peter by the throat]
Thanos: Insect!

Thanos: I thought by eliminating half of life, the other half would thrive, but you have shown me... that's impossible. As long as there are those that remember what was, there will always be those, that are unable to accept what can be. They will resist.

Loki: If you're going to Earth, you might want a guide. I do have a bit of experience in that arena.
Thanos: Well, if you consider failure experience.
Loki: I consider *experience* experience.

[Thanos has Gamora]
Peter: You let her go!
Thanos: Ah, the boyfriend.
Peter: I'd like to think of myself more as a titan-killing, long-term booty call.

- Two Nebulas.
Thanos: No.
- The same Nebula... from two different times.
- Set course for Morag.
- And scan the duplicate's memories.
- I wanna see everything.

[from trailer]
Thanos: In time, you will know what it's like to lose. To feel so desperately that you're right. Yet to fail all the same. Dread it. Run from it. Destiny still arrives.

[post credits scene]
Thanos: Fine, I'll do it myself.

Thanos: The Tesseract? Or your brother's head? I assume you have a preference?
Loki: Oh, I do. Kill away!
[sees Thor's traumatic suffering, screaming in agony]
Loki: ALRIGHT, STOP!
Thor: We don't have the Tesseract, it was destroyed on Asgard!
[Loki reveals the Tesseract in his hands]
Thor: You really are the worst brother!
Loki: I assure you, brother, the sun will shine on us again.
Thanos: Your optimism is misplaced, Asgardian.
Loki: Well, for one thing, I'm not Asgardian. And for another... we have a Hulk.
[Hulk attacks Thanos]

Ronan: I only ask that you take this matter seriously.
Thanos: The only matter I do not take seriously, boy, is you. Your politics bore me! Your demeanor is that of a pouting child. And apparently you alienated my favorite daughter, Gamora. I shall honor our agreement, Kree, if you bring me the Orb. But return to me again empty handed and I will bathe the star-ways with your blood.
Nebula: Thanks, Dad. Sounds fair.

Thanos: Get to the ship!
Nebula: Are you crazy? You'll never take them yourself!
Thanos: Not crazy...
[beat]
Thanos: Mad.

Thanos: Daughter.
Young: Did you do it?
Thanos: Yes.
Young: What did it cost?
Thanos: ...Everything.

Thanos: I know what it's like to lose. To feel so desperately that you're right, yet to fail nonetheless. It's frightening, turns the legs to jelly. I ask you to what end? Dread it. Run from it. Destiny arrives all the same. And now it's here. Or should I say, I am.

Thanos: [to Thor] You should have gone for the head.