Avengers: Infinity War — Movie Quotes

Spoken over the wreckage of the Asgardian refugee ship in the opening sequence, as Thanos stands over a beaten Thor.

The film's mission statement, delivered before a single hero has meaningfully resisted. It frames Thanos not as an obstacle but as a force of nature, and establishes the fatalism that governs the entire story.

Whispered in Wakanda after Thor's Stormbreaker strike lands in Thanos's chest instead of finishing him, moments before the snap.

The single line that converts triumph into catastrophe. It indicts Thor's need for the enemy to understand why he was dying — the heroic flourish that costs the universe.

On Titan, as Peter becomes aware he is disintegrating and clings to Tony Stark, refusing to let go.

The film's emotional detonation, and the reason its ending landed as genuine grief rather than genre spectacle. A child's frightened understatement does what none of the film's cosmic dialogue can.

In the vision-space following the acquisition of the Soul Stone, a young Gamora confronts Thanos in the aftermath of what he traded for it.

Two words that establish the film's entire moral accounting system. The question is asked of an atrocity, and the answer is delivered as if it were a genuine sacrifice — the moment the film insists the villain's grief is real.

Lee appears as the driver of Peter Parker's school bus during a field trip, as Ebony Maw's ship descends over New York.

A trademark Stan Lee cameo that punctures the film's cosmic dread with one beat of comic-book warmth, and now reads as an artifact of an era of Marvel filmmaking.