43 quotes
There are no happy endings because nothing ends.
The Last Unicorn (1982)
The true secret in being a hero lies in knowing the order of things. … Things must happen when it is time for them to happen.
The Last Unicorn (1968)
Kings need jugglers, jugglers don’t need kings…
Didn’t listen, did he? They never do. That’s the nature of a Goro. Just as not wanting to know things is the nature of humans.
Quarry (2004)
Love is not an excuse for bad taste.
A Fine and Private Place (1960)
My people are in the world again. No sorrow will live in my heart as long as that joy — save one, and I thank you for that, too.
The Last Unicorn (1968)
Schmendrick stepped out into the open and said a few words.
The Last Unicorn (1968)
The happy ending cannot come in the middle of the story.
The Last Unicorn (1968)
I’ve always thought cemeteries were like cities. There are streets, avenues—you’ve seen them, I think, Michael. There are blocks, too, and house numbers, slums and ghettos, middle-class sections and small palaces.
A Fine and Private Place (1960)
He gave them no titles; he never saw the point of doing so. If a poem did not tell you immediately what it was about, then, to Claudio Bianchi, it needed more help than a label was likely to provide.
In Calabria (2017)
So they believe, and they take poorly to having it named nonsense. Which I am very nearly sure it is.
Quarry (2004)
I am the only Unicorn there is? The Last?
The Last Unicorn (1982)
He had always detested funerals and avoided them as much as possible. But it’s different, he thought, when it’s your own funeral. You feel it’s one of those occasions that shouldn’t be missed.
A Fine and Private Place (1960)
When I was very young every grownup was a hero. It's been all downhill since then, and I have only two left.
You are not mean. Cranky is different.
In Calabria (2017)
Quests may not simply be abandoned; prophecies may not be left to rot like unpicked fruit; unicorns may go unrescued for a very long time, but not forever. The happy ending cannot come in the middle of the story.
The Last Unicorn (1968)
Sometimes, in those nights when the dreams and memories I cannot always tell apart anymore keep me awake, I try to imagine what my life would have been if I had actually carried my plan through. Different, most likely. Shorter, surely.
Quarry (2004)
The universe and Claudio Bianchi had agreed long ago to leave one another alone, and he was grateful, knowing very well how rare such a bargain is, and how rarely kept. And if he had any complaints, he made sure that neither the universe nor he himself ever knew of them.
In Calabria (2017)
Unicorns are in the world again. No sorrow will live in me as long as that joy — save one. And I thank you for that part, too. Farewell good magician. I will try to go home now.
Now he spoke them gently and with joy, and as did so he felt his immortality fall from him like an armour, or like a shroud.
The Last Unicorn (1968)