Conan the Barbarian 1982

— Conan the Barbarian 1982 live

Mongol General: Hao! Dai ye! We won again! This is good, but what is best in life?Mongol: The open steppe, fleet horse, falcons at your wrist, and the wind in your hair.Mongol General: Wrong! Conan! What is best in life?Conan: Crush your enemies. See them driven before you. Hear the lamentations of their women.Mongol General: That is good! That is good.

— Conan the Barbarian 1982 life

King Osric: There comes a time, thief, when the jewels cease to sparkle, when the gold loses its luster, when the throne room becomes a prison, and all that is left is a fathers love for his child.

— Conan the Barbarian 1982 love

Conans Father: Fire and wind come from the sky, from the gods of the sky. But Crom is your god, Crom and he lives in the earth. Once, giants lived in the Earth, Conan. And in the darkness of chaos, they fooled Crom, and they took from him the enigma of steel. Crom was angered. And the Earth shook. Fire and wind struck down these giants, and they threw their bodies into the waters, but in their rage, the gods forgot the secret of steel and left it on the battlefield. We who found it are just men. Not gods. Not giants. Just men. The secret of steel has always carried with it a mystery. You must learn its riddle, Conan. You must learn its discipline. For no one - no one in this world can you trust. Not men, not women, not beasts.[Points to sword]Conans Father: This you can trust.

— Conan the Barbarian 1982 god

Conan: Crom, I have never prayed to you before. I have no tongue for it. No one, not even you, will remember if we were good men or bad. Why we fought, or why we died. All that matters is that two stood against many. Thats whats important! Valor pleases you, Crom... so grant me one request. Grant me revenge! And if you do not listen, then to HELL with you!

— Conan the Barbarian 1982 men

Mongol General: What is best in life?Conan: To crush your enemies, to see them driven before you, and to hear the lamentations of their women.

— Conan the Barbarian 1982 life

The Wizard: Wealth can be wonderful, but you know, success can test ones mettle as surely as the strongest adversary.

— Conan the Barbarian 1982 success

[first lines]The Wizard: Between the time when the oceans drank Atlantis and the rise of the sons of Aryas, there was an age undreamed of. And unto this, Conan, destined to wear the jeweled crown of Aquilonia upon a troubled brow. It is I, his chronicler, who alone can tell thee of his saga. Let me tell you of the days of high adventure!

— Conan the Barbarian 1982 time

[directors cut]Conan: I remember days like this when my father took me to the forest and we ate wild blueberries. More than 20 years ago. I was just a boy of four or five. The leaves were so dark and green then. The grass smelled sweet with the spring wind.[pause]Conan: Almost 20 years of pitiless cumber! No rest, no sleep like other men. And yet the spring wind blows, Subotai. Have you ever felt such a wind?Subotai: They blow where I live too. In the north of every mans heart.Conan: Its never too late, Subotai.Subotai: No. It would only lead me back here another day. In even worse company.Conan: For us, there is no spring. Just the wind that smells fresh before the storm.

— Conan the Barbarian 1982 art

Thulsa Doom: Now they will know why they are afraid of the dark. Now they learn why they fear the night.

— Conan the Barbarian 1982 fear

Subotai: He is Conan, Cimmerian, he wont cry, so I cry for him.

— Conan the Barbarian 1982 cry

King Osric: What daring! What outrageousness! What insolence! What arrogance!... I salute you.

— Conan the Barbarian 1982 age

Children of Doom: [chanting] Doom!Thulsa Doom: You, my children, are the water that will wash away all that has gone before. In your hand, you hold my light, the gleam in the eye of Set. This flame will burn away the darkness, burn you the way to paradise!

— Conan the Barbarian 1982 children

[last lines]Title Card: So, did Conan return the wayward daughter of King Osric to her home. And having no further concern, he and his companions sought adventure in the West. Many wars and feuds did Conan fight. Honor and fear were heaped upon his name and, in time, he became a king by his own hand... And this story shall also be told.

— Conan the Barbarian 1982 fear

Priestess: What do you see?Conan: Um... infinity.

— Conan the Barbarian 1982 you

Subotai: How about two snakes coming together over a black sun? A magnificent standard!Black Lotus Street Peddler: The only snakes I know of are those of Set and his cursed towers. Their evil has spread to every city. Two or three years ago it was just another snake cult, now... theyre everywhere. It is said that they are deceivers... they murder people in the night... I know nothing.[peddler opens a jar and offers it to Conan and Subotai]Black Lotus Street Peddler: Hey... black lotus... Stygian... the best!Subotai: This had better not be Haga!Black Lotus Street Peddler: I would sell Haga to a slayer such as you?

— Conan the Barbarian 1982 people

The Wizard: Im a wizard, mind you. This place is kept by powerful gods and spirits of kings. Harm my flesh and you will have to deal with the dead!

— Conan the Barbarian 1982 god

[Thulsa Dooms final speech to his followers in the directors cut]Thulsa Doom: Purging is at last at hand. Day of Doom is here. All that is evil, all their allies; your parents, your leaders, those who would call themselves your judges; those who have lied and corrupted the Earth, they shall all be cleansed.

— Conan the Barbarian 1982 art

Valeria: All the gods, they cannot sever us. If I were dead and you were still fighting for life, Id come back from the darkness. Back from the pit of hell to fight at your side.

— Conan the Barbarian 1982 life

Valeria: Lets take what we have while we live. I have never had so much as now. All my life Ive been alone. Many times Ive faced my death with no one to know. I would look into the huts and the tents of others in the coldest dark and I would see figures holding each other in the night. And I always passed by. You and I, we have warmth. Thats so hard to find in this world. Please. Let someone else pass by in the night. Let us take the world by the throat and make it give us what we desire.

— Conan the Barbarian 1982 life

Black Lotus Street Peddler: Two or three years ago it was just another snake cult.

— Conan the Barbarian 1982

Conan: Youre not a guard!Valeria: Neither are you!Subotai: Were thieves! Ha! Like yourself. Come to climb the tower.Valeria: You dont even have a rope! Ha! Two fools who laugh at death. Do you know what horrors lie beyond that wall?Conan: NoValeria: Then you go first.

— Conan the Barbarian 1982 death

The Wizard: He did not care any more... life and death... the same. Only that the crowd would be there to greet him with howls of lust and fury. He began to realize his sense of worth... he mattered. In time, his victories could not easily be counted... he was taken to the east, a great prize, where the war masters would teach him the deepest secrets. Language and writing were also made available, the poetry of Khitai, the philosophy of Sung; and he also came to know the pleasures of women, when he was bred to the finest stock. But, always, there remained the discipline of steel.

— Conan the Barbarian 1982 life

Valeria: All my life Ive been alone. Many times Ive faced death with no one to know. I would look into the huts and the tents of others in the coldest dark and I would see figures holding each other in the night. But I always passed by.

— Conan the Barbarian 1982 life

Valeria: [dying in Conans arms] Kiss me. Let me breathe my last breath into your mouth.[kisses Conan]Valeria: Im so cold! So... cold. Keep me... warm... keep... me... warm...[dies]

— Conan the Barbarian 1982 war

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