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

"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 now it will kill me. Fear and anger only make it grow faster."

"To see with eyes unclouded by hate."

"You cannot change your fate, though you may rise to meet it if you choose."

"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."

"Cut off a wolf's head and it still has the power to bite."

"I hate humans!"

"Ashitaka, you mean so much to me, but I can't forgive the humans for what they've done."

"So you say you're under a curse? So what? So's the whole damn world."

"When you're going to kill a god, let someone else do your dirty work."

"I was hoping you'd cry out in your sleep, then I would have bitten your head off to silence you."

"I caught her human parents defiling my forest. They threw their baby at my feet as they ran away. Instead of eating her, I raised her as my own."

"Typical... you think like a human."

"Nothing is over. The two of us are still alive. Now will you help me, San?"

"What I want is for the humans and the forest to live in peace!"

"Here is my garden, which everyone fears and does not approach."

"My poor, ugly, beautiful daughter is neither human nor wolf."

"Huh... I never knew the forest god made the flowers grow."

"Everybody wants everything, that's the way the world is, but I might actually get it."

"This soup tastes like donkey piss!"

"Are you selling soup or donkey piss?"

"Well, I give up. You just can't win against fools."

"Why chop the trees down?"

"To make them angry, which makes them stupid."

"Mother, I have to go. Lord Okkoto is blind, I must be his eyes. Do you understand?"

"Do as you must. You know, that boy wanted to share his life with you."

"I hate him! I hate all humans!"

"Why did you stop me from killing her? Tell me, while you are still alive!"

"I did not want them to kill you... that's why..."

"I'm not afraid to die! I'd do anything to get you humans out of my forest!"

"I knew that, from the first moment I saw you..."

"That woman is evil, and there's nobody who can stop me from killing her!"

"No... live..."

"You're... beautiful."

"What is it, San? Want me to crunch his face off?"

"What do you think you're doing, boy?"

"Stay your hand, the girl's life is mine now."

"I'm sure she'll make a lovely wife for you..."

"There's a demon inside of you. It's inside both of you."

"I walked in through this gate this morning. Now I'm going to leave the same way."

"But... that should have killed it!"

"He's a god, you fool. It'll take more than one shot."

"I love you, Ashitaka. But I cannot forgive the humans."

"That is fine. Live with me."

"Then live in the forest, and I'll live at the ironworks."

"The trees cry out as they die, but you cannot hear them."

"I lie here. I listen to the pain of the forest and feel the ache of the bullet in my chest and dream of the day when I will finally crunch that gun woman's head in my jaws..."

"Kaya, what are you doing here? You know it's forbidden!"

"Do you think I care about that? I came to give you this, so you won't forget your little sister."

"Your crystal dagger. Kaya, I can't take this."

"Please keep it with you, brother, to protect you. You must take it with you. Please, I want you to have it, so you won't... forget."

"Kaya, you know I could never forget you."

"Thanks, stranger. My husband's an idiot, but I'm glad he's safe and sound."

"That's a relief. I was starting to think I'd done something wrong by bringing him back home."

"Why don't you take off your mask? I bet you're really handsome..."

"Hey, you're not handsome, you're gorgeous!"

"Traitor! You're a spy for the wolves, aren't you?"

"Step aside."

"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."

"My prince, are you prepared to learn what fate the stones have foretold you?"

"Yes. I was prepared the very moment that I let my arrow fly."

"These days, there are angry ghosts all around us. Dead from wars, sickness, starvation, and nobody cares."

"That curse will spread throughout your whole body, bone and flesh alike and finally kill you. Now leave this place at sunrise. Return and I shall kill you."

"No! I don't want to become a demon!"

"Ashitaka... can you save the girl you love?"

"Well, they say that happy women make a happy village."

"Stay here. Help me kill the Forest Spirit, Ashitaka."

"You would do that? Kill the very heart of the forest?"

"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."

"Princess of the spirits of ghouls, beasts, and ancient gods. The wolf stole her soul, and now she lives to kill me."

"Does that right hand of yours wish to kill me, Ashitaka?"

"If it would lift the curse, I'd let it tear you apart. But even that wouldn't end the killing now, would it?"

"No, it wouldn't. It would have to kill all of us to be at peace."

"It's a trap. No, wait! Princess of the wolf-gods, don't go down there! Go back to the forest! Listen to me, please, don't throw your life away!"

"Shall I stop him?"

"Leave him be. Let him do as he likes."

"Give the head back now? Come on, boy. Don't be silly. Now, when the sun's about to come up? Look! He's a brainless, life-sucking god of death. At sunrise he'll vanish like a bad dream."

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

"They're just pups. Wait 'til you see their mother."

"It's Moro."

"I'm getting a little bored of this curse of yours, Ashitaka. Let me just cut the damn thing - off!"

"In ancient times, the land lay covered in forests."

"San is my daughter. She is of the wolf tribe. When the forest dies, so does she."

"Now my poor, ugly, beautiful daughter is neither human nor wolf."

"The two of us are still alive."

"It's eating me alive, and very soon now it will kill me."

"Fear and anger only make it grow faster."

"There cannot be a happy ending to the fight between the raging gods and humans."

"Even in the middle of hatred and killings, there are things worth living for. A wonderful meeting, or a beautiful thing can exist."

"We depict hatred, but it is to depict that there are more important things. We depict a curse, to depict the joy of liberation."

"What we should depict is, how the boy understands the girl, and the process in which the girl opens her heart to the boy."

"At the end, the girl will say to the boy, "I love you, Ashitaka. But I cannot forgive humans." Smiling, the boy should say, "That is fine. Live with me.""

"I love you, Ashitaka. But I'll never forgive the human race."

"Then live in the forest, and I'll live at the ironworks."

"The curse is eating me alive."

"I was prepared the very moment that I let my arrow fly."

"You cannot change fate."

"You may rise to meet it if you choose."