Unicorn Quotes in The Last Unicorn (1982)

Unicorn: You are a true wizard now, as you always wished. Does it make you happy?

Schmendrick: Well, men don't always know when they're happy. But I-I think so. And you?

Unicorn: I am a little afraid to go home. I have been mortal, and some part of me is mortal yet. I am no longer like the others, for no unicorn was ever born who could regret, but I now I do. I regret.

Schmendrick: I am sorry. I have done you evil and I cannot undo it.

Unicorn: No. Unicorns are in the world again. No sorrow will live in me with that joy-save one. And I thank you for that part, too. Farewell good magician. I will try to go home.

Molly: No, it can't be. Can it be? Where have you been? Where have you been? Damn you! Where have you been?

Schmendrick: Don't you talk to her that way!

Unicorn: I'm here now.

Molly: And where were you twenty years ago? Ten years ago? Where were you when I was new? When I was one of those innocent young maidens you always come to? How dare you! How dare you come to me now, when I am this!

[Weeps]

Schmendrick: Can you really see her? Do you know what she is?

Molly: If you had been waiting to see a unicorn, as long as I have...

Schmendrick: She's the last unicorn in the world.

Molly: It would be the last unicorn that came to Molly Grue. It's all right, I forgive you.

Mommy Fortuna: The harpy's as real as you are, and just as immortal. And she was just as easy to catch, if you want to know.

Unicorn: Do not boast, old woman. Your death sits in that cage, and she hears you.

Mommy Fortuna: Oh she'll kill me one day or another. But she will remember forever that *I* caught her, and *I* held her prisoner. So there's my immortality, eh?

Unicorn: Let me go. And let her go too. I cannot bear to see her caged. We are two sides of the same magic... The harpy and me, we are not for you.

Unicorn: You may come if you like. But I wish you had asked some other reward for setting me free

Schmendrick the Magician: I thought about it. But you couldn't give me what I really wanted.

Unicorn: No. I cannot change you into something you are not. I cannot make you a real magician.

Schmendrick the Magician: Ah its ok. Don't worry about it.

Unicorn: Oh I won't.

Butterfly: Listen. Don't listen to ME, listen. You can find the others if you are brave. They passed down all the roads long ago, and the Red Bull ran close behind them and covered their footprints. Listen! Listen, listen QUICKLY!

Unicorn: [agitated] I AM listening! Where did they go and what is the Red Bull?

Butterfly: Listen! LISTEN!

[insane laughter]

Butterfly: The king is in his counting house, counting out, counting out, counting...

[the unicorn has just looked at all the "horrors" in the other cages at the carnival and discovered that they are not real; they are only illusions]

Unicorn: That one is real. That is the harpy, Celaeno.

Schmendrick: Yes, the old woman caught her by chance, the same way she took you. Oh, she should never have meddled with a real harpy! Or a real unicorn for that matter. Because the truth melts her magic, always.

Schmendrick: Tell me what you see. Don't be afraid. Look at your fellow legends and tell me what you see.

Unicorn: What he calls a Manticore looks to be no more than a shabby, toothless lion. And he has that whole crowd believing that poor old ape with the twisted foot is a Satyr! Illusions, deceptions, mirages! Your Mommy Fortuna cannot truly change things!

Schmendrick: That is true. She can only disguise, and only for those eager to believe whatever comes easiest. She cannot turn cream into butter, but she can make a lion look like a manticore to eyes that want to see a manticore. Just like she put a false horn on a real unicorn so they can see the unicorn. I know you. If I were blind, I would know what you are.

Unicorn: Who are you?

Schmendrick: I am called Schmendrick, the Magician. Uh... you won't have heard of me.

Unicorn: I can never regret. I can feel sorrow, but it's not the same thing.

[Schmendrick has turned the Unicorn into a mortal woman]

Unicorn: I can feel this body DYING all around me!

Unicorn: I have forgotten that men cannot see Unicorns. If men no longer know what they're looking at, there may be other unicorns in the world yet, unknown, and glad of it.

Unicorn: [now a woman] I am afraid of this mortal body... more afraid than I was of the Red Bull.

[a farmer thinks the unicorn is a white mare, infuriating her]

Unicorn: [furious] Mare? MARE? I? A HORSE? Is THAT what you take me for? Is THAT what you see?

Unicorn: There has never been a time without unicorns. We live forever! We are as old as the sky, old as the moon! We can be hunted, trapped; we can even be killed if we leave our forests, but we do not *vanish*. Am I truly the last?

Unicorn: I am no longer like the others, for no unicorn was ever born who could regret, but now I do. I regret.

Unicorn: Say my name then. If you know my name, tell it to me.

The Butterfly: [quoting Romeo & Juliet] Your name is a golden bell hung in my heart. I would break my body to pieces to call you once by your name...!

Unicorn: Say it, if you know.

The Butterfly: Rumpelstiltskin! Gotcha!

Unicorn: I'm a little afraid to go home. I have been mortal, and some part of me is mortal yet. I am no longer like the others, for no unicorn was ever born who could regret, but now I do. I regret.

Schmendrick: I am sorry. I have done you evil and I cannot undo it.

Unicorn: No. Unicorns are in the world again! No sorrow will live in me with that joy... save one - and I thank you for that part, too.

Unicorn: You are a true wizard now, as you always wished. Does it make you happy?

Schmendrick: Well... men don't always know when they're happy. But I - I think so.

Unicorn: Or is the story of the Red Bull just another of his songs? I can't leave the forest, but I must know if I'm the only unicorn left in the world. What if they're hiding together... somewhere far away? What if they're waiting for me? In need of my help?

Unicorn: Tell me, butterfly, have you seen the other unicorns?

Butterfly: [singing] Oh, have you seen the muffin man, the muffin man, the muffin man?

Prince Lir: [after the Unicorn brings him back to life] Father? Father, I had that dream again...

[holds his head]

Prince Lir: No... I was DEAD...

Unicorn: [standing on a hill looking down at Lir] I remember you... I remember...

Lily: I don't mean to be rude, but you're not very graceful. In my books, unicorns are slim and white.

Unicorn: Ahh, ahh, ahh, ahh. The most beautiful things in the world, are the most useless. Peacocks and lilies for instance.