Alphonse Elric Quotes

Humankind cannot gain anything without first giving something in return. To obtain, something of equal value must be lost. That is alchemy's first law of Equivalent Exchange. In those days, we really believed that to be the world's one, and only, truth. But the world isn't perfect, and the law is incomplete. Equivalent Exchange doesn't encompass everything that goes on here, but I still choose to believe in its principle, that all things do come at a price, that there's an ebb and a flow, a cycle, that the pain we went through did have a reward, and that anyone who's determined and perseveres will get something of value in return, even if it's not what they expected. I don't think of Equivalent Exchange as a law of the world anymore. I think of it as a promise, between my brother and me. A promise that, someday, we'll see each other again. ~ Hiromu Arakawa

No fair, sky. I'm the one who feels like crying. ~ Hiromu Arakawa

Were passing by. Once I heard him making fun of Jules. Jules was walking down the street carrying a lamp in his hand that he'd obviously just pulled out of some garbage heap. "Look at the garbage picker man!" Alphonse said. "That motherfucker is sad. He tried to sell me a comforter once! I said get the hell away from me. He's out all night looking for rags and bones. What year we living in, man? Get a real job, motherfucker." Jules couldn't stand Alphonse either. He said Alphonse was a pimp. I didn't know what a pimp did exactly. I was almost certain that it meant he had prostitutes working for him, but I wasn't sure. I told a kid at school that I knew a pimp and he said, "Bullshit. It's not fucking possible. You're making it up." So I guessed I'd made a mistake. Or maybe the word "pimp" had two different meanings. I DIDN'T DO ANYTHING to make older guys want to treat me like I was one of them, ~ Heather O'Neill

Hate is the wrath of the weak. ~ Alphonse Daudet

And you, Prince Elric?" She attracted the albino's wandering attention. "Do you know his story?"
Elric shook his head.
"I only know," he said, "that he is a shape-changer and, that most cursed of souls, a person of rare goodness and sanity. Imagine such torment as is his! ~ Michael Moorcock

We're going to start walking again. We can't stand still, you know. Not as long as we're still alive. ~ Hiromu Arakawa

Experience is the only prophecy of wise men. ~ Alphonse De Lamartine

If we are to abolish the death penalty, I should like to see the first step taken by my friends the murderers. ~ Alphonse Karr

The albino found himself brooding upon the nature of all unholy bargains, of his own dependency upon the hellsword Stormbringer, of his willingness to summon supernatural aid without thought of any spiritual consequences to himself and, perhaps most significant, of his unwillingness to find a way to cure himself of the occult's seductive attraction; for there was a part of his strange brain that was curious to follow its own fate; to learn whatever disastrous conclusion lay in store for it - it needed to know the end of the saga: the value, perhaps, of its torment. ~ Michael Moorcock

Suffering is nothing. It's all a matter of preventing those you love from suffering. ~ Alphonse Daudet

Where. Is. He?" Alphonse repeated, although it sounded more like "Don't make me eat your face. ~ Karen Chance

The cycle of life only goes one direction, not even alchemy can change that"
-Ed Elric ~ 荒川 弘 Hiromu Arakawa

Though we have two eyes, we are supplied with but one tongue. Draw your own moral. ~ Alphonse Karr

A conscience without God is like a court without a judge. ~ Alphonse De Lamartine

Ah! let us love, my Love, for Time is heartless,
Be happy while you may! ~ Alphonse De Lamartine

Man, man, is thy brother, and thy father is God. ~ Alphonse De Lamartine

My imagination doesn't require anything more of the book than to provide a framework within which it can wander. ~ Alphonse Daudet

To kill animals for the purpose of feeding on their flesh is one of the most deplorable and shameful infirmities of the human state ~ Alphonse De Lamartine

Religions are not proved, are not demonstrated, are not established, are not overthrown by logic! They are of all the mysteries of nature and the human mind, the most mysterious and most inexplicable; they are of instinct and not of reason. ~ Alphonse De Lamartine

Exquisite beauty resides rather in the female form than face, where it is also more lasting. ~ Alphonse De Lamartine

At twenty every one is republican. ~ Alphonse De Lamartine

Uncertainty is the worst of all evils until the moment when reality makes us regret uncertainty. ~ Alphonse Karr

I think every touring musician sacrifices aspects of their life to do it. ~ Joshua James Alphonse Franceschi

To love for the sake of being loved is human, but to love for the sake of loving is angelic. ~ Alphonse De Lamartine

Shall not this bygone Eden that we knew In our Eternal Life have shape and hue? For where Time is not shall not all Time be? In that calm breast whereto our souls are cleaving Shall we not find our loved ones beyond grieving About the hearth-stone of Eternity? ~ Alphonse De Lamartine

Brutality to an animal is cruelty to mankind - it is only the difference in the victim. ~ Alphonse De Lamartine

It is in the habits of lawyers that every accusation appears insufficient if they do not exaggerate it even to calumny; it is thus that justice itself loses its sanctity and its respect amongst men. ~ Alphonse De Lamartine

Poetry has been the guardian angel of humanity in all ages. ~ Alphonse De Lamartine

In the tropical and subtropical regions, endemic malaria takes first place almost everywhere among the causes of morbidity and mortality, and it constitutes the principal obstacle to the acclimatization of Europeans in these regions. ~ Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran

And now, I'm thinking again, isn't there something we can do about something we can't do anything about? ~ Hiromu Arakawa

If there's no door, then I'll make one! ~ Hiromu Arakawa

'No one lives in Ameeron by choice.'A veritable City of the Damned.'As the poet might remark, aye.' Rackhir offered Elric a sardonic wink. 'But I sometimes think all cities are that.' ~ Michael Moorcock

There's no such thing as being cowardly in a fight.

~Edward Elric ~ Hiromu Arakawa

I got to a crossroads in my life where basically I was asked to choose between staying at home and being with them, or being in a band and doing what I want to do. ~ Joshua James Alphonse Franceschi

Silence and simplicity obtrude on no one, but are yet two unequaled attractions in woman. ~ Alphonse De Lamartine

If the grandeur of the aim, the smallness of the means, the immensity of the result are the three measures of a man's genius, who would dare humanly compare a great man of modern history with Muhammad? ~ Alphonse De Lamartine

Every time that a people which has long crouched in slavery and ignorance is moved to its lowest depths there appear monsters and heroes, prodigies of crime and prodigies of virtue. ~ Alphonse De Lamartine

Yet without Chaos there would be no Creation, and perhaps no Creator. That is the simple truth of all existence, Lord Elric. The promise of immortality. ~ Michael Moorcock

Men grow old, but they do not ripen. ~ Alphonse Daudet

If God is thy father, human beings are thy brothers and sisters. ~ Alphonse De Lamartine

There are many questions in this world that have no answers. ~ Hiromu Arakawa

Ink is the transcript of thought. ~ Alphonse De Lamartine

Grief knits two hearts in closer bonds than happiness ever can; and common sufferings are far stronger links than common joys. ~ Alphonse De Lamartine

Thank you, Edward. You really are special. Being able to create something so wonderful ... But it's too bad ...
... You couldn't put me back together too.
Trisha Elric ~ Hiromu Arakawa

We cannot have two hearts, one for the animals and one for men. In cruelty towards the former and cruelty to the latter there is no difference but in the victim. ~ Alphonse De Lamartine

Mystery hovers over all things here below. ~ Alphonse De Lamartine

Hatred - The anger of the weak. ~ Alphonse Daudet

Moorcock's interlinked 'Eternal Champion' series is a constant source of enjoyment. Of its tragic hero incarnations, my favourite is 'Elric of Melnibone,' and the best book has to be 'Stormbringer.' And as for that other sword, Excalibur? Pah! Use it to spread your butter. ~ Neal Asher