Luke quotes from Star Wars: The Last Jedi (2017)

Luke Skywalker

Who are you?

Rey

I know this place.

Luke

Built a thousand generations ago to keep these. The original Jedi texts. Just like me, they're the last of the Jedi religion. You've seen this place. You've seen this island.

Rey

Only in my dreams.

Luke

Who are you?

Rey

The Resistance sent me.

Luke

They sent you? What's special about you? Where are you from?

Rey

Nowhere.

Luke

No one's from nowhere.

Rey

Jakku.

Luke

All right, that is pretty much nowhere. Why are you here, Rey from nowhere?

Rey

The Resistance sent me. We need your help. The First Order has become unstoppable–

Luke

Why are you here?

Rey

Something inside me has always been there... but now it's awake, and I'm afraid. I don't know what it is, or what to do with it, and I need help.

Luke

You need a teacher. I can't teach you.

Rey

Why not? I've seen your daily routine. You are not busy.

Luke

I will never train another generation of Jedi. I came to this island to die. It's time for the Jedi... to end.

Rey

Why? Leia sent me here with hope. If she was wrong, she deserves to know why. We all do.

Rey

Master Skywalker, we need you to bring the Jedi back because Kylo Ren is strong with the dark side of the Force. Without the Jedi, we won't stand a chance against him.

Luke

What do you know about the Force?

Rey

It's a power the Jedi have that lets them control people and... make things float.

Luke

Impressive. Every word in that sentence was wrong. Lesson one. Sit here, legs crossed. The Force is not a power you have. It's not about lifting rocks. It's the energy between all things, a tension, a balance that binds the universe together.

Rey

Okay. But what is it?

Luke

Close your eyes. [Rey closes her eyes] Breathe. [Rey takes a deep breath] Now... reach out. [Rey literally reaches her hand out and Luke, after a moment's disbelief, starts tickling her hand with a leaf]

Rey

I feel something!

Luke

You feel it?

Rey

Yes, I feel it!

Luke

That's the Force!

Rey

Really?

Luke

Wow, it must be really strong with you!

Rey

I've never felt any... [Luke smacks her with the leaf] Ow! You meant, reach out, like-- I'll try again. [closes her eyes]

Luke

Breathe. Just breathe. Reach out with your feelings. What do you see?

Rey

The island. Life. Death and decay, that feeds new life. Warmth. Cold. Peace. Violence.

Luke

And between it all?

Rey

Balance. An energy. A Force.

Luke

And inside you?

Rey

Inside me, that same Force.

Luke

And this is the lesson. That Force does not belong to the Jedi. To say that if the Jedi die, the light dies, is vanity. Can you feel that?

Rey

There's something else... beneath the island. A place. A dark place.

Luke

Balance. Powerful light, powerful darkness.

Rey

It's cold. It's calling me.

Luke

Resist it, Rey. [no response] Rey? [no response] REY! [no response] [Rey snaps out of the vision] You went straight to the dark.

Rey

That place was trying to show me something.

Luke

It offered something you needed. And you didn't even try to stop yourself.

Rey

But I didn't see you. Nothing from you. You've closed yourself off from the Force. Of course you have.

Luke

I've seen this raw strength only once before, in Ben Solo. It didn't scare me enough then. It does now.

Luke

Lesson two. Now that they're extinct, the Jedi are romanticized, deified. But if you strip away the myth and look at their deeds, the legacy of the Jedi is failure. Hypocrisy, hubris.

Rey

That's not true!

Luke

At the height of their powers, they allowed Darth Sidious to rise, create the Empire, and wipe them out. It was a Jedi Master who was responsible for the training and creation of Darth Vader.

Rey

And a Jedi who saved him. Yes, the most hated man in the galaxy. But you saw there was conflict inside him. You believed that he wasn't gone. That he could be turned.

Luke

And I became a legend. For many years, there was balance, and then I saw... Ben. My nephew with that mighty Skywalker blood. And in my hubris, I thought I could train him; I could pass on my strengths. Han was... Han about it, but... Leia trusted me with her son. I took him, and a dozen students, and began a training temple. By the time I realized I was no match for the darkness rising in him, it was too late.

Rey

What happened?

Luke

I went to confront him, and he turned on me. He must've thought I was dead. When I came to, the temple was burning. He had vanished with a handful of my students, and slaughtered the rest. Leia blamed Snoke, but... it was me. I failed. Because I was Luke Skywalker. Jedi Master. A legend.

Rey

The galaxy may need a legend. I need someone to show me my place in all this. And you didn't fail Kylo. Kylo failed you. I won't.

Rey

I thought I'd find answers here. I was wrong. I've never felt so alone.

Ren

You're not alone.

Rey

Neither are you.

Luke

STOP!!!

Rey

Is it true? Did you try to murder him?!

Luke

Leave this island, now!

Rey

Stop... STOP! [knocks Luke down in the back of the head with her quarterstaff] Did you do it?! Did you create Kylo Ren?! [the two proceed to fight each other along the cliffside until she gets the upper hand, forcing Luke into submission with Anakin Skywalker's lightsaber] Tell me the truth.

Luke

I saw darkness. I sensed it building in him. I'd seen it in moments during his training. But then I looked inside, and it was beyond what I ever imagined. Snoke had already turned his heart. He would bring destruction and pain and death, and the end of everything I love because of what he will become, and for the briefest moment of pure instinct, I thought I could stop it. It passed like a fleeting shadow, and I was left with shame and with consequence. And the last thing I saw were the eyes of a frightened boy whose Master had failed him.

Rey

You failed him by thinking his choice was made. It wasn't! There's still conflict in him. If he would turn from the dark side, that could shift the tide! This could be how we win!

Luke

This is not going to go the way you think.

Rey

It is. Just now, when we touched hands, I saw his future. As solid as I'm seeing you. If I go to him, Ben Solo will turn.

Luke

Rey... don't do this.

Rey

Then he is our last hope.

Luke

So, it is time... for the Jedi Order to end?

Time, it is... hmm, for you to look past a pile of old books, hmm?

Luke

The sacred Jedi texts!

Oh? Read them, have you?

Luke

Well, I...

Page-turners, they were not. Yes, yes, yes. Wisdom, they held, but that library contained nothing that the girl Rey does not already possess. Ah, Skywalker... still looking to the horizon. Never here! [pokes Luke with his cane] Now, hmm? The need in front of your nose!

Luke

I was weak. Unwise.

Lost Ben Solo, you did. Lose Rey, you must not.

Luke

I can't be what she needs me to be.

Heeded my words not, did you? "Pass on what you have learned." Strength, mastery, hmm... but weakness, folly, failure, also. Yes, failure, most of all. The greatest teacher, failure is. Luke... We are what they grow beyond. That is the true burden of all masters.

Our distress signal's been received at multiple points, but no response.

They've heard us, but no one's coming.

We fought till the end. But the galaxy has lost all its hope. The spark... is out. [Leia lowers her head in defeat but then she and the others present notice a hooded figure approaching her in the command center, who turns out to be Luke Skywalker] Luke...

I know what you're gonna say. I changed my hair.

Luke

It's nice that way. Leia, I'm sorry.

I know. I know you are. I'm just glad you're here at the end.

Luke

I came to face him, Leia, and I can't save him.

I held out hope for so long, but I know my son is gone.

Luke

No one's ever really gone. [Luke hands Leia Han's gold dice, then stands and kisses her on the forehead and goes to leave to confront Kylo Ren, passes 3PO who nods to him]

Master Luke... [Luke winks at him]

Ren

Did you come back to say you forgive me? To save my soul?

Luke

No.

Luke

I failed you, Ben. I'm sorry.

Ren

I'm sure you are! The Resistance is dead! The war is over, and when I kill you, I will have killed the last Jedi!

Luke

Amazing. Every word of what you just said was wrong. The Rebellion is reborn today. The war is just beginning. And I will not be the last Jedi.

Ren

I'll destroy her...and you...and all of it.

Luke

No. Strike me down in anger, and I will always be with you. Just like your father.

Ren

No...

Luke

See you around, kid. [his Force projection fades away]

Ren

NO!

Ren

YOU TURNED HER AGAINST ME!!!

Luke

You have done that yourself!!

Ren

YOU WILL NOT TAKE HER FROM ME!!!

Luke

Your anger and your lust for power have already done that. You have allowed this dark lord to twist your mind until now.. until now you have become the very thing you've sworn to destroy.

Ren

Don't lecture the power of the dark side! I see through the lies of the Jedi. I do not fear the dark side as you do. I have brought Peace, Freedom, Justice and Security to the FIRST ORDER!!

Luke

Not the others seem to think they're waste time!

Ren

Don't make me kill you!

Luke

You're wrong. Soon I'll be dead, and my allegiance is to the republic-to democracy!

Ren

If you're not with me, than you're my enemy!!

Luke

Only feelings have now betrayed in his failure is absolutes. I will do what I must.

Ren

You will try!! [The two activate their lightsabers. Ren charges at Luke and engage in a fierce and furious duel each blow as he returns to a ready stance]

Luke

I failed you, Ben! I said, I have failed you!!

Ren

I will NEVER seen you again and leave the Jedi alone to take over! The Resistance is dead! The war is evil! This is the end when I kill you, I will underestimate my power against the last Jedi!! [lividly] YOU'RE AN INHUMAN MONSTER!!!

Luke

Then you are lost!! Every word of what you just said was wrong! Don't say such things to me! The Rebellion is reborn today! The war is just beginning! And I will not be the last Jedi!

Ren

I'll destroy her...and you...and all of it! I! GIVE!! UP!!! With our combined strength, we can end this destructive conflict, and NEVER letting mention that being such a bully, and you didn't do anything that’s mine ever bring order to the galaxy!!!

Luke

I'LL NEVER JOIN YOU!!! Strike me down in anger, and I will always be told you enough! He told me you killed him! Just like your father!
[Suddenly, Ren Snaps And He Launches Into An Rage Outburst In Anger, Furiously Growls And Angrily Grips His Lightsaber Tightly. Then, enraged with high pitched, savagely charges at Luke one last time, screaming furiously, but Luke is still standing. Growls angrily, he scowls into silence as his lightsaber through Luke before staring in bursts into tears, sobbing like giving up and shakes his fist in rages out of series ideas, which get more tense as he realizes he's been fighting a Force projection all this time - and Luke is still physically on Ahch-To]

Ren

I HATE YOU!!!!

Luke

See you around, kid. [his Force projection fades away]

Ren

I HAAATE YOOOOOU!!!!!