A character in X-Men: Days of Future Past (2014)

Wolverine quotes from X-Men: Days of Future Past (2014)

Hugh Jackman

Tied for 2nd most-quoted character in X-Men: Days of Future Past (2014): in 4 of its 13 quotes
Most scenes with: Prof. Charles Xavier/Professor X (3), Hank McCoy (2)

Scenes with Wolverine

4 scenes

Pain will make you stronger. If you allow yourself to feel it, embrace it, it will make you more powerful than you ever imagined. It's the greatest gift we have: to bear ... pain without breaking. And it comes from the most human part of us: hope.
Just because someone stumbles and loses their way, it doesn't mean they're lost forever. Sometimes, we all need a little help.

Kitty Pryde
[Kitty Pride briefs Wolverine on the potential dangers of his time-travel mission]

Basically, your body will go to sleep while your mind travels back in time. As long as you're back there, past and present will continue to coexist. But once you wake up, whatever you've done will take hold and become history. And for the rest of us it'll be the only history that we know. It'll be like the last fifty years never happened, in this world, in this war. The only person who will remember it is you. Alright, Logan, I need to you clear head and to stay as calm as possible.

Wolverine

What? What do you mean?

Kitty

If your mind gets rocky it'll be harder for me to hold you. You could start to slip between past and future.

Wolverine

What if I need to get a little rocky?

Kitty

Think peaceful thoughts.

Wolverine

Peaceful thoughts. You have any good news?

Kitty

Well, you don't really age so you'll pretty much look the same.

Iceman

You won't have much time in the past, the Sentinels will find us. They always do.

Kitty

And this time we won't be able to run, we'll have no escape. This is our last chance.

How did you lose them?

The treatment for my spine affects my DNA.

You sacrificed your powers so you could walk?!

I sacrificed my powers so I could sleep. [angry] What do you know about it?

I've lost my fair share.

[laughs coldly]

Dry your eyes, Erik. [angry] It doesn't justify what you've done.

You have no idea what I've done.

I know you took the things that meant the most to me.

Well maybe you should have fought harder for them.

[stands up angrily]

If you want a fight Erik, I will give you a fight!

Wolverine

Sit down!

Let him come.

[seizes Erik by the front of his shirt]

You abandoned me! You took her away and you abandoned me!

Angel. [growing angrier as he recites the names] Azazel. Emma. Banshee. Mutant brothers and sisters, all dead! [Erik's anger begins to affect the plane's stability] Countless others experimented on, butchered! Where were you, Charles?! We were supposed to protect them! Where were you when your own people needed you?! Hiding! You and Hank! Pretending to be something you're not! You abandoned us all!

[trying to maintain control of the plane]

ERIK!

[relinquishes his control of the plane, allowing Hank to regain control.]

You abandoned us all.

[Charles Xavier is exasperated over failing to work Cerebro again after so many years]

I'll go check the generator.

Wolverine

It's not the machinery, is it!

Charles

I can't do this!

Logan

Yes, you can!

Charles

No, I can't!

Wolverine

You're just a little rusty.

Charles

You don't understand, it's not a question of being "rusty!" I can flip the switches, I can turn the knobs, but my power doesn't come from here [points to his head], it comes from...here [points to his heart]. And it's broken. I feel like one of my students. Helpless. It was a mistake coming down here , it was a mistake freeing Eric, this whole thing has been one bloody mistake! I'm sorry, Logan, but they sent back the wrong man! [Xavier starts to leave]

Wolverine

You're right! [Xavier stops, surprised to hear him admit this] Actually, it was supposed to be you. But I was the only one who could physically make the trip. And, uh, I don't even know how long I've got here. But I do know that a long time ago-well, actually, a long time from now-I was your most helpless student. And you unlocked my mind. You showed me what I was, you showed me what I could be. I don't know how to do that for you, you're right, I don't! But I think I know someone who might. Look...into my mind.

Charles Xavier

You saw what I just did to Cerebro! You don't want me inside your head!

Wolverine
[amused]

There's no damage you can do that hasn't already been done, trust me!

Charles

 :[reads Logan's mind and see his torture at the hands of Weapon X, his fragmented memories, the death of Jean Grey, and his hard life.] You poor, poor man.

Wolverine

Look past me.

Charles

No, I don't want your suffering, I don't want your future!

Wolverine

Look past my future! Look for your future. That's it. That's it.

Professor X
[Charles reads Logan's mind and appears in the future, where Professor X awaits him.]

Charles.

Charles

Charles. [looks around to see the dire situation that both mutants and humanity face with the Sentinels in 2023.] Is this what becomes of us? Erik was right. Humanity does this to us.

Professor X

Not if we show them a better path.

Charles

You still believe?

Professor X

Just because someone stumbles and loses their way, it doesn't mean they're lost forever. Sometimes, we all need a little help.

Charles

I'm not the man I was. I open my mind up and it almost overwhelms me.

Professor X

You're afraid. I remember. And Cerebro knows it.

Charles

All those voices…so much…pain.

Professor X

It's not their pain you're afraid of. It's yours, Charles. And as frightening as it may be, that pain will make you stronger. If you allow yourself to feel it, embrace it, it will make you more powerful than you ever imagined. It's the greatest gift we have: to bear their pain without breaking. And it comes from the most human part of us: hope. [shows Charles his school for Mutants, his own compassion, what he fights for which helps ease his past self's mind.] Please, Charles, we need you to hope again. [Xavier, stunned, breaks the psychic link]

Wolverine

Find what you were looking for?

[The lights return. Hank enters, having fixed the generator.]

The power's back on.

Charles

Yes. Yes, it is.
[Wolverine smiles.] :

Wolverine
[seeing Cyclops, Jean Grey, and Storm seemingly alive, Logan steps into Professor X's office]

You did it.

Did what? Logan, don't you have a class to teach?

Wolverine

A class to teach?

History

Wolverine

History. Actually, I could use some help with that.

Help with that?

Wolverine

Well, pretty much everything after 1973. [The Professor is surprised.] I think the history I know is a little different.

[reads Wolverine's mind and understands what he went through]

Welcome back.

Wolverine

It's good to see you, Charles. It's good to see everyone.

Well, I had a promise to keep. You and I have a lot of catching up to do.

Wolverine

Yeah.

What's the last thing you remembered?

Wolverine

Drowning.

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