John Constantine quotes from Constantine

Zed

Why do you want to help me? Why do you believe me?

John

I survive on instinct. Mine tells me that you're all right. It doesn't hurt that you're easy on the eyes as well.

Zed

Wish I could say the same.

John

Oh, thanks.

John

Zed, meet Felix Faust, lifetime apprentice and second fiddle to the greatest black magicians of his generation

Second fiddle indeed, Constantine. The mages played the melody but I wrote the concerto. They built their legends on my shoulders.

John

All those people wasting away by your hand as life passes them by. That is not the legacy you want, Felix.

And what would you know of legacy? A boastful, smutty, infantile boy. You create magic by accident and insolence, while the truly devoted sweat and toil without reward. You never knew my magic, Constantine. You will know my pain.

Your towering respect for the law is just astounding as always, John. Oh, I see you managed to steal from a cop as well.

John

Well, it's a campus cop, mate, big difference.

John

If those kids actually made it into another realm, then they've opened gates that won't be easy to close. In current conditions, anyone can be pulled in through that gate. Not just the four that took part in the ritual.

Yeah well it's worse than that John. Shaw had a theory, if you're killed in another dimension your body here suffers the same form of death.

John

Oh, I forgot--angels, they can't read sarcasm.

Manny

I can read it: I just don't have patience for it.

John

Stay here, they're likely to experiment on you in the name of science.

Chas

Oh, like you did?

John

That was in the name of magic. Put your pants on.

John

I want to tell you something about me that nobody knows. I wake up every morning, and for the first five minutes of the day, I imagine that everyone I care about is dead. I lie there, and... I meditate on that. So that when it inevitably happens, then, uh... it lessens the blow.

Zed

Then what do you do?

John

I spark a ciggy and fry an egg.

Zed

A tumor's causing my visions. That explains a lot doesn't it? Cold hard science.

John

Humans always look for narrative and causality. Nothing that he just said suggests that this mass and your visions are linked in any way.

Zed

You don't want to believe it.

John

Now, I know it's hard. All those chemicals swirling around. Your heart aches, your head hurts, makes it hard to concentrate, doesn't it?

Manny

Yeah, I don't know how you get anything done.

John

A little bit of denial and a whole lot of gin.

John

I stare into the face of evil every bloody day. It usually manifests itself as a demon, a malevolent spirit, a bloody zombie, but now...

Manny

John, You've encountered human evil before.

John

I have, but this is something else entirely. We now know what happens when the rising darkness meets the evil in humanity. There's not an evil in any realm more dangerous than that.

John

The girls were taken by a Satanist.

Zed

Why? What does he want them for?

John

A full moon symbolizes rebirth, but the blood moon most likely sacrifices to usher in the new cycle.