Twelfth Doctor quotes from Doctor Who

It’s funny. The day you lose someone isn’t the worst. At least you’ve got something to do. It’s all the days they stay dead.

There are two events in everybody's life that nobody remembers. Two moments experienced by every living thing, yet no one remembers anything about them. Nobody remembers being born... And nobody remembers dying. Is that why we always stare into the eye sockets of a skull? Because we’re asking - "what was it like? Does it hurt? Are you still scared?"

I can't keep doing this, Clara! I can't! Why's it always me?! Why's it never anybody else's turn?!

Can't I just lose? Just this once?

This place is my own bespoke torture chamber. Intended for me only. But all those skulls in the water... How could there be other prisoners in my hell? The answer, of course, is that there were never any other prisoners. And the stars... They weren't in the wrong place. And I haven't time-traveled. I've just been here a very... very... long time.

[while repeatedly punching the Azbantium wall in an attempt to break through it] The Hybrid is a very dangerous secret. A very, very dangerous secret and it needs to be kept! So I'm telling you nothing. Nothing at all. Instead, I'm going to do something far worse. I'm going to get out of here, and find whoever put me here in the first place, and whatever they're trying to do, I'm going to stop it! But it might take me a little while, so do you want me to tell you a story? The Brothers Grimm, lovely fellas. They're on my darts team. According to them, there's this emperor and he asks this shepherd's boy, "How many seconds in eternity?"

Go to the city, find somebody important. Tell them I'm back, and I'm on my way. And if they ask you who I am, tell them I came the long way round.

Nothing's sad till it's over. Then everything is.

With great power comes great responsibility. No 'man' worthy of the title leaves a baby alone.

Things end. That's all. Everything ends, and it's always sad. But everything begins again too, and that's… always happy. Be happy. I'll look after everything else.

Imagine if time happened all at once. Every moment of your life laid out around you… like a city. Streets full of buildings made of days. The day you were born. The day you die. The day you fall in love. The day that love ends. A whole city built from triumph and heartbreak and boredom and laughter and cutting your toenails. It's the best place you will ever be. Time is a structure relative to ourselves. Time is the space made by our lives. Where we stand together forever. Time and relative dimension in space. It means "life".

You don't steer the TARDIS, you negotiate with it!

Do you know why I always win at chess? I have a secret move. I kick over the board.

Look. I know you miss it all, but I'm stuck here too, y'know? We're both prisoners...

Space. The final frontier. "Final" because it wants to kill us. Sometimes we forget that, start taking it all for granted — the suits, the ships, the little bubbles of safety — as they protect us from the void. But the void… is always waiting.

The universe shows its true face when it asks for help. We show ours by how we respond.