Spartacus quotes from Spartacus: Blood and Sand

Spartacus

It will end one day, and we will be reunited.

Spartacus

[to Mira] If you value your life, never awaken a gladiator.

Spartacus

It is a distance to travel- from a woman's mouth to the man's ears.

Spartacus

I have done this thing because it is just. Blood demands blood. We have lived and lost at the whims of our masters for too long. I would not have it so. I would not see the passing of a brother, for the purpose of sport. I would not see another heart ripped from a chest, or breath forfeit for no cause. I know not all of you wish this, yet it is done. It is done. Your lives are your own. Forge your own path, or join with us, and together we shall see Rome tremble.

Sura

The council has decided?

Spartacus

We go to war.

Sura

I've asked the gods to bless your sword.

Spartacus

Once the Geti are driven from our lands there will be no reason to ever pick it up again.

Sura

What would my husband do without it?

Spartacus

Grow crops, raise goats, make children.

Sura

Forever.

Spartacus

Forever, to be by your side.

Sura

When do you leave?

Spartacus

First light.

Sura

Then come to bed. If one night is all we have, I should make the most of it.

Spartacus

I woke expecting my wife beside me.

Sura

She rose early to pray that her husband would stay with her.

Spartacus

I thought we were in agreement.

Sura

We were.

Spartacus

Were?

Sura

The gods came to me last night, in my sleep.

Spartacus

What did they show you?

Sura

My husband on his knees, bowing before a great red serpent, the life draining from his veins.

Spartacus

What meaning did you take from it?

Sura

A warning. If you go to war you are destined for great and unfortunate things.

Spartacus

The Geti worship the mountain wolf. They place no faith in snakes. It was just a dream.

Sura

And if it isn't?

Spartacus

I gave my word, Sura. Blood and honor. It speaks to the man. Nothing will keep me from returning to your arms. Not the Geti, not the Romans, not the gods themselves.

Sura

The nights grow so cold. What am I to do without you in our bed?

Spartacus

Lift your dress (She does, he ties a piece of his cloak around her leg) keep me close to your thighs. The thought will warm us both.

Sura

Kill them all.

Spartacus

For you.

Glaber

Align yourself with Rome, pledge your service the auxiliary, and join us in our campaign.

Spartacus

To what end, to what end?

Glaber

Victory.

Spartacus

And how is it to be measured? The Geti have raided our villages in the past, raped our women, and killed our children. Each time we have pushed them back, only to see them return. If we are to align with Rome, the purpose must be clear. The Geti dead, all of them.

Glaber

Dead, all of them.

Why are you here, in this place, under my hospitality? Do you know why?

Spartacus

Because I trusted in the honor of a Roman.

You are here because of my grandfather. He built this ludus. He believed that no man was without worth. That even the most vile among us could rise to honor and glory. He instilled these beliefs in my father, who in turn passed them on to me. I am a lanista. Like my forefathers, a trainer of gladiators. I see things in men that they themselves have lost, small spark, an ember, I give it breath, tender, until it ignites in the arena.

Well then, how do you know she still lives?

Spartacus

How do you know the heart beats beneath your chest?

Most days I don't. I'm just a simple Roman trying to make his way against the whim of the gods, the politicians, the miscreants. So often you can't tell one from the other, but you. You are the most dangerous of animals, beast born of the heart.

What would you do to hold your wife again, to feel the warmth of her skin, to taste her lips, would you kill?

Spartacus

Whoever stood between us.

How many men? A hundred, A thousand?

Spartacus

I would kill them all.

Then do it in the arena. Fight for me, and the honor of my forefathers. Prove yourself, climb to the pinnacle, gain your freedom, and that of the woman you've lost.

Spartacus

I did not lose her. She was taken from me.

A man must accept his fate, or be destroyed by it.

Spartacus

Why would I place my fate in the hands of another Roman?

Because of what they hold. Your wife's? Pass the final test tonight with honor and servitude, call me Dominus, and I will help to reunite you. The choice is yours.

Spartacus

You must keep searching for her.

You shit on honorable agreements and press for fresh demands? Tell me, Thracian - how will you pay for her release if found? Hmm? Her transport? Do you shoot magic coins out of your ass? If so, squat and produce!

Spartacus

I shall fight in the arena, my winnings--

No one wishes to see you fight! The crowd's favor, like the wind, is fleeting. Their interest in you has blown out.

Spartacus

There must be a way for me to fight.

Only one. In a place where you needn't follow rules, because none exist. The pits of the underworld. Fight there and survive, and you will fill both our hands with coin. And you may yet feel your wife's touch again.

Sura

Your wounds...

Spartacus

I'm allright.

Sura

You push yourself too far.

Spartacus

And yet I live.

Sura

For how long?

Spartacus

As long as it takes.

Sura

Then kill them all.

Spartacus

Glory?

Crixus

There is no greater thing than standing victorious in the arena.

Spartacus

Is there no purpose... beyond the blood? No dream beyond the cheering crowd? Is there nothing else you fight for?

By depriving Theokoles of his life, you put end to a battle left unfinished by my sword. An end to my shame.

Spartacus

I live to see my wife again, because of you. A debt not soon forgotten.

There is no balance between us. Only the promise of future glory.

The Gods have truly blessed you.

Spartacus

Sura would say the same.

And you?

Spartacus

The Gods and I do not tread common ground. Although she made effort many times to place us at even footing.

Wise and understanding, to love a man despite his shortcomings.

Spartacus

She is the only reason my heart beats within my chest.

To find love such as this? A rare and fortunate thing.

Spartacus

You speak from knowledge?

A wife of my own. The thought of her ever upon my mind.

Spartacus

Does she live?

In memory.

Spartacus

I would have desired to meet her. And tell her of her husband's worth.