Quotes / God of War

The gods of Olympus have abandoned me. Now there is no hope.

— Kratos, Opening Cutscene of God of War, firmly setting the stage for the series.

"And Kratos cast himself from the highest mountain in all of Greece. After ten years of suffering, ten years of endless nightmares, it would finally come to an end. Death would be his escape from madness. But it had not always been this way. Kratos had once been a champion of the gods..."

—The Narrator from God of War, directly after the quote above.

There was... a horse. The horse sought vengeance upon his enemy, a stag. But he could not kill the stag alone. The horse met a man — a hunter — and made a deal. He took the man's bit and bridle and allowed him to ride in a saddle on his back. Together, they killed the stag, and the horse tasted victory. But the hunter would not release the horse, and made a slave of him.

— Kratos in God of War (PS4), recounting his own past to Atreus in the form of a parable.