Favorite Quote

[psicat]

The truth was a burning green crack through my brain. Weapon statistics hanging
in the air, glimpsed out of the corner of my eye. Endless repetition of the act of
shooting, time slowing down to show off my moves, the paranoid feel of someone
controlling my every step. I was in a computer game. Funny as Hell, it was the
most horrible thing I could think of.
- Max Payne

"And so we conclude the adventures of Kratos, the ancient world's most determined atheist."
- Yahtzee, Zero Punctuation Review of God of War 3

"Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream by night."
- Edgar Allen Poe

 

[MrShadowzs]

"Remember when the platform was sliding into the fire pit and I said 'Goodbye' and you were like 'No way' and then I was all 'We pretended we were going to murder you'? That was great." GLaDOS

 

[similar.squirrel]

Since we're talking about games:
'I have ruled out the possibility of an artificially intelligent virus, unless it's very intelligent... and toying with me.'
Mordin Solus.

Most of the things he said were good, now that I come to think of it.

 

[Victor Cross]

forgot what game but
If it screams,stop shooting if it screams in German...shoot it again!

Brothers in Arms: Road to Hill 30. Forgot about that one XD. Great line.

I'd say anything from Bulletstorm, but if I had to pick one: "Aww...ain't that sweeter n' teenage P**nt**g..." -General Serrano, during the last level. XD

 

[n03s]

"I'll rip your head off and shit down your neck" Duke, in Duke Nukem 3d..
Everything he said in that game was a quote...

 

[Ailia]

"It kicks ass, it kicks all sorts of ass. It tracks down ass's friends and kicks those too."
It was in a interview for a book I liked... don't remember which.

And this section from Baldur's Gate II: Throne of Bhaal:
Protagonist: "Why do you use so many big words? Are you trying to make me feel stupid?"
Kiser Jhaeri: "My utilization of complex locution is more a reflection of my own superincumbent mental acuity than an aspersion on your circumscribed lexicon."
Protagonist: "Maybe your grandiose vocabulary is a pathetic compensation for an insufficiency in the nether regions of your anatomy."
Hell, lots of the lines in this game were hilarious.

 

[dvd_72]

"Might controlls everything, and without strength you cannot protect anything. Let allone yourself" - Vergil, Devil May Cry 3.

 

[sahwar]

Kudos for the good topic.

Well, I personally don't have a single favorite quote, but I guess that any famous quote about the topic of truth would do.

So here is a large selection of truth-related quotes that I found (most of them are among my favorite groups of quotes).

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God offers to every mind its choice between truth and repose. Take which you please - you can never have both. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad. ~Aldous Huxley

Truth, like milk, arrives in the dark
But even so, wise dogs don't bark.
Only mongrels make it hard
For the milkman to come up the yard.
~Christopher Morley, Dogs Don't Bark at the Milkman

It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself. ~Thomas Jefferson, Notes on Virginia

I never dreamed of being Shakespeare or Goethe, and I never expected to hold the great mirror of truth up before the world; I dreamed only of being a little pocket mirror, the sort that a woman can carry in her purse; one that reflects small blemishes, and some great beauties, when held close enough to the heart. ~Peter Altenberg

The greatest enemy of any one of our truths may be the rest of our truths. ~William James

Men ardently pursue truth, assuming it will be angels' bread when found. ~W. MacNeile Dixon

There is no god higher than truth. ~Mahatma Gandhi

Truth has very few friends and those few are suicides. ~Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin

The trouble about man is twofold. He cannot learn truths which are too complicated; he forgets truths which are too simple. ~Rebecca West

It will never be possible by pure reason to arrive at some absolute truth. ~Werner Heisenberg, Physics and Philosophy

Truth is rarely writ in ink; it lives in nature. ~Martin H. Fischer

When I tell any truth, it is not for the sake of convincing those who do not know it, but for the sake of defending those that do. ~William Blake

Truth only reveals itself when one gives up all preconceived ideas. ~Shoseki

Without faith there is no truth, for that is all the truth is or ever was. ~Robert Brault (www.robertbrault.com)

There is no Truth. There is only the truth within each moment. ~Ramana Maharshi, attributed

Truth is after all a moving target
Hairs to split,
And pieces that don't fit
How can anybody be enlightened?
Truth is after all so poorly lit.
~Neil Peart, Turn the Page
(Thank you, Ryan)

Theories are private property, but truth is common stock. ~Charles Caleb Colton

It is a terrible thing for a man to find out suddenly that all his life he has been speaking nothing but the truth. ~Oscar Wilde

My truths do not last long in me. Not as long as those that are not mine. ~Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin

Truth breeds hatred. ~Bias of Priene, Maxims

If you cannot find the truth right where you are, where else do you expect to find it? ~Dogen

People always think something's all true. ~J.D. Salinger, Catcher in the Rye

Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at a touch, nay, you may kick it all about all day like a football, and it will be round and full at evening. ~Oliver Wendell Holmes, The Professor at the Breakfast Table

Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold. ~Leo Tolstoy

Truth is the breath of life to human society. It is the food of the immortal spirit. Yet a single word of it may kill a man as suddenly as a drop of prussic acid. ~Oliver Wendell Holmes

I am the fellow citizen of every being that thinks; my country is Truth. ~Alphonse de Lamartine, "Marseillaise of Peace," 1841

Like all dreamers, I mistook disenchantment for truth. ~Jean-Paul Sartre

Truth is a great flirt. ~Franz Liszt

I am of the Buddhists. The great Teacher comes periodically. He is followed by pupils who corrupt the texts and then a new Buddha must be born to reëstablish the truth. ~Martin H. Fischer

We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter. ~Denis Didero

All great truths begin as blasphemies. ~George Bernard Shaw, Annajanska, 1919

...Science and mathematics
Run parallel to reality, they symbolize it, they squint at it,
They never touch it: consider what an explosion
Would rock the bones of men into little white fragments and unsky the world
If any mind for a moment touch truth.
~Robinson Jeffers, "The Silent Shepherds," The Beginning & the End

The greatest truths are the simplest: so likewise are the greatest men. ~Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers, 1827

I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth - and truth rewarded me. ~Simone de Beauvoir

Man has always sacrificed truth to his vanity, comfort and advantage. He lives... by make-believe. ~W. Somerset Maugham, The Summing Up, 1938

When one has one's hand full of truth it is not always wise to open it. ~French Proverb

Truth is no Doctoresse, she takes no degrees at Paris or Oxford... but oftentimes to such an one as myself, an Idiota or common person, no great things, melancholizing in woods where waters are, quiet places by rivers, fountains, whereas the silly man expecting no such matter, thinketh only how best to delectate and refresh his mynde continually with Natura her pleasaunt scenes, woods, water-falls, or Art her statelie gardens, parks, terraces, Belvideres, on a sudden the goddesse herself Truth has appeared, with a shyning lyghte, and a sparklyng countenance, so as yee may not be able lightly to resist her. ~Charles Lamb

We do not err because truth is difficult to see. It is visible at a glance. We err because this is more comfortable. ~Alexander Solzhenitsyn

The truth will set you free, but first it will make you miserable. ~Attributed to James A. Garfield

Every truth passes through three stages before it is recognized. In the first, it is ridiculed, in the second it is opposed, in the third it is regarded as self-evident. ~Arthur Schopenhauer

There is no truth. There is only perception. ~Gustave Flaubert

If a thousand old beliefs were ruined in our march to truth we must still march on. ~Stopford Brooke

Source: http://www.quotegarden.com/truth.html.

 

[godfist88]

This ones from south park

"we all got voices in our heads dude it's called intuition."

 

[SpartanBlackman]

"I should have been the one to fill your dark soul with LiIIIIGHT" - gets a mention from Dante of DMC
"Anyone who fights us is either stupid or on Saren's payroll. The latter is business, the former is a favor to the universe" Urdnot Wrex, ME.
"'Lets go back to the Warden' 'He has a name, you know'" Alistair, DA2

 

[LikeDustInTheWind]

I have one from the Portal comic someone mentioned earlier.

"You know that thought experiment with the cat in the box with the poison? Well I tried it a few dozen times and the bad news is that reality doesn't exist, and the good news is that we have a new cat graveyard"

Followed a few pages later with a flashback which has this:

GLaDOS: I have a wonderful idea for "Bring Your Cat to Work Day."

Scientist: Really? What do you need?

GLaDOS: Just a bit of neurotoxin...

Scientist: Well, as long as it's for science.

I laughed at this for a good ten minutes.

 

[windlenot]

A friend has a quote on a wall from a guy I don't remember... But it was something along the lines of, "Doing something well is a waste of time."

 

[TornadoFive]

Joker: 'This is all Joker's fault. What a tool he was. I have to spend all day computing pi because he plugged in the Overlord.'

I'd completely forgotten that one! You've just cheered up my night! The voice he says it in just completes the epicness of the scene!

OT. "In layman's terms: speedy thing goes in, speedy thing comes out"

or

"The Enrichment Center promises to always provide a safe testing environment. In dangerous testing environments, the Enrichment Center promises to always provide useful advice. For instance, the floor here will kill you. Try to avoid it."

or even

"That thing you burned up isn't important to me. It's the fluid catalytic cracking unit. It made shoes for orphans. Nice job breaking it, hero."

If you don't know what game these come from and what character says them, I weep for you. Truly I do.

 

[Radoh]

"I love the sight of humans on their knees. That was a joke." Edi, I love you.

 

[Asuka Soryu]

"The descent of this mighty creature shall be heralded by burning winds and twisted land. And with the coming of this horror, those who draw breath shall know the true meaning of eternal slumber"

"He leaps up, down, and all around! Nobody can lay a hand on this funny bunny!"

 

[Grayjack]

Can it wait for a bit? I'm in the middle of some calibrations.

-Garrus Vakarian

 

[spartan231490]

More crazy? I thought we were full up.
~Allistair
Hey Commander, we got Garrus back! That's great, because he was totally my favorite? with that pole up his ass.
~Joker
Winter is coming.
~Game of Thrones
You all got on this boat for different reasons, but you've all come to the same place, so now I'm asking more of you than I have before --- maybe all. [Because] sure as I know anything, I know this: they will try again. Maybe on another world, maybe on this very ground swept clean. A year from now, ten, they'll swing back to the belief that they can make people ... better. And I do not hold to that.

So no more running. I aim to misbehave.
~Malcolm Reynolds

 

[Detective Prince]

"Adios, asshole!" - Shinjiro Aragaki from Persona 3.

Or the other Persona character who can break a monologue's drama in one sentence alone...Kanji Tatsumi with "Is this dude high or somethin'?" to a man who had kidnapped a little girl...Ah Kanji.

But dramatic moments in a game I played the other day was from Waka from Okami and I don't know why I loved what he said so much. Maybe because being mean was so out of character for him XD

"Well if you must go, then go. Besides only those worthy of the trip to the Heavens may board the fabled Ark of Yamato. You never had a ticket, and you never will!"

 

[Daffy F]

"Call it"
"Edge"
- Rincewind