Quotes from fictional characters that made you stop and think or have stuck with you.

[ShindoL Shill]

"Bear witness to my sin, and you become a breeding ground for my horror."
-Joel Calley, Concession.

It just sounds so good.

 

[krection]

There's only two ways this can end. And in both of them....you die. -Duke Nukem

 

[Pinkamena]

"A man chooses, a slave obeys." Andrew Ryan

 

[Jabberwock King]

"So this is how it ends. Well then listen to me you stupid idiots! I am undefeatable, you can never stop me, death is only the beginning! Now if you'll excuse me, I'll see you in HELL!"
Jeremiah Gottwald, Code Ment
.
.
.
.
I'm tripping BALLS!

 

[Sehnsucht Engel]

"We all have our delusions" - Aria T'loak.

Eve, the female krogan, says something about turning on a light and there will be darkness no more, but I forgot the exact wording.

Those are the ones I remember right now...

I think this is close: "It only takes one candle to light a fire, and then the darkness is gone."

OT:
In war, victory.
In peace, vigilance.
In death, sacrifice.
-Grey Wardens, Dragon Age

"I only have two rules. The first rule is to never kill someone without a reason."
"And the second rule?"
"You can always find a reason to kill someone.
-Saren and David Anderson, one of the Mass Effect novels.

EDIT: Definitely paraphrased:
"The worst insult an enemy can suffer is to be ignored."
-Warlord Okeer, Mass Effect 2

Yeah, it might be, thank you.

 

[Noswad]

"Four Gods wait on the windowsill
Where once eight Gods did war and will
And if the Gods themselves may die
What does that say for you and I?

Now, three Gods wait on the windowsill
Where one God's blood was lately spilled
While black tongues lap at the spreading pool
And build the strength they need to rule

When two Gods wait on the windowsill
The wick of the world is burning, still
But when one God in triumph shouts
The candle of the world goes out

And when that candle, bare and white
Sheds at last its dancing light
Then we will rouse, with raiséd rod
To pierce the very house of God"
--The Quartet for the Dusk of Man

 

[Erttheking]

My father was born on the ship to America, but the way that he talked about Ireland you would think he always wore a kilt and ate nothing but haggis. And he hated the british for what they did to his great grand parents, that he never knew.

John Marston. It went something like that.

Freedom is the right of all sentient beings

Optimus Prime

When I was in the corps we didn't get no fancy shmancy tanks, we entire platoon got sticks and a rock, and we had to share the rock.

Sgt. Johnson. Again it went something like that.

Give it to me, and I'll do what you shoulda did, ten minutes ago.

Convict from the dark knight.

 

[Spectrre]

Snip (with pain in my heart)

... amazing. Your quotes are the ones that really stopped me in my tracks and made me think, more so than the others so far. Thank you for posting them.


OT: (wall-o-text inc.) 1967 Parole Hearings Man: Ellis Boyd Redding, your files say you've served 40 years of a life sentence. Do you feel you've been rehabilitated?
Red: Rehabilitated? Well, now let me see. You know, I don't have any idea what that means.
1967 Parole Hearings Man: Well, it means that you're ready to rejoin society...
Red: I know what *you* think it means, sonny. To me it's just a made up word. A politician's word, so young fellas like yourself can wear a suit and a tie, and have a job. What do you really want to know? Am I sorry for what I did?
1967 Parole Hearings Man: Well, are you?
Red: There's not a day goes by I don't feel regret. Not because I'm in here, or because you think I should. I look back on the way I was then: a young, stupid kid who committed that terrible crime. I want to talk to him. I want to try and talk some sense to him, tell him the way things are. But I can't. That kid's long gone and this old man is all that's left. I got to live with that. Rehabilitated? It's just a bullshit word. So you go on and stamp your form, sonny, and stop wasting my time. Because to tell you the truth, I don't give a shit.


Andy Dufresne: That's the beauty of music. They can't get that from you... Haven't you ever felt that way about music?
Red: I played a mean harmonica as a younger man. Lost interest in it though. Didn't make much sense in here.
Andy Dufresne: Here's where it makes the most sense. You need it so you don't forget.
Red: Forget?
Andy Dufresne: Forget that... there are places in this world that aren't made out of stone. That there's something inside... that they can't get to, that they can't touch. That's yours.
Red: What're you talking about?
Andy Dufresne: Hope.


Both from The Shawshank Redemption.

 

[syrdefi]

"Doesn't matter what the press says. Doesn't matter what the politicians or the mobs say. Doesn't matter if the whole country decides that something wrong is something right. This nation was founded on one principle above all else: the requirement that we stand up for what we believe, no matter the odds or the consequences. When the mob and the press and the whole world tell you to move, your job is to plant yourself like a tree beside the river of truth, and tell the whole world ? No, you move."
--Captain America

It means I stand up for my convictions.

It means I don't despise anyone whose convictions run in opposition to my own.

It means that Captain America is pure awesome!

 

[Leelu]

Two that mainly stick out are:

Stephen King - "Be true, be brave, stand. All the rest is darkness."

And:

Sherlock/Mycroft Holmes - "Sherlock Holmes: Look at them. They all care so much. Do you ever wonder if there's something wrong with us?
Mycroft Holmes: All lives end. All hearts are broken. Caring is not an advantage, Sherlock. "

There are more but it would take forever to type them out.

 

[pope_of_larry]

The number one moment in mass effect is when Mordin said "Had to be me, someone else might have gotten it wrong" before entering the tower.

 

[Karthek]

Two quotes that I live by:
"Keep on keepin' on" and "Life's a garden, dig it!"
~Joe Dirt, best David Spade movie ever

 

[Spydercake]

But as the day when the world declared in one voice, we will not go quietly into the night! We will not vanish without a fight! We're going to live on, we're going to survive. Today, we celebrate our Independence day!
Saw this movie when I was about 5 years old, this has stuck with me ever since.
Starts at around 0:34

 

[Kizi]

"Hope is what makes us strong. It is why we are here. It is what we fight with when all else is lost."
- Pandora from God of War III

It's been sort of stuck in my head for two years now.

Also, Chaplin's speech at the end of The Great Dictator.
"You are not machines! You are not cattle! You are men!"
Love that part.

 

[UnendingLight]

"Your world can end in the blink of an eye. One event, one unexpected twist of fate... and suddenly the world as you knew... is gone. Forever. All that you held dear, all that you held close... is washed away in a sea of distant memory. Life... is cruel. Of this I have no doubt. But life continues on... with, or without you. One can only hope that one leaves behind a lasting legacy. But so often, the legacies we leave behind... are not the ones we intended."

? Queen Myrrah end of Gears of War 2


An awesome quote, very true today. Once I saw how that full story played out, the quote fit all the better.

 

[Quantum Star]

I believe that there are things one chooses to do in life, and also things that are chosen for one to do in life. -Lilly, Katawa Shoujo

Have I ever apologized for my blindness even once? You can't help the way you are born, Hisao. There's no point in apologizing for who you are. You are a beautiful person, Hisao. Please don't apologize for that. -Lilly again, Katawa Shoujo

The only people a superhero can save are the people he sides with. -Archer, Fate/stay Night

 

[A Shadows Age]

Listen up! I don't care if that thing is God's own anti-son-of-a-***** machine, or a giant hula hoop. We're not gonna let them have it. What we will let them have is a belly full of lead, and a pool of their own blood to drown in. Am I right marines? "Yes Sir!" Damn right i am.

If you don't know who said this, I will have to slap you.

That one has stuck with me over the years, but just because it's badass. however, for a more thought provoking quote...

"You have enemies? Good. It means you've stood up for something in your life"

-Winston Churchill

Hehe, I like that one but I think my favorite is the two sticks and a rock speech...

Here is mine quote - "We must always think of the children!" AK47 I think that was how he said it...

Anything that came out of Bindo's mouth in kotor (destiny AKA - I hate you old man) or Kreia in Kotor2 (distrust as a shield, didn't earn it, eyes a distraction in regards to true sight,crude matter, etc, etc.)

The one by liberty prime that went something like "democracy isn't negotiable" - that made me laugh until the thought occurred to me that many take that literally... then I shot some "bigots" and felt better.

 

[TheOneBearded]

"There is a realm of existence so far beyond your own you cannot even imagine it, I am beyond your comprehension. I am Sovereign!"

"We are eternal. The pinnacle of evolution and existence. Before us, you are nothing. Your existence is inevitable. We are the end of everything."

"We impose order on the chaos of organic evolution. You exist because we allow it. And you will end because we demand it."

"We are legion. The time of our return is coming. Our numbers will darken the sky of every world. You cannot escape your doom."

"Your words are as empty as your future. I am the vanguard of your destruction. This exchange is over." (presumes on pimp slapping Shepard in the face)

I, for one, welcome our Reaper overlords. Hell, being a husk may not be so bad.