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

[Living Contradiction]

"You have the effrontery to be squeamish. But WE were dragons. We were SUPPOSED to be cruel, cunning, heartless, and terrible. But this much I can tell you, you ape...we never burned and tortured and ripped one another apart and called it morality." - The Dragon, "Guards! Guards!" by Terry Pratchett

"The right people never get hurt." Reid Fleming, the World's Toughest Milkman

"Thought before action, if you have the time." - Tor Kelsey, "The Edge" by Dick Francis

"Smilesville. Welcome, keeper! Before you lies a happy and carefree realm. The local champion, Lord Antonius, holds the first portal gem you require. Learn how to construct a dungeon. Build up your forces so you can crush Lord Antonius and wipe the smile from his face." - The Narrator, "Dungeon Keeper 2"

 

[Kiardras]

"I have defied gods and demons. I am you shield, I am your sword. I know you, your past, your future.

This is the way the world ends"

Always loved this quote.

 

[King of Asgaard]

"But does one ever truly have a choice?
One can only match, move by move, the machinations of fate, and thus defy the tyrannous stars."

"And so, I returned to the sanctuary of my enemies, the fortress of the Sarafam Brotherhood, deemed impossible for any man to penetrate.
*chuckles* Impossible for any man."
- Kain, Legacy of Kain: Defiance

 

[Vanitas likes Bubbles]

Serious Quotes:
These quotes I found truely inspirational.

"I will inflict the greatest insult an enemy can suffer.... to be ignored"

Warlord Okeer, Mass Effect 2

"The relationship is symbiotic, organic and machine intertwined. A union of flesh and steel. The Strengths of both, the weaknesses of neither. I am a vision of the future shepard. The evolution of ALL organic life, this is our destiny."

Saren, Mass Effect 1

"War.... war never changes"

Narrator from Fallout series

"Enough! You can stay here and let old wounds fester as krogan have always done or you can fight the enemy you were born to destroy and win a new future for our children. I chose to fight. Who will join me?"

Urdnot Bakara/Eve, Mass Effect 3

"We wish to understand, not provoke"

Legion, Mass Effect 2


Silly quotes that are memorable:

"I think I'm insulted"

Sam Fisher, Splinter Cell: Conviction

"What about watermelons"

Roxas, Kingdom Hearts 2

and who can forget

"You BIG, STUPID, JELLYFISH"

Commander Shepard

 

[DJjaffacake]

'God will understand, and if he does not, then he is not god, and we need not worry' Balian from Kingdom of Heaven destroys all religious dogma

 

[Darren716]

"Why?! Science isn't about why it's about why not! Why is so much of our science dangerous? Why don't you just marry safe science if you love it so much? In fact, why don't you make a door that won't hit you on the way out because you are fired!" Cave Johnson (Pretty much anything else he said I could have put down but I repeat this quote quite a bit in chemistry when ever someone says why.)

 

[twohundredpercent]

I love quotes way too much.

" A judge says life imprisonment without the possibility of parole. Without the possibility. hehehe. Lifers man. At some point they realize they ain't going nowhere. I seen it happen. A calm comes in their eyes. It's like they figured something the rest of us are never gonna see. They're suddenly free in a whole other kinda way, they're ready to die. Maybe they do what they can to help that shit along" Augustus Hill from Oz

"I wonder why in here we fight so hard to stay alive. A man gets sentence to 100 years. He really thinks if he gets buff, stays diesel he's gonna walk out?" Same guy. That quote kind of echoed through my mind the entire series


"I pray for the safety of all good people. Even gentiles. But we cannot expect God to do all the work" Joshua Graham

 

[VoidWanderer]

Newt's quote to Ripley in the vents.

"Mommy says there are no such things as monsters, but there are, aren't they?"

Perfectly sums up mankind, that there are in fact 'monsters'.

 

[VoidWanderer]

"The enemy's gate is down" -Ender Wiggin

WOuld you join me in prayer that they don't screw the movie up?

Also a good quote for anything Michael Bay or Platinum Dunes is involved in.

 

[MASTACHIEFPWN]

"Sometimes", she said, "they threaten you with something ? something you can't stand up to, can't even think about. And then you say, 'Don't do it to me, do it to somebody else, do it to so-and-so.' And perhaps you might pretend, afterwards, that it was only a trick and that you just said it to make them stop and didn't really mean it. But that isn't true. At the time when it happens you do mean it. You think there's no other way of saving yourself and you're quite ready to save yourself that way. You want it to happen to the other person. You don't give a damn what they suffer. All you care about is yourself."
"All you care about is yourself", he echoed.
-George Orwell personifying Julia and Winston in Nineteen Eighty-Four

My mother died yesterday, and before, I rented the Book Nineteen Eighty-Four from the library (Ironically, the library was built in 1984) My brother told me that a question about the book was on jeparady, he was watching it with my mother. (It was her favorite TV show)
I recited this quote a few hours before she died at the hospital, How if given the option, I would be so ready to send this burden on someone else, I don't care about what they suffered. I only wanted my mom to live.

This book is going to stay in my mind forever.

 

[Daniel_Rosamilia]

This one from Max Payne:
'They were all dead. The final gunshot was an exclamation mark on everything that had led to this point. I released my finger from the trigger, and it was over."
It's a sort of closing for that chapter of Max's story. He's finally at peace (or as close as he will get) with what's happened to him. And then Max Payne 2 rolls around.

The end of Max Payne 2 was awesome as well; Mona dies in his arms, but he says she brought him to a moment of clarity... and his final line: "I had a dream of my wife. She was dead, but it was all right." Fade to black, cue credits. He is truly at peace here as well.

THIS IS HOW YOU DO A SAD ENDING WELL, MAC WALTERS AND CASEY HUDSON!
[sub]Sorry 'bout that. Carry on.[/sub]

True, that's probably the better ending of the two, and that line just brings on a slew of emotions. Although, there is a 'secret' ending for the hardest difficulty where she doesn't die, but apart from that it's basically the same.

 

[Lovely Mixture]

"Each event is preceded by Prophecy. But without the hero, there is no Event." - opening lines of Morrowind.

We got some Deus Ex original and HR going on already, so I'll add the first thing that came to my mind, the original quote is from Woodrow Wilson, but Toufexis's delivery in the trailer for HR is wonderful:

"If you wanna make enemies, try and change something."

Many lines from the Legacy of Kain series apply but this stood out to me:

"As a man, I could never have contained such forbidden truths... But each of us is so much more than we once were... Gazing out across the planes of possibility, do you not feel with all your soul how we have become like gods?" - Kain

And just because I feel it's necessary:

"But....There's one they fear! In their tongue he is Dovahkiin...DRAGON BORN!" *cue Elder Scrolls theme*

 

[Kolby Jack]

"Pride is not the opposite of shame, but it's source. True humility is the only antidote to shame."

- Uncle Iroh, Avatar: TLA

Really took this one to heart, only to discover that it's fairly counter to American culture (we're a very proud people). I try to be humble about all things in my life, and now I rarely feel truly ashamed when I make a mistake. I just address it in whatever way i think is best and move on. Some who've seen this take it as a sign that I just don't care or that I don't hold myself accountable for my actions, when really I just realize I'll make mistakes all throughout my life; dwelling on them fixes nothing and just makes me feel crappy. Recognize them, learn from them, never repeat them, but don't let them bring you down.

I'm sure I have numerous others, but I can't pick any out with any degree of accuracy.

 

[HHammond]

"The hardest thing in this world is to live in it." - Buffy

"Two men walk into a bar. The first man orders a scotch and soda. The second man remembers something he'd forgotten, and it doubles him over with pain. He falls to the floor shaking and then through the floor into the earth. He looks back up at the first man, but he doesn't call out to him. They're not that close." - Wesley (from Angel).

"We're lost, we're not gone." - Dollhouse

"Out damn'd spot!" - Lady Macbeth

"Can't stop the signal" - Firefly

"I sacrificed Angel to save the world. I loved him so much. But I knew ... what was right. I don't have that any more. I don't understand. I don't know how to live in this world if these are the choices. If everything just gets stripped away. I don't see the point. I just wish that... I just wish my mom was here." - Buffy

And I know these two aren't fictional characters but they've stuck with me nonetheless

"The woods are lovely, dark, and deep,
But I have promises to keep,
And miles to go before I sleep,
And miles to go before I sleep." - Stopping by the woods on a snowy evening by Robert Frost

"I have mislaid the key. I sniff the spray
And think of nothing; I see and I hear nothing;
Yet seem, too, to be listening, lying in wait
For what I should, yet never can, remember;
No garden appears, no path, no hoar-green bush
Of Lad?s-love, or Old Man, no child beside,
Neither father nor mother, nor any playmate;
Only an avenue, dark, nameless, without end " - Old Man by Edward Thomas

 

[Bravo 21]

"Gravity, why do u disobey Captain?" -Zee Captain, Romantically Apocalyptic
"That was the worst throw ever. Of all time." -Washington, RVB
"You know what does equal Power? Power. Power equals power. Crazy, huh? But the type of power? Doesn't matter as much as you'd think." -Zykon, Order of the Stick

 

[Gentleman Adventurer]

"Why are you so proud of your lawyers here in the United States? Money spent on a lawyer is money not spent on fine liquor, fancy cigars, or beautiful women." - Patrick Lassan, Chasseur-Colonel of Napoleon III's Imperial Guard. Said to Nathaniel Starbuck, Captain in the Faulconer Legion of the Army of Northern Virginia, after Nathaniel starts to wax eloquent on the respectability of the trade. If I remember right its from the book "Battle Flag" and the quote might be a little off, I have not read the book in years.

 

[SayHelloToMrBullet]

Some of these have probably already been said, but they're worth saying again.

Eliza - Deus Ex Human Revolution
"It's not the end of the world, but you can see it from here."

Captain Blackadder - Blackadder
"Who would have noticed another madman around here? (refering to the trenches in WW1)"

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

GMan - Half Life 2
"The right man in the wrong place can make ALL the difference in the world."

Narrator - Every Fallout game
"War, war never changes."

President John Henry Eden - Fallout 3
"We can afford all we need, we cannot afford all we want."

Ulysses - Fallout New Vegas
"The day I set my flag down, it'll be over my body or over a nation I believe in."
"Who are you, that you do not know your history?"

Mr House - Fallout New Vegas
"We don't have to dream that we're important."

 

[Lord Kloo]

My people, sons and daughters of Helghan...
- Scholar Visari
Its sad that I can do the entire speech without prompts.

"They're scratching your paint-job" - Unknown German Tank Commander - Company of Heroes

"We're on a secret mission to find coffee and donuts, unfortunately the Germans ate all the donuts and drank all the coffee, so now, we gotta go kick their asses!" - Some sergeant guy - Call of Duty 3

"Wir sehen uns in Walhalla" - That German Commander from Iron Sky - "See you in Valhalla"

 

[MercurySteam]

"They're going to kill me too, very soon. I was just going to lie down and take it, but you know what? Before I go, I'd like to know why I have to die." - The Doctor.

One of the few interesting things about season 6 was seeing The Doctor come to terms with his own mortality. Must be strange for somebody who's over 900 years old.

 

[Mr Fixit]

"Was it red-red-green, or red-green-red?" -Scorch, Republic Commando
I love that line too, along with many others from that game.

The one line that always sticks out in my mind is from the "Godfellas" episode of Futurama.
The last line in the episode spoken by the godlike entity... "When you do things right, people won't be sure you've done anything at all."

It just made me think about all the possibilities of life & existence.