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

[marobidoux]

Lo there do I see my father.
Lo there do I see my mother and my sisters and my brothers.
Lo there do I see the line of my people, back to the beginning.
Lo, they do call to me, they bid me take my place among them, in the Halls of Valhalla, where the brave may live...forever.

-Badass Vikings + Ahmed Ibn Fadhlan, The 13th Warrior

I love this movie, and this prayer just before the final battle makes me shiver every time.

 

[thomas.owns]

"I think I understand what Wilhelm wanted to do, just a little bit better. His methods may have been wrong, but now, I think I understand the logic behind his reasons. Living the same life, over and over again, but living those lives without any regrets is what really matters. That is probably what the ideal vision of being human is all about. However, we humans are really not that strong. And we know that we can?t live like that. We?re creatures that are much more flawed, weak, and smaller than that. We hurt others, we lie to ourselves, we hate, we blame others, we regret, but even if we are weak, and even if is our fate to disappear entirely I think the will to change the future is still an important one. We must try to change the things around us, little by little. Even if it is one step at a time, and even if everything is already predetermined, it isn?t something for us to be sad about. No, on the contrary, the future is overflowing with hope. And we have infinite paths to choose from. Isn?t that right? chaos? KOS-MOS?" ("


Pretty much all of Xenosaga

 

[laggyteabag]

"Wake me, when you need me"
-- John-117, Halo 3

"Send me out, with a bang..."
--Sgt Maj. Avery Johnson Jr, Halo 3

"When I was a young man, I had liberty, but I did not see it, I had time but I did not know it, I had love, but I did not feel it. I knew I would not have enough time to do everything, but now I worry I will not have enough time to do anything."
-- Ezio Auditore da Firenze, Assassins Creed Embers

"How are you holding up? Because im a Potato"
--GLaDOS, Portal 2

 

[gungreat1]

"I am and always will be your friend." Spock, Wrath of Khan

"I am. I think. I will." Equality-72521, Anthem

"Man exsits for the acheviement of his desires." Hank Rearden, Atlas Shrugged

 

[Lugbzurg]

"Fakers always hate the real deal. They may not recognize the impulse for what it is..."

Augh. I forget how the whole thing went, but, you should be able to understand the point being made here. It went something like this and it really intrigued me. It was said by a guy called "Ezekiel", I think in one of the Ultimate Spiderman comics.

 

[Kilroy17]

Honour does not need to be won, but it must never be lost. Dinobot (Beast Wars)

 

[Brixton6]

Just thought of a great one from The Witcher:

"That sword is for monsters." --Grand Master Jacques de Aldersberg

Those who have played it understand the underlying significance of his words.

 

[Crimbo23]

'The past is always affecting the present. Just look up at the night sky. The light we see from stars is thousands of years old but is only reaching us now.' Lex Luthor, Smallville

'Stick and stones may break my bones, but words will hurt forever..' JD, Scrubs

Aragon's speech at the black gate in the return of the king

'Save the cheerleader, save the world.' Hiro Nakamura, Heroes

'Without fear, we cannot be courageous.' I can't remember who said it(i think it is game of thrones)

'I am not a thing. My name is Leonard Church, and you will fear my lazer face!' Leonard Curch, Red V's Blue

I've probably butchered the first and last quote, but I'm too lazy to find the actual quote

 

[Queen Michael]

"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!

Big thanks for posting this. I was going to, but it's great to see that I'm not the only one who really likes this.

 

[Viivrabe]

"Through conflict we are found, we either find ourselves, or find ourselves lacking, but either way we are found."-Kreia

Star wars Knights of the Old Republic 2

 

[Dante1390]

I'll paraphrase, because I'm too lazy to track down the exact wording, but:
"Never forget what you are, for the world will not. Armor yourself in it, for then nobody can use it against you'
-Tyrion Lannister

Most memorable quote, imo

 

[artanis_neravar]

"I was dead until the moment I met you. I was a powerless corpse pretending to be alive. Living without power, without the ability to change my course, was akin to a slow death.
If I must live as i did before then..." - Lelouch

 

[Dante1390]

And I shall leave you fellows with that wall of text.

American Gods!

/hug

You know in that respectable hey bro kind of way...

/Equally manly hug back

That book is nowhere near read enough

Dude, totally!

/Group man hug

 

[Haunted Serenity]

What fear of death have we, who know that there is immoratality in the great and noble deeds of men.

Warhammer 40k Rulebook. It's a nice way to live your life I find.

 

[Ljs1121]

"'I don't need to have the perfect plan. My foe just needs to have an imperfect one.' - Jace Beleren"

It's the flavor text of Summoner's Bane, a Magic: The Gathering card. I'm not a huge fan of Magic, but when I first read this quote, it really stuck with me.

 

[IamLEAM1983]

"Perhaps the ending has not yet been written."
- Atrus, in several of the Myst games and the first of the books.

This just seems like it's true to life for me. No matter what happens, no matter how shitty things get or how awesome they turn out to be - it's not over. There's more to experience, and it's all right around the bend.

Ad Captcha: (Neutrogena) "Describe this brand with any word(s)."
Me: "Okay." *writes "Utter crap"*

 

[sabercrusader]

For the sake of taking WAY too long to remember them all. I'll just go with my favorite.

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

 

[TheYellowCellPhone]

"Maybe the only way to beat your bad luck is not caring about the outcome." -Vriska Serket, Homestuck

 

[Dangit2019]

I will never, EVER, forget that Soylent Green is made of people. That will always stick with me, and I'm never buying Soylent Green again.

 

[Dangit2019]

Also, in "Catch-22", when the Indian (Chief White Halfoat) says "Racial prejudice is a terrible thing, Yossarian. It really is. It's a terrible thing to treat a decent, loyal Indian like a n****r, k**e, w*p or s**c." I was reading that in a quiet classroom, and I could not stop freaking laughing.