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

[umerwaqas]

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
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[KingCrInuYasha]

"It's funny how the colors of the real world only seem really real when you viddy them on the screen." - Alex, A Clockwork Orange

Beavis: Hey, Butthead, what did people do before they had TV?
Butthead: Don't be stupid, Beavis, there's always been TV. There's just more channels now.

And yes, this next one is from a Matrix sequel, but it had so much potential:

Smith: Why, Mr. Anderson? Why do you do it? Why get up? Why keep fighting? Do you believe you're fighting for something? For more than your survival? Can you tell me what it is? Do you even know? Is it freedom? Or truth? Perhaps peace? Could it be for love? Illusions, Mr. Anderson. Vagaries of perception. Temporary constructs of a feeble human intellect trying desperately to justify an existence that is without meaning or purpose. And all of them as artificial as the Matrix itself. Although only a human mind could invent something as insipid as love. You must be able to see it, Mr. Anderson. You must know it by now. You can't win. It's pointless to keep fighting. Why, Mr. Anderson, Why? Why do you persist?
Neo: Because I choose to.

 

[Carl Munny]

Ocelot: Fight like a man Volgin!

Volgin: VOOOOOOOWLGINNNNNN?!

 

[Eisenfaust]

Samson: And so it was until the day that a false sun exploded over Trinity, and man forever traded away wonder for reason.

Paarthurnax: What is better? To be born good, or to overcome your evil nature through great effort?

Wolcott: Past hope. Past kindness or consideration. Past Justice. Past satisfaction. Past warmth, or cold or comfort. Past love. But past surprise? What an endlessly unfolding tedium life would then become. No, Doris, we must not let you be past surprise.

Visas: As my feet walk from the ashes..., I shall not fear, for in fear, lies death.

And, of course:

HK-47: Explanation: It's just that... you have all these squishy parts, master. And all that water! How the constant sloshing doesn't drive you mad, I have no idea...

 

[Angie7F]

The whole ending of EOE movie and matrix.
It makes me a bit more distant from life in general, which is sometimes good because you dont takes every little thing too seriously.

 

[CrazyGirl17]

"Unless someone cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better, it's not." - The Lorax

"When did ignorance become a point of view?"- Dilbert

"Extremism makes things so inconvenient."- Opus the Penguin

"The only thing more pathetic than Indians on TV are Indians watching Indians on TV." - from the movie "Smoke Signals."

 

[2fish]

"From the great deep to the great deep we go"
- Merlin in Tennyson's Idylls of the King

This wast the first characterization of death, the afterlife, and the pre-life that ever really made sense to me and calmed me down. We're just going back to wherever we came from before we were born, and if it wasn't that bad to come from, it won't be so bad to go back to it.

A couple more I like:

"That was their way, their heathenish hope;
deep in their hearts they remembered hell."
- Beowulf

"Luminous beings are we, not this crude matter."
- Yoda

Of course Socrates has some amazing quotes, though whether he counts as a historical figure or fictional character is very much a matter up for debate.

EDIT: Also, anything Douglas Adams ever wrote. That guy is a genius.

 

[Rastien]

'Do you like hurting people?'

A line from hotline miami asked to you after caking a buildings walls with the blood of your victims and feeling like a lot of a bad ass in doing so. This line is very sobering and made me take my hands off the keyboard and admit to myself i really did just enjoy this horrific acts i committed.