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"And you are going away, and will not come back any more?"
"Yes," he said. "We have comraded long together, and it has been pleasant - pleasant for both; but I must go now, and we shall not see each other any more."
"In this life, Satan, but in another? We shall meet in another, surely?"
Then, all tranquilly and soberly, he made the strange answer, "There is no other."
A subtle influence blew upon my spirit from his, bringing with it a vague, dim, but blessed and hopeful feeling that the incredible words might be true - even must be true.
"Have you never suspected this, Theodor?"
"No. How could I? But if it can only be true -"
"It is true."
A gust of thankfulness rose in my breast, but a doubt checked it before it could issue in words, and I said, "But - but - we have seen that future life - seen it in its actuality, and so -"
"It was a vision - it had no existence."
I could hardly breathe for the great hope that was struggling in me. "A vision? - a vi -"
"Life itself is only a vision, a dream."
It was electrical. By God! I had had that very thought a thousand times in my musings!
"Nothing exists; all is a dream. God - man - the world - the sun, the moon, the wilderness of stars - a dream, all a dream; they have no existence. Nothing exists save empty space - and you!"
"I!"
"And you are not you - you have no body, no blood, no bones, you are but a thought. I myself have no existence; I am but a dream - your dream, creature of your imagination. In a moment you will have realized this, then you will banish me from your visions and I shall dissolve into the nothingness out of which you made me . . .
"I am perishing already - I am failing - I am passing away. In a little while you will be alone in shoreless space, to wander its limitless solitudes without friend or comrade forever - for you will remain a thought, the only existent thought, and by your nature inextinguishable, indestructible. But I, your poor servant, have revealed you to yourself and set you free. Dream other dreams, and better!
"Strange! that you should not have suspected years ago - centuries, ages, eons, ago! - for you have existed, companionless, through all the eternities.
Strange, indeed, that you should not have suspected that your universe and its contents were only dreams, visions, fiction! Strange, because they are so frankly and hysterically insane - like all dreams: a God who could make good children as easily as bad, yet preferred to make bad ones; who could have made every one of them happy, yet never made a single happy one; who made them prize their bitter life, yet stingily cut it short; who gave his angels eternal happiness unearned, yet required his other children to earn it; who gave his angels painless lives, yet cursed his other children with biting miseries and maladies of mind and body; who mouths justice and invented hell - mouths mercy and invented hell - mouths Golden Rules, and forgiveness multiplied by seventy times seven, and invented hell; who mouths morals to other people and has none himself; who frowns upon crimes, yet commits them all; who created man without invitation, then tries to shuffle the responsibility for man's acts upon man, instead of honorably placing it where it belongs, upon himself; and finally, with altogether divine obtuseness, invites this poor, abused slave to worship him! . . .
"You perceive, now, that these things are all impossible except in a dream. You perceive that they are pure and puerile insanities, the silly creations of an imagination that is not conscious of its freaks - in a word, that they are a dream, and you the maker of it. The dream-marks are all present; you should have recognized them earlier.
"It is true, that which I have revealed to you; there is no God, no universe, no human race, no earthly life, no heaven, no hell. It is all a dream - a grotesque and foolish dream. Nothing exists but you. And you are but a thought - a vagrant thought, a useless thought, a homeless thought, wandering forlorn among the empty eternities!"
He vanished, and left me appalled; for I knew, and realized, that all he had said was true.
"Yes," he said. "We have comraded long together, and it has been pleasant - pleasant for both; but I must go now, and we shall not see each other any more."
"In this life, Satan, but in another? We shall meet in another, surely?"
Then, all tranquilly and soberly, he made the strange answer, "There is no other."
A subtle influence blew upon my spirit from his, bringing with it a vague, dim, but blessed and hopeful feeling that the incredible words might be true - even must be true.
"Have you never suspected this, Theodor?"
"No. How could I? But if it can only be true -"
"It is true."
A gust of thankfulness rose in my breast, but a doubt checked it before it could issue in words, and I said, "But - but - we have seen that future life - seen it in its actuality, and so -"
"It was a vision - it had no existence."
I could hardly breathe for the great hope that was struggling in me. "A vision? - a vi -"
"Life itself is only a vision, a dream."
It was electrical. By God! I had had that very thought a thousand times in my musings!
"Nothing exists; all is a dream. God - man - the world - the sun, the moon, the wilderness of stars - a dream, all a dream; they have no existence. Nothing exists save empty space - and you!"
"I!"
"And you are not you - you have no body, no blood, no bones, you are but a thought. I myself have no existence; I am but a dream - your dream, creature of your imagination. In a moment you will have realized this, then you will banish me from your visions and I shall dissolve into the nothingness out of which you made me . . .
"I am perishing already - I am failing - I am passing away. In a little while you will be alone in shoreless space, to wander its limitless solitudes without friend or comrade forever - for you will remain a thought, the only existent thought, and by your nature inextinguishable, indestructible. But I, your poor servant, have revealed you to yourself and set you free. Dream other dreams, and better!
"Strange! that you should not have suspected years ago - centuries, ages, eons, ago! - for you have existed, companionless, through all the eternities.
Strange, indeed, that you should not have suspected that your universe and its contents were only dreams, visions, fiction! Strange, because they are so frankly and hysterically insane - like all dreams: a God who could make good children as easily as bad, yet preferred to make bad ones; who could have made every one of them happy, yet never made a single happy one; who made them prize their bitter life, yet stingily cut it short; who gave his angels eternal happiness unearned, yet required his other children to earn it; who gave his angels painless lives, yet cursed his other children with biting miseries and maladies of mind and body; who mouths justice and invented hell - mouths mercy and invented hell - mouths Golden Rules, and forgiveness multiplied by seventy times seven, and invented hell; who mouths morals to other people and has none himself; who frowns upon crimes, yet commits them all; who created man without invitation, then tries to shuffle the responsibility for man's acts upon man, instead of honorably placing it where it belongs, upon himself; and finally, with altogether divine obtuseness, invites this poor, abused slave to worship him! . . .
"You perceive, now, that these things are all impossible except in a dream. You perceive that they are pure and puerile insanities, the silly creations of an imagination that is not conscious of its freaks - in a word, that they are a dream, and you the maker of it. The dream-marks are all present; you should have recognized them earlier.
"It is true, that which I have revealed to you; there is no God, no universe, no human race, no earthly life, no heaven, no hell. It is all a dream - a grotesque and foolish dream. Nothing exists but you. And you are but a thought - a vagrant thought, a useless thought, a homeless thought, wandering forlorn among the empty eternities!"
He vanished, and left me appalled; for I knew, and realized, that all he had said was true.
One of the most interesting reasons why that quote is so strong is its misuse of English grammar. Sanskrit is a very old language and has grammatical tenses English lacks, thus translating it directly is often difficult, and one has to merely try to convey the meaning of the writing one way or another.Donnyp said:
I've always got chills from that broadcast. I remember when I was very young, my father was teaching me mathematics. At one point I became frustrated with polynomials or something, so we watched a video that included this broadcast piece after witnessing video of the Trinity test. My father then commented that after the test, the director, Ken Bainbridge, walked up to Oppenheimer, leaned in close and said "Now we are all sons of bitches."
I think that may have hit me stronger than Oppenheimer's comment, because, perhaps, it was really the first time I heard my father intentionally curse without it being a response to pain or anger. Or perhaps it's because what was said was so succinct and modern. Over the past hundred years, there's been a war nearly every year and now here's a device that will change warfare, and the rest of the world, forever.
"God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him. How shall we comfort ourselves, the murderers of all murderers? What was holiest and mightiest of all that the world has yet owned has bled to death under our knives: who will wipe this blood off us? What water is there for us to clean ourselves? What festivals of atonement, what sacred games shall we have to invent? Is not the greatness of this deed too great for us? Must we ourselves not become gods simply to appear worthy of it?"-Friedrich Nietzsche
This line from the first Xenosaga game:
"Such tears. What beauty they hold, these tears of sorrow. Surely, they are the most precious substance in the world. But, are you worthy to shed such tears? The act of mourning the dead belongs to the realm of humans... The human race, fearful in its weakness, built this world in a futile attempt to elude the abyss they call mortality. Culture, civilization, all delusions created by a powerless race, and of little use, like a barren woman. But amidst all this, you continue to exist as an unfettered soul, free from the shackles of flesh and blood. A completely pure consciousness. An eternal spiral undefiled by impurities. A fusion of fire, breath, and spirit! What can we call you, but angels? New, unadulterated psyches, but what you lack is reality, and that is what I shall provide you with!"
"Such tears. What beauty they hold, these tears of sorrow. Surely, they are the most precious substance in the world. But, are you worthy to shed such tears? The act of mourning the dead belongs to the realm of humans... The human race, fearful in its weakness, built this world in a futile attempt to elude the abyss they call mortality. Culture, civilization, all delusions created by a powerless race, and of little use, like a barren woman. But amidst all this, you continue to exist as an unfettered soul, free from the shackles of flesh and blood. A completely pure consciousness. An eternal spiral undefiled by impurities. A fusion of fire, breath, and spirit! What can we call you, but angels? New, unadulterated psyches, but what you lack is reality, and that is what I shall provide you with!"
"long into that darkness peering, i stood there. Wondering, doubting, fearing."-edgar allen poe.
The quote that shows every time you fire up eternal darkness: sanity's requiem.
"this...can't be HAAAPENIIIING!"-the usual reaction of eternal darkness characters to the insanity effects.
"when there's no more room in hell, the dead will walk the earth"
"alan...wake up."
The quote that shows every time you fire up eternal darkness: sanity's requiem.
"this...can't be HAAAPENIIIING!"-the usual reaction of eternal darkness characters to the insanity effects.
"when there's no more room in hell, the dead will walk the earth"
"alan...wake up."
This, just... this:
Points to whoever gets the refrence.
"Church, there's no such thing as ghosts. You're one of them... you're an AI... You... are the Alpha."
Points to whoever gets the refrence.
Forget the power of technology and science, for so much has been forgotten, never to be re-learned. Forget the promise of progress and understanding, for in the grim darkness of the far future there is only war. There is no peace amongst the stars, only an eternity of carnage and slaughter, and the laughter of thirsting gods - Warhammer40k
"I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones."
-Albert Einstein
Sorry if it's already been posted. A quick skim and I didn't see it.
-Albert Einstein
Sorry if it's already been posted. A quick skim and I didn't see it.
"Oh, really?" - Claudia, nterview With The Vampire.
"The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want ...
... but I do want.
He leadeth me beside still waters. He restoreth my soul ...
... but they killed my dog.
Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of Death, I shall fear no evil ...
... but I am afraid.
... for Thou art with me. Thy rod and Thy staff, they comfort me ...
... but we need a miracle.
Thy loving kindness and emrcy shall follow me all the days of my life ...
... if You exist.
... and I shall dwell in the House of the Lord forever ...
... but I'd like to get some more of this life first, and if You don't help us, we're all gonna die. Please? Just one miracle?
... Amen." - Megan, Pale Rider.
"The Show Must Go On." - Nico Minoru, Runaways.
"Clever girl." - Robert Muldoon, Jurassic Park.
"Would you like a balloon, Georgie?" - Pennywise, IT.
"I believe in scarlet tanagers, even though I never saw one. Same with the New Guinea mudlark and the flamingoes of Brazil. I believe in the golden bald eagle, and I think there may really be a phoenix someplace, but I don't believe in you!" - Stan Uris, IT.
I haven't actually watched Pale Rider or read IT in quite a while, so those may not be entirely accurate.
"You arrogant bastard." - Paul, The Fionavar Tapestry.
"Right now, you have a magically sharpened axe pressed carefully but sternly at the base of your throat.
It's there because you've annoyed me.
What do you think will happen if you make me angry?" - Big Ears, Goblins [http://www.goblinscomic.com/10122009/].
"The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want ...
... but I do want.
He leadeth me beside still waters. He restoreth my soul ...
... but they killed my dog.
Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of Death, I shall fear no evil ...
... but I am afraid.
... for Thou art with me. Thy rod and Thy staff, they comfort me ...
... but we need a miracle.
Thy loving kindness and emrcy shall follow me all the days of my life ...
... if You exist.
... and I shall dwell in the House of the Lord forever ...
... but I'd like to get some more of this life first, and if You don't help us, we're all gonna die. Please? Just one miracle?
... Amen." - Megan, Pale Rider.
"The Show Must Go On." - Nico Minoru, Runaways.
"Clever girl." - Robert Muldoon, Jurassic Park.
"Would you like a balloon, Georgie?" - Pennywise, IT.
"I believe in scarlet tanagers, even though I never saw one. Same with the New Guinea mudlark and the flamingoes of Brazil. I believe in the golden bald eagle, and I think there may really be a phoenix someplace, but I don't believe in you!" - Stan Uris, IT.
I haven't actually watched Pale Rider or read IT in quite a while, so those may not be entirely accurate.
"You arrogant bastard." - Paul, The Fionavar Tapestry.
"Right now, you have a magically sharpened axe pressed carefully but sternly at the base of your throat.
It's there because you've annoyed me.
What do you think will happen if you make me angry?" - Big Ears, Goblins [http://www.goblinscomic.com/10122009/].
Red vs Blue.CrazyGirl17 said:
My fav quote from that series?
Anything Caboose says.
As for my pick, i would say.....
"The Hitchhiker?s Guide to the Galaxy has a few things to say on the subject of towels.
A towel, it says, is about the most massively useful thing an interstellar hitch hiker can have. Partly it has great practical value ? you can wrap it around you for warmth as you bound across the cold moons of Jaglan Beta; you can lie on it on the brilliant marble‐sanded beaches of Santraginus Ⅴ, inhaling the heady sea vapours; you can sleep under it beneath the stars which shine so redly on the desert world of Kakrafoon; use it to sail a mini raft down the slow heavy river Moth; wet it for use in hand‐to‐hand‐combat; wrap it round your head to ward off noxious fumes or to avoid the gaze of the Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal (a mindbogglingly stupid animal, it assumes that if you can't see it, it can't see you ? daft as a bush, but very ravenous); you can wave your towel in emergencies as a distress signal, and of course dry yourself off with it if it still seems to be clean enough."
You get a thousand points, but remeber, the points don't matter.Zergadooful said:
Yeah.. it's kinda obvious, now that I think about it...bl4ckh4wk64 said:
