“Human beings. So stubborn. So weak.” - Colony Wars : Red Sun.
Actually I quite liked it.
My personal favourite?
“He gazed up at the enormous face. Forty years it had taken him to learn what kind of smile was hidden beneath the dark moustache. O cruel, needless misunderstanding! O stubborn, self-willed exile from the loving breast! Two gin-scented tears trickled down the sides of his nose. But it was all right, everything was all right, the struggle was finished. He had won the victory over himself. He loved Big Brother.”
–George Orwell, 1984
Here’s some DC Comics, because Batangst is unbeatable.
BATMAN: I know I failed you. But… I tried to save you, Jason. I’m trying to save you now.
JASON TODD: Is that what you think this is about? Your letting me die? I don’t know what clouds your judgment worse. Your guilt or your antiquated sense of morality. Bruce, I forgive you for not saving me. But why on God’s earth – [points to JOKER] is he still alive?!?
– Batman #650
A personal favorite:
“Eh, bien. Continuons.”
Jean-Paul Satre, Huis Clos
In the play, it turns out the four or five persons locked in the closed room of the title are all dead, and in Hell. And they are intended to torture each other for all eternity. The final line translates to, “Oh, well. Let’s get on with it.”
“And what does it live on?”
“Weak tea with cream in it.”
“Supposing it couldn’t find any?”
“Then it would die, of course.”
“But that must happen very often.”
“It always happens.”
“I have supp’d full with horrors;
Direness, familiar to my slaughterhouse thoughts,
Cannot once start me.”
William Shakespeare, Macbeth
“I have a total irreverence for anything connected with society except that which makes the roads safer, the beer stronger, the food cheaper, and the old men and old women warmer in the winter and happier in the summer.”~~Brendan Behan
DAMMIT! I was trying to change my sig line! :mad: :mad: :mad:
Originally attributed to FDR on the afternoon of Dec. 7, 1941.
“If a lie is big enough and told often enough, it will be believed.” –Joseph Goebbels
“We create our own reality.” –unidentified GWB White House staffer, to Ron Suskind of The New York Times
Robert Harris.
“In classic cuisine, brains are soaked and then pressed and chilled overnight to firm them. In dealing with the item absolutely fresh, the challenge is to prevent the material from simply disintegrating into a handful of lumpy gelatin.”
- Thomas Harris, Hannibal
Jumping in to add another one:
“Overhead, without any fuss, one by one the stars were going out.”
–from The Nine Billion Names of God
“I hate quotations. Tell me what you know.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Can’t get much more ominous than that.
The entirity of the Melian Dialogue is chilling, but here’s the most famous bit:
And a discription of what the outcome of the negotians in the dialouge:
“Listen kid, I’m not gonna bullshit you, all right? I don’t give a good fuck what you know, or don’t know, but I’m gonna torture you anyway, regardless. Not to get information. It’s amusing, to me, to torture a cop. You can say anything you want cause I’ve heard it all before. All you can do is pray for a quick death, which you ain’t gonna get.”
(He removes his razor)
“You ever listen to K-Billy’s ‘Super Sounds of the Seventies’ weekend? It’s my personal favorite.”
–Mr. Blonde, Reservoir Dogs
“Everything is different now.” John Dean, at the end of Blind Ambition
“It stood at least three meters tall, the four arms seemed normal on the elegant torso, and the body was a sculpted mass of thorns, spikes, joints, and layers of ragged razorwire. The thousand-faceted eyes burned with a light that might have been made by a ruby laser. The long jaw and layers of teeth were the stuff of nightmare.”
The Fall of Hyperion, p. 148, by Dan Simmons
“I am not in the giving vein to-day.”
– Richard III
“It will have blood, they say; blood will have blood:
Stones have been known to move and trees to speak.”
– Macbeth
“When I look into the fish-ponds in my garden,
Methinks I see a thing armed with a rake,
That seems to strike at me”
– The Duchess of Malfi