I have two, one historical and one fictional:
“I, John Brown, am now quite certain that the crimes of this guilty land will never be purged away but with blood.”
And from the moving pictures:
“You’ll be seeing me. You’ll be seeing me. Everytime you bed down for the night, you’ll look back to the darkness and wonder if I’m there. And some night, I will be. You’ll be seeing me!” - Jimmy Stewart, as Glyn McLyntock in Bend of the River
Wait, wait, one more:
"No one would have believed in the last years of the nineteenth century that this world was being watched keenly and closely by intelligences greater than man’s and yet as mortal as his own; that as men busied themselves about their various concerns they were scrutinised and studied, perhaps almost as narrowly as a man with a microscope might scrutinise the transient creatures that swarm and multiply in a drop of water.
…Yet across the gulf of space, minds that are to our minds as ours are to those of the beasts that perish, intellects vast and cool and unsympathetic, regarded this earth with envious eyes, and slowly and surely drew their plans against us. And early in the twentieth century came the great disillusionment."
“That is not dead which can eternal lie,
And with strange æons death may die.”
“The nethermost caverns are not for the fathoming of eyes that see; for their marvels are strange and terrific. Cursed the ground where dead thoughts live new and oddly bodied, and evil the mind that is held by no head. Wisely did Ibn Schacabao say, that happy is the tomb where no wizard hath lain, and happy the town at night whose wizards are all ashes. For it is of old rumour that the soul of the devil-bought hastes not from his charnel clay, but fats and instructs the very worm that gnaws; till out of corruption horrid life springs, and the dull scavengers of earth wax crafty to vex it and swell monstrous to plague it. Great holes secretly are digged where earth’s pores ought to suffice, and things have learnt to walk that ought to crawl.”
You have misquoted.
Correctly, it should read—
My memory fails me upon the second quotation. It’s source is…?
Last paragraph of “The Festival.” This is supposedly a direct quote from the Necronomicon.
But let’s not forget:
“The Emperor is not as forgiving as I am”
“Kill me !”
“No…I’m going to let you live. . . longer than you want to.”
From Spawn, animated version.
“Would you like me to tell you the little story of right-hand/left-hand?”
Night of the Hunter 1955
“Don’t make me angry. You wouldn’t like me when I’m angry.”
“She might have fooled me, but she didn’t fool my mother.”
Norman Bates, Psycho
“We need to talk”
An ex-girlfriend
I still cringe when I hear those words.
You and every man in the world.
“Poison ? You want to talk about poison ? I am poison !” - Blight, Batman Beyond
“You know no pain you know no fear . . .you will taste MAN FLESH ! !”
“You have chosen . . . the way of pain.” - Saruman
“I’m king here, me and my iron bar !” - local sheriff/thug to Bruce Banner, after bashing Banners hand with the bar in question
“Oh yeah ? What do you do when you meet a guy with a bigger bar ?” - The Hulk ( grey version ) a few seconds later
“You’re a daisy if you do.” - Doc Holliday (“Daisy” meaning a dead man, but it’s all the more ominous, to me, because of the incongruity of using a flower in a threat.)
In context, I also like Macbeth’s line “We are but young in deed.”
“I’m late for my period.”
“Oh no, it’s a zombie quoting thread. Run for your lives!” ~me
“…circus people with hairy little hands.” - Sparklehorse
“Are you devilsnew?”- Sparklehorse
“If you invade Persia, a great empire will be destroyed.” - Oracle at Delphi
That gave me an actual, physical, chill. Cold, spine shaking and all. . .
Comes the blind fury with abhorred shears. And slits the thin spun life…
As a matter of fact, it was… (the boogey man.)
In a recent episode of Friday Night Lights I really enjoyed this exchange between two aggro guys.
“Do you have a problem?”
“No, but I can get one real quick.”