Despair Event Horizon/Quotes

"".... But if they lose, we will not kill them, not all of them. No, those who do not die in the fighting will live to see their world turn to ash. We will take proud young men and turn them into broken old men staring at a world already past in the reflection of their bitter ale. We will make beggars of their women and children, and in our charity we will take them. Their women will eagerly warm the beds of our soldiers for they will provide more than broken old men, and their children will be raised as our own. Because we are good people. Because we are good people we will leave them howling impotently in the dark and the cold, broken and shattered, the name of the god forgotten to the sands of history and comment on how we were kind enough not to kill them all.""

- Tricia, The Open Door

""If you make everything leave a man then you have destroyed him and his will to fight. There will be anger and hatred, but much of it will turn inward.""

- Lars, The Open Door

""The world...is a dark and lonely place.""

- Ryouga Hibiki, Ranma 1/2

""Don't push me" "Cuz I'm close to the edge." "I'm trying not to lose my head...""

- Grandmaster Flash and the Furious 5

""I would like to see my brother." "I'm sure he's very busy." "Yes....yes.""

- The R. Tam Sessions

""Five years ago, I lost thirty thousand men in the blink of an eye....and the world just fucking watched. Tomorrow, there will be no shortage of volunteers, no shortage of patriots. I know you understand.""

-, Modern Warfare 2

""The gods of Olympus have abandoned me. There is no hope.""

- Kratos, God of War

""I have taught you many ways to kill a mortal, Kratos; flesh that burns, bones that break. But to break a man's spirit, is to truly destroy him!""

- Ares, God of War

"That little boy quit trying. He just walked away. There were teardrops on his face. Tell me, how would you feel? You'd probably give up too, If nobody believed in you."

- Joe Nichols, "If Nobody Believed In You"

""Stood in firelight, sweltering. Bloodstain on chest like map of violent new continent. Felt cleansed. Felt dark planet turn under my feet and knew what cats know that makes them scream like babies in night. Looked at sky through smoke heavy with human fat and God was not there. The cold, suffocating dark goes on forever and we are alone. Live our lives, lacking anything better to do. Devise reason later. Born from oblivion; bear children, hell-bound as ourselves, go into oblivion. There is nothing else. Existence is random. Has no pattern save what we imagine after staring at it for too long. No meaning save what we choose to impose. This rudderless world is not shaped by vague metaphysical forces. It is not God who kills the children. Not fate that butchers them or destiny that feeds them to the dogs. It's us. Only us. Streets stank of fire. The void breathed hard on my heart, turning its illusions to ice, shattering them. Was reborn then, free to scrawl own design on this morally blank world. Was Rorschach. Does that answer your questions, Doctor?""

- Rorschach, Watchmen

"You know, apart from the fact that I'll never again experience joy in my life, I don't think Red Zone Cuba had any kind of negative effect on me."

- Crow T. Robot, Mystery Science Theater 3000

""It wasn't just the baby that died that day; something inside Sick Boy was lost and never returned. It seemed that he had no theory with which to explain a moment like this. Nor did I. Our only response was to keep on going and fuck everything: pile misery upon misery, heap it up on a spoon and dissolve it with a drop of bile, then squirt it into a stinking, prurient vein and do it all over again; keep on going, getting up, going out, robbing, stealing, fucking people over, propelling ourselves with longing towards the day that it would all go wrong, because no matter how much you stash, or how much you steal, you never have enough. No matter how often you go out and rob and fuck people over, you always need to get up and do it all over again.""

- Renton, Trainspotting

""It's over. Everything, I did everything wrong. I want my life back. I want it back before everything got fucked up. I want to be a baby again. I want to be new. I want to be new.""

- Susan Orlean, Adaptation

""I went into the bathroom and cried my eyes out. The whole affair had been an elaborate hoax! The two of them probably planned the whole thing just to get back at me. I was devastated, crushed out of any hope. I had nothing to live for. But if I wasn't ever going to be happy again, then I would make sure that they wouldn't be alive to enjoy their happiness.""

- Hikaru Hayama, Revenge Road

""The future...isn't needed anymore.""

- Lord Darcia III, Wolf's Rain

"-"HOPESPLODE!""

- Homestuck sums it up in a single word.

""My name is Oerba Dia Vanille. I'm a L'Cie, from Gran Pulse, and to everyone on Cocoon, evil. Shoot me! For your son!""

- Vanille from Final Fantasy XIII

""Why don't they just drown us as infants? Why give us the illusion of hope?""

- First Enchanter Orsino, Dragon Age II

""...the moment when someone loses all hope... I really do love to watch that moment.""

- Ghetsis from Pokémon Black and White

"Cynder: Spyro:"

- The Legend of Spyro Trilogy

"...doesn't really care about anything anymore."

- Appears in the profile of any sufficiently traumatized character in Dwarf Fortress.

"Someday for sure, I will bring death upon her."

- Part of Yuyuko's final entry in her diary, Touhou Tonari.

"I'm such an idiot..."

-, Puella Magi Madoka Magica

"It seems in the end... that I... was the greatest fool of all..."

-, Tales of Vesperia

"There was a time I could see. And I have seen... boys like these - younger even - their arms torn out, their legs ripped off. But there is nothing like the sight of an amputated spirit. There is no prosthetic for that."

- Colonel Slade, Scent of a Woman

"With friends like you, who needs... enemies..."

- My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic

"I... Used to be so beautiful..."

- Dollface, Twisted Metal

"''I can't keep pushing this down any deeper

Why do I keep trying if I can't keep her?''"

- The beginning of "All Gummed Up Inside", sung by Finn, Adventure Time

""They... They fucking killed her! Oh, ...""

- Lynch, Kane&Lynch:Dog Days