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{{quote|All the good in the world you can put inside a thimble
And still have room for you and me.
| '''[[Tom Waits]]''', ''Misery Is the River of the World'' }}
{{quote|'''Gaz''': Good news first: [[Sarcasm Mode|The world's in great shape.]] We've got a civil war in Russia, government loyalists against Ultranationalist rebels, and 15000 nukes at stake.
'''Captain Price''': Just another day at the office.
'''Gaz''': [[President Evil|Khaled Al-Asad]]. Currently the second most powerful man in the Middle-East. Word on the street is he got the minerals to be top dog down there. Intel's keeping an eye on him.
'''Captain Price''': And the bad news?
'''Gaz''': We've [[Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking|got a new guy joining us today, fresh out of Selection]]. His name's Soap.
| ''[[Call of Duty]] 4: [[Modern Warfare]]'' }}
{{quote|If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face - forever.
|'''[[Torture Technician|O'Brien]]''', ''[[Nineteen Eighty-Four]]''}}
{{quote|Maybe this world is another planet's hell?
| '''Aldous Huxley'''}}
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| '''Corb Lund''', ''Expectation and the Blues''}}
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|'''[[Ernest Hemingway]]''', ''[[A Farewell to Arms]]''}}
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|''[[Now and Then, Here and There]]''}}
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But there's no place like London!
| '''Sweeney Todd''', ''[[Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (theatre)|Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street]]''}}
{{quote|Once upon a time there was a poor child who had no father and no mother, everything was dead and no one was left in the world. Everything dead, and the child went out and cried day and night. And since no one was left on earth, it tried to go up to heaven and the moon was giving it such a friendly look, and when it finally got to the moon, the moon was a piece of rotten wood and so it went to the sun and when it got there, the sun was a wilted sunflower and when it got to the stars they were little golden gnats, stuck there like the shrike sticks them on the blackthorn, and when it tried to go back down to earth, the earth was a knocked-over pot and it was all alone and it sat down and cried and it's sitting there still and it's all alone.
| '''Grandmother''', ''[[Woyzeck]]''}}
{{quote|I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.
| '''Ludwig Wittgenstein'''}}
{{quote|History...is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind.
| '''Edward Gibbon''', ''The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire''}}
{{quote|Tired with all these, for restful death I cry,
As to behold desert a beggar born,
And needy nothing trimm'd in jollity,
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And captive good attending captain ill:
Tir'd with all these, from these would I be gone,
Save that, to die, I leave my love alone.
| '''[[William Shakespeare]]'''}}
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| '''Patrick Bateman''', ''[[American Psycho]]''}}
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| '''[[Woody Allen]]''', ''Notes from the Overfed''}}
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| '''[[Stanislaw Lem]]''', ''[[His Master's Voice]]''}}
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| '''Satan''', ''[[Midnight Nation]]''}}
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| '''[[Broken Bird|Revy]]''', ''[[Black Lagoon]]'' }}
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| '''Mr. Chang''', ''[[Black Lagoon]]''}}
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| '''Yuri Orlov''', ''[[Lord of War]]''}}
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| '''Rorschach''', ''[[Watchmen]]''}}
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| '''[[The Hero|Kazuma]] [[Child Soldier|Shudo]]''', commenting on his [[True Companions]]'s inability to change the world, ''[[Kagerou Nostalgia]]''}}
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| '''Hobo''', ''[[Hobo with a Shotgun]]''}}
{{quote|'''Bart:''' I thought Springfield was America's [[Perfectly Cromulent Word|scrod]] basket.
'''Marge:''' No, Springfield is America's crud bucket, at least according to ''Newsweek''.
| ''[[The Simpsons (animation)|The Simpsons]]'', "Summer of 4 Ft. 2"}}
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| ''[[Magic: The Gathering]]'' [[The Wiki Rule|wiki]], "[http://wiki.mtgsalvation.com/article/Phyrexia Phyrexia]"}}
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| '''[[Living Relic|Illyria]]''', ''[[Angel]]''}}
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| '''Commissioner Ervin Burrell''', ''[[The Wire]]''}}
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| '''Walsh''', ''[[Chinatown]]''}}
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| '''[[Kirsten Dunst|Justine]]''', ''[[Melancholia]]''}}
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|'''Lord Vetinari''', ''[[Unseen Academicals]]''}}
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| '''Howard Beale''', ''[[Network]]''}}
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| '''Luke Skywalker''' in regards to Tatooine, ''[[Star Wars]] Episode IV: [[A New Hope]]''.}}
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(Skies cock back) and shock that which can't defend
The rain then sends dripping acidic questions
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A spot of light floods the floor
And pours over the rusted world of pretend
[[Mind Screw|The eyes ease open and it's dark again]]
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''Moving all around
Screaming of the ups and downs
Pollution manifested in perpetual sound
The wheels go round and the sunset creeps past the
Street lamps, chain-link, and concrete
A little piece of paper with a picture drawn
Floats on down the street till the wind is gone
The memory now is like the picture was then
When the paper's crumpled up it can't be perfect again
| '''[[Linkin Park]]''', ''Forgotten''.}}
{{quote|'''The Extinction of Virtue:''' There are few illusions left in the World of Darkness. Centuries of greed and deceit (on the part of humans as well as Kindred) have eroded humanity's innocence. Cynicism and despair permeate everything, from the tags on city walls to the movies in theaters. No one dares to believe in much of anything, because virtues like charity and compassion are just invitations to be victimized. A gentle soul and a loving heart are as rare as diamonds, and as precious.
'''Blood and Money:''' Life is cheap, and desperate people resort to violence out of frustration, fear, hatred or greed. Crime is ever-present, and many families and neighborhoods adopt a siege mentality against the rest of the world. It's us or them.''
'''No More Good Guys:''' The world has lost its heroes. They were caught in sex scandals or taking bribes, or perhaps they fell victim to endemic urban violence. There is no strong leadership, no faith in politicians or belief in building a better tomorrow. People know better.
| ''[[Vampire: The Masquerade|Vampire: The Masquerade 3rd Edition]]'', page 256, describing just how much of a crappy world the characters live in.}}
{{quote|[L]arge squadrons of overstuffed vultures were making feeble attempts to get airborne.
| ''[[Blood Bowl]]''}}
{{quote|[[A Million Is a Statistic|"To be a man in such times is to be one amongst untold billions.]]
[[The Empire|It is to live in the cruellest and most bloody regime imaginable.]]
[[Apocalypse How|These are the tales of those times.]]
[[Gone Horribly Wrong|Forget the power of technology and science, ]][[And Man Grew Proud|for so much has been forgotten,]]
[[Hopeless War|never to be re-learned.]] [[Look on My Works Ye Mighty and Despair|Forget the promise of progress and understanding,]]
[[Darker and Edgier|for in the grim darkness]] [[Downer Ending|of the far future]] [[War Is Hell|there is only war.]]
[[Attack! Attack! Attack!|There is no peace amongst the stars,]] [[Forever War|only an eternity of]] [[Scenery Gorn|carnage and slaughter,]]
[[Cosmic Horror|and the laughter]] [[God Is Evil|of thirsting gods."]]
| ''[[Warhammer 40,000]]''}}
{{quote|It's Christmas Morning. There is a stocking tacked to the mantle of your fireplace. Inside the stocking is a poisonous viper.
You know this because you are 400 years old, and every time you've gotten a stocking, there has been a poisonous viper inside.
Sometimes the viper bites you and you barely survive.
Sometimes you smash the stocking on the ground without opening it, only to hear the tinkling of breaking glass, and when you opened it, a viper shot out from the shards of the glass figurines you asked for.
Sometimes you got your brother to open it, and the viper bit him instead.
Once, the viper had no fangs, and you laughed as it tried to gum you to death. Then the second viper that was hiding INSIDE the fangless viper shot out and bit you.
Once a guy showed up who was immune to viper venom, and took the viper as a pet. The viper bit everyone he loved and killed them all, then bit him repeatedly until he bled to death.
You don't trust stockings anymore. They are ALL full of vipers. If you can find no viper, it just means it is a very cleverly hidden viper.
[...] There is ALWAYS a viper. Your body is scarred by viper bites. Your room is decorated with their skulls and bones. These days you just immediately hose the stocking down with your bolter and throw what's left in the fire.
You're sick of vipers.
You don't even want the stocking anymore.
| [http://warosu.org/tg/thread/S45975511#p45987389 An explanation] of the concept from /tg/ }}
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