History Quotes / AWorldHalfFull

'''[[spoiler:The Player]]''': Because we ''have'' to. If there's just the slightest chance we can make ourselves into something better, not trying would be a far greater evil than our inborn prejudices. For now, I can't save humanity, or perhaps even myself, but if I can save your friend... well, that'll be one small step towards bettering the world. It's a long road toward that goal, but [[EarnYourHappyEnding all journeys are traveled on step at a time, aren't they?]]

->I get it. This won't stop until I die. But when I die, I want it to hurt. When my friends leave, when I have to let go, [[DyingTown when this entire town is wiped off the map]], I want it to hurt. Bad. I want to lose. I want to get beaten up. I want to hold on until I'm thrown off and everything ends. And you know what? Until that happens, I want to hope again. And I want it to hurt. Because that means it meant something. I means I am something, at least...pretty amazing to be something, at least...

->I get it. This won't stop until I die. But when I die, I want it to hurt. When my friends leave, when I have to let go, when this entire town is wiped off the map, I want it to hurt. Bad. I want to lose. I want to get beaten up. I want to hold on until I'm thrown off and everything ends. And you know what? Until that happens, I want to hope again. And I want it to hurt. Because that means it meant something. I means I am something, at least...pretty amazing to be something, at least...

->''"O look, look in the mirror,\\
O look in your distress:\\
Life remains a blessing\\
Although you cannot bless.\\
\\
O stand, stand at the window\\
As the tears scald and start;\\
You shall love your crooked neighbour\\
With your crooked heart."''
-->-- '''Creator/WHAuden''', "As I Went Out One Evening"

->''"Anyone perfect must be lying, anything easy has its cost\\
Anyone plain can be lovely, anyone loved can be lost\\
What if I lost my direction? What if I lost sense of time?\\
What if I nursed this infection? Maybe the worst is behind\\
It feels just like I'm falling for the first time\\
It feels just like I'm falling for the first time"''
-->-- '''Music/BarenakedLadies''', "Falling for the First Time"

->''"The world isn't as bad as you think."''

->''"The world is not beautiful: therefore it is."''
-->-- '''Various''', ''LightNovel/KinosJourney''

->''"I can only build if I tear the walls down\\
Even if it breaks me I won't let it make me frown\\
I'm falling but no matter how hard I hit the ground\\
I'll still smile."''
-->-- '''Eyedea and Abilities''', "Smile"

->''"It's like... Did you ever try to put a broken piece of glass back together? Even if the pieces fit, you can't make it whole again the way it was. But if you're clever, you can still use the pieces to make other useful things. Maybe even something wonderful, like a mosaic."''
-->-- '''Moira Brown''', ''VideoGame/{{Fallout 3}}''

->''"It's not a perfect universe, Victor. That doesn't absolve us from the responsibility of making it better. Just remember that it'll never be perfect - and, [[NiceJobBreakingItHero if you're not careful how you do it, trying to make it so just makes it worse.]]"''
-->-- '''Kevin Usher''', ''[[Literature/HonorHarrington Crown of Slaves]]''

->''"We are really fucked. Life is still really good."''
-->-- '''Derrick Jensen'''

->''"Can you not see a world of troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?"''
-->-- '''Creator/JohnKeats'''

->'''[[spoiler:The Player]]''': We seem to have natural tendencies toward violence, bigotry, xenophobia... and genocide.\\
'''Radd''': Will it always be that way?\\
'''[[spoiler:The Player]]''': Who knows? I'd like to believe we can advance beyond it, but we seem to have so far to go. It might be futile. \\
'''Radd''': Then why even try?\\
'''[[spoiler:The Player]]''': Because we ''have'' to. If there's just the slightest chance we can make ourselves into something better, not trying would be a far greater evil than our inborn prejudices. For now, I can't save humanity, or perhaps even myself, but if I can save your friend... well, that'll be one small step towards bettering the world. It's a long road toward that goal, but [[EarnYourHappyEnding all journeys are traveled on step at a time, aren't they?]]
-->-- ''WebComic/KidRadd''

->''"Yeah, the wars, they will be fought again.\\
The holy dove, she will be caught again.\\
Bought, and sold, and bought again.\\
The dove is never free.\\
Ring the bells that still can ring.\\
Forget your perfect offering.\\
There is a crack in everything.\\
That's how the light gets in."''
-->-- '''Music/LeonardCohen''', "Anthem"

->''"[[HumansAreFlawed People are messy, awkward, sometimes selfish and cruel.]] [[KnightInSourArmor But they're trying, and I'm going to make sure they have a chance.]]"''
-->-- '''Commander Shepard''', ''VideoGame/MassEffect2''

->'''Ruby''': I love books. Yang used to read to me every night before bed. Stories of heroes and monsters... They're one of the reasons I want to be a Huntress!\\
'''Blake''': And why is that? Hoping you'll live {{happily ever after}}?\\
'''Ruby''': Well, I'm hoping we all will. As a girl, I wanted to be just like those heroes in the books... Someone who fought for what was right, and [[WeHelpTheHelpless protected people who couldn't protect themselves!]]\\
'''Blake''': That's... very ambitious for a child. Unfortunately, the [[RealityEnsues real world]] isn't the same as a fairy tale.\\
'''Ruby''': ''[smiling]'' Well... that's why we're here. To make it better.
-->-- ''WebAnimation/{{RWBY}}''

->''"Creator/ErnestHemingway once wrote, "The world is a fine place and worth fighting for." [[KnightInSourArmor I agree with the second part]]."''

->''"No one in the world ever gets what they want\\

And that is beautiful."''

->''"The City did not rise without struggle. Warlords and wilderness fiefdoms clung to power. Starvation, disease, and anarchy menaced. But the Guardians held the frontier, and the children of the Golden Age kept the fire burning through the long climb back.\\

But the City's shipwrights and foundries hum with energy. The probability kilns and work cooperatives produce new wonders. The Darkness is rising again. But so is the Light."''

-> '''John Green''': So the next time we think of the 20th century merely as a century of war and genocide and nuclear weapons, we need to remind ourselves that it was also a century in which hundreds of millions of people emerged from poverty and fewer people died as a result of violence.
-->-- ''WebVideo/CrashCourse'', [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eP-mv5IjFzY Nonviolence and Peace Movements]]

->''Gurgeh cleared his throat. “No, life is not fair. Not intrinsically.” \\
The apex turned away in exasperation, clutching again at the curled stone top of the battlements. “It’s something we can try to make it, though,” Gurgeh continued. "A goal we can aim for. You can choose to do so, or not. We have. I’m sorry you find us so repulsive for that.”''
-->--Literature/ThePlayerOfGames

->''"They say that our tree may never grow back. But one day ''something'' will. Yes, these crackles are made of synthetic goose and these giblets come from artificial squab and even these apples look fake— but at least they've got stars on them."''
-->-- ''WesternAnimation/FantasticMrFox''

->'''Marty:''' Sorry. I'm sorry, Paulie. I didn't want to cry in front of you, but I can't help it. It's just so...unfair. There are so many awful people in the world. And so few good ones.\\
'''Paulie:''' No, dear. I think there are just people. Sometimes those people are on our side, and sometimes, they're not. Sometimes we understand them, and sometimes they're utterly beyond our understanding. But I think anyone can be a good person under the right circumstances, and everyone deserves a chance to show it.
-->-- ''ComicBook/{{Circles}}''

->''There is no Superman in that phone booth\\
There is no rewarding our faith\\
There is no one who can save us\\
So it's a good thing we don't need to be saved''
-->-- "Matches", by '''Sifu Hotman'''

->'''[[spoiler:Chara]]''': You are right, [[spoiler:Asriel]]. [[HeelRealization I have been a terrible person]]. Yet, during that moment, [[HeroicSacrifice they decided to]]...\\
'''[[spoiler:Asriel]]''': [[spoiler:Chara]]...\\
'''[[spoiler:Chara]]''': This world has good things to offer. I need to see all of that...and figure out how I can contribute. That way, perhaps one day, [[TheAtoner I'll have done more good than harm]].
-->--[[spoiler:Chara]], [[https://youtu.be/5fzCikxmCR4 SAVE Chara]]

->'''Ethan:''' Krupa's still missing. Mary's dead.
->'''Fusco:''' Yeah, we did the best we could.
->'''Ethan:''' It wasn't enough.
->'''Fusco:''' Hey, it never is. That's the curse of what we do, and why we never stop.
-->-- ''Series/PersonOfInterest'', "[=ShotSeeker=]"

->''"Nothing's perfect, the world's not perfect, but it's there for us, trying the best it can. That's what makes it so damn beautiful."''
-->-- '''Roy Mustang''', ''Anime/FullmetalAlchemist''

-->-- ''Film/FantasticMrFox''

-->--[[spoiler:Chara]], [[https://www.youtube.com/shared?ci=dGnoMjR0mTQ SAVE Chara]]

-->-- '''BarenakedLadies''', "Falling for the First Time"

->O look, look in the mirror,\\

With your crooked heart.

->Anyone perfect must be lying, anything easy has its cost\\

It feels just like I'm falling for the first time

->The world isn't as bad as you think.

->The world is not beautiful: therefore it is.

->I can only build if I tear the walls down\\

I'll still smile.

->It's like... Did you ever try to put a broken piece of glass back together? Even if the pieces fit, you can't make it whole again the way it was. But if you're clever, you can still use the pieces to make other useful things. Maybe even something wonderful, like a mosaic.

->It's not a perfect universe, Victor. That doesn't absolve us from the responsibility of making it better. Just remember that it'll never be perfect - and, [[NiceJobBreakingItHero if you're not careful how you do it, trying to make it so just makes it worse.]]

->We are really fucked. Life is still really good.

->Can you not see a world of troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?

->Yeah, the wars, they will be fought again.\\

That's how the light gets in.

->[[HumansAreFlawed People are messy, awkward, sometimes selfish and cruel.]] [[KnightInSourArmor But they're trying, and I'm going to make sure they have a chance.]]

'''Ruby''': (''smiling'') Well... that's why we're here. To make it better.

->Creator/ErnestHemingway once wrote, "The world is a fine place and worth fighting for." [[KnightInSourArmor I agree with the second part]].

->No one in the world ever gets what they want\\

And that is beautiful.

->The City did not rise without struggle. Warlords and wilderness fiefdoms clung to power. Starvation, disease, and anarchy menaced. But the Guardians held the frontier, and the children of the Golden Age kept the fire burning through the long climb back.\\

But the City's shipwrights and foundries hum with energy. The probability kilns and work cooperatives produce new wonders. The Darkness is rising again. But so is the Light.

->Gurgeh cleared his throat. “No, life is not fair. Not intrinsically.” \\
The apex turned away in exasperation, clutching again at the curled stone top of the battlements. “It’s something we can try to make it, though,” Gurgeh continued. "A goal we can aim for. You can choose to do so, or not. We have. I’m sorry you find us so repulsive for that.”

->"They say that our tree may never grow back. But one day ''something'' will. Yes, these crackles are made of synthetic goose and these giblets come from artificial squab and even these apples look fake— but at least they've got stars on them."

-->--"Literature/ThePlayerOfGames"

--> '''John Green''': So the next time we think of the 20th century merely as a century of war and genocide and nuclear weapons, we need to remind ourselves that it was also a century in which hundreds of millions of people emerged from poverty and fewer people died as a result of violence.

--> '''Derrick Jensen'''

-> ''"Can you not see a world of troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?"''
-->-- '''Creator/JohnKeats'''

-> ''I can only build if I tear the walls down''
-> ''Even if it breaks me I won't let it make me frown''
-> ''I'm falling but no matter how hard I hit the ground''
-> ''I'll still smile.''
-->-- '''Eyedea and Abilities''', "Smile"

->'''[[spoiler:The Player]]''': We seem to have natural tendencies toward violence, bigotry, xenophobia... and genocide.\\
'''Radd''': Will it always be that way?\\
'''[[spoiler:The Player]]''': Who knows? I'd like to believe we can advance beyond it, but we seem to have so far to go. It might be futile. \\
'''Radd''': Then why even try?\\
'''[[spoiler:The Player]]''': Because we ''have'' to. If there's just the slightest chance we can make ourselves into something better, not trying would be a far greater evil than our inborn prejudices. For now, I can't save humanity, or perhaps even myself, but if I can save your friend... well, that'll be one small step towards bettering the world. It's a long road toward that goal, but [[EarnYourHappyEnding all journeys are traveled on step at a time, aren't they?]]
-->-- ''WebComic/KidRadd''

->''Anyone perfect must be lying, anything easy has its cost\\

It feels just like I'm falling for the first time''
-->--'''BarenakedLadies''', "Falling for the First Time"

->''"It's like... Did you ever try to put a broken piece of glass back together? Even if the pieces fit, you can't make it whole again the way it was. But if you're clever, you can still use the pieces to make other useful things. Maybe even something wonderful, like a mosaic."''
-->-- '''Moira Brown''', ''VideoGame/{{Fallout 3}}''

->''"It's not a perfect universe, Victor. That doesn't absolve us from the responsibility of making it better. Just remember that it'll never be perfect -- and, [[NiceJobBreakingItHero if you're not careful how you do it, trying to make it so just makes it worse.]]"''
-->-- '''Kevin Usher''', ''[[LiteratureonorHarrington Crown of Slaves]]''

->''"The world isn't as bad as you think."''

->''"The world is not beautiful: therefore it is."''

->''"[[HumansAreFlawed People are messy, awkward, sometimes selfish and cruel.]] [[KnightInSourArmor But they're trying, and I'm going to make sure they have a chance.]]"''
-->-- '''Commander Shepard''', ''VideoGame/MassEffect2''

->''Yeah, the wars, they will be fought again.\\

That's how the light gets in.''

'''Amuro''': This Nu Gundam isn't just for show!\\
'''Amuro''': Huh? What are you doing?\\
'''Amuro''': Stop it! You don't have to go along with this! Back off! Get away from here!\\

-->-- ''CharsCounterattack''

->O look, look in the mirror,\\
O look in your distress:\\
Life remains a blessing\\
Although you cannot bless.\\
\\
O stand, stand at the window\\
As the tears scald and start;\\
You shall love your crooked neighbour\\
With your crooked heart.\\

-->-- '''Creator/WHAuden''', "As I Went Out One Evening"

-> ''"Creator/ErnestHemingway once wrote, "The world is a fine place and worth fighting for." [[KnightInSourArmor I agree with the second part]]."''
-->-- '''Somerset''', Film/{{Se7en}}

-> "We are really fucked. Life is still really good."
--> '''Derrick Jensen'''

->'''Ruby''': "I love books. Yang used to read to me every night before bed. Stories of heroes and monsters... They're one of the reasons I want to be a Huntress!"
->'''Blake''': "And why is that? Hoping you'll live happily ever after?"
->'''Ruby''': "Well, I'm hoping we all will. As a girl, I wanted to be just like those heroes in the books... Someone who fought for what was right, and protected people who couldn't protect themselves!"
->'''Blake''': That's... very ambitious for a child. Unfortunately, the [[RealityEnsues real world]] isn't the same as a fairy tale.
->'''Ruby''': Well... that's why we're here. To make it better.
-->-- ''WebAnimation/{{RWBY}}''

->''No one in the world ever gets what they want\\

And that is beautiful.''

-->-- '''Kevin Usher''', ''[[Literature/HonorHarrington Crown of Slaves]]''

-->-- '''LeonardCohen''', "Anthem"

'''Blake''': "And why is that? Hoping you'll live happily ever after?"
'''Ruby''': "Well, I'm hoping we all will. As a girl, I wanted to be just like those heroes in the books... Someone who fought for what was right, and protected people who couldn't protect themselves!"
'''Blake''': That's... very ambitious for a child. Unfortunately, the [[RealityEnsues real world]] isn't the same as a fairy tale.
'''Ruby''': Well... that's why we're here. To make it better.

-> ''"Creator/ErnestHemingway once wrote, "The world is a fine place and worth fighting for." I agree with the second part."''

-->-- '''Creator/WHAuden''', "As I Went Out One Morning"