History Quotes / AndIMustScream

-> '''YOUR HOPES AND DREAMS WILL SOON BE VANQUISHED'''

->''"It's been so long. How many years? How many decades have come and gone since... no wait, it's been longer than that. It's been centuries. I know this much -- an immense amount of time has passed. How long will it take? When will this sword go ahead and pierce my heart? This waiting... is unbearable. [[MadnessMantra Hurry, hurry, hurry, hurry, hurry, hurry...]] [[DeathSeeker HURRY UP AND KILL ME!]]"''

->''[[MercyKill Would you like to die?]]'' When you are stuck in a coma, it's a question you ask yourself at least once a day, and since she had no idea how long her days were, it was probably far more often than that. She often thought about death. She often wished for death. In that first year of being unable to talk or move or even wake, she would scream at the top of her metaphorical lungs for someone, anyone, [[ICannotSelfTerminate to please, please kill her]]. Even now, four years on, [[AdventuresInComaland after she'd found]] [[HappyPlace a kind of rhythm and routine to her eternal daydream]], even now, there were bad days when she tried to will herself away. It never worked, though...

->'''[[GodEmperor Leto Atreides II]]:''' [[PowerAtAPrice Think on the price I pay]]. Every descendant part of me will carry [[LivingMemory some of my awareness]] [[GeneticMemory locked away within it]], lost and helpless. This is the horror my father could not face and which he tried to prevent: the infinite division and subdivision of a blind identity.\\

->[[MauveShirt He's]] never going to walk again. Or speak, or eat - except through a straw. Blind in both eyes, deaf in both ears, almost every bone in his body broken. [[JekyllAndHyde Who does that to a person?]] [[AxCrazy What kind of man?]]

-->-- ''VisualNovel/FateStayNight: Fate Route'', [[spoiler: describing the other [[Literature/FateZero Grail Fire]] [[EmptyShell survivors]], stuck in a [[CreepyBasement basement]] to have [[PoweredByAForsakenChild their souls drained]]]]

->''Earth Rick C-137! The council of Ricks sentences you to the Machine of Unspeakable Doom... which swaps your conscious and unconscious minds, rendering your fantasies pointless while everything you've known becomes impossible to grasp! [[ArsonMurderandJaywalking Also, every ten seconds,]] [[GroinAttack it stabs your balls.]]''

->''"Although I cannot move and I have to speak through a computer, [[GeniusCripple in my mind]] [[SubvertedTrope I am free]]."''

-->-- '''ComicBook/{{Sinestro}}''', ''ComicBook/BlackestNight''

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->''Although I cannot move and I have to speak through a computer, in my mind [[SubvertedTrope I am free.]]''

->Do you know what it was like inside the battery, Jordan? Reduced to less than a thought in that limbo? It's like having a maddening itch you can never scratch... Because there's nothing there. There's no you. That's what it was like, Jordan. And it wasn't... very... PLEASANT!

->Your ordeal has obviously driven you insane, Karlo. Not that you were exactly lucid to begin with!

->Kryptonite. a radioactive element lethal to the touch. Just being close to it -- like I'm being held now -- can be fatal. I'm screaming, but no sound comes out. I'm crying, but there are no tears. My skin is burning off, but there are no flames. All there is... All I am now... is the pain.

->'''Alex Burgess:''' God. Oh God. It was ter-terrifying. So real. Ha-have you ever had one of those dreams, you know... [[DreamWithinADream where you think you've woken up, but haven't?]] It's just the start of the nightmare and you're still in it?\\
'''Nurse Edmunds:''' Can't say I have, dear. But you know what? [''her head falls off''] I think you're going to be having quite a lot of them from now on. Hahaha-ha-ha...\\
'''Morpheus:''' [''InternalMonologue''] It was more tiring that I had expected. But [[DeepSleep he will never return to the life he knew]]. His is the nightmare everlasting. [[FateWorseThanDeath Eternal waking]]...
-->-- ''ComicBook/TheSandman: Sleep Of The Just''

->Behold, Mistress Death! THANOS'S GREATEST CREATION! Allow me to introduce to you Nebula, my grand-daughter. At least, that is what she claims to be. [[AbusiveParents So I took her at her word and made her my own!]] From [[DarkActionGirl a vigorous and healthy young thing]], I created that which stands before you. My power and spirit sculpted Nebula into [[UndeadAbomination walking death!]] Limbs twisted, flesh charred and cracked, and nearly mindless. By all rights, the wench should be dead, but she lives. She exists on a fine line between death and life, a limbo of sorts. My unearthly power maintains her balance on this precarious perch. Nebula has no hope of unconsciousness or true death relieving her continuous horror and agony. [[OmnicidalManiac She is my living tribute to the blasphemy of life and the glorious promise of death]].
-->-- '''ComicBook/{{Thanos}}''', ''ComicBook/TheInfinityGauntlet''

-->-- '''Mook''', ''ComicBook/EscapeFromThePhantomZone''

->''"Earth Rick C-137! The council of Ricks sentences you to the Machine of Unspeakable Doom... which swaps your conscious and unconscious minds, rendering your fantasies pointless while everything you've known becomes impossible to grasp! [[ArsonMurderandJaywalking Also, every ten seconds,]] [[GroinAttack it stabs your balls.]]"''

-->-- '''Metallo''', buried under a solidified lava flow, ''WesternAnimation/SupermanTheAnimatedSeries''

-->-- '''Metallo''' again, post-rescue, ''WesternAnimation/SupermanTheAnimatedSeries''

I have passed into Olympus\\
As was told in tales of old\\
To the city of immortals\\
Marble white and purest gold\\

->I see the gods in battle rage on high\\

->You will never know my suffering. Forever trapped inside this robotic husk.

"So cherish the memory of this 'pitiful and pathetic' girl, Aizen. Because while I'm outside and free and cheerfully forgetting your existence, you'll be in here wasting away, desperately clinging to this moment because it will be the last thing you will ever see!"

->[[AC: Do you know the biggest lesson I learned from [[BossFight what you did?]] I discovered I have a sort of black box quicksave feature. In the event of a catastrophic failure, the last two minutes of my life are preserved for analysis. I was able - well, forced really - to relive you killing me. Again. And again. Forever. You know, if you'd done that to somebody else, they might devote their entire existence to exacting '''{{r e v e n g e}}'''. Luckily, I'm a bigger person than that.]]
-->-- '''[=GLaDOS=]''', ''VideoGame/{{Portal 2}}'' [[note]]If the {{timeskip}} was indeed 300 years, she would have gone through a minimum of 78.8 million replays, provided that they were played at normal speed. If they were played at an accelerated speed ([[FridgeHorror since a computer would be able to process and review the recordings much faster than a human]]), that could be considerably more.[[/note]]

->'''Captain Bryce:''' This unlucky looter broke in and found himself inside a patch of purple [[RealityIsOutToLunch Wobble]] - that's the kind that [[TimeStandsStill locks you in time]].
->'''Clancy:''' Shouldn't we get him out of there?

->''"It's been so long. How many years? How many decades have come and gone since... no wait, it's been longer than that. It's been centuries. I know this much -- an immense amount of time has passed. How long will it take? When will this sword go ahead and pierce my heart? This waiting... is unbearable. [[MadnessMantra Hurry, hurry, hurry, hurry, hurry, hurry...]] HURRY UP AND KILL ME!"''

-->-- '''Tom's narration''', [[Fanfic/{{Eleutherophobia}} War Games]]''

-> “Unpleasant at first, like you’d think. Then, after a while? It’s really fucking boring. There’s nothing to do.”\\
That was more or less honest, even. There were other words I could have used—words for the excruciating loneliness, [[DespairEventHorizon the soul-sucking pull of despair]], the fear that never went away—but ''boring'' was also true for a lot of it.
-->-- '''Tom''' describing his time as a [[MeatPuppet Controller]], ''Literature/{{Animorphs}}'' fanfic ''[[Fanfic/{{Eleutherophobia}} Ghost in the Shell]]''

-->-- ''An Unattractive Vampire'' by [=Jim McDoniel=]

-> I had been a ghost wandering our home: silent, watchful, intangible, but still relentlessly present. Restless and angry and [[ICannotSelfTerminate unable to find the eternal rest I craved]].\\
And then, strangest of all, I’d been reborn. Thrust into the sort of frightening new life where objects moved when I touched them, where my voice spoke aloud with the power to help or to harm. Mostly to harm. I was out of practice being real, being visible and able to touch.
-->-- '''Tom''' describing his time as a [[MeatPuppet Controller]], ''Literature/{{Animorphs}}'' fanfic ''[[Fanfic/{{Eleutherophobia}} Back to the Future]]''

-->-- '''Tom'' describing his time as a [[MeatPuppet Controller]], ''Literature/{{Animorphs}}'' fanfic ''[[Fanfic/{{Eleutherophobia}} Back to the Future]]''

-->-- '''Slappy''' to R.L. Stine, after trapping him in Literature/TheBlobThatAteEveryone, ''Film/{{Goosebumps}}''

-->--'''Szayelaporro Granz''', ''Franchise/{{Bleach}}''

-->--'''ComicBook/{{Thanos}}''', ''ComicBook/TheInfinityGauntlet''

-->--'''The Master''', ''Film/ManosTheHandsOfFate''

-->--''Film/AntMan1''

-->--'''Karl Mordo''' to '''Stephen Strange''', ''Film/DoctorStrange2016''

-->--[[spoiler: '''Ego the Living Planet''']] to '''Star-Lord''', ''Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxyVol2''

-->--''SÜPER,'' by Corey Redekop

-->--''[[Creator/JohnConnolly The Fractured Atlas: Five Fragments]]''

-->--''Almost Forever,'' by Daniel Moody

-->--''An Unattractive Vampire'' by [=Jim McDoniel=]

-->--''Literature/{{Mogworld}}''

-->--''Literature/GodEmperorOfDune''

-->--'''Senior Anthropologist Hoole,''' ''[[Franchise/StarWarsLegends The Illustrated Star Wars Universe]]''

-->--''Return Of The Pig,'' by K.J. Parker

-->--''Literature/{{Animorphs}} #10: The Android''

-->--''The Traitor God,'' by Cameron Johnston

-->--''The Ruin of Kings,'' by Jenn Lyons

-->--''Literature/TheNightMayor''

-->--''Literature/TheExpanse''

-->--'''The Gentleman With The Thistle-Down Hair,''' ''Literature/JonathanStrangeAndMrNorrell''

-->--''Film/{{Constantine}}: The {{Novelization}}''

-->--''Series/{{Jekyll}}''

-->''Recap/BlackMirrorBlackMuseum''

-->--'''Rolo Haynes,''' ''Recap/BlackMirrorBlackMuseum''

-->--'''James March,''' to [[spoiler: the Countess]], ''Series/AmericanHorrorStoryHotel''

-->--AudioPlay/BigFinishDoctorWho: ''[[Recap/BigFinishDoctorWho048Davros Davros]]''

-->--''TabletopGame/MageTheAscension - Tradition Book: Virtual Adepts''

-->--''TabletopGame/VampireTheMasquerade - Clanbook: Tzimisce (Revised)''

-->--''TabletopGame/MageTheAscension - Infinite Tapestry''

-->--''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000: Helbrutes''

-->--The Chaos Space Marine '''Khalos the Ravager''' being put into a Helbrute, ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000''

-->--'''The severed head of your Predecessor''', ''VideoGame/EmperorBattleForDune''

-->--[[spoiler: '''Augustus Sinclair,''']] ''VideoGame/Bioshock2''

-->--''VideoGame/MortalKombat11''

-->--[[spoiler: '''[[VideoGame/ThePark Lorraine Maillard]]''']], ''VideoGame/TheSecretWorld''

->He lies in the centre of the structure, mounted on a marble altar, caught in a beam of light, resting on velvet cushions. While the ravages of his illness are quite obvious, he's so well preserved that you could almost think him alive. At which point [[IncurableCoughOfDeath he coughs]].
->The Prince Consort lives. It is not a life any would wish for, [[DarkLordOnLifeSupport but it is life]].
-->--''VideoGame/SunlessSkies''

-->--'''Bumblebee''' describing what it's like to be rendered motionless by the [=AllSpark=] fragment empowered timepiece, ''WesternAnimation/TransformersAnimated'', "SUV: Society of Ultimate Villainy"

-->--''WesternAnimation/SonicTheHedgehogSatAM''

-->--'''Professor Paradox''', ''WesternAnimation/Ben10AlienForce''

-->--'''Metallo''', buried under a solidified lava flow, ''WesternAnimation/SupermanTheAnimatedSeries''

-->--'''Metallo''' again, post-rescue, ''WesternAnimation/SupermanTheAnimatedSeries''

-->--''WesternAnimation/TheMidnightGospel'', "[[Recap/TheMidnightGospelS1E6VultureWithHonor Vulture With Honor]]"

-->--''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'', "[[Recap/TheAdventuresOfBatmanAndRobinE19DeepFreeze Deep Freeze]]."