History Quotes / CrapsackWorld

-->-- '''Scott "El Santo" Ashlin"', [[http://www.1000misspenthours.com/reviews/reviewsa-d/dressedtokill1980.htm 1000 Misspent Hours]], on ''Film/DressedToKill''

-->-- '''Scott "El Santo" Ashlin", [[http://www.1000misspenthours.com/reviews/reviewsa-d/dressedtokill1980.htm 1000 Misspent Hours]], on ''Film/DressedToKill''

->''"Behind our sealed borders, we survived. As things stood, we could hope for little more. Survival itself was tough enough in the New World Disorder."''
-->--'''John Rumford''', ''Literature/{{Victoria}}''

->''"For whence did [[Literature/TheDivineComedy Dante]] take the materials for his {{hell}} but from this our actual world? And yet he made a very proper hell of it. And when, on the other hand, he came to the task of describing {{heaven}} and its delights, he had an insurmountable difficulty before him, for our world affords no materials at all for this."''

->''"As far as the eye can see the land is desolate and full of despair. Shadows draw across the earth and block out the light. Darkness oozes from every crevice. Hope has been eradicated; only '''terror''' reigns!"''

->''Much of the world today is governed by Caesars. Men are more and more treated as things. Torture is ubiquitous. And, as Sarte wrote in his preface to Henri Alleg's chilling book about Algeria, "Anybody, at any time, may equally find himself victim or executioner."''

-->--'''Music/{{NightWish|Band}}''', "Planet Hell"

->''" I mean, [[Manga/{{Berserk}} this guy]] lives in a world where [[EverythingTryingToKillYou everything is trying to kill you]], [[EatenAlive eat you]], [[RapeAsDrama rape you]], or all three at the same time. And that's just Monday."''
-->--'''Boomstick''' on [[Manga/{{Berserk}} Guts]], ''[[WebAnimation/DeathBattle Guts VS Nightmare]].''

-->--'''[[Music/NinjaSexParty Leigh Daniel Avidan]]''', ''[[WebVideo/GameGrumps Game Grumps]]''

-->--'''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xCGKPRiJp84 Bricky]]'''[[note]](Also a star on ''Podcast/AdeptusRidiculous'')[[/note]] describing the universe of ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000''.

->''…how do you work at the Foundation and ''not'' realize what kind of world you live in, Marcus? The [[EldritchAbomination cosmic nightmares]], the [[HumanoidAbomination malignant godlings]], the insane societies at war, the hordes of monsters beyond counting, [[TheWorldIsAlwaysDoomed the doomsdays upon doomsdays]]… there's so much that can't be stopped, so many things that could end everything, even in the better worlds that some have envisioned-''
-->--'''[[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-7955 SCP-7955]]''', ''Website/SCPFoundation''

-->--'''Stewie Griffin''', ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'', "Grumpy Old Man"

->'''Dib''': Horrible... Nightmare visions!\\
'''[[ApatheticTeacher Ms. Bitters]]''': It's called ''life'', Dib. Now, sit down.
-->--''WesternAnimation/InvaderZim Halloween Spectacular of Spooky Doom''

->''Many readers have told me, in writing and by word of mouth, how tired they are of the kind of story that begins "Marjorie's husband was to be hanged on Tuesday, and the children were starving", or "For seven years no ray of sunlight had penetrated the dusty room where William Grocock, a retired insurance agent, lay dying of cancer"; but I don't fancy they are more tired of them than I am myself, who have to work my way through round about twenty such stories every week.''

-->-- '''Kazuma Kamachi''', author of ''LightNovel/HeavyObject''

->''"If you're looking for justice, you've come to the wrong place."''

-->-- Website/SpaceBattlesDotCom user, '''Bad Habits''', comment about the [[LightNovel/PocketMonstersTheAnimation original Pokédex Anime writer's vision of the world]], prologue of [[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12803123/1/Shudo-cross-Modern-Ash-The-Trainer-who-Questions-Humanity Shudo cross Modern Ash: The Trainer who Questions Humanity]]

->''[[{{God}} The Lord]] saw that [[HumansAreTheRealMonsters the wickedness of man was great in the earth]], and that [[AlwaysChaoticEvil every intention of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually]]. And the Lord regretted that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him to his heart ... Now the earth was corrupt in God's sight, and [[WarIsHell the earth was filled with violence]]. And God saw the earth, and behold, it was corrupt, for [[AnyoneCanDie all flesh had corrupted their way on the earth]].''