History Quotes / Deathseeker

-->-- '''Music/FiveFIngerDeathPunch''', "A Place to Die"

-->''The Templin Institute'' on [[Tabletop/WarhammerFantasy The Slayer Cult]] in general and [[Literature/GotrekAndFelix Gotrek Gurnisson]] in particular.

-->-- ''FanFic/TheHillOfSwords''

->'''"YOU'RE IN MY SPOT!"'''

->My running days are over. This is where it all ends.

->'''Alucard''': You didn't kill me before. You're not going to kill me now. You want this to end just as much as I do.

->'''Alucard:''' [[ThatManIsDead You died when my mother died, you know you did.]] [[KillEmAllThis entire catastrophe]] has been nothing more than history's longest suicide note.

->'''Alucard:''' [[ThatManIsDead You died when my mother died, you know you did.]] This entire catastrophe has been nothing more than history's longest suicide note.

'''Alucard''': You want me to.
'''Dracula''': What?
'''Alucard''': You didn't kill me before. You're not going to kill me now. You want this to end just as much as I do.
'''Dracula''': Do I?!
'''Alucard:''' [[ThatManIsDead You died when my mother died, you know you did.]] This entire catastrophe has been nothing more than history's longest suicide note.

->''"A blessing, to have finished the work I was put on this earth to do. Surrounded by friends that love me. And a great warmth washing over me. I think the sky is on fire. Death at the gates again. Howling my name. Come on in old buddy. Sorry I made you wait."''
-->-- '''[[WarriorPoet B.J Blazkowicz]]''', ''VideoGame/WolfensteinIITheNewColossus''

->'''[[EnemyWithin Inner Jack]]''': Who ''cares'' anymore?! [[DespairEventHorizon There's no way home]]! There's [[HopelessWar nothing to fight for]]! There's no more honor! Come to think of it, the only honorable thing to do [[{{Seppuku}} is]]—\\
'''Jack''': ''Quiet!''\\
'''Inner Jack''': ''NO! I '''WON'T''' SPEND ETERNITY IN THIS FORSAKEN TIME!!''\\
'''Jack''': What do you want from me?\\
'''Inner Jack''': ...I want it to ''end''. Aren't you tired? Wouldn't it be great to be free of all of this?
-->--''WesternAnimation/SamuraiJack'' [[SamuraiJack/TropesSeason5 Season 5]]

->''"One should find his death while he can still call himself a proper man. We Orc men are not like these Nords and Imperials who carry on until they are grey and feeble and their hair falls out. To cling to something past its usefulness is unseemly, how much more so when that thing is you?"''
-->--'''The Old Orc''', ''Videogame/TheElderScrollsVSkyrim''

->''[[SeenItAll "I have done all that can be done. There is nothing left. No quests to be undertaken. No villains to be slain. No challenges to face.]] Except for you. [[WorthyOpponent You are my last challenge.]] Only you can send me to [[WarriorHeaven Sovngarde]] with honor."''
-->--'''The Ebony Warrior''', ''Videogame/TheElderScrollsVSkyrim''

->''"Oh, Laurence, Master Willem, could somebody help me? Unshackle me? Please, anybody, I've have enough of this dream, the night blocks all sight! Oh, somebody, pleaaaaseeee!! Uahhhhhhhh!! Ahhhh.... Uhhh...."''
-->-- '''Gehrman''', ''VideoGame/{{Bloodborne}}''

->''"I just want to '''DIE'''!!"''
-->--'''Nico Robin''', ''Manga/OnePiece''

->''"Everybody wanted me to do it, him most of all. I felt like he was up there, waiting for me to take the pain away. He just wanted to go out like a soldier, standing up, not like some poor, wasted, rag-assed renegade. Even the jungle wanted him dead, and that's who he really took his orders from anyway."''
-->-- '''Willard''', ''Film/ApocalypseNow''

->''"You know what it feels like to [[NoHoldsBarredBeatdown get beaten, almost to death]]? Peaceful. It feels peaceful. It was like I was floating away, watching the whole thing happen to me. And then I woke up again, and nothin's changed. I'm still takin' a beating, every day. [[spoiler:Duck. Katjaa. Sarita]]. [[CrapsackWorld No peace. No rest. The punches just keep coming]]. Why the hell didn't Carver just finish me off?"''
-->-- '''[[spoiler:Kenny]]''', ''VideoGame/TheWalkingDead''

->''"I do not wish to live a life with no tomorrow, for a life spent merely for the sake of living is no better than that of a filthy cur. There is only one thing I wish for: to meet that one chosen person in that one chosen battle, and to die remembering who I once was."''

->''"But the one thing I didn’t anticipate was just how far Moriarty was prepared to go. I suppose that was obvious, given our first meeting at the swimming pool – his death wish."''
-->--'''Sherlock Holmes''',''Series/{{Sherlock}}''

->''"Take a good look, Doctor. I've been like this for nearly fifty years, and I haven't aged one day. I have become what many men have dreamed of - an immortal. And yet...there hasn't been a day, an hour, a minute, I haven't thought about death. It obsesses me, even now."''
-->-- '''Mr Freeze'''([[LosingYourHead 's head]]), ''WesternAnimation/BatmanBeyond''

->''"Death? What is Death? It is the natural state of all things. It is life that is the aberration. It is life that should be feared, for it can go by with our work left undone, it can be wasted away on failure and indolence. Death is to be embraced."''
-->-- '''Daenyathos - "The Bullet and the Skull"''', ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}}''

->'"'Death holds no fear only for the fool. An Astarte's duty is to control that fear and to turn it into a blind hatred of the end of his life, for it brings with it failure of purpose and inability to fulfil his duty to the universe."''
-->-- '''Daenytathos - "Catechisms Martial"''', ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}}''

->'''Loa:''' You risk your life, human, calling on the loa. Perhaps what you really seek is death. The pain in your heart begs for it.\\
'''Wesley:''' Then do it and be done. Nothing else will stop me.
-->-- ''Series/{{Angel}}'', "Loyalty"

->''"This would be a good death... But not good enough."''

->''"The truth? That I am too old? Hah! Yes! I am old, but I have been a warrior all my life! Many years I sailed with Lord Haraldsson and fought battles against the Eastlanders. And I have watched all the companions of my youth die. And though I fought with them in the shield wall, never once was I touched by a blade! All the friends and companions of my youth are dead, and are feasting and drinking with the Aesir in the halls of the gods while I... I am FORSAKEN! BEREFT! Which is why I beg you lord! Give me the chance to die with honour in battle and join my friends in Valhalla!"''
-->-- '''Tostig''', ''Series/{{Vikings}}''

->''"Nor law, nor duty bade me fight,\\
Nor public man, nor cheering crowds,\\
A lonely impulse of delight\\
Drove to this tumult in the clouds;\\
I balanced all, brought all to mind,\\
The years to come seemed waste of breath,\\
A waste of breath the years behind\\
In balance with this life, this death."''
-->-- '''Creator/WilliamButlerYeats''', "An Irish Airman Foresees his Death"

->''"[[FaceDeathWithDignity Finally]]..."''
-->-- '''[[TheEeyore Marcus]]''', [[GoOutWithASmile smiling]] as he's about to be killed, ''[[Literature/{{Twilight}} Breaking Dawn Part 2]]''

->''"The healthy human mind doesn't wake up in the morning thinking this is its last day on earth. But I think that's a luxury, not a curse. To know you're close to the end is a kind of freedom. Good time to take... inventory. Out-gunned. Outnumbered. Out of our minds. On a suicide mission. But the sand and rocks here stained with thousands of years of warfare... they will remember us. For this. Because out of all our vast array of nightmares, this is the one we choose for ourselves. We go forward like a breath exhaled from the earth. With vigor in our hearts and one goal in sight: We. Will. Kill him."''
-->-- '''Capt. Price''', ''[[VideoGame/ModernWarfare2 Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2]]''

'''Henshaw:''' ''[a tear in his one human eye]'' Thank you.
-->-- ''ComicBook/GreenLantern'', ''ComicBook/SinestroCorpsWar''

->''"I battled my way into the heart of the Red Zone, taking out hundreds of them. Truth is, I went there to die''"
-->-- '''James Heller''', ''VideoGame/{{Prototype 2}}''

->'''Courier''': How do you know your punishment isn't over?
->'''Craig Boone''': Because I'm still alive.
-->-- ''VideoGame/FalloutNewVegas''

->''"I hope to have such a death - lying in triumph upon the broken bodies of those who slew me."''
-->-- '''Radha of Keld''', ''MagicTheGathering''

->''"There's only so much fight in a person. Only so much death you can take before..."''
-->-- '''Commander Shepard''', ''VideoGame/MassEffect3''

->'''Bruce Wayne''': Are you worried that I'm going to fail?
->'''Alfred''': No, Master Wayne. I'm worried that you ''want'' to.
-->-- ''Film/TheDarkKnightRises''

->''"ANGST ANGST ANGST ANGST! I hate everything and I want to die!"''
-->-- '''Fortune,''' ''Webcomic/{{Hiimdaisy}} - [[VideoGame/{{Metal Gear Solid 2 Sons of Liberty}} Lets Destroy Metal Gear Again!]]''

->''"And as he stood upon the battlefields, she thought back to his oath: to be reunited with his love upon a hill of swords. To be reunited with his lover. His lover was dead. And it was only through battle that he could finally join her again. When he too was dead."''
-->-- ''FanFic/TheHillOfSwords''

->'''Morrigan:''' You assassin types have a death wish, I see.
->'''Zevran:''' Only the really good ones.
-->-- ''VideoGame/DragonAgeOrigins''

->''"I don't want to swim forever\\
I don't want to fight the tide\\
I don't want to swim the ocean\\
[[TitleDrop When it's cold I'd like to die]]..."''
-->-- '''Moby''', "When It's Cold I'd Like To Die"

->''"That bitch deserved to be run over by a train or something."''
-->-- '''Molly Carpenter''' about herself, ''Literature/TheDresdenFiles''[[note]]in the short story "Bombshells"[[/note]]

->''"I touched the grave, it's not too far away.\\
I'm down so low, there's nowhere left to go.\\
And now finally, finally, the blackest skies are calling me.\\
Why can't I cheat the claws of destiny?"''
-->-- '''Ramin Karimloo''', "Show Me Light"

->''"They call me the seeker,\\
I've been searching low and high\\
I won't get to get what I'm after\\
Till the day I die"''
-->-- '''Music/TheWho''', "The Seeker"

->"We all have dreams. Markov's just happens to be dying in glorious battle."
-->-- Official description of Aleksey Markov, ''VideoGame/{{Evolve}}''

->"[[Film/{{Taken}} I]] ''[[Film/{{Taken}} will]]'' [[Film/{{Taken}} find you]], [[PlayedForLaughs and you]] ''[[PlayedForLaughs will]]'' [[PlayedForLaughs kill me]]."
-->-- '''Jack Pattillo''', ''[[LetsPlay/AchievementHunterMinecraftSeries Let's Play: Minecraft]]''

->''"If the world dies, so will I!"''
-->'''Mu-12-''' summing up [[OmnicidalManiac her motives]] in one line, ''VideoGame/BlazBlueContinuumShift''

->''"Existence is PAIN!"''
-->--'''Mr. Meseeks''', ''WesternAnimation/RickAndMorty''

->'''Flagellant:''' I've waited long for this! DON'T TAKE IT FROM ME.
->'''Abomination:''' Whatever awaits, it cannot be worse than what I've endured.
->'''Leper:''' Spare the others, I am ready.
-->--''Videogame/DarkestDungeon'', when facing the {{Final Boss}}'s inescapable [[OneHitKO one-hit kill attack]].

->''IN THE FACE! NOT SO COMPLEX! NEED IT! WANT IT NEED IT HAVE TO HAVE IT! FACESHOT! BOOM! BRAINS EVERYWHERE! Not the KNEE, not the ARM, not the SPINE - FACE! IT HAS TO HAPPEN! HNNNNG! FACEY FACEY FACE FACE! TIRED OF WAITING! NO MORE WAITING! NEED A FACE SHOT! BOOM! SQUISH! YAY!''
-->--'''[=Face=McShooty=]''', ''Videogame/Borderlands2''

-> What is the terror of death?
--> That we die, our task incomplete.
-> What is the joy of life?
--> To die, knowing our task is done.
-->-- [[TabletopGame/Warhammer40K Black Templars catechism]], ''ComicBook/DamnationCrusade''

->'''Soldier 76''': One of these days, someone is going to put you down.
->'''Reaper''': [[BadassBoast I invite them to try.]]
-->--''Videogame/{{Overwatch}}''

->''"I'm asking you, as a friend... Just...put an end to me."''
-->--'''Ventus''', ''VideoGame/KingdomHeartsBirthBySleep''

->''"My running days are over. This is where it all ends."''

-->--'''The Ebony Warrior''', ''TheElderScrollsVSkyrim''

-->--''Vidoegame/{{Overwatch}}''

->IN THE FACE! NOT SO COMPLEX! NEED IT! WANT IT NEED IT HAVE TO HAVE IT! FACESHOT! BOOM! BRAINS EVERYWHERE! Not the KNEE, not the ARM, not the SPINE - FACE! IT HAS TO HAPPEN! HNNNNG! FACEY FACEY FACE FACE! TIRED OF WAITING! NO MORE WAITING! NEED A FACE SHOT! BOOM! SQUISH! YAY!

->'''[[EnemyWithin Inner Jack]]'': Who ''cares'' anymore?! [[DespairEventHorizon There's no way home]]! There's [[HopelessWar nothing to fight for]]! There's no more honor! Come to think of it, the only honorable thing to do [[{{Seppuku}} is]]—\\