History Quotes / DoNotGoGentle

-->-- ''VideoGame/TraumaCenter: Under the Knife''

-->-- '''Harry Dresden''', ''Literature/TheDresdenFiles'': ''Literature/StormFront''

->''"Maybe you're right. Maybe we can't win this but we'll fight you regardless, just like we did Sovereign. Just like I'm doing now. However ''insignificant'' we might be, we will fight, we will sacrifice, and we will find a way. That's what humans do."''

-->-- '''[[VideoGame/HalfLife Gordon Freeman]]''', ''Machinima/FreemansMind''

-->-- '''Kain''', ''[[VideoGame/BloodOmenLegacyOfKain Blood Omen]]: VideoGame/LegacyOfKain''

-->-- Conversation discussing the GreaterScopeVillain of ''Videogame/StarcraftII'', ''Videogame/StarcraftIIHeartOfTheSwarm''

-->-- '''[[Videogame/HalfLife Gordon Freeman]]''', ''Machinima/FreemansMind''

-->-- '''[=GLaDOS=]''', ''Videogame/Portal2''

-->-- '''Harry Dresden''', ''Literature/StormFront''

They have managed to demolish whatever we made,]]\\

And your rival dares stand in my way...]]\\

and one day you will heed what I say]\\

'''Steven:''' That's why we ''have'' to fight them!''

-->-- '''CDR Ernest E. Evans''' to the crew of USS ''Johnston'', immediately before the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_off_Samar Battle off Samar]]

-->-- '''CDR Ernest E. Evans''' to the crew of ''USS Johnston'' immediately before the Battle Off Samar

[[SuicideByCop or was that all your intention?]]\\
[[ImplacableMan They have managed to demolish whatever we made,]]\\
[[VillainBall But you're failing to comprehend...]]\\

[[WorfHadTheFlu while you're blinded by your depression.]]\\

[[{{Determinator}} And your rival dares stand in my way...]]\\

[[FamousLastWords and one day you will heed what I say:]]\\

[[FamousLastWords This is my message to my master:]]\\
[[TheGoodGuysAlwaysWin this is a fight you cannot win.]]\\
[[FreudianExcuse I think that past your great disasters,]]\\

-->-- '''Justicar Alaric''', ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}}''

->“Do not tell me what I am or am not,” the demon hissed, “It doesn’t matter that {{God}} has [[FallenAngel Felled]] me, that [[{{Satan}} the Adversary]] is ready to welcome me to Hell, that my wings are, are ''[[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking icky]]'' and that I have talons, because I still want to ''help people'', I still want to undo all of the wrongs I see, and, God-approved or not, the most grievous wrong is that this world, this beautiful world that I’ve spent the last six thousand years in, that ''we’ve'' spent the last six thousand years in, is going to be destroyed, and it’s all my fault, and that you and I are going to be parted ''forever'' when I finally got the courage to tell you how I’ve felt for a thousand years if not longer - angel, demon, Heaven, Hell, good, evil, they’re all words, they’re all labels, they all mean ''absolutely bloody nothing'', all that matters is that [[AWorldHalfFull I love this world]], I love this life, and I love ''you'', you complete and utter bastard, and I will do ''[[PapaWolf anything]]'' to keep the things I love safe, and if we ''don’t'' do this, you and I, we’ll [[DeaderThanDead cease to exist anyway]], or we will spend a short time on the run, maybe, before we are captured and [[ForcedToWatch you’re]] put through [[ColdBloodedTorture all kinds of torments]] that I simply ''cannot abide'', and I think if you were thinking clearly you would agree you’d ''rather'' stop ''being'' if it meant you wouldn’t have to go through that, and that if there were a chance, any chance at ''all'', that you could avoid that, that the ''world'' could avoid that, you would take that opportunity, so you, right now, are going to turn this stupid old amazing wonderful piece of machinery around, and we are going to go to Manchester, and we are ''going to do our damnable, blessed best to save the world so that we can live in it together''.”
-->-- '''Zira''', ''FanFic/ManchesterLost''

-->-- '''Harry Dresden''', ''[[Literature/TheDresdenFiles Storm Front]]''

->'''Gilgamesh:''' At that point, [[{{Seer}} I foresaw the future]] and told my people: "Uruk will be destroyed in six months. [[YouCantFightFate This doom cannot be averted.]]" [[IWillFightSomeMoreForever There's no need to say what came after that.]] You saw all of it with your own eyes.
->'''[[CanonName Fujimaru]]:''' The people of Uruk knew-
->'''Mash:''' And they still fought. [[LastStand They tried their hardest to survive till the last day]].