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-->-- ''Fanfic/ACrownOfStars'', ''chapter 20''
-> My baseline for ‘older than dirt’ was anything from before the Titans, and I hadn’t met many beings that qualified. [[Myth/EgyptianMythology Nekhbet, the Egyptian vulture goddess]]. A lady in a brief encounter in Iran. That was pretty much it, and [[Myth/AboriginalAustralianMyths the snake]] had been much, ''much'' older than either of them. Their trip across the continent had happened tens of thousands of years ago. It was, somehow, ''still happening'', and it would be for as long as the traces of the snake were carved into the land.
-> My baseline for ‘older than dirt’ was anything from before the Titans, and I hadn’t met many beings that qualified. [[Myth/EgyptianMythology Nekhbet, the Egyptian vulture goddess]]. A lady in a brief encounter in Iran. That was pretty much it, and [[Myth/AboriginalAustralianMyths the snake]] had been much, ''much'' older than either of them. Their trip across the continent had happened tens of thousands of years ago. It was, somehow, ''still happening'', and it would be for as long as the traces of the snake were carved into the land.
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-->-- ''Fanfic/ACrownOfStars'', ''chapter 20''
Chapter 20
-> My baseline for‘older 'older than dirt’ dirt' was anything from before the Titans, and I hadn’t hadn't met many beings that qualified. [[Myth/EgyptianMythology Nekhbet, the Egyptian vulture goddess]]. A lady in a brief encounter in Iran. That was pretty much it, and [[Myth/AboriginalAustralianMyths the snake]] had been much, ''much'' older than either of them. Their trip across the continent had happened tens of thousands of years ago. It was, somehow, ''still happening'', and it would be for as long as the traces of the snake were carved into the land.
-> My baseline for
->''Three million years!'' The infinitely crowded panorama of human history, with its empires and its kings, its triumphs and its tragedies, covered barely one thousandth of this appalling span of time. Not only Man himself, but most of the animals now alive on Earth, did not even exist when the [[TheMonolith black enigma]] was so carefully buried here, in the most brilliant and most spectacular of all the craters of the Moon.
-->-- ''[[Literature/TheSpaceOdysseySeries 2001: A Space Odyssey]]''
-->-- ''[[Literature/TheSpaceOdysseySeries 2001: A Space Odyssey]]''
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->I'd been alone for somewhere between 250 and 260 million years. I'd forgotten the exact date. Our prime had been the Devonian, and we'd been old news by the Permian. We'd become a joke by the Triassic and fish food by the Cretaceous. The Cenozoic had dragged by like the eon it was. At some point, I'd looked around and [[LastOfHisKind everyone else was gone]]. I was still there, [[FishPeople the spirit of a fish in the shape of a man]].
-->-- ''The Creature From The Black Lagoon,'' by Jim Shepard
-->-- ''The Creature From The Black Lagoon,'' by Jim Shepard
->"Five hundred and seventy-six thousand million, three thousand five hundred and seventy-nine years," said Marvin. [[TheSlowPath "I counted them."]]
-->-- ''Literature/TheRestaurantAtTheEndOfTheUniverse''
-->-- ''Literature/TheRestaurantAtTheEndOfTheUniverse''
->'''Shallan:''' You're... old, aren't you? Not a [[TimeAbyss Herald]], but as old as they are?\\
'''Hoid:''' Child, when they were but babes, [[TheOlderImmortal I had already lived dozens of lifetimes]]. 'Old' is a word you use for worn shoes. I'm something else entirely.
-->-- ''Literature/TheStormlightArchive: Literature/{{Oathbringer}}''
->High up in the North in the land called Svithjod, there stands a rock. It is a hundred miles high and a hundred miles wide. Once every thousand years a little bird comes to this rock to sharpen its beak. When the rock has thus been worn away, then a single day of eternity will have gone by.
-->-- '''Hendrik Willem Van Loon''', ''The Story of Mankind''
'''Hoid:''' Child, when they were but babes, [[TheOlderImmortal I had already lived dozens of lifetimes]]. 'Old' is a word you use for worn shoes. I'm something else entirely.
-->-- ''Literature/TheStormlightArchive: Literature/{{Oathbringer}}''
->High up in the North in the land called Svithjod, there stands a rock. It is a hundred miles high and a hundred miles wide. Once every thousand years a little bird comes to this rock to sharpen its beak. When the rock has thus been worn away, then a single day of eternity will have gone by.
-->-- '''Hendrik Willem Van Loon''', ''The Story of Mankind''
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->High up in the North in the land called Svithjod, there stands a rock. It is a hundred miles high and a hundred miles wide. Once every thousand years a little bird comes to this rock to sharpen its beak. When the rock has thus been worn away, then a single day of eternity will have gone by.
-->-- '''Hendrik Willem Van Loon''', ''The Story of Mankind''
->'''Shallan:''' You're... old, aren't you? Not a [[TimeAbyss Herald]], but as old as they are?\\
'''Hoid:''' Child, when they were but babes, [[TheOlderImmortal I had already lived dozens of lifetimes]]. 'Old' is a word you use for worn shoes. I'm something else entirely.
-->-- ''Literature/{{Oathbringer}}'' (third book of ''Literature/TheStormlightArchive'')
->I'd been alone for somewhere between 250 and 260 million years. I'd forgotten the exact date. Our prime had been the Devonian, and we'd been old news by the Permian. We'd become a joke by the Triassic and fish food by the Cretaceous. The Cenozoic had dragged by like the eon it was. At some point, I'd looked around and [[LastOfHisKind everyone else was gone]]. I was still there, [[FishPeople the spirit of a fish in the shape of a man]].
-->--''The Creature From The Black Lagoon,'' by Jim Shepard
->Five hundred and seventy-six thousand million, three thousand five hundred and seventy-nine years, ''said Marvin'', I counted them.
-->-- ''Literature/TheRestaurantAtTheEndOfTheUniverse''
->''Three million years!'' The infinitely crowded panorama of human history, with its empires and its kings, its triumphs and its tragedies, covered barely one thousandth of this appalling span of time. Not only Man himself, but most of the animals now alive on Earth, did not even exist when the [[BigDumbObject black enigma]] was so carefully buried here, in the most brilliant and most spectacular of all the craters of the Moon.
-->--''[[Literature/TheSpaceOdysseySeries 2001: A Space Odyssey]]''
-->-- '''Hendrik Willem Van Loon''', ''The Story of Mankind''
->'''Shallan:''' You're... old, aren't you? Not a [[TimeAbyss Herald]], but as old as they are?\\
'''Hoid:''' Child, when they were but babes, [[TheOlderImmortal I had already lived dozens of lifetimes]]. 'Old' is a word you use for worn shoes. I'm something else entirely.
-->-- ''Literature/{{Oathbringer}}'' (third book of ''Literature/TheStormlightArchive'')
->I'd been alone for somewhere between 250 and 260 million years. I'd forgotten the exact date. Our prime had been the Devonian, and we'd been old news by the Permian. We'd become a joke by the Triassic and fish food by the Cretaceous. The Cenozoic had dragged by like the eon it was. At some point, I'd looked around and [[LastOfHisKind everyone else was gone]]. I was still there, [[FishPeople the spirit of a fish in the shape of a man]].
-->--''The Creature From The Black Lagoon,'' by Jim Shepard
->Five hundred and seventy-six thousand million, three thousand five hundred and seventy-nine years, ''said Marvin'', I counted them.
-->-- ''Literature/TheRestaurantAtTheEndOfTheUniverse''
->''Three million years!'' The infinitely crowded panorama of human history, with its empires and its kings, its triumphs and its tragedies, covered barely one thousandth of this appalling span of time. Not only Man himself, but most of the animals now alive on Earth, did not even exist when the [[BigDumbObject black enigma]] was so carefully buried here, in the most brilliant and most spectacular of all the craters of the Moon.
-->--''[[Literature/TheSpaceOdysseySeries 2001: A Space Odyssey]]''
->'''Merlin:''' This is Excalibur.\\
'''[[MonsterShapedMountain The Rock Of Ages]]:''' [[AC: Where did you get it?]]\\
'''Merlin:''' A gift from the Lady of the Lake.\\
'''The Rock Of Ages:''' [[AC: She has been a friend of mine... since [[PrimordialChaos before the Dawn of Time]].]] (''chuckles'') [[AC: If I can remember ''that,'' [[LampshadeHanging it means that I'm an]] ''[[LampshadeHanging old man]]!'']]
-->-- ''Series/{{Merlin|1998}}''
'''[[MonsterShapedMountain The Rock Of Ages]]:''' [[AC: Where did you get it?]]\\
'''Merlin:''' A gift from the Lady of the Lake.\\
'''The Rock Of Ages:''' [[AC: She has been a friend of mine... since [[PrimordialChaos before the Dawn of Time]].]] (''chuckles'') [[AC: If I can remember ''that,'' [[LampshadeHanging it means that I'm an]] ''[[LampshadeHanging old man]]!'']]
-->-- ''Series/{{Merlin|1998}}''
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->'''Merlin:''' This is Excalibur.
->'''[[MonsterShapedMountain The Rock Of Ages]]:''' [[AC: Where did you get it?]]
->'''Merlin:''' A gift from the Lady of the Lake.
->'''The Rock Of Ages:''' [[AC: She has been a friend of mine... since [[PrimordialChaos before the Dawn of Time]].]] ''[chuckles]'' [[AC: If I can remember ''that,'' [[LampshadeHanging it means that I'm an]] ''[[LampshadeHanging old man]]!'']]
-->--''Series/Merlin1998''
->'''[[MonsterShapedMountain The Rock Of Ages]]:''' [[AC: Where did you get it?]]
->'''Merlin:''' A gift from the Lady of the Lake.
->'''The Rock Of Ages:''' [[AC: She has been a friend of mine... since [[PrimordialChaos before the Dawn of Time]].]] ''[chuckles]'' [[AC: If I can remember ''that,'' [[LampshadeHanging it means that I'm an]] ''[[LampshadeHanging old man]]!'']]
-->--''Series/Merlin1998''
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--> -- Chapter 11, Verse 16, ''Literature/BhagavadGita''
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->Not all races have {{creation myth}}s. The [[EldritchAbomination aboleths]] do not share myth stories for a simple reason: they believe it is an indisputable fact that they were the first, the primal race that existed before nearly all else, second only to the [[CosmicHorrorStory unknowable Elder Evils]] that spawned them. They know this because they [[PhotographicMemory remember the ancient world with crystal clarity.]] All else in the world is a pale imitation of their primal perfection. Even the deities themselves are subject to derision, for the aboleths know that they predate the gods. They have seen the world destroyed countless times by apocalypses both natural and artificial, yet each time the world remade itself and the aboleths survived. They are truly nightmares out of time.
-->-- ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons - Lords of Madness: The Book of Aberrations''
-->-- ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons - Lords of Madness: The Book of Aberrations''
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->What do humans know of our pain? [[SpaceElves We]] have sung songs of lament since before your ancestors crawled on their bellies from the sea.
-->-- '''Farseer Eldrad Ulthran''', ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}}''
-->-- '''Farseer Eldrad Ulthran''', ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}}''
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-->--''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer}}: Lizardmen Army Book (6th Edition)''
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-->--'''Rakranos the Ancient,''' ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer}}: Warriors Of Chaos Army Book (7th edition)''
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-->--'''Rakranos the Ancient,''' ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer}}: Warriors Of Chaos Army Army'' Book (7th edition)''
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->What do humans know of our pain? [[SpaceElves We]] have sung songs of lament since before your ancestors crawled on their bellies from the sea.
-->-- '''Farseer Eldrad Ulthran''', ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}}''
-->-- '''Farseer Eldrad Ulthran''', ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}}''
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-->--''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000: Haemonculus Covens''
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->How many years... how many years? Oh, how many years I've waited. [[GroundhogDayLoop How many times has this been repeated]]? How many ''hundreds'' of times? How many THOUSANDS? ONE HUNDRED THOUSANDS? MILLIONS? ''TRILLIONS?!'' I've repeated this worthless comedy show more times than I can ''count!''
-->-- '''Hazama''', ''VideoGame/BlazBlue''
->'''Wolf:''' How old are we, Lamb?\\
'''Lamb:''' Older than those whose footsteps are long vanished.\\
'''Wolf:''' Many years.\\
'''Lamb:''' I remember them all.
-->-- '''[[TheGrimReaper Kindred]]''', ''VideoGame/LeagueOfLegends''
-->-- '''Hazama''', ''VideoGame/BlazBlue''
->'''Wolf:''' How old are we, Lamb?\\
'''Lamb:''' Older than those whose footsteps are long vanished.\\
'''Wolf:''' Many years.\\
'''Lamb:''' I remember them all.
-->-- '''[[TheGrimReaper Kindred]]''', ''VideoGame/LeagueOfLegends''
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->I have been a facilitator of your kind's boundless desire to destroy itself... since [[CreationMyth the beginning]]. [[TheTimeOfMyths Since iron cathedrals stained the moon red with sacrificial pyres. Since machined cities crossed the sea upon gears and gossamer sail]]. Even in [[TimeDissonance the hummingbird heartbeat of your recorded time]]. You are an [[DamnedByFaintPraise exceptional footnote]] in a text one could not even leaf through in a star's life cycle, so I invite you to contemplate how quickly my eyes gloss over you. Don't take it personally.
-->-- [[spoiler: '''Samael''']], ''VideoGame/TheSecretWorld''
->Huh, what a brat. Little children like you have no way to stand a chance against me, an eternal being. Your history of scarlet... Divided by my history, the result is zero. To an eternal one, your existence is but an instant.
-->-- '''Eirin Yagokoro''', to a [[Really700YearsOld 500-year-old]] [[OurVampiresAreDifferent vampire]], ''VideoGame/TouhouEiyashouImperishableNight''
-->-- [[spoiler: '''Samael''']], ''VideoGame/TheSecretWorld''
->Huh, what a brat. Little children like you have no way to stand a chance against me, an eternal being. Your history of scarlet... Divided by my history, the result is zero. To an eternal one, your existence is but an instant.
-->-- '''Eirin Yagokoro''', to a [[Really700YearsOld 500-year-old]] [[OurVampiresAreDifferent vampire]], ''VideoGame/TouhouEiyashouImperishableNight''
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'''Nameless One:''' I...see.
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'''Nameless One:''' I... see.
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->'''Wolf:''' How old are we, Lamb?\\
'''Lamb:''' Older than those whose footsteps are long vanished.\\
'''Wolf:''' Many years.\\
'''Lamb:''' I remember them all.
-->--'''[[TheGrimReaper Kindred]]''', ''VideoGame/LeagueOfLegends''
-> How many years... how many years? Oh, how many years I've waited. [[GroundhogDayLoop How many times has this been repeated]]? How many ''hundreds'' of times? How many '''THOUSANDS? ONE HUNDRED THOUSANDS? MILLIONS? ''TRILLIONS'''''? I've repeated this worthless comedy show more times than I can '''count'''!
-->-- ''VideoGame/BlazBlue'', '''Hazama'''
'''Lamb:''' Older than those whose footsteps are long vanished.\\
'''Wolf:''' Many years.\\
'''Lamb:''' I remember them all.
-->--'''[[TheGrimReaper Kindred]]''', ''VideoGame/LeagueOfLegends''
-> How many years... how many years? Oh, how many years I've waited. [[GroundhogDayLoop How many times has this been repeated]]? How many ''hundreds'' of times? How many '''THOUSANDS? ONE HUNDRED THOUSANDS? MILLIONS? ''TRILLIONS'''''? I've repeated this worthless comedy show more times than I can '''count'''!
-->-- ''VideoGame/BlazBlue'', '''Hazama'''
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'''Lamb:''' Older than those whose footsteps are long vanished.\\
'''Wolf:''' Many years.\\
'''Lamb:''' I remember them all.
-->--'''[[TheGrimReaper Kindred]]''', ''VideoGame/LeagueOfLegends''
-> How many years... how many years? Oh, how many years I've waited. [[GroundhogDayLoop How many times has this
-->--
->Huh, what a brat. Little children like you have no way to stand a chance against me, an eternal being. Your history of scarlet... Divided by my history, the result is zero. To an eternal one, your existence is but an instant.
-->-- '''Eirin Yagokoro''', to a [[Really700YearsOld 500-year-old]] [[OurVampiresAreDifferent vampire]], ''VideoGame/TouhouEiyashouImperishableNight''
->A stone is a part of the earth. It may be shaped into human form but, like me, it is not alive. [[EmotionlessGirl A stone does not desire anything. It has no dreams or feelings of any kind.]] Along with myself, the rocks and stones have been the only constant on this planet [...] Of course, it is not a perfect definition. For example... [[NighInvulnerability a stone can be broken.]]
-->-- '''Ms. Jones''' [[http://www.gunnerkrigg.com/?p=1115 discussing her nature]], ''Webcomic/GunnerkriggCourt''
-->-- '''Ms. Jones''' [[http://www.gunnerkrigg.com/?p=1115 discussing her nature]], ''Webcomic/GunnerkriggCourt''
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->''Even with the finest [[{{Immortality}} life-extending]], [[BrainUploading mindframe-uploading]], and memory-sideboarding technology, seventy-three million years is a ''very'' long time for a sapient creature.\\
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Back then, when Earth was busy being all hot and patient, life elsewhere was already old...''
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Back then, when Earth was busy being all hot and patient, life elsewhere was already old...''
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->A stone is a part of the earth. It may be shaped into human form but, like me, it is not alive. [[EmotionlessGirl A stone does not desire anything. It has no dreams or feelings of any kind.]] Along with myself, the rocks and stones have been the only constant on this planet...Of course, it is not a perfect definition. For example...[[NighInvulnerability a stone can be broken.]]
-->-- '''Ms. Jones''' [[http://www.gunnerkrigg.com/?p=1115 discussing her nature]], ''Webcomic/GunnerkriggCourt''
-->-- '''Ms. Jones''' [[http://www.gunnerkrigg.com/?p=1115 discussing her nature]], ''Webcomic/GunnerkriggCourt''
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->[[EvilLaugh Muhahahaha...]] My true self was born 1,200,000 years ago... The legendary god of blacksmithing, [[{{Imageboards}} Aramaki Scaltinof]]... forged a sword that a Stand dwelled within! Meaning as lang... As long as there's someone to wield me, I'm immortal!
-->-- '''[[EvilWeapon Anubis]]''', ''WebVideo/VaguelyRecallingJoJo''
-->-- '''[[EvilWeapon Anubis]]''', ''WebVideo/VaguelyRecallingJoJo''
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-->-- ''[[Creator/TeamFourStar TFS Plays:]] VideoGame/DragonBallMultiverse''
->"As the stars and black holes slowly start dissipating, our universe begins to breathe its last breath. For trillions of years, nothing happens. After the last star has died, there is nothing left in the universe except for blacks holes for an unimaginably long period of time, and even they are slowly dying. It took nine clocks to reach this point, but it won't be until the forty-third clock that the last black hole has finally dissipated. The universe has been reduced to its component particles and the distances between these particles are so great that they will never interact with one-another ever again. There will be nothing left of our universe except for a cold, dark void forever expanding into nothingness. And only then will this door open."
-->--''Spumwack'', ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F1CddzgVW14 The Universe Death Clock]]''
->"As the stars and black holes slowly start dissipating, our universe begins to breathe its last breath. For trillions of years, nothing happens. After the last star has died, there is nothing left in the universe except for blacks holes for an unimaginably long period of time, and even they are slowly dying. It took nine clocks to reach this point, but it won't be until the forty-third clock that the last black hole has finally dissipated. The universe has been reduced to its component particles and the distances between these particles are so great that they will never interact with one-another ever again. There will be nothing left of our universe except for a cold, dark void forever expanding into nothingness. And only then will this door open."
-->--''Spumwack'', ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F1CddzgVW14 The Universe Death Clock]]''
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-->-- ''[[Creator/TeamFourStar TFS Plays:]] VideoGame/DragonBallMultiverse''
->"AsVideoGame/DragonBallXenoverse''
->As the stars and black holes slowly start dissipating, our universe begins to breathe its last breath. For trillions of years, nothing happens. After the last star has died, there is nothing left in the universe except for blacks holes for an unimaginably long period of time, and even they are slowly dying. It took nine clocks to reach this point, but it won't be until the forty-third clock that the last black hole has finally dissipated. The universe has been reduced to its component particles and the distances between these particles are so great that they will never interact with one-another ever again. There will be nothing left of our universe except for a cold, dark void forever expanding into nothingness. And only then will this dooropen."
-->--''Spumwack'',open.
-->-- '''Spumwack''', ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F1CddzgVW14 The Universe Death Clock]]''
->[[EvilLaugh Muhahahaha...]] My true self was born 1,200,000 years ago... The legendary god of blacksmithing, [[{{Imageboards}} Aramaki Scaltinof]]... forged a sword that a Stand dwelled within! Meaning as lang... As long as there's someone to wield me, I'm immortal!
-->-- '''[[EvilWeapon Anubis]]''', ''WebVideo/VaguelyRecallingJoJo''
->"As
->As the stars and black holes slowly start dissipating, our universe begins to breathe its last breath. For trillions of years, nothing happens. After the last star has died, there is nothing left in the universe except for blacks holes for an unimaginably long period of time, and even they are slowly dying. It took nine clocks to reach this point, but it won't be until the forty-third clock that the last black hole has finally dissipated. The universe has been reduced to its component particles and the distances between these particles are so great that they will never interact with one-another ever again. There will be nothing left of our universe except for a cold, dark void forever expanding into nothingness. And only then will this door
-->--''Spumwack'',
-->-- '''Spumwack''', ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F1CddzgVW14 The Universe Death Clock]]''
->[[EvilLaugh Muhahahaha...]] My true self was born 1,200,000 years ago... The legendary god of blacksmithing, [[{{Imageboards}} Aramaki Scaltinof]]... forged a sword that a Stand dwelled within! Meaning as lang... As long as there's someone to wield me, I'm immortal!
-->-- '''[[EvilWeapon Anubis]]''', ''WebVideo/VaguelyRecallingJoJo''
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->I lived ten thousand lifetimes before the first of your kind crawled out of the mud.
-->--[[EldritchAbomination Vaatu]], ''WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfKorra''
->It all began when your universe was forged in the crucible of the Big Bang. At this time, our civilization was already 17 years old.
-->-- Unnamed Nibblonian, ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}''
->For a trillion years, I dwelt in solitude, content with my job and my stamp collecting, but then I looked across immensity and saw the big bang, and I was like, "Whoa, who's that?" And I knew then that I was lonely.
-->-- '''Yivo''', ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}: The Beast with a Billion Backs''
-->--[[EldritchAbomination Vaatu]], ''WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfKorra''
->It all began when your universe was forged in the crucible of the Big Bang. At this time, our civilization was already 17 years old.
-->-- Unnamed Nibblonian, ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}''
->For a trillion years, I dwelt in solitude, content with my job and my stamp collecting, but then I looked across immensity and saw the big bang, and I was like, "Whoa, who's that?" And I knew then that I was lonely.
-->-- '''Yivo''', ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}: The Beast with a Billion Backs''
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->''You're tiny and you're minuscule''
->''Irrelevant, a speck''
->''Upon the dark side of that rock''
->''You're just a measly little fleck''
->''Your life may last a century on Earth or maybe quicker''
->''But up here, a hundred years is just a flash, a blip, a flickeeeeeer~!''
-->--'''[[GeniusLoci The Solar System]]''', ''WesternAnimation/TheAmazingWorldOfGumball''
->''Irrelevant, a speck''
->''Upon the dark side of that rock''
->''You're just a measly little fleck''
->''Your life may last a century on Earth or maybe quicker''
->''But up here, a hundred years is just a flash, a blip, a flickeeeeeer~!''
-->--'''[[GeniusLoci The Solar System]]''', ''WesternAnimation/TheAmazingWorldOfGumball''
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-->-- '''[[GeniusLoci The Solar System]]''',
->It all began when your universe was forged in the crucible of the Big Bang. At this time, our civilization was already 17 years old.
-->-- Unnamed Nibblonian, ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}''
->For a trillion years, I dwelt in solitude, content with my job and my stamp collecting, but then I looked across immensity and saw the big bang, and I was like, "Whoa, who's that?" And I knew then that I was lonely.
-->-- '''Yivo''', ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}: The Beast with a Billion Backs''
->I lived ten thousand lifetimes before the first of your kind crawled out of the mud.
-->-- '''[[EldritchAbomination Vaatu]]''', ''WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfKorra''
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-> How many years... how many years? Oh, how many years I've waited. [[GroundhogDayLoop How many times has this been repeated]]? How many ''hundreds'' of times? How many '''THOUSANDS? ONE HUNDRED THOUSANDS? MILLIONS? ''TRILLIONS'''''? I've repeated this worthless comedy show more times than I can '''count'''!
-->-- ''VideoGame/BlazBlue'', '''Hazama'''
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->Before there was time, before there was anything, there was nothing. And before there was nothing...[[EldritchAbomination there were monsters]].
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->Before there was time, before there was anything, there was nothing. And before there was nothing... [[EldritchAbomination there were monsters]].
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->Before there was time, before there was anything, there was nothing. And before there was nothing...there were monsters.
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->'''Wolf:''' How old are we, Lamb?\\
'''Lamb:''' Older than those whose footsteps are long vanished.\\
'''Wolf:''' Many years.\\
'''Lamb:''' I remember them all.
-->--'''[[TheGrimReaper Kindred]]''', ''VideoGame/LeagueOfLegends''
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-> My baseline for ‘older than dirt’ was anything from before the Titans, and I hadn’t met many beings that qualified. [[Myth/EgyptianMythology Nekhbet, the Egyptian vulture goddess]]. A lady in a brief encounter in Iran. That was pretty much it, and [[Myth/AboriginalAustralianMyths the snake]] had been much, ''much'' older than either of them. Their trip across the continent had happened tens of thousands of years ago. It was, somehow, ''still happening'', and it would be for as long as the traces of the snake were carved into the land.
-->-- '''Percy Jackson''', ''Fanfic/SonOfTheWesternSea''
-->-- '''Percy Jackson''', ''Fanfic/SonOfTheWesternSea''
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-->-- '''Sweet P/[[spoiler:The Lich]]''', ''WesternAnimation/AdventureTime'': ''[[Recap/AdventureTimeS626GoldStars ''[[Recap/AdventureTimeS6E26GoldStars Gold Stars]]''
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-->-- '''Methuselah''', speaking to fellow TimeAbyss Mercurius, ''VisualNovel/DiesIrae ~Interview with Kaziklu Bey~''
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->''Even with the finest [[{{Immortality}} life-extending]], [[BrainUploading mindframe-uploading]], and memory-sideboarding technology, seventy-three million years is a ''very'' long time for a sapient creature.\\
It's less long if you're, say, a tectonic plate on your way to make mountains with a neighbor. It's just a fraction of the time you'll spend if you're a lifeless world waiting for your molten crust to cool off enough for your surface chemistry to have a go at things like self-replication, self-awareness, and anthropomorphic metaphor.\\
Back then, when Earth was busy being all hot and patient, life elsewhere was already old...''
-->-- ''Webcomic/SchlockMercenary'', [[https://www.schlockmercenary.com/2019-10-20 October 20, 2019]]
->''Even with the finest [[{{Immortality}} life-extending]], [[BrainUploading mindframe-uploading]], and memory-sideboarding technology, seventy-three million years is a ''very'' long time for a sapient creature.\\
It's less long if you're, say, a tectonic plate on your way to make mountains with a neighbor. It's just a fraction of the time you'll spend if you're a lifeless world waiting for your molten crust to cool off enough for your surface chemistry to have a go at things like self-replication, self-awareness, and anthropomorphic metaphor.\\
Back then, when Earth was busy being all hot and patient, life elsewhere was already old...''
-->-- ''Webcomic/SchlockMercenary'', [[https://www.schlockmercenary.com/2019-10-20 October 20, 2019]]
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->''Three million years!'' The infinitely crowded panorama of human history, with its empires and its kings, its triumphs and its tragedies, covered barely one thousandth of this appalling span of time. Not only Man himself, but most of the animals now alive on Earth, did not even exist when the [[BigDumbObject black enigma]] was so carefully buried here, in the most brilliant and most spectacular of all the craters of the Moon.
-->--''[[Literature/TheSpaceOdysseySeries 2001: A Space Odyssey]]''
-->--''[[Literature/TheSpaceOdysseySeries 2001: A Space Odyssey]]''
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->"As the stars and black holes slowly start dissipating, our universe begins to breathe its last breath. For trillions of years, nothing happens. After the last star has died, there is nothing left in the universe except for blacks holes for an unimaginably long period of time, and even they are slowly dying. It took nine clocks to reach this point, but it won't be until the forty-third clock that the last black hole has finally dissipated. The universe has been reduced to its component particles and the distances between these particles are so great that they will never interact with one-another ever again. There will be nothing left of our universe except for a cold, dark void forever expanding into nothingness. And only then will this door open."
-->--''Spumwack'', ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F1CddzgVW14 The Universe Death Clock]]''
-->--''Spumwack'', ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F1CddzgVW14 The Universe Death Clock]]''
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->Five hundred and seventy-six thousand million, three thousand five hundred and seventy-nine years, ''said Marvin'', I counted them.
-->-- ''Literature/TheRestaurantAtTheEndOfTheUniverse''
-->-- ''Literature/TheRestaurantAtTheEndOfTheUniverse''
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->It is indeed true that the world will die soon. However, it is mistaken to speak of our temporal lengths in terms of human senses. Terms such as 'just a bit' or 'a little more' can easily mean a millennium to us.
-->-- '''Methuselah''', speaking to fellow TimeAbyss Mercurius, ''VisualNovel/DiesIrae ~Interview with Kaziklu Bey~''
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->It is indeed true that the world will die soon. However, it is mistaken to speak of our temporal lengths in terms of human senses. Terms such as 'just a bit' or 'a little more' can easily mean a millennium to us.
-->-- '''Methuselah''', speaking to fellow TimeAbyss Mercurius, ''VisualNovel/DiesIrae ~Interview with Kaziklu Bey~''
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->Some were old even before the Fall of the Eldar, wizened creatures that have engineered the death of suns just as they have given life to thousands of monstrous forms. Many of their number [[BeenThereShapedHistory are the selfsame hedonists that led the ancient Eldar empire]] to [[AndManGrewProud utter catastrophe]]. Yet they regret not a single moment of their depraved existences. So steeped are these [[MadScientist Haemonculi]] in matters arcane that they see even death [[DeathIsASlapOnTheWrist as no more than an interesting curio]].
-->--''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000: Haemonculus Covens''
-->--''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000: Haemonculus Covens''
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->Every single thing in the cosmos has a fixed life. Galaxies, planets, humans, Transformers... I alone have stood outside the reach of time, watching, ever vigilant, as the millennium marched past. I have seen oceans rise, continents shift and mountains crumble. I have seen brother rise against brother, and the decimation it leaves behind. And always the great cycle continues, as new life rises from the ashes of destruction. Now after eons of watching, I too have become part of the cycle, starting a new life with purpose and meaning, and though that life might end, I know now [[ResurrectiveImmortality I will never die]].
-->-- '''Vector Prime''', ''Anime/TransformersCybertron''
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->Every single thing in the cosmos has a fixed life. Galaxies, planets, humans, Transformers... I alone have stood outside the reach of time, watching, ever vigilant, as the millennium marched past. I have seen oceans rise, continents shift and mountains crumble. I have seen brother rise against brother, and the decimation it leaves behind. And always the great cycle continues, as new life rises from the ashes of destruction. Now after eons of watching, I too have become part of the cycle, starting a new life with purpose and meaning, and though that life might end, I know now [[ResurrectiveImmortality I will never die]].
-->-- '''Vector Prime''', ''Anime/TransformersCybertron''
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->When the [[{{Precursors}} Old Ones]] first crafted their [[CoolGate Gates]] from the substance of stars, I was there to assist their labour. Down the long ages I have come, watching the rise and fall of you lesser races and your civilizations. I’ve laid waste to knights and cities, burned fields and routed armies in my years. I could tell you much of the world that you have forgotten and more that you never knew, but I think not. You and yours are suited for nothing more than to provide me with amusement and [[DragonHoard the occasional graceful bauble]] for my lair. [[PunyHumans I see little else worthwhile about you]].
-->--'''[[OurDragonsAreDifferent Brinrairdih]], oft-called "[[RedBaron The Storm that Roars]],"''' ''TabletopGame/WarhammerFantasyRoleplay: Old World Bestiary - A Compendium Of Creatures Fair And Foul''
-->--'''[[OurDragonsAreDifferent Brinrairdih]], oft-called "[[RedBaron The Storm that Roars]],"''' ''TabletopGame/WarhammerFantasyRoleplay: Old World Bestiary - A Compendium Of Creatures Fair And Foul''
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->I was old when the Pharaohs first mounted \\
The jewel-deck’d throne by the Nile; \\
I was old in those epochs uncounted \\
When I, and I only, was vile; \\
And Man, yet untainted and happy, dwelt in bliss on the far Arctic isle.
-->-- ''Nemesis'' By H.P. Lovecraft
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->[[DraconicHumanoid We]] ruled this domain before [[PunyHumans your race]] was born, we shall rule it when you are but a distant memory.
-->--'''Rakranos the Ancient,''' ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer}}: Warriors Of Chaos Army Book (7th edition)''
-->--'''Rakranos the Ancient,''' ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer}}: Warriors Of Chaos Army Book (7th edition)''
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->It is said that the mysterious [[{{Precursors}} Old One]] Tepok taught [[TheArchmage Kroak]] how to draw upon [[BackgroundMagicField the winds of magic]], and that the serene Potec how to unravel those same threads. It is even written that it was Kroak and his peers who [[TrainingTheGiftOfMagic taught the ancestors of the High Elves]] [[BeenThereShapedHistory the magic they wield to this day]], in the golden age of Ulthuan before the Elves wrote down their histories. In his lifetime, Kroak witnessed the rise and fall of civilizations, entire races blooming and fading into extinction. Lord Kroak was present at the birth of the world as it is seen today, and it is said that he is fated to endure until the last moment of time itself, [[ApocalypseHow when the continents will burn and the world is consumed]].
-->--''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer}}: Lizardmen Army Book (6th Edition)''
-->--''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer}}: Lizardmen Army Book (6th Edition)''
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-->-- '''Aurelion Sol''', talking about the Rod of Ages, ''VideoGame/LeagueOfLegends''+
-->-- '''Aurelion Sol''', talking about the Rod of Ages, ''VideoGame/LeagueOfLegends''+
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'''Hoid:''' Child, when they were but babes, I had already lived dozens of lifetimes. 'Old' is a word you use for worn shoes. I'm something else entirely.
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->''You're tiny and you're minuscule''
->''Irrelevant, a speck''
->''Upon the dark side of that rock''
->''You're just a measly little fleck''
->''Your life may last a century on Earth or maybe quicker''
->''But up here, a hundred years is just a flash, a blip, a flickeeeeeer~!''
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->''Irrelevant, a speck''
->''Upon the dark side of that rock''
->''You're just a measly little fleck''
->''Your life may last a century on Earth or maybe quicker''
->''But up here, a hundred years is just a flash, a blip, a flickeeeeeer~!''
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->'''[[MonsterShapedMountain The Rock Of Ages]]:''' [[AC: Where did you get it?]]
->'''Merlin:''' A gift from the Lady of the Lake.
->'''The Rock Of Ages:''' [[AC: She has been a friend of mine... since [[PrimordialChaos before the Dawn of Time]].]] ''[chuckles]'' [[AC: If I can remember ''that,'' [[LampshadeHanging it means that I'm an]] ''[[LampshadeHanging old man]]!'']]
-->--''Series/Merlin1998''
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->'''Merlin:''' A gift from the Lady of the Lake.
->'''The Rock Of Ages:''' [[AC: She has been a friend of mine... since [[PrimordialChaos before the Dawn of Time]].]] ''[chuckles]'' [[AC: If I can remember ''that,'' [[LampshadeHanging it means that I'm an]] ''[[LampshadeHanging old man]]!'']]
-->--''Series/Merlin1998''
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->I'd been alone for somewhere between 250 and 260 million years. I'd forgotten the exact date. Our prime had been the Devonian, and we'd been old news by the Permian. We'd become a joke by the Triassic and fish food by the Cretaceous. The Cenozoic had dragged by like the eon it was. At some point, I'd looked around and [[LastOfHisKind everyone else was gone]]. I was still there, [[FishPeople the spirit of a fish in the shape of a man]].
-->--''The Creature From The Black Lagoon,'' by Jim Shepard
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->'''Shallan:''' You're... old, aren't you? Not a [[ReallySevenHundredYearsOld Herald, but as old as they are]]?\\
'''Hoid:''' Child, when they were but babes, I had already lived dozens of lifetimes. 'Old' is a word you use for worn shoes. I'm something else entirely.
-->-- ''Literature/{{Oathbringer}}'' (third book of ''Literature/TheStormlightArchive'')
'''Hoid:''' Child, when they were but babes, I had already lived dozens of lifetimes. 'Old' is a word you use for worn shoes. I'm something else entirely.
-->-- ''Literature/{{Oathbringer}}'' (third book of ''Literature/TheStormlightArchive'')
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->When your kind first huddled around the fire, I was the thing in the dark!
-->-- '''[[OurVampiresAreDifferent The Alpha Vampire]]''', from ''Series/{{Supernatural}}''
-->-- '''[[OurVampiresAreDifferent The Alpha Vampire]]''', from ''Series/{{Supernatural}}''
