"I can not filibuster in the middle of my dying speech to buy the cleric more time."
"I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched c-beams glitter in the dark near the Tanhauser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. (...) Time to die."
— Roy Batty, Blade Runner.
"This guy sure does talk a lot for someone who's supposed to be dying. I wonder how long he can hold out. You'd think there'd be time to get him a doctor or something."
— Haruhi, Internal Monologue, Ouran High School Host Club
"I was born on a battlefield. Raised on a battlefield. Gunfire, sirens and screams... they were my lullabies... Hunted like dogs day after day... driven from our ragged shelters... That... was my life. Each morning, I'd wake up... and find a few more of my family or friends dead beside me. I'd stare at the morning sun... and pray to make it through the day. The governments of the world turned a blind eye to our misery. But then... he appeared. My hero... Saladin... he took me away from all that...
(...)
I became a sniper... hidden, watching everything through a rifle's scope. Now I could see war, not from the inside, but from the outside, ...as an observer... I watched the brutality... the stupidity of mankind through the scope of my rifle. I joined this group of revolutionaries... to take my revenge on the world. But... I have shamed myself and my people. I am no longer the wolf I was born to be... In the name of vengeance, I sold my body and my soul. Now...I am nothing more than a dog.
(...)
I finally understand. I wasn't waiting to kill people... I was waiting for someone to kill me. A man like you... You're a hero. Please... set me free."
(...)
I became a sniper... hidden, watching everything through a rifle's scope. Now I could see war, not from the inside, but from the outside, ...as an observer... I watched the brutality... the stupidity of mankind through the scope of my rifle. I joined this group of revolutionaries... to take my revenge on the world. But... I have shamed myself and my people. I am no longer the wolf I was born to be... In the name of vengeance, I sold my body and my soul. Now...I am nothing more than a dog.
(...)
I finally understand. I wasn't waiting to kill people... I was waiting for someone to kill me. A man like you... You're a hero. Please... set me free."
"You never understood why we did this. The audience... knows the truth. The world is simple. It's miserable. Solid - solid all the way through. But if you could fool them - even for a second - then you could make them wonder. And then, you get to see something... very special. You really don't know. It was - it was the looks on their faces.".
— Robert Angier, The Prestige
"You know what really gets me down, is the way that in opera everyone takes such a long!!!! ... time!!! ... to!!!! ... argh... argh... argh..."
— Salzella, Maskerade, at the end of one of these
"So much darkness in the world, so much darkness, Francis. No light. Only darkness. And there is always someone who will take it upon himself. Always...always...always. I have become evil, but once I, too, was good..."
— Pascal/Claudandus, Felidae
"It all just disappears, doesn't it? Everything you are. Like breath on a mirror... We all change when you think about it. We're all different people, all through our lives. And that's okay, that's good, you gotta keep moving, so long as you remember all the people that you used to be. I will not forget one line of this. Not one day, I swear. I will always remember when the Doctor was me."
"Oh, there it is. Silly old universe. The more I save it the more it needs saving. It’s a treadmill. Yes, yes I know they’ll get it all wrong without me. Well, I suppose... one more lifetime won’t kill anyone. Well, except me. You wait a moment, Doctor. Let’s get it right. I’ve got a few things to say to you. Basic stuff first. Never be cruel, never be cowardly. And never ever eat pears! Remember, hate is always foolish... and love, is always wise. Always try, to be nice and never fail to be kind. Oh, and... and you mustn’t tell anyone your name. No-one would understand it anyway. Except... except... children. Children can hear it. Sometimes, if their hearts are in the right place, and the stars are too. Children can hear your name. But nobody else. Nobody else. Ever. Laugh hard. Run fast. Be kind. Doctor... I let you go."
"You've guaranteed the status-quo will go on, for a while longer at least... War... will continue as an institution. As an industry. Men will fight for reasons they don't understand, causes they don't believe in... But at least I'll leave a worthy successor... You, Jack. You carve your own path, use whatever methods you see fit... You don't let legal bullshit get in the way. And if it costs a few lives? So be it... Deep inside, we're... kindred spirits... you... and I..."
— Senator Steven Armstrong, Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance
"Cipher will rewrite the records... And I will vanish from human memory. But... The thirst for revenge that I have planted will infest the system! No one can stop it now! Sahelanthropus will unleash that thirst unto the future! Major... I'M BURNING UP!!!"
— Skull Face, Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain
"You haven't won. Your dark dreams will never come true. Somehow, someone will succeed where I've failed. Until that day, live in fear. You will fall. We're only human but... but we will survive... We will survive..."
—Master Roshi, Dragon Ball
"Anna... Your mother didn't want to see you fall victim to this curse, so she took you from me. She should hate me as I'm sure you do as well. But you must go! Fear not; if you trust in the possibility that lies within and try with all your might, the path will show itself to you... Please forgive me... I wanted more... So much... Banagher... My wish... has finally come true... Anna..."
—Cardeas Vist, Mobile Suit Gundam Unicorn
"1200 years have passed... until I have finally realized... What I really needed was not becoming a hermit or prolonging my life... The time with thee... was the important thing, it seemeth... Ka... se... n... tha...nk..."
—Yoshika Miyako, Suikakasen
"I never cared about justice, and I don't recall ever calling myself a hero... I have always only fought for the people I believe in. I won't hesitate... If an enemy appears in front of me, I will destroy it!"
— Zero's "No More Holding Back" Speech, Mega Man Zero 4
"You (cough), you haven't won here. You and your mutie-bastard friends are gonna join me in a big ol' mushroom cloud sendoff. I just triggered the self-destruct. (Heh, heh; cough, cough,...) The work will go on. You didn't do nothing here, 'cept seal your own death warrants. Duty, (cough) honor... courage... Semper Fiiiii........"
— Frank Horrigan, Fallout 2
"It's not you Teach. The man that Gol D. Roger was waiting for... It's not you, Teach. Not a damn chance! just as there are people out there who inherited Roger's will, soon enough, someone will carry on in Ace's name as well. You may try to destroy their spirit but you will never extinguish their flame! So it has been and so it shall continue to be from now till the very end of time. And one day in the future, when we're all dead and gone, someone will arise carrying generations upon generations of our history on his shoulders, and he'll throw down the gauntlet in front of the entire world. Sengoku... You know what's coming—a war that will embroil the seas far and wide. That's why you're so afraid, though nothing you do will stop it. I've no interest in it myself, but someday that treasure will turn this world upside-down. You know what I'm talking about, and I'm sure that someone will find it. Whether you like it or not, that day will come soon. THE ONE PIECE... THE ONE PIECE IS REAL!!!"
— Edward Newgate AKA Whitebeard, One Piece
"Ever since my memories have come back, I've been feeling so very afraid. A teacher who wasn't a teacher... friends who don't have memories to share... everyone was just... lying. It felt as though... the whole world was spying on me. That's the world you've been fighting all by yourself, isn't it? All alone. So that's why I... why I wanted to be someone who would at least be truthful to you. [...] Lulu... I love you. Even knowing how you caught my father in all this... I simply couldn't hate you. Even though you made me forget everything, I still fell in love with you. Even though my memories were tampered with, I kept falling in love... with you all over again. [...] No matter how many times I'm reborn, I'll keep falling in love with you, Lulu. I suppose that it's simply fate. [...] So is that OK, then, Lulu? And as I'm reborn... I'll fall in love with you, over and over. I'll keep... falling... in love... with..."
"I can see it, Windu. As I lie here...so close to the end...I see so much. We...we were arrogant. Fought [the Imperials]...Fought them like droids. I can see it all so...so clearly now. The invaders, the Imperials, and the chaos that follows. It will swallow us whole if we do not d-discard our pride...it may have devoured us...already... This war...in shadows... [...] It is a war we have not known, but one we have been fighting all along... But there is a new war coming... It's already here in fact. A true war...to devour...the secret war. We are at risk, Master Windu, of being...consumed! [...] Cal...Kestis... My Padawan... [...] Pr-Prepare him...Windu...prepare him...he is not ready...we...are not...ready..."
— Jaro Tapal to Mace Windu, Star Wars vs Warhammer 40K
