History Quotes / AWorldHalfFull

-->-- '''Roy Mustang''', ''Anime/FullmetalAlchemist''

-->-- [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-6001 SCP-6001]], ''Wiki/SCPFoundation''

->''"However ruined this world has become, however mired in torment and despair... Life endures. Births continue. There is beauty in that, is there not? If you would become Lord, do not deny this notion. Please, [[spoiler:leave the Frenzied Flame alone]]."''

'''Blake''': That's... very ambitious for a child. Unfortunately, the [[SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome real world]] isn't the same as a fairy tale.\\

-->-— ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'' ("A Taste Of Armageddon")

-->-- ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'' ("The Offspring")

-->-- ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'' ("Past Tense")

-->-- ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'' ("Past Tense")

->''"All right. [[InYourNatureToDestroyYourselves It's instinctive]]. But the instinct can be fought. We're human beings with the blood of a million savage years on our hands, but we can stop it. We can admit that we're killers, but we're not going to kill today. That's all it takes. Knowing that we won't kill... ''today''."''
-->-— '''Captain James T. Kirk''', ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'' ("A Taste Of Armageddon")

->''[[HumansAreFlawed People are messy, awkward, sometimes selfish and cruel.]] But they're trying, and I'm going to make sure they have a chance.]]''

-->-- '''Professor Dumbledore''', ''Film/HarryPotterAndThePrisonerOfAzkaban

->Can you not see a world of troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?

->The world isn't as bad as you think.

->Nothing's perfect, the world's not perfect, but it's there for us, trying the best it can. That's what makes it so damn beautiful.

-->-- "[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/18416588/chapters/43621214 The Sun, The Moon, and the Stars]]", a VisualNovel/Danganronpa2GoodbyeDespair fic

->They say that our tree may never grow back. But one day ''something'' will. Yes, these crackles are made of synthetic goose and these giblets come from artificial squab and even these apples look fake - but at least they've got stars on them.

->Creator/ErnestHemingway once wrote, "The world is a fine place and worth fighting for." [[KnightInSourArmor I agree with the second part]].

->It's not a perfect universe, Victor. That doesn't absolve us from the responsibility of making it better. Just remember that it'll never be perfect - and, [[NiceJobBreakingItHero if you're not careful how you do it, trying to make it so just makes it worse.]]

->Anyone perfect must be lying, anything easy has its cost\\

It feels just like I'm falling for the first time

->Yeah, the wars, they will be fought again.\\

That's how the light gets in.

->I can only build if I tear the walls down\\

I'll still smile.
-->-- '''Eyedea and Abilities''', "Smile"

->There is no Superman in that phone booth\\

So it's a good thing we don't need to be saved
-->-- '''Sifu "Guante" Hotman''', "Matches"

->No one in the world ever gets what they want\\

And that is beautiful.

->So, here we are\\

When you think of where we've been
-->-- '''Kelly Clarkson''', "You Found Me"

->O look, look in the mirror,\\

With your crooked heart.

-> Despite the dire circumstances facing [[CrapsackWorld the world]], [[HopeSpringsEternal hope still remains]]. It may be scattered, dimmed, assaulted on all sides, but it has not been extinguished. A [[DavidVsGoliath farmer stands against the oncoming soldiers]], [[YouShallNotPass giving his friends and family time to flee]]. A merchant, with a kindly smile, [[PetTheDog hands a loaf of bread to a poor begga]]r. A [[ThePaladin paladin]], the [[AsLongAsThereIsOneMan last of his order]], continues [[TheQuest his quest]] to rid the world of a demon-prince. Across Etharis, small acts of kindness, of bravery, of charity, all stand out amidst the dark backdrop. Few and far between, their scarcity only serves to make them more special.

->It's like... Did you ever try to put a broken piece of glass back together? Even if the pieces fit, you can't make it whole again the way it was. But if you're clever, you can still use the pieces to make other useful things. Maybe even something wonderful, like a mosaic.

->[[HumansAreFlawed People are messy, awkward, sometimes selfish and cruel.]] [[KnightInSourArmor But they're trying, and I'm going to make sure they have a chance.]]

->I get it. [[AmbiguousDisorder This]] won't stop until I die. But when I die, I want it to hurt. When my friends leave, when I have to let go, [[DyingTown when this entire town is wiped off the map]], I want it to hurt. Bad. I want to lose. I want to get beaten up. I want to hold on until I'm thrown off and everything ends. And you know what? Until that happens, I want to hope again. And I want it to hurt. Because that means it meant something. [[TheAntiNihilist It means I am something, at least]] ...pretty amazing to be something, at least...

->So the next time we think of the 20th century merely as a century of war and genocide and nuclear weapons, we need to remind ourselves that it was also a century in which hundreds of millions of people emerged from poverty and fewer people died as a result of violence.

->We are really fucked. Life is still really good.
-->-- '''Derrick Jensen'''

'''Blake''': That's... very ambitious for a child. Unfortunately, the [[RealityEnsues real world]] isn't the same as a fairy tale.\\

-> Despite the dire circumstances facing [[CrapsackWorld the world]], [[HopeSpringsEternal hope still remains]]. It may be scattered, dimmed, assaulted on all sides, but it has not been extinguished. A [[DavidVsGoliath farmer stands against the oncoming soldiers]], [[YouShallNotPass giving his friends and family time to flee]]. A merchant, with a kindly smile, hands a loaf of bread to a poor beggar. A paladin, the last of his order, continues his quest to rid the world of a demon-prince. Across Etharis, small acts of kindness, of bravery, of charity, all stand out amidst the dark backdrop. Few and far between, their scarcity only serves to make them more special.