History Quotes / DespairEventHorizon

-->-- ''ComicBook/CaptainAtom: Armageddon''

->''There's nothing left for me. No place to return to, nobody to love, and nothing to believe in...''

->(Raises his head sobbing) Literature/WitchAndWizard''... has ruined my life... When I go outside... I can't feel the sunlight's warmth on my skin. When I eat... my food turns to ash in my mouth... My food...''(Goes back to sobbin

->''"Even in death... Wasn't I right? Wasn't I ALWAYS right? The corruption is here... Troms is in ruins. The province is in ruins... Dead or dying. Now I must scrounge and scrape for new life... No saviors, no heroes. You being alive is nothing short of a miracle. Isn't this such a miserable lot? I don't want to die... But so little to live for. Not as though it matters much..."

->''Ah... And here you are. I know you two feel the same. That this world...is utterly meaningless. As far as I'm concerned, my brother...was everything... And now...EVERYTHING MUST DIE!''

->''I went into the bathroom and cried my eyes out. The whole affair had been an elaborate hoax! The two of them probably planned the whole thing just to get back at me. I was devastated, crushed out of any hope. I had nothing to live for. [[IfICantHaveYou But if I wasn't ever going to be happy again]], then I would make sure]] that [[MurderTheHypotenuse they wouldn't be alive to enjoy their happiness]].''

->''Stood in firelight, sweltering. Bloodstain on chest like map of violent new continent. Felt cleansed. Felt dark planet turn under my feet and knew what cats know that makes them scream like babies in night. Looked at sky through smoke heavy with human fat and [[GodIsDead God was not there.]] The cold, suffocating dark goes on forever and we are alone. [[DesperatelyLookingForAPurposeInLife Live our lives, lacking anything better to do.]] Devise reason later. Born from oblivion; bear children, hell-bound as ourselves, go into oblivion. There is nothing else. Existence is random. Has no pattern save what we imagine after staring at it for too long. [[{{Ubermensch}} No meaning save what we choose to impose.]] This rudderless world is not shaped by vague metaphysical forces. It is not God who kills the children. Not fate that butchers them or destiny that feeds them to the dogs. [[HumansAreBastards It's us. Only us.]] Streets stank of fire. The void breathed hard on my heart, turning its illusions to ice, shattering them. [[HeWhoFightsMonsters Was reborn then, free to scrawl own design on this morally blank world.]] [[BecomingTheMask Was Rorschach.]] Does that answer your questions, Doctor?''

->''I went into the bathroom and cried my eyes out. The whole affair had been an elaborate hoax! The two of them probably planned the whole thing just to get back at me. I was devastated, crushed out of any hope. I had nothing to live for. [[IfICantHaveYou But if I wasn't ever going to be happy again]], [[GreenEyedMonster then I would make sure that]] [[MurderTheHypotenuse they wouldn't be alive to enjoy their happiness]].''

->'''Beavis:''' Dammit, this always happens! [[QuestForSex I think I'm gonna score,]] [[FailureIsTheOnlyOption and then I never score!]] [[LifeIsntFair It's not fair!]] We've traveled, um, um, uh, a hundred miles 'cause we thought we were gonna score! But now it's not gonna happen! Dammit!\\

->''It's not over! [[MemeticMutation Everybody betrayed me!]] [[WhatTheHellIsThatAccent I'm fehd ahp with this wourld!]]''

->Unwanted by both [[SinisterMinister Bishop]] and [[MonsterClown Koba]], Blotto's clowns are [[SadClown the rejects and outcasts]] of the circus hierarchy: the [[CircusOfFear Midnight Circus]] has ground them down and is [[DeathByDespair about to]] [[YourSoulIsMine devour them]]. They are skeletal scarecrows stripped of all desire; many turn to [[DrowningMySorrows mind-numbing drugs or alcohol]] provided by other circus personnel. Within their tent, they can be seen sleeping and nodding off, aware of their fate but unable to fight it.

->Ancient sadness. [[GenerationShips Star-city]] circling the burning nest. [[KillerRobot The silver horde]] has re-arisen. [[EldritchAbomination Kaelis-Ra]] awakes afresh, the ancient war resumed, spiderscuttle sorrow, all interlinked. Death in wraithsword, spirits infinity-bound. [[HistoryRepeats All is cyclical, all goes round yet remains the same.]] Always the dirges of echoes, always the bonework reflections. [[CrapsackWorld There is nothing new; just regret and impotence.]] [[DyingRace We are lost in the dark, and there is no morning.]]

-->-- '''Quasimodo''', ''[[DarkerAndEdgier Der Glockner Von]] [[WesternAnimation/TheHunchbackofNotreDameDisney Notre Dame]]'', "Made of Stone"

->''The day [[StartOfDarkness I killed]] [[ParentalSubstitute The Boss]]... with my own hands... I... was already dead.''

->In the event of an [[ApocalypseHow unsuccessful]] [[GodzillaThreshold Action 10-Israfil-B]], no further action will be necessary.

uh oh... \\
[[WhamLine there aren't any more Goo Balls]]. They must have all been sucked away by the pipe system... All the Goo Balls from the entire world! ...all sucked up and sent to the former World of Goo Corporation campus where they have been building a giant tower into the sky! Probably a good thing too. [[HopeSpot The telescope is useless anyway]]. It's unable to see past that layer of smog and dust. Well, without any more Goo Balls, I guess that's it. We'll never know what the telescope can see... Or what's really up there. TheEnd. Thanks for playing. Time to go do other things now. Maybe write a travel companion. I'm going into the Telescope now. Goodbye."

->''The last of the Goo Balls were...\\

[[WhamLine there aren't any more Goo Balls]]. They must have all been sucked away by the pipe system... All the Goo Balls from the entire world! ...all sucked up and sent to the former World of Goo Corporation campus where they have been building a giant tower into the sky! Probably a good thing too. [[HopeSpot The telescope is useless anyway]]. It's unable to see past that layer of smog and dust. Well, without any more Goo Balls, I guess that's it. We'll never know what the telescope can see... Or what's really up there. TheEnd. Thanks for playing. Time to go do other things now. Maybe write a travel companion. I'm going into the Telescope now. Goodbye.

-> "All my days were happy, fun and cheerful. I liked that world and peace in that we had. In that world, there was only thieves who stole wallets and we played who would get him first. But one day they came... [[KnightOfCerebus that thing came.]] My friends are dead! My family was killed in front of me! My happy world fell into darkness and despair!

->I think it was after you were gone... that I found her diary. I confronted your mother. She apologized to me crying. I didn't understand the big words... But I knew the pain I suffered should've been yours. That you weren't Aceman... and that you were the reason for my suffering. '''You then meant nothing to me.'''

->Dammit! Why... By letting myself be worshipped as an emissary of God, I was meant to lead everyone... but I can't even save one girl?

->Some savior I am... I couldn't even save [[spoiler:Yurin.]] I... [[DeathWail I...!!!]]

->So this is a Witch. My emotions have all come back to haunt me. I can't remember anything but glimmers of light and regret. Ah, so this is my... despair.

->The future... [[PutThemAllOutOfMyMisery isn't needed anymore.]]
-->-- '''[[AristocratsAreEvil Lord]] [[BigBad Darcia III]]''', ''Anime/WolfsRain''

->Stood in firelight, sweltering. Bloodstain on chest like map of violent new continent. Felt cleansed. Felt dark planet turn under my feet and knew what cats know that makes them scream like babies in night. Looked at sky through smoke heavy with human fat and [[GodIsDead God was not there.]] The cold, suffocating dark goes on forever and we are alone. [[DesperatelyLookingForAPurposeInLife Live our lives, lacking anything better to do.]] Devise reason later. Born from oblivion; bear children, hell-bound as ourselves, go into oblivion. There is nothing else. Existence is random. Has no pattern save what we imagine after staring at it for too long. [[{{Ubermensch}} No meaning save what we choose to impose.]] This rudderless world is not shaped by vague metaphysical forces. It is not God who kills the children. Not fate that butchers them or destiny that feeds them to the dogs. [[HumansAreBastards It's us. Only us.]] Streets stank of fire. The void breathed hard on my heart, turning its illusions to ice, shattering them. [[HeWhoFightsMonsters Was reborn then, free to scrawl own design on this morally blank world.]] [[BecomingTheMask Was Rorschach.]] Does that answer your questions, Doctor?

->As my beautiful daughter dies, so does something inside me. Hope. The hope of a future. The hope of happiness. The hope of there being a benign force in the universe. It all dies...

->Nobody knows me anymore. Even the little kids I remember are old men now. You should have left me in the ice where I belonged, General Fury. Everything I ever loved is gone.

->All those who had meant something to me, all those I had cared for... they were all dead. I had nothing, nothing left. Nothing to expect. No hope.

->I went into the bathroom and cried my eyes out. The whole affair had been an elaborate hoax! The two of them probably planned the whole thing just to get back at me. I was devastated, crushed out of any hope. I had nothing to live for. [[IfICantHaveYou But if I wasn't ever going to be happy again]], [[GreenEyedMonster then I would make sure that]] [[MurderTheHypotenuse they wouldn't be alive to enjoy their happiness]].

->Someday for sure, I will bring death upon her.

->"[[ComicBook/{{Supergirl}} Linda]], it's like this. Christmas is the big time of the year when everybody's supposed to be happy. Santa Claus is comin' to town, ho-ho-ho, all the candy canes and stuff under the tree and Sears catalogs and people freezin' their rear ends off out caroling. So everybody's supposed to love each other and all those good vibes just floating around. But sometimes, if you don't feel the good vibes, that makes it so much worse. Depression increases at Christmas. The fact that it's near the shortest day of the year doesn't help much. Suicides go up. You know what I'm sayin'?"

->Why are you here? How can you possibly bring me lower? ''What more can you take away from me?!''

->I've seen dark before, but not like this.\\

Hello, darkness. I'm ready to succumb.

->It's over. Everything, I did everything wrong. I want my life back. I want it back before everything got fucked up. I want to be a baby again. I want to be new. I want to be new.

->They look like big, good, ''strong'' hands. Don't they? I always thought that's what they were. My little friends. The little man with his racing snail, the Nighthob, even the stupid bat. I couldn't ''hold on'' to them. The Nothing... pulled them right out of my hands. I failed.

->It's not over! [[MemeticMutation Everybody betrayed me!]] [[WhatTheHellIsThatAccent I'm fehd ahp with this wourld!]]

->There was a time I could see. And I ''have'' seen... boys like these - ''younger'' even - their arms torn out, their legs ripped off. But there is ''nothing'' like the sight of an amputated spirit. There is no prosthetic for that.

->Once I knew how the world worked\\

[[DrivenToSuicide No, I don't know anything... anymore...]]
-->--'''Jim Ryan,''' ''One Night The Moon''

->All my orders have been ignored. How can I be a leader under these circumstances? It's over. The war is lost. [[DefiantToTheEnd But if you think this means that I'll leave Berlin, you're wrong. I'd rather shoot a bullet through my head.]] Do what you want.

->"Let the months and years come, they can take nothing from me, they can take nothing more. I am so alone, and so without hope that I can confront them without fear."

->"Someone had drilled a large hole through ever vital part of my body. All spirit, all life, had drained out, leaving a shell that might have blown away if I'd stepped from the house. There was no danger of that. My universe shrank to the size of the couch."

->It wasn't just the baby that died that day; something inside Sick Boy was lost and never returned. It seemed that he had no theory with which to explain a moment like this. Nor did I. Our only response was to keep on going and fuck everything: pile misery upon misery, heap it up on a spoon and dissolve it with a drop of bile, then squirt it into a stinking, prurient vein and do it all over again; keep on going, getting up, going out, robbing, stealing, fucking people over, propelling ourselves with longing towards the day that it would all go wrong, because no matter how much you stash, or how much you steal, you never have enough. No matter how often you go out and rob and fuck people over, you always need to get up and do it all over again.

->Here then at long last is my darkness. No cry of light, no glimmer, not even the faintest shard of hope to break free across the hold.

->You know, apart from the fact that I'll never again experience joy in my life, I don't think ''Film/RedZoneCuba'' had any kind of negative effect on me.

->Now I can't go on, I can't even start\\

Or leave me lying here

->I need someone to show me the things in life that I can't find.\\
I can't see the things that make true happiness, I must be blind.

-> Leave me alone.\\

There's nothing left.
-->-- '''Music/{{Breaking Benjamin}}''', "Dear Agony"

->She speaks no word to her doctor,\\

For weeks she dared not sleep or dream.

->Don't push me,\\

I'm trying not to lose my head...

-> I believe that the stars keep shining all through the night\\

...Sometimes all our dreams just don't come true.
-->--'''Mellissa Hollick,''' ''I Believe''

-> No one but me can save myself, but it's too late\\
Now I can't think why I should even try.

->This cannot be happening to me.\\

And they turned us into this.

->Saw all of the saints\\

But there was no answer...

->That little boy quit trying.\\

[[CassandraTruth If nobody believed in you.]]
-->-- '''Joe Nichols''', "If Nobody Believed In You"

->When I was a child, I caught a fleeting glimpse.\\

I have become [[TitleDrop comfortably numb]].

->This cruel country has driven me down.\\

My dreams have withered and died.

->So this is how it ends.\\

I'm finished playing and I'm staying inside.

->What have I become?\\

I will make you hurt.

->And now I'm on my own\\

Were made of stone

->I shall despair. There is no creature loves me;\\

Find in myself no pity to myself.

->I can almost hear your mewling now. "How could he betray us?!" "[[EtTuBrute Why, Avitus,]] ''[[EtTuBrute why?!]]''" Look at [[ApocalypseHow this planet!]] Look at it! ''That'' is why! [[TabletopGame/Warhammer40000 The entire galaxy]] is the same: [[CrapsackWorld Broken. Shattered.]] ''[[CrapsackWorld Rotten to the core!]]'' Honor, brotherhood, duty -- they are no more than delusions and lies. We use them to [[IDidWhatIHadToDo justify the slaughter left in our wake]]. I cannot tolerate it any longer! I have seen the rot that runs through our chapter's honor -- and it justifies ''nothing!'' [[TragicVillain My memories are full of the screams of those I have killed. Where others see life, I see only death.]] We all know how this will end. We have always known. [[SuicideByCop It ends in blood.]]

->[[OutlivingOnesOffspring My... son.]] Murdered in the heart of the Chantry, by those who held a sacred trust. What hope for this city, when we fail our own so completely?

->Look at it all. Why don't they just drown us as infants? Why wait? Why give us the illusion of hope?

->My name is Oerba Dia Vanille. I'm a L'Cie, from Gran Pulse, and to everyone on Cocoon, evil. Shoot me! For your son!

->I have taught you many ways to kill a mortal, Kratos; flesh that burns, bones that break. But to break a man's spirit, is to truly destroy him!

->The gods of Olympus have abandoned me. Now there is no hope.

->There's nothing left for me. No place to return to, nobody to love, and nothing to believe in...

->But it cannot be! This would mean that ''all my work'' has been for [[AC:nothing!]] Everything that I've tried to- A FAILURE! It can't ''be!'' [[AC:Be!]] BE! Be... I... don't think that I can [[AC:continue.]] ''Continue?'' To have done the things I have done... in the name of progress... and healing... It was madness. I can see it now, madness. ''Madness?'' There is no hope. Leave now. Leave... while you still have ''hope''...

->I'm already a dead man. I don't sleep. Food has no taste. Some days... I just want it to be over.

->The day [[StartOfDarkness I killed]] [[ParentalSubstitute The Boss]]... with my own hands... I... was already dead.

->Five years ago, I lost thirty thousand men in the blink of an eye....and the world just ''[[PrecisionFStrike fucking watched]]''. Tomorrow, there will be no shortage of volunteers, no shortage of patriots. I know you understand.

->The moment when someone loses all hope... [[MoralEventHorizon I really do love to watch that moment.]]

->Our time has passed, John.

->I do not care, Father! [[TheMourningAfter A world without]] [[TheLostLenore her]] [[TheMourningAfter is empty.]] [[StrawNihilist A LIFE without her is empty.]]

->It seems in the end... that I... was the greatest fool of all...

->I... Used to be so beautiful...

->I looked into the eyes of [[OmnicidalManiac the dragon]]... and despaired.

-->--'''The Narrator''', ''Videogame/DarkestDungeon'', when dismissing heroes driven mad with despair

-> If I am being honest, I care only to give hope to the frightened, huddled masses so that when I come upon them they will have more to lose. Their pain will be greater. Their screams more pure.''(...)'' Nothing dies like hope. I cherish it.

->It wasn't the [[ElectricTorture torture]] that broke me. It wasn't the [[BehavioralConditioning indoctrination]]. It was ''time.'' Time rots everything, Booker... even hope.

->O' Architect! Is this [[CrapsackWorld the world]] that you intended?

->He no longer wanted anything, [[DrivenToSuicide he didn't even want to live anymore]] and despite that, his life was the one thing he hadn't lost, because he couldn't!

->I don't wanna go back out there...''I can't do this anymore...''

->[[DyingDream This was the only dream I really wanted]]. They offered me Gaia and I took her because [[BoxedCrook I didn't have a choice]]. But she chips, chips away at us. Can't you feel it? [[WhoWantsToLiveForever Don't you know what she's taking from you?]] You can't feel it, can you? You don't even know. And now you're going to bring me back. I don't want to go. [[UnwantedRevival I don't want to be back there]]. This was [[SuicideByCop the only way]]..."

->That's where they come from. [[WasOnceAMan That's why they hate us]]... that's [[MotherOfAThousandYoung why they need us]]. That's why they take us.... that's why they [[ImAHumanitarian feed us]]. But the true abomination... is not that it occurred, but that it was ''[[MoralEventHorizon allowed]].'' Branka... my love... The Stone has punished me, dream-friend. I am dying of something worse than death. Betrayal.

->I had to burn it. All of it. [[MegaCorp Murkoff]] took so much from us. ''Used'' us. Turned us into these... [[BodyHorror things]]... because nobody cares about [[BedlamHouse a few forgotten lunatics]]. So let it burn. Burn the whole god damned thing down. Get out. If you want to live, you can get out through the kitchen.

->[[AfterTheEnd The world is dead]], Richard. Even if we got inside [[UnderwaterBase Omicron]], [[NothingLeftToDoButDie what's left?]] Grab a couple suits and head for [[EldritchOceanAbyss Tau?]] Strasky, Jonsy, Hart... everyone is dead and [[AlmostOutOfOxygen we are right behind them]]. We're probably [[LastOfHisKind the last people left alive]]. The last moments of mankind...

->"For a while, I believed in you, Connor. I thought you might restore my faith in the world... But you just showed me that androids...are our creation... [[HumansAreBastards Creation in our own image. Selfish, ruthless, and brutal...]] You opened my eyes, Connor, made me realize it's hopeless..."

->Ah... And here you are. I know you two feel the same. That this world...is utterly meaningless. As far as I'm concerned, my brother...was everything... And now...EVERYTHING MUST DIE!

->'''Rin:''' [[InelegantBlubbering Why? Why does all this happen? People are doing things I don't ask for and don't want and everyone keeps getting angry at me, I have no idea what is going on anymore and can't stop feeling like I want to run away from everything...]]\\

'''Rin:''' '''I have no idea what's wrong with me!'''

->As the Prince of Hope, I am uniquely qualified to recognize [[VerbalTic wwhen]] all hope is lost.

->(Raises his head sobbing) ''Witch & wizard''... has ruined my life... When I go outside... I can't feel the sunlight's warmth on my skin. When I eat... my food turns to ash in my mouth... My food...(Goes back to sobbing)

->[[VideoGame/ProjectSpark All is lost...]]

->Well, [[Creator/FriedrichNietzsche Nietzsche]] was right. [[GodIsDead Dead as a doornail.]]

->You need to be just pessimistic enough to keep your guard up for a sucker punch but [[HopeSpot just optimistic enough to keep lowering your guard at the worst possible time.]]

->(''weary sigh'') Remember when shooters were about killing [[VideoGame/{{Doom}} demons from hell?]] Those were good days. Perhaps this is an inevitable part of gaming growing up as our childish fantasies are torn from us, and we are forced to confront consequences in an unfair, uncaring and unavoidable world of ''hatred, misery, and '''death.''''' (''[[MoodWhiplash farts]]'')

->''In the event of an [[ApocalypseHow unsuccessful]] [[GodzillaThreshold Action 10-Israfil-B]], no further action will be necessary.''

->Nothing will make me feel better! Even the victory will be bittersweet!

-->-- '''Joel of WebVideo/{{Vinesauce}}''', ''Windows XP Destruction''

->I can't keep pushing this down any deeper\\
Why do I keep trying if I can't keep her?

->[[HeroicBSOD I]] ''[[HeroicBSOD did]]'' [[HeroicBSOD love being a hero.]] But if ''[[GoodIsImpotent this]]'' is where it leads, [[ThenLetMeBeEvil I'm done with it]].

->Who ''cares'' anymore?! There's [[PortalToThePast no way home]]! There's nothing to fight for!

->I've fought Aku for ages. I've seen countless innocents die. I've lived this nightmare for what seems like an eternity. There is no way to defeat him. There is no hope. No way out.

->I'm sorry, Master, but I'm not coming back...

->How messed up is that? That I've gotten away with this for so long? You have no idea how bad I am! You think I'm so great and I'm so mature and I always know what to do, but that's not true! I haven't learned a thing from my problems. They've all just made me worse! You think of me as some angel but I'm not that kid anymore! [-I'm a fraud. I'm a fraud.-] [[IAmAMonster I'M A MONSTER!]]

-> My confidence has been destroyed! My self-worth shattered! That little voice inside my head that once said “Hudson, you’re okay” is ''long gone!'' WHATEVER WILL TAKE ITS PLACE?!! *Bursts out crying*
-->--'''[[DramaQueen Hudson Horstachio]]''', WesternAnimation/VivaPinata

-->-- '''Creator/BoBurnham''', "Goodbye"

-->-- '''Quasimodo''', ''[[DarkerAndEdgier Der Glockner Von]] [[WesternAnimation/TheHunchbackofNotreDame Notre Dame]]'', "Made of Stone"

'''Horseshoe's Owner''': I don't know who you are, or what you've just done. [[ClingyMcGuffin But it'll come back. Again. And again...]] It's not actually that nice a night, is it? I've been dreaming of this for nearly five years. Connecting to the real world again. Just for a moment... I don't think I can do it anymore. It should feel good... but I'm just scared. And I can't go back. Not to that numbness.\\

->'''Natalia Pushkin:''' I was the first one to be taken; I only wish I could have been the last as well. Even as we speak, [[TheBrute Tev]] is preparing another one of his kindred to make [[FreakyFridayFlip the transition]] and... [[GrandTheftMe usurp the body of an innocent man]]. It is my weakness that brought [[ConquerorFromTheFuture them]], and now we are all doomed to die in their stead. \\

->Five years ago, I [[NukeEm lost thirty thousand men in the blink of an eye]]....[[ApatheticCitizens and the world just]] ''[[PrecisionFStrike fucking watched]]''. Tomorrow, there will be no shortage of volunteers, no shortage of patriots. I know you understand.
-->--'''[[spoiler:General Shepherd]]''', ''VideoGame/ModernWarfare 2''

->"[ComicBook/{{Supergirl}} Linda]], it's like this. Christmas is the big time of the year when everybody's supposed to be happy. Santa Claus is comin' to town, ho-ho-ho, all the candy canes and stuff under the tree and Sears catalogs and people freezin' their rear ends off out caroling. So everybody's supposed to love each other and all those good vibes just floating around. But sometimes, if you don't feel the good vibes, that makes it so much worse. Depression increases at Christmas. The fact that it's near the shortest day of the year doesn't help much. Suicides go up. You know what I'm sayin'?"

-->-- Captain America, ''ComicBook/TheUltimates''

'''Maritza Ramos''': Don't blame me because your boyfriend abandoned you! At lease I'm trying!\\

[[OutlivingOnesOffspring Now I don't know anything anymore]]\\
I see [[DeathOfAChild her]] face everywhere\\

[[MyGodWhatHaveIDone I drove all kindness from my door]]\\

->What they found outside the cottage [[DrivenToSuicide killed Brian]]. It was as if he had been drop-kicked in the chest by Bruce Lee. He felt his heart stop. Pain spread through his ribs, and his limbs stopped sending signals to his brain. His ears popped as if he were undergoing severe decompression in a crashing Concord.
->[[BadlyBatteredBabysitter Abigail]] lay on the front path, [[PrettyLittleHeadshots a smoky hole above her eyes]], the back of her head fanned out on the gravel behind her. [[CreepyChild Jason]] was in the doorway, [[DeathOfAChild in segments]].

I'm finished playing and I'm staying inside.\\

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