| 1 | [[foldercontrol]] |
| 2 | |
| 3 | [[folder:Anime and Manga]] |
| 4 | -> ''"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!'' |
| 5 | -->-- '''Hitori''' explaining his life after DEM oppression, ''Literature/DateALive'' |
| 6 | |
| 7 | ->''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.''''' |
| 8 | -->-- '''[[spoiler:Shiro]]''', reflecting on the day she found out that she was a replacement subject for [[spoiler:Ganta]] in ''Manga/DeadmanWonderland'' |
| 9 | |
| 10 | ->''Now, I have nothing left...No hope...No joy...My life has no meaning anymore...I have no one left to protect...'' |
| 11 | -->-- '''Akira Fudo''' [[spoiler:after Miki is murdered]], ''Manga/{{Devilman}}'' |
| 12 | |
| 13 | ->''You robbed me of the most precious thing I possessed...[[TenderTears I would honestly like to cry for you]]...[[StoppedCaring but all of my tears have dried up...]]'' |
| 14 | -->-- '''Akira Fudo''' [[spoiler:to [=Ryo Asuka/Satan=]]], ''Anime/DevilmanCrybaby'' |
| 15 | |
| 16 | ->'''Shinji:''' Nobody wants me. So, everybody can just die.\ |
| 17 | '''[[spoiler: Rei]]:''' Then, what are those hands for?\ |
| 18 | '''Shinji:''' Nobody cares whether I exist or not. Nothing will change. So, everybody can just die.\ |
| 19 | '''[[spoiler: Rei]]:''' Then, what is that heart for?\ |
| 20 | '''Shinji:''' It'd be better if I wasn't here either. So I should just die, too.\ |
| 21 | '''[[spoiler: Rei]]:''' Then, why are you here?\ |
| 22 | '''Shinji:''' Is it okay for me to be here?\ |
| 23 | (''silence'') |
| 24 | -->-- ''[[Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion End of Evangelion]]'' the moment [[spoiler:[[AssimilationPlot Instrumentality]]/[[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt The Third Impact]]]] begins. |
| 25 | |
| 26 | ->''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?'' |
| 27 | -->-- '''[[spoiler:Kugel]]''', after [[spoiler:Linaria]] succumbs to her illness in the second OVA for ''Anime/GargantiaOnTheVerdurousPlanet'' |
| 28 | |
| 29 | ->''Some savior I am... I couldn't even save [[spoiler:Yurin.]] I... [[DeathWail I...!!!]]'' |
| 30 | -->-- '''Flit Asuno''', ''Anime/MobileSuitGundamAGE'' |
| 31 | |
| 32 | ->''I'M WEAK!!!!'' |
| 33 | -->-- '''[[spoiler:Monkey D. Luffy]]''', having a complete psychological meltdown after [[spoiler:losing his beloved crew and watching Ace die]] in ''Manga/OnePiece'' |
| 34 | |
| 35 | ->I was stupid... So stupid... |
| 36 | -->-- '''[[spoiler:Sayaka Miki]]''', moments before [[spoiler:turning into a Witch]], ''Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagica'' |
| 37 | |
| 38 | ->''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.'' |
| 39 | -->-- '''[[spoiler:Homura Akemi]]''', ''Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagicaTheMovieRebellion'' |
| 40 | |
| 41 | ->''The future... [[PutThemAllOutOfMyMisery isn't needed anymore.]]'' |
| 42 | -->-- '''[[AristocratsAreEvil Lord Darcia III]]''', ''Anime/WolfsRain'' |
| 43 | |
| 44 | -> ''Losing to Chozo. Sukuna's rampage. [[spoiler: Kento Nanami's]] death. Yuji Itadori's resolve... had reached its limit a long time ago.'' |
| 45 | -->-- ''Manga/JujutsuKaisen'' after '''Yuji Itadori''' witness [[spoiler: Nobara Kugisaki's]] death. |
| 46 | [[/folder]] |
| 47 | |
| 48 | [[folder:Comic Books]] |
| 49 | ->'''Jack Hawksmoor:''' Is that all you can do? Make cheap, tasteless jokes when your friend dies? Have you given up? Have you given up completely?\ |
| 50 | '''The Doctor:''' It wasn't a joke. But yes, I have given up. Sort of. Look around, Jack. Look at what's happened. Look at what's happening. Face it - no matter what I saw - we're not getting out of this in one piece. Jenny really was the spirit of the twenty-first century. If she's dead, that means [[ApocalypseHow/ClassX4 the century - and everyone living in it - dies with her]]. It's time you did what I did, Jack. Not give up. Not exactly. But accept the inevitable. If these are the last moments of the universe, do you really want to spend them whining and fighting?\ |
| 51 | '''Hawksmoor:''' No. |
| 52 | -->-- ''ComicBook/CaptainAtomArmageddon'' |
| 53 | |
| 54 | ->''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.]] Was Rorschach. Does that answer your questions, Doctor?'' |
| 55 | -->-- '''Rorschach''', ''ComicBook/{{Watchmen}}'' |
| 56 | |
| 57 | ->''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...'' |
| 58 | -->-- '''[[Franchise/GreenLantern Atrocitus]]''', ''Red Lanterns'' #0 |
| 59 | |
| 60 | ->''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.'' |
| 61 | -->-- '''Captain America''', ''ComicBook/TheUltimates'' |
| 62 | |
| 63 | ->'''Ami''': Hey... uh-- you okay?\ |
| 64 | '''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 felt warmer before. 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.\ |
| 65 | '''Ami''': I get it. I lost everyone. One by one. When I was just a kid. After my mom died, I had... they called it a break. I felt nothing, for years. But now... I have people. Friends who've been through shit too. Who are coming through it. I think it can be done. Things can be put back together. That's what I told the House.\ |
| 66 | '''Horseshoe's Owner''': I don't ''want'' to put things back together. [[DrivenToSuicide I just want it to stop.]] |
| 67 | -->--''Comicbook/HomeSickPilots'' |
| 68 | [[/folder]] |
| 69 | |
| 70 | [[folder:Fan Works]] |
| 71 | ->It was too much for her. She'd never wanted any of this. The flame washed out of her like a torrent; she heard the people behind her burst into flames and die, but she didn't care. If this was the world, she wanted to destroy it. Better that nothing exist, if the Outer Gods were all there was. Humanity would be better off dead.\ |
| 72 | Nylarathotep tried to speak, but her flames rushed through him, charring him to ash in an instant. But he wasn't dead. He would rise again, she knew, and that knowing infuriated her more.\ |
| 73 | She gathered her strength. This world would burn. Burn, burn, burn. If it burned hot enough, maybe she would die herself, and not have to live in it. |
| 74 | -->-- ''Fanfic/ChildrenOfAnElderGod'' |
| 75 | |
| 76 | ->He knew, somewhere deep inside, that Asuka was not answering because she couldn't. His dreams, his hopes, and everything else he wished for the future simply ebbed away, leaving behind only an empty vacuum. |
| 77 | -->-- ''Fanfic/NeonGenesisEvangelionGenocide'' |
| 78 | |
| 79 | ->''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.'' |
| 80 | -->-- '''Shinji''', ''Fanfic/TheOneILoveIs'', chapter 12 |
| 81 | |
| 82 | ->''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]].'' |
| 83 | -->-- '''[[Manga/KimagureOrangeRoad Hikaru Hiyama]]''', ''Fanfic/RevengeRoad'' |
| 84 | |
| 85 | ->''Someday for sure, I will bring death upon her.'' |
| 86 | -->-- From '''Yuyuko Saigyouji's''' final diary entry, ''FanFic/TouhouTonari'' |
| 87 | |
| 88 | ->''"[[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'?"'' |
| 89 | -->-- '''Dick Wilson''', ''Fanfic/AVeryKaraChristmas'' |
| 90 | |
| 91 | ->One of [[RobotKid the boxes]] had moved. Was it alive in there? He didn’t want to see. He stepped back and away from this nightmare; away from the dangerous edge. But it was too late. He had slipped now, and the abyss was swallowing him up. What had been an assault from a solitary invader was now a raid by an unceasing army. They had been built too many and too quick. He was not special at all. He was just another blank faced boy hanging from a wall.\ |
| 92 | He was [[RidiculouslyHumanRobot Mecha]]; built specific; just another one of many.\ |
| 93 | [[WhatMeasureIsANonHuman Duplicable. Replaceable.]]\ |
| 94 | And alone. |
| 95 | -->-- ''Film/AIArtificialIntelligence, [[http://www.comeawayohumanchild.net/WhereTheLionsWeep/AIAFNb2c03version2005.htm A Fan's Novelisation]]'' |
| 96 | |
| 97 | ->His fears didn't matter.\ |
| 98 | His hopes didn't matter.\ |
| 99 | His actions didn't matter.\ |
| 100 | ''[[Series/GameOfThrones He]]'' didn't matter, [[UselessProtagonist and never had]].\ |
| 101 | So in the end, he simply lay there as he grew weaker and weaker, unfeeling and uncaring. The pain didn't trouble him, nor did the cold, the smell of death, or even darkness encroaching on his vision.\ |
| 102 | He didn't want anything now. |
| 103 | -->--''Fanfic/IlLogicalConclusions: [[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13558817/1/Il-Logical-Conclusions Chapter 1]]'' |
| 104 | [[/folder]] |
| 105 | |
| 106 | [[folder:Film — Animated]] |
| 107 | ->'''Beavis:''' Dammit, this always happens! [[QuestForSex I think I'm gonna score]], [[FailureIsTheOnlyOption and then I never score!]] 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!\ |
| 108 | '''Bus Driver:''' Hey, buddy, sit down!\ |
| 109 | '''Beavis:''' [[BigShutUp Shut up, ass-wipe!]] I'm sick and tired of this! We're never gonna score! It's just not gonna happen! We're just gonna get old like these people, but they've probably scored!\ |
| 110 | '''Bus Driver:''' Hey, I'm warning you! SIT DOWN!\ |
| 111 | '''Beavis:''' It's like, this chick's a slut! And look at this guy - he's old, but he's probably scored a million times!\ |
| 112 | '''Old Guy:''' Oh, yeah!\ |
| 113 | '''Beavis:''' But not us! We're never gonna score! ''We're never gonna score!'' [[FreakOut WE'RE NEVER GONNA SCORE!]] |
| 114 | -->-- ''[[WesternAnimation/BeavisAndButtheadDoAmerica Beavis and Butt-Head Do America]]'' |
| 115 | |
| 116 | ->''Why are you here? How can you possibly bring me lower? ''What more can you take away from me''?!'' |
| 117 | -->-- '''Mr. Incredible''', thinking his family are dead, ''WesternAnimation/TheIncredibles'' |
| 118 | |
| 119 | ->''I've seen dark before, but not like this.\ |
| 120 | This is cold, this is empty, this is numb.\ |
| 121 | The life I knew is over, the lights are out.\ |
| 122 | Hello, darkness. I'm ready to succumb.'' |
| 123 | -->-- '''Anna''', ''WesternAnimation/FrozenII'' |
| 124 | |
| 125 | ->''It's no use now, the lungwort's gone! We've failed.'' |
| 126 | -->-- '''Abigail''', ''WesternAnimation/OnceUponAForest'' |
| 127 | |
| 128 | ->''Hey there, autopilots. Got some bad news. Um, Operation Clean-up has... well, uh, failed. Wouldn't you know, rising toxicity levels have made life unsustainable on Earth. Well, darn it all, we're gonna have to... cancel Operation Recolonize. So... *sighs*... just stay the course. Um.... rather than try and fix this problem, it'll just be easier for everyone to remain in space. Ok, I'm giving overide Directive A113: Go to full autopilot. Take control of everything. And do not return to Earth. Repeat: Do not return to Earth. Let's get the heck outta he--" |
| 129 | -->-- '''Shelby Forthright''' in his final message, ''WesternAnimation/WallE'' |
| 130 | [[/folder]] |
| 131 | |
| 132 | [[folder:Film — Live-Action]] |
| 133 | ->''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.'' |
| 134 | -->-- '''Susan Orlean''', ''Film/{{Adaptation}}'' |
| 135 | |
| 136 | ->'''Shuri''': Namor's not finished. He promised to destroy the surface world. Now is our opportunity to take him. What are you afraid of?! |
| 137 | ->'''M'Baku''': War! If Namor is indeed a god to his people, killing him will risk eternal war. |
| 138 | ->'''Shuri''': And so what? Was my mother's life not worth eternal war? |
| 139 | ->'''M'Baku''': Of course it was! [[PunctuatedForEmphasis Of course. She. Was!]] But it is not what she would have wanted for you. Hmm? And that is not what I want for my people. |
| 140 | ->'''Shuri''': You speak of my mother as if she's still here. Of what she would've wanted for me. Her hopes and her dreams. But she's dead. [[SuddenlyShouting She's gone! Namor drowned her, right in front of me!]] So her dreams, her goals, her hopes for me...It doesn't exist. It doesn't matter anymore. What matters is what I want, and what I want is Namor dead! |
| 141 | -->-- ''Film/BlackPantherWakandaForever'' |
| 142 | |
| 143 | ->'''Heather:''' [[MadnessMantra Please stop. Please stop. Please stop...]] |
| 144 | ->'''Mike:''' Josh, just quit it. She's had enough. Come on, man, you got her back. [[SarcasmMode Good one]]. |
| 145 | ->'''Josh:''' No, [[SanitySlippage she's still making movies]], man, that's my point! |
| 146 | ->'''Heather:''' Please stop... |
| 147 | ->'''Josh:''' This is my point here! |
| 148 | ->'''Heather:''' ''' ''IT'S ALL I FUCKING HAVE LEFT, OKAY?!'' ''' [[BrokenTears Just please stop. Please stop. Just please stop yelling at me, please...]] |
| 149 | -->--''Film/TheBlairWitchProject'' |
| 150 | |
| 151 | ->"''When I found you out there tonight, I truIy beIieved you were the best chance I had of getting out. But now we have no chance. There is no out. There never was. [...] Do you think I Iike being part of this fucked-up family?! Do you think I chose to run with the pack? No! I chose ''you.'' But now you're out of luck, and ''I'm'' out of time.''" |
| 152 | -->--'''Megan''', ''Film/DogSoldiers'' |
| 153 | |
| 154 | ->''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.'' |
| 155 | -->--'''UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler''', ''Film/{{Downfall}}'' |
| 156 | |
| 157 | ->''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.'' |
| 158 | -->-- '''Rockbiter''', ''Film/TheNeverendingStory'' |
| 159 | |
| 160 | ->''Once I knew how the world worked\ |
| 161 | You earned your bread, said your prayers well\ |
| 162 | You loved your own, helped your neighbour\ |
| 163 | Now I don't know anything anymore\ |
| 164 | Once I knew what was wrong and right\ |
| 165 | God was good, black was never white\ |
| 166 | Once I knew what I was living for\ |
| 167 | Now I don't know anything anymore\ |
| 168 | I see her face everywhere\ |
| 169 | I hear her voice across the air\ |
| 170 | I drove all kindness from my door\ |
| 171 | [[AllForNothing Now I don't have anything anymore]]\ |
| 172 | [[DrivenToSuicide No, I don't know anything... anymore...]]'' |
| 173 | -->--'''Jim Ryan,''' ''Film/OneNightTheMoon'' |
| 174 | |
| 175 | ->''"The grief from his wife's death became greater and greater agony. The home they had so long shared became a tomb, a sweet memory of her joyous living. The sky to which he had once looked was now only a covering for her dead body. The ever-beautiful flowers she had planted with her own hands became nothing more than the lost roses of her cheeks."'' |
| 176 | -->--'''Criswell''', ''Film/Plan9FromOuterSpace'' |
| 177 | |
| 178 | ->''It's not over! Everybody betrayed me! [[WhatTheHellIsThatAccent I'm fehd up with this world!]]'' |
| 179 | -->-- '''Johnny''', ''Film/TheRoom2003'' |
| 180 | |
| 181 | ->''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.'' |
| 182 | -->-- '''Colonel Slade''', ''Film/ScentOfAWoman'' |
| 183 | [[/folder]] |
| 184 | |
| 185 | [[folder:Literature]] |
| 186 | ->''"I am very quiet. 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."'' |
| 187 | -->-- '''Paul Bäumer''', ''Literature/AllQuietOnTheWesternFront'' |
| 188 | |
| 189 | ->''"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."'' |
| 190 | -->-- '''Chad''', ''Literature/{{Dunk}}'' |
| 191 | |
| 192 | -> The world was as hard and comfortless as the bench she was sitting on, as barren as the whitewashed walls around her. She felt her tears like cold rain on her face. She hadn't understood until now what it meant to be alone, utterly and completely alone... There was no God. There was no magic. There was only Death. |
| 193 | -->--Novelization of ''Film/PansLabyrinth'' |
| 194 | |
| 195 | ->Sitting there on the floor, Louis put his face in his hands and began to weep. He had lost all interest in his father-in-law, in the MX missile, in permanent versus dissolving sutures, in the heat death of the universe. At that moment, Louis Creed wished he were dead. |
| 196 | -->-- ''Literature/PetSematary'' |
| 197 | |
| 198 | ->And the Raven, never flitting, still is sitting, still is sitting\ |
| 199 | On the pallid bust of Pallas just above my chamber door;\ |
| 200 | And his eyes have all the seeming of a demon’s that is dreaming,\ |
| 201 | And the lamp-light o’er him streaming throws his shadow on the floor;\ |
| 202 | And my soul from out that shadow that lies floating on the floor\ |
| 203 | Shall be lifted — nevermore! |
| 204 | -->--'''Creator/EdgarAllanPoe''', ''Literature/TheRaven'' |
| 205 | |
| 206 | ->''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.'' |
| 207 | -->-- '''Renton''', ''Literature/{{Trainspotting}}'' |
| 208 | |
| 209 | ->What they found outside the cottage 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. |
| 210 | ->[[BadlyBatteredBabysitter Abigail]] lay on the front path, a smoky hole above her eyes, the back of her head fanned out on the gravel behind her. [[CreepyChild Jason]] was in the doorway, in segments. |
| 211 | ->He opened his mouth to scream, but no sound came out. His jaw ached, and the hammering at his temples increased. He tore out two fistfuls of hair, and ripped at his shirt with bloody fingers. |
| 212 | ->Then [[TheScream the scream]] started. First, it was a whistling, gulping cry somewhere in the back of his throat, then it took hold and boomed forth, emerging from his mouth like solid vomit. Inside, his lungs tore, his windpipe distended. In that wordless screech, Brian cursed the world. He damned God, the University, the [[EvilCorp Unwin Chemical Corporation]], the [[PointyHairedBoss Vice-Chancellor]], Abigail, [[GeneralRipper Lynch]]'s [[SociopathicSoldier Zombies]], the fucking [[TheVirus disease]], Jason, Jean, Monica, Debbie, blind moronic chance. And, most of all, himself. |
| 213 | -->--''[[Creator/KimNewman Bloody Students]]'' |
| 214 | |
| 215 | ->'''Meryl:''' Well, anyway, you were right all along. The spirit of Borrigarde is gone and there's no room for the pride of our people anymore. That's why I came back to Yawnbore to find you. So I could join your quest and [[DrivenToSuicide get myself deleted as well]]. |
| 216 | ->'''Jim:''' For god's sake, Meryl, you don't have to! |
| 217 | ->'''Meryl:''' Jim, it's okay. This is what I want. There's something else. I've learned [[AwfulTruth the Truth]]. |
| 218 | ->'''Jim:''' The truth? |
| 219 | ->'''Meryl:''' No, the Truth. The one [[KnightTemplar Barry]]'s followers were spreading around back in Lolede. The one that [[GettingSmiliesPaintedOnYourSoul makes some people calm]] and [[GoMadFromTheRevelation some people crazy]]. [[CruelPlayerCharacterGod Si-Mon]] told it to me. And... [[BreakTheCutie I just don't really care anymore]]. |
| 220 | -->--''Literature/{{Mogworld}}'' |
| 221 | |
| 222 | ->Tom was defeated. Desperate. [[ICannotSelfTerminate He spent his time wishing he could die]]. He had given up any hope of escape. Given up. |
| 223 | -><That's how it always is,> [[PuppeteerParasite the Yeerk]] said. <At first the host fights, or at least tries. But hour after hour and day after day they see that [[AndIMustScream they cannot rule their own bodies]]. The host sees that no-one even knows what has happened to him. No one knows he is lost in his own head. And, over time, hope dies. The host becomes a faint, shattered creature. Like your brother.> |
| 224 | ->[[VillainsNeverLie The Yeerk was telling the truth]]. That was what made it so terrible. It was true. I could feel Tom's complete, utter despair. I could feel that he had accepted defeat. I knew that all he wished for now was an end. |
| 225 | -->--''Literature/{{Animorphs}} #6: The Capture'' |
| 226 | |
| 227 | ->[[LastOfHisKind Lister]] spent the next few days [[HeroicBSOD going to pieces]]. |
| 228 | ->There seemed to be little point in getting dressed, and so he wandered around naked, [[DrowningMySorrows swigging from a bottle of whisky]]. |
| 229 | ->He didn't know what to do. |
| 230 | ->He didn't know if there was anything ''to'' do. |
| 231 | ->And worst of all, he didn't much care. |
| 232 | -->--''Literature/RedDwarf: Infinity Welcomes Careful Drivers'' |
| 233 | |
| 234 | ->[[BrokenMasquerade It was all real]] – it wasn't a dream or a psychotic hallucination — but they weren't going to let her have it. There was [[WizardingSchool a place out there]] that was so perfect and magical that it had made even [[{{Manchild}} Quentin]] happy. There wasn't just magic there, there was love too. Quentin was in love. But Julia wasn't. She was out in the cold. [[Franchise/HarryPotter Hogwarts was fully subscribed]], and her eligibility had lapsed. Hagrid's motorcycle would never rumble outside her front door. No creamy-enveloped letters would ever come flooding down her chimney. |
| 235 | ->She lay there, thinking, on the rich graveyard grass, before the tomb of some modest parishioner - Beloved Son, Husband, Father - and what she thought was this: she'd been right about almost everything. [[SoNearYetSoFar She'd gotten nearly full marks. A-minus again. Blew only one question.]] Here's the one thing I got wrong, she thought. I thought that they would never wear me down. |
| 236 | -->--''[[Literature/TheMagicians The Magician King]]'' |
| 237 | |
| 238 | ->''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.'' |
| 239 | -->-- '''Will Navidson''', ''Literature/HouseOfLeaves'' |
| 240 | |
| 241 | [[/folder]] |
| 242 | |
| 243 | [[folder:Live-Action TV]] |
| 244 | ->"I would like to see my brother."\ |
| 245 | "I'm sure he's very busy."\ |
| 246 | "Yes....[[BreakTheCutie yes.]]" |
| 247 | -->-- ''[[Series/{{Firefly}} The R. Tam Sessions]]'' |
| 248 | |
| 249 | ->''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.'' |
| 250 | -->-- '''Crow T. Robot''', ''Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000'', "[[Recap/MysteryScienceTheater3000S06E19RedZoneCuba Red Zone Cuba]]" |
| 251 | |
| 252 | ->''Once hope is gone, dying is just a formality.'' |
| 253 | -->--'''[[HopeCrusher "John Smith"]]''', ''Series/ColdCase'', "The Road" |
| 254 | |
| 255 | ->''[[ThatManIsDead Doctor no more]].'' |
| 256 | -->-- The first words of [[spoiler: the '''War Doctor''']], ''Series/DoctorWho'', "Night of the Doctor" |
| 257 | |
| 258 | ->'''Maritza Ramos''': I can't believe, of all people, that you're giving up! You are the stankass who pissed herself back at camp so the guards wouldn't touch you! Bitch, you stood on tables!\ |
| 259 | '''Blanca Flores''': That's not who I am anymore. I already had nothing. And now I have less than nothing because of you, dumbass!\ |
| 260 | '''Maritza Ramos''': Don't blame me because your boyfriend abandoned you! At least I'm trying!\ |
| 261 | '''Blanca Flores''': Well, stop! Stop trying! Stop hoping! Because look around you! Nobody is coming for us! ''(she sniffles)'' And it's not a fucking dove, you fucking idiot! It's a pigeon!\ |
| 262 | '''Maritza Ramos''': Okay. Pigeon, dove. It's the same fucking thing!\ |
| 263 | '''Blanca Flores''': No. It's not. Nobody gives a fuck about pigeons. |
| 264 | -->-- ''Series/OrangeIsTheNewBlack'', "And Brown Is The New Orange" |
| 265 | [[/folder]] |
| 266 | |
| 267 | |
| 268 | [[folder:Music]] |
| 269 | ->''Now I can't go on, I can't even start\ |
| 270 | I got nothing left, just an empty heart\ |
| 271 | I'm a soldier, wounded so I must give up the fight\ |
| 272 | There's nothing more for me, lead me away\ |
| 273 | Or leave me lying here'' |
| 274 | -->-- '''Music/BryanAdams,''' [[WesternAnimation/SpiritStallionOfTheCimarron "Remember Who You Are"]] |
| 275 | |
| 276 | ->''I need someone to show me the things in life that I can't find.\ |
| 277 | I can't see the things that make true happiness, I must be blind.'' |
| 278 | -->-- '''Music/BlackSabbath''', "Paranoid" |
| 279 | |
| 280 | ->''I just wanna sleep forever\ |
| 281 | I like it better when I dream\ |
| 282 | Želim zauvek da spavam[[note]]I want to sleep forever[[/note]]\ |
| 283 | Dok svet gori[[note]]As the world burns[[/note]].\ |
| 284 | I just wanna close my eyes\ |
| 285 | And just get it over with\ |
| 286 | Želim zauvek da spavam\ |
| 287 | Dok svet gori.'' |
| 288 | -->-- '''Luke Black''', "Samo Mi Se Spava" ([[UsefulNotes/{{Serbia}} Serbian]] entrant for the Recap/EurovisionSongContest2023) |
| 289 | |
| 290 | ->''Leave me alone.\ |
| 291 | God let me go.\ |
| 292 | I'm blue and cold.\ |
| 293 | Black sky will burn.\ |
| 294 | Love pull me down.\ |
| 295 | Hate lift me up.\ |
| 296 | Just turn around.\ |
| 297 | There's nothing left.'' |
| 298 | -->-- '''Music/BreakingBenjamin''', "Dear Agony" |
| 299 | |
| 300 | ->''She speaks no word to her doctor,\ |
| 301 | for fear her pain disgrace her kin. \ |
| 302 | For weeks she dared not sleep or dream.'' |
| 303 | -->-- '''Music/{{Cormorant}}''', "Junta" |
| 304 | |
| 305 | ->''Don't push me,\ |
| 306 | Cuz I'm close to the edge\ |
| 307 | I'm trying not to lose my head...'' |
| 308 | -->-- '''Music/GrandmasterFlashAndTheFuriousFive''', "Music/TheMessage" |
| 309 | |
| 310 | ->''I believe that the stars keep shining all through the night\ |
| 311 | I believe if we just keep trying, it'll be alright\ |
| 312 | I believe that someday we’re gonna find our way\ |
| 313 | And I believe in a beautiful day\ |
| 314 | I believe in lovers walking side by side\ |
| 315 | I believe that someday we’ll be satisfied\ |
| 316 | I believe the angels listen, God hears us pray\ |
| 317 | And I believe in a beautiful day\ |
| 318 | Yeah I believe it’s gonna work out okay\ |
| 319 | But not for me\ |
| 320 | and not for you.\ |
| 321 | ...Sometimes all our dreams just don't come true.'' |
| 322 | -->--'''Music/MellissaHollick,''' "I Believe" |
| 323 | |
| 324 | ->''No one but me can save myself, but it's too late\ |
| 325 | Now I can't think why I should even try.'' |
| 326 | -->-- '''Music/{{Metallica}}''', "Fade to Black" |
| 327 | |
| 328 | ->''This cannot be happening to me.\ |
| 329 | It's all wrong, just a dream. What have I done?\ |
| 330 | No hope, no way to get out of this.\ |
| 331 | Please just let me die now. I don't want this fate.\ |
| 332 | I don't want to be a hero anymore.\ |
| 333 | Can't breathe, can't do it, just let me fall.\ |
| 334 | We're all lost. Fighting enemies that don't exist.\ |
| 335 | And they turned us into this.'' |
| 336 | -->-- '''Music/{{Keldian}}''', "Never Existed" |
| 337 | |
| 338 | ->''Saw all of the saints\ |
| 339 | Lock up the gates\ |
| 340 | I could not enter\ |
| 341 | Walked into the flames\ |
| 342 | Called out your name\ |
| 343 | But there was no answer...\ |
| 344 | And now I know my heart is a [[TitleDrop ghost town]]'' |
| 345 | -->-- '''Music/AdamLambert''', "Ghost Town" |
| 346 | |
| 347 | ->''That little boy quit trying.\ |
| 348 | He just walked away.\ |
| 349 | There were teardrops on his face.\ |
| 350 | Tell me, how would you feel?\ |
| 351 | You'd probably give up too,\ |
| 352 | [[CassandraTruth If nobody believed in you.]]'' |
| 353 | -->-- '''Music/JoeNichols''', "If Nobody Believed In You" |
| 354 | |
| 355 | ->''When I was a child, I caught a fleeting glimpse.\ |
| 356 | Out of the corner of my eye.\ |
| 357 | I turned to look but it was gone.\ |
| 358 | I cannot put my finger on it now.\ |
| 359 | The child has grown, the dream has gone.\ |
| 360 | I have become [[TitleDrop comfortably numb]].'' |
| 361 | -->-- '''Music/PinkFloyd''', "Comfortably Numb" |
| 362 | |
| 363 | ->''This cruel country has driven me down.\ |
| 364 | Teased me and lied.\ |
| 365 | Teased me and lied.\ |
| 366 | I've only sad stories to tell to this town.\ |
| 367 | My dreams have withered and died.'' |
| 368 | -->-- '''Music/RichardThompson''', "Withered and Died" |
| 369 | |
| 370 | ->''So this is how it ends.\ |
| 371 | I promise to never go outside again.\ |
| 372 | Am I going crazy?\ |
| 373 | Would I even know?\ |
| 374 | Am I right back where I started fourteen years ago?\ |
| 375 | Wanna guess the ending? If it ever does...\ |
| 376 | I swear to God that all I've ever wanted was\ |
| 377 | a little bit of everything all of the time.\ |
| 378 | A bit of everything all of the time!\ |
| 379 | Apathy's a tragedy and boredom is a crime.\ |
| 380 | I'm finished playing and I'm staying inside.'' |
| 381 | -->-- '''Creator/BoBurnham''', [[Film/BoBurnhamInside "Goodbye"]] |
| 382 | |
| 383 | ->''What have I become?\ |
| 384 | My sweetest friend.\ |
| 385 | Everyone I know.\ |
| 386 | Goes away in the end.\ |
| 387 | And you could have it all.\ |
| 388 | My empire of dirt.\ |
| 389 | I will let you down.\ |
| 390 | I will make you hurt.'' |
| 391 | -->-- '''Music/NineInchNails''', "[[Music/TheDownwardSpiral Hurt]]" |
| 392 | |
| 393 | [[/folder]] |
| 394 | |
| 395 | [[folder:Radio]] |
| 396 | ->'''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 the transition and... 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. \ |
| 397 | '''Alexei Korolev:''' No! How can you say that?! You can't just throw any hope away! \ |
| 398 | '''Natalia Pushkin:''' ''Hope,'' Alexei? Look around you: [[ApocalypseHow/ClassX4 this is the end of existence]]. There is no place for hope here. |
| 399 | -->--''AudioPlay/BigFinishDoctorWho: [[Recap/BigFinishDoctorWho076Singularity Singularity]]'' |
| 400 | |
| 401 | ->Historians would later write: "The hope of mankind crumbled on this day." |
| 402 | -->-- ''[[VideoGame/GuiltyGear Guilty Gear XX Drama CD Side Red]]'', detailing mankind's response to [[spoiler:the death of Ky Kiske]]. |
| 403 | [[/folder]] |
| 404 | |
| 405 | [[folder:Tabletop Games]] |
| 406 | ->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 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. |
| 407 | -->--''[[TabletopGame/OldWorldOfDarkness Midnight Circus]]'' |
| 408 | |
| 409 | ->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. There is nothing new; just regret and impotence. [[DyingRace We are lost in the dark, and there is no morning.]] |
| 410 | -->-- '''Psychic reading of [[SpaceElves Eldar]] artifact''', ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000: Xenology'' |
| 411 | [[/folder]] |
| 412 | |
| 413 | [[folder:Theatre]] |
| 414 | ->''And now I'm on my own\ |
| 415 | Never again to wonder what's out there\ |
| 416 | Let it remain unknown\ |
| 417 | And my one human eye\ |
| 418 | Will evermore be dry\ |
| 419 | Until the day I die\ |
| 420 | As if I\ |
| 421 | Were made of stone'' |
| 422 | -->-- '''Quasimodo''', ''Der Glockner Von [[WesternAnimation/TheHunchbackofNotreDameDisney Notre Dame]]'', "Made of Stone" |
| 423 | |
| 424 | ->''I shall despair. There is no creature loves me;\ |
| 425 | And if I die no soul shall pity me.\ |
| 426 | Nay, wherefore should they? Since that I myself\ |
| 427 | Find in myself no pity to myself.'' |
| 428 | -->-- '''Theatre/RichardIII''' |
| 429 | [[/folder]] |
| 430 | |
| 431 | [[folder:Video Games]] |
| 432 | ->''He emerged from that hole in the ground, into a waking nightmare. Everything that wasn't gone was twisted upside down. The world was frozen, air thick with ash. What few faces he saw on the street stared back at him with gray and vacant eyes. He found his wife-to-be asleep in her home. But when he reached out to her, she joined with all the ashes in the sky.\ |
| 433 | And so Zulf returned to where he proposed in the Hanging Gardens. And there he stood, as if the gods would answer him.'' |
| 434 | -->--''Videogame/{{Bastion}}'' |
| 435 | |
| 436 | ->''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.]]'' |
| 437 | -->-- '''Sergeant Avitus''' after his treachery is exposed, ''VideoGame/DawnOfWar II: Chaos Rising'' |
| 438 | |
| 439 | ->''[[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?'' |
| 440 | -->-- '''Viscount Dumar''', ''VideoGame/DragonAgeII'' |
| 441 | |
| 442 | ->''Look at it all. Why don't they just drown us as infants? Why wait? Why give us the illusion of hope?'' |
| 443 | -->-- '''First Enchanter Orsino''', ''VideoGame/DragonAgeII'' |
| 444 | |
| 445 | ->Doesn't really care about anything anymore. |
| 446 | -->-- Appears in the profile of any sufficiently traumatized character in ''VideoGame/DwarfFortress''[[note]]Players actually ''try'' [[VideoGameCrueltyPotential to make their dwarves like this]], since such dwarves are much less likely to snap under pressure[[/note]] |
| 447 | |
| 448 | ->''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!'' |
| 449 | -->-- '''Ares''', ''VideoGame/GodOfWarI'' |
| 450 | |
| 451 | ->''The gods of Olympus have abandoned me. Now there is no hope.'' |
| 452 | -->--'''Kratos''', ''VideoGame/GodOfWarI'' |
| 453 | |
| 454 | ->'''Cynder:''' Fight back!... Why won't you fight back!\ |
| 455 | '''Spyro:''' [[TearJerker Because you've left me nothing to fight for...]] |
| 456 | -->-- ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfSpyroDawnOfTheDragon'', [[spoiler:after Malefor turns Spyro's girlfriend Cynder against him]] |
| 457 | |
| 458 | ->''Naught remains. Alone. Utterly alone. Cast out. Unloved. Outside the grace of gods.'' |
| 459 | -->-- '''Oersted''', ''VideoGame/LiveALive'' |
| 460 | |
| 461 | ->''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''...'' |
| 462 | -->-- '''TheMaster''' [[TalkingTheMonsterToDeath if you prove that his "master race" is sterile]], ''VideoGame/{{Fallout|1}}'' |
| 463 | |
| 464 | ->''I'm already a dead man. I don't sleep. Food has no taste. Some days... I just want it to be over.'' |
| 465 | -->-- '''Lantar Sidonis''', ''VideoGame/MassEffect2'' |
| 466 | |
| 467 | ->''[[StartOfDarkness Even since the day]] I killed [[ParentalSubstitute The Boss]]... with my own hands... I... was already dead.'' |
| 468 | -->-- '''Big Boss''', ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid4GunsOfThePatriots'' |
| 469 | |
| 470 | ->''Five years ago, [[NukeEm 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.'' |
| 471 | -->--'''[[spoiler:General Shepherd]]''', ''VideoGame/CallOfDutyModernWarfare2'' |
| 472 | |
| 473 | ->''The moment when someone loses all hope... [[MoralEventHorizon I really do love to watch that moment.]]'' |
| 474 | -->-- '''Ghetsis''', ''VideoGame/PokemonBlackAndWhite'' |
| 475 | |
| 476 | ->''Our time has passed, John.'' |
| 477 | -->-- '''[[TragicVillain Dutch Van Der Linde]]''', ''VideoGame/RedDeadRedemption'' |
| 478 | |
| 479 | ->''I do not care, Father! [[TheMourningAfter A world without her is empty]].. [[StrawNihilist A LIFE without her is empty.]]'' |
| 480 | -->-- '''[[spoiler:Count Blumiere]]''', before [[spoiler:becoming [[BigBad Count Bleck]]]], ''VideoGame/SuperPaperMario'' |
| 481 | |
| 482 | ->''It seems in the end... that I... was the greatest fool of all...'' |
| 483 | -->-- [[spoiler:'''[[WellIntentionedExtremist Alexei Dinoia]]''']], ''VideoGame/TalesOfVesperia'' |
| 484 | |
| 485 | ->''I... Used to be so beautiful...'' |
| 486 | -->-- '''[[BrokenBird Dollface]]''', ''VideoGame/TwistedMetal'' |
| 487 | |
| 488 | ->''I looked into the eyes of [[OmnicidalManiac the dragon]]... and despaired.'' |
| 489 | -->-- '''Archibishop Benedictus''', ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft: Cataclysm'' |
| 490 | |
| 491 | ->There can be no hope in this hell. No hope at all. |
| 492 | -->--'''The Narrator''', ''Videogame/DarkestDungeon'', upon a hero gaining the Hopeless affliction. |
| 493 | |
| 494 | ->''Suffer not the lame horse, nor the broken man.''\ |
| 495 | ''Another soul battered and broken, cast aside like a spent torch.''\ |
| 496 | ''Slumped shoulders, wild eyes, and a stumbling gait — this one is no more good to us.'' |
| 497 | -->--'''The Ancestor''', ''Videogame/DarkestDungeon'', when dismissing heroes driven mad with despair |
| 498 | |
| 499 | ->A blade can be sharpened. Armor mended. The soul is forever shattered.\ |
| 500 | I would rest these bones in a cool dark grave.\ |
| 501 | I need... help. Please. |
| 502 | -->-- '''The heroes''', ''VideoGame/DarkestDungeon'', [[spoiler: after they visit the Darkest Dungeon]] |
| 503 | |
| 504 | ->'''Dismas:''' Who was I kidding, playing at heroics...\ |
| 505 | '''Paracelsus:''' What good is dominion over death?! Far worse awaits me!\ |
| 506 | '''Sarmenti:''' I LISTENED to you all! I DARED to hope...! |
| 507 | -->-- ''VideoGame/DarkestDungeonII'', when characters suffer a Meltdown. |
| 508 | |
| 509 | ->''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. '' |
| 510 | -->--'''Dredgen Yor''', ''Videogame/{{Destiny}}'' |
| 511 | |
| 512 | ->'''The Soldier:''' What drives a man to [[MadScientist such madness]]?\ |
| 513 | '''The Archer:''' To be tested... and to fail. |
| 514 | -->-- ''VideoGame/{{Overwatch}}'', "Junkenstein's Revenge" |
| 515 | |
| 516 | ->''It wasn't the [[ElectricTorture torture]] that broke me. It wasn't the [[BehavioralConditioning indoctrination]]. It was ''time.'' Time rots everything, Booker... even hope.'' |
| 517 | -->--[[spoiler: '''Elizabeth Comstock,''']] ''VideoGame/BioshockInfinite'' |
| 518 | |
| 519 | ->''O' Architect! Is this [[CrapsackWorld the world]] that you intended?'' |
| 520 | -->--[[spoiler: '''Amalthus''']], after witnessing a soldier whose life he saved killing and stealing from an innocent family, ''VideoGame/XenobladeChronicles2'' |
| 521 | |
| 522 | ->''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!'' |
| 523 | -->-- '''Malos''', ''VideoGame/XenobladeChronicles2'' |
| 524 | |
| 525 | ->''I don't wanna go back out there...''I can't do this anymore... |
| 526 | -->-- '''[[DentedIron B.J. Blazkowics]]''', ''VideoGame/WolfensteinIITheNewColossus'' |
| 527 | |
| 528 | ->''[[ArcWords The last of the Goo Balls]] were...\ |
| 529 | uh oh...\ |
| 530 | [[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.'' |
| 531 | -->-- [[spoiler: '''The Telescope Operator''', formerly known as '''[[TheNarrator The Sign Painter]]''']], ''VideoGame/WorldOfGoo'' |
| 532 | |
| 533 | ->His eyes meet yours when you look up from the page. [[DullEyesOfUnhappiness They are dull as old iron]]. "I am done, sir. I am done. I have one last thing to ask of you." The truth has broken him. He buries his face in his hands. "Even if I could remember, I would not want to. But it is only a matter of time until this-" he runs a finger over [[PowerTattoo his sigil]] "-[[LaserGuidedAmnesia takes something I can't do without]]. Maybe I will forget how to breathe. Or which way is north. Perhaps I will strand us all at zee again and [[NoPartyLikeADonnerParty it'll be oaths of silence and straws in the dark]]. Be rid of me, sir. Put me ashore somewhere I can be forgotten." |
| 534 | -->--The '''Sigil-Ridden Navigator,''' after reading his own confession, ''VideoGame/SunlessSea'' |
| 535 | |
| 536 | ->''[[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]]..."'' |
| 537 | -->--[[spoiler: '''[[VideoGame/ThePark Lorraine Mailard]]''']], ''VideoGame/TheSecretWorld'' |
| 538 | |
| 539 | ->''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.'' |
| 540 | -->--'''Hespith,''' ''VideoGame/DragonAgeOrigins'' |
| 541 | |
| 542 | ->''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.'' |
| 543 | -->--'''The Pyromaniac''', ''VideoGame/{{Outlast}}'' |
| 544 | |
| 545 | ->''[[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 [[LastOfTheirKind the last people left alive]]. The last moments of mankind... '' |
| 546 | -->--'''Emma Alvaro,''' ''VideoGame/{{SOMA}}'' |
| 547 | |
| 548 | ->''I AM HOLLOW.'' |
| 549 | ->''MY MISTAKES LEAVE NOTHING BUT HATE IN THEIR WAKE, AND INFINITE PAIN TO FOLLOW...'' |
| 550 | ->''I CAN'T TAKE MORE OF THIS GUILT AND REGRET, FOR ME THERE IS NO TOMORROW.'' |
| 551 | ->''I AM HOLLOW.'' |
| 552 | -->-- '''Testament V''', implied to be written by [[spoiler:God himself]], ''Videogame/{{ULTRAKILL}}'' |
| 553 | |
| 554 | ->''"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..."'' |
| 555 | -->-- '''Hank Anderson''', ''VideoGame/DetroitBecomeHuman'' |
| 556 | |
| 557 | ->''"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!"'' |
| 558 | -->-- '''[[spoiler:Eve]]''', ''VideoGame/NierAutomata'' |
| 559 | |
| 560 | ->''"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..."'' |
| 561 | -->-- '''[[spoiler:Corrupted Slykaar]]''', ''VideoGame/{{Wynncraft}}'' |
| 562 | |
| 563 | ->''"I know... in my bones... A Tarnished cannot become a Lord. Not even you. A man cannot kill a god..."'' |
| 564 | -->--'''Sir Gideon Ofnir, the All-Knowing''', ''Videogame/EldenRing'' |
| 565 | [[/folder]] |
| 566 | |
| 567 | [[folder:Visual Novels]] |
| 568 | ->''[[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...]]\ |
| 569 | ...\ |
| 570 | '''I have no idea what's wrong with me!''''' |
| 571 | -->--'''Rin Tekuza''', ''VisualNovel/KatawaShoujo'' |
| 572 | [[/folder]] |
| 573 | |
| 574 | [[folder:Web Animation]] |
| 575 | |
| 576 | -> '''Kevin:''' This story comes to no good end. [[BeingEvilSucks I cannot follow my dreams. I must scrounge to stay alive or sane, I... I cannot remain human any longer]]. My only hope is to embrace a shadow of this dream, to embrace the Beast, [[IJustWantToBeFree and hope freedom is on the other side]]. |
| 577 | -> '''Big-D:''' Freedom never comes through surrender. |
| 578 | -> '''Kevin:''' Perhaps not. But it's the only chance I have left. |
| 579 | -->-- ''WebAnimation/HunterTheParenting'' |
| 580 | [[/folder]] |
| 581 | |
| 582 | [[folder:Webcomics]] |
| 583 | ->[[UnsoundEffect HOPESPLODE!]] |
| 584 | -->-- ''Webcomic/{{Homestuck}}'', sums it up in a single word |
| 585 | |
| 586 | ->''As the Prince of Hope, I am uniquely qualified to recognize [[VerbalTic wwhen]] all hope is lost.'' |
| 587 | -->-- '''Eridan Ampora''', ''Webcomic/{{Homestuck}}'' |
| 588 | [[/folder]] |
| 589 | |
| 590 | [[folder:Web Original]] |
| 591 | ->(Raises his head sobbing) Literature/WitchAndWizard''... [[CriticBreakdown 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) |
| 592 | -->-- '''Furious Literature Geek''' [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RVdZxMBHRaE&t=323s reviewing ''Witch & wizard'']] |
| 593 | |
| 594 | ->''[[VideoGame/ProjectSpark All is lost...]]'' |
| 595 | -->-- '''WebVideo/JonTron''', [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1t_Co0gfj18 "CONKER IS TOTALLY BACK GUYS"]] |
| 596 | |
| 597 | ->''Well, [[Creator/FriedrichNietzsche Nietzsche]] was right. [[GodIsDead Dead as a doornail.]]'' |
| 598 | -->-- '''Mike Nelson''' in the Podcast/{{Rifftrax}} for ''Film/TheStarWarsHolidaySpecial'' |
| 599 | |
| 600 | ->''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.]]'' |
| 601 | -->-- '''Creator/TheSportsGuy''' explains what it takes to be a "fully tortured" team |
| 602 | |
| 603 | ->(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]]) |
| 604 | -->-- '''Yahtzee''' reviews ''VideoGame/SpecOpsTheLine'', ''WebAnimation/ZeroPunctuation'' |
| 605 | |
| 606 | ->In the event of an [[ApocalypseHow unsuccessful Action 10-Israfil-B]], no further action will be necessary. |
| 607 | -->--''Website/SCPFoundation''[[labelnote:*]]Bear in mind, the aforementioned action means destroying an alternate universe with the relevant SCP inside. If ''that'' doesn't work, even [[{{Determinator}} the Foundation]] would just give up[[/labelnote]] |
| 608 | |
| 609 | ->''Nothing will make me feel better! Even the victory will be bittersweet!'' |
| 610 | -->--'''[[Creator/{{Egoraptor}} Arin Hanson]]''', ''WebVideo/GameGrumps'' |
| 611 | |
| 612 | ->Well, it took 11,000 years but something has finally ground down whatever optimism Rose had left. I guess its been a rough couple of months for her. Finding out your fiancee isn’t dead, also he’s evil, and by the way, your fuck up basically doomed the planet, has to be pretty rough. |
| 613 | ->It's pretty interesting that its a lot more common for RPG characters to [[CharacterDevelopment start off horribly flawed but find their way forward]]. But in this case the humanity of the party has kind of broken what was left of Rose. So long [[TheAloner she's basically been all alone]]. Now she has people look up to her and respect her and its a lot easier to see [[TheWoobie she's on the edge of a cliff]] and it's a long fall down. She's no longer the confident, experienced party member guiding us on. She's just hoping she can make it to the end before the last hammer blow falls and shatters what's left. |
| 614 | -->--'''[[https://lparchive.org/The-Legend-of-Dragoon/Update%2056/ Lets Play Archive]],''' on the final act of ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfDragoon'' |
| 615 | |
| 616 | -> ''I-I I think I've stopped caring? I've become this, like, nihilistic shit-lord...That I'm just like, eh, I know my computer's suffering, but...meh..." |
| 617 | -->-- '''Joel''' of ''WebVideo/{{Vinesauce}}'', ''Windows XP Destruction'' |
| 618 | |
| 619 | ->''"Every single day, Dream would come here, and he would erase my progress. He would erase, quite frankly, any will to live, that I used to have. And every day, I'd think maybe it'd get better! May– maybe there'd be hope, that people would show up at the party. Maybe Ghostbur would... would start seeing me again. And every day, a little bit of that hope left. And left. And left. [[DrivenToSuicide 'Till I broke]]."'' |
| 620 | -->-- '''Tommy''', ''WebVideo/DreamSMP'' |
| 621 | [[/folder]] |
| 622 | |
| 623 | [[folder:Western Animation]] |
| 624 | ->''I can't keep pushing this down any deeper\ |
| 625 | Why do I keep trying if I can't keep her?'' |
| 626 | -->-- '''Finn''' singing "All Gummed Up Inside," ''WesternAnimation/AdventureTime'' |
| 627 | |
| 628 | ->'''Bill:''' What's wrong?\ |
| 629 | '''Cricket:''' I tried, Dad, but I just couldn't get into ''Lil' Abe'', either! Maybe the problem isn't books, it's me and my stimuli-chasin' brain.\ |
| 630 | '''Bill:''' Don't give up on yourself just yet. We can come back another day and try again.\ |
| 631 | '''Cricket:''' Yeah, I guess... Let's go home. |
| 632 | -->-- ''WesternAnimation/BigCityGreens'', "Quiet Please" |
| 633 | |
| 634 | ->''[[HeroicBSOD I]] ''[[HeroicBSOD did]]'' [[HeroicBSOD love being a hero.]] But if ''[[GoodIsImpotent this]]'' is where it leads, [[ThenLetMeBeEvil I'm done with it]].'' |
| 635 | -->-- '''[[FallenHero Justice Lord!Superman]]''' right before his StartOfDarkness, ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague'', [[Recap/JusticeLeagueS2E11And12ABetterWorld "A Better World"]] |
| 636 | |
| 637 | ->''Now if you'll excuse me, I need to take my last bathroom break as an employed man.'' |
| 638 | -->-- '''Benson''', ''WesternAnimation/RegularShow'', [[Recap/RegularShowS03Ep26BustedCart "Busted Cart"]] |
| 639 | |
| 640 | ->''Who ''cares'' anymore?! There's [[PortalToThePast no way home]]! There's nothing to fight for!'' |
| 641 | -->--'''[[EnemyWithin Inner Jack]]''', ''WesternAnimation/SamuraiJack'' |
| 642 | |
| 643 | ->''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.'' |
| 644 | -->--'''Jack''', ''WesternAnimation/SamuraiJack'' |
| 645 | |
| 646 | ->''I'm sorry, Master, but I'm not coming back...'' |
| 647 | -->--'''Ahsoka Tano''', [[OffTheTable declining Anakin's offer to rejoin the Jedi Order]], ''WesternAnimation/StarWarsTheCloneWars'', [=S5E20=], "The Wrong Jedi" |
| 648 | |
| 649 | ->''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!]]'' |
| 650 | -->-- '''Steven Universe''' just seconds before his [[TransformationHorror corruption]], ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverseFuture'', "Everything's Fine" |
| 651 | |
| 652 | -> ''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* |
| 653 | -->--'''[[DramaQueen Hudson Horstachio]]''', ''WesternAnimation/VivaPinata'' |
| 654 | |
| 655 | [[/folder]] |
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