1 | ->''"There is a vessel in your world where the days of my life are pressed together like the chapters of a book so that he may step from one to the other without increase of age, while I, weary traveller, must always take [[TropeNamers the slower path]]."'' |
2 | -->-- '''Madame de Pompadour''', ''Series/DoctorWho'', [[Recap/DoctorWhoS28E4TheGirlInTheFireplace "The Girl in the Fireplace"]] |
3 | |
4 | ->''"I need you to [[WriteBackToTheFuture take a message]] to Sally Sparrow. And I'm sorry Billy, I am very, very sorry ... it's going to take you a while."'' |
5 | -->-- '''10th Doctor''', ''Series/DoctorWho'', [[Recap/DoctorWhoS29E10Blink "Blink"]] |
6 | |
7 | ->''"Is this how time normally passes? Reaaally slowwlly? In the right order?"'' |
8 | -->-- '''11th Doctor''', ''Series/DoctorWho'', [[Recap/DoctorWhoS31E10VincentAndTheDoctor "Vincent and the Doctor"]] |
9 | |
10 | ->''"So, I've just had the most infuriating 77 years of my life."'' |
11 | -->-- '''[[spoiler:The Master''']], ''Series/DoctorWho'', [[Recap/DoctorWhoS38E1E2Spyfall "Spyfall"]] |
12 | |
13 | ->'''Fry:''' What was it like, lying in that hole for a thousand years?\ |
14 | '''Bender:''' I was enjoying it until you guys showed up! |
15 | -->-- ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'', "[[Recap/FuturamaS3E19RoswellThatEndsWell Roswell That Ends Well]]" |
16 | |
17 | ->'''ComicBook/ThePhantomStranger:''' But we have no other choice. Can ''you'' travel into the future, John Constantine?\ |
18 | '''[[ComicBook/{{Hellblazer}} John Constantine]]:''' Only like everyone else, boss. You know. One minute at a time. |
19 | -->-- ''ComicBook/TheBooksOfMagic'' |
20 | |
21 | ->''"I've got a TimeMachine at home. It only goes forward at regular speed."'' |
22 | -->-- '''Creator/DemetriMartin''' |
23 | |
24 | ->'''Omi:''' The only way I could get to the future was by waiting, so that's what I did!\ |
25 | '''Clay:''' You... waited?\ |
26 | '''Dojo:''' For fifteen hundred years?\ |
27 | '''Kimiko:''' But you don't have wrinkles or liver spots!\ |
28 | '''Jack:''' Or that "old person" smell. |
29 | -->-- ''WesternAnimation/XiaolinShowdown'' |
30 | |
31 | ->''"The first ten million years were the worst; and the second ten million years, they were the worst too. The third ten million I didn't enjoy at all. After that I went into a bit of a decline."'' |
32 | -->-- '''Marvin''', ''Literature/TheRestaurantAtTheEndOfTheUniverse'' |
33 | |
34 | ->'''Franchise/{{Superman}}:''' How did you get [[BadFuture here]]?\ |
35 | '''ComicBook/VandalSavage:''' The old-fashioned way. I'm immortal. |
36 | -->-- ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague'', "[[Recap/JusticeLeagueS2E19And20Hereafter Hereafter]]" |
37 | |
38 | ->''"That wasn't so bad. I'm hardly insane at all from the aeons of isolation and blind, '''seething''' rage."'' |
39 | -->-- '''Sarda''', ''Webcomic/EightBitTheater'' |
40 | |
41 | ->''"The oven doesn't really have any magical time properties to be negated. It just travels into the future at a rate of one second per second, like everyone else."'' |
42 | -->-- ''Webcomic/{{Homestuck}}'' |
43 | |
44 | ->'''Tucker:''' But what about Church, idiots? How are we going to get him from the Past to the Future?\ |
45 | '''Grif:''' I guess he can just wait. That's how it usually works. |
46 | -->-- ''WebAnimation/RedVsBlue'' |
47 | |
48 | ->'''Gary:''' [[AC:Do you have a plan yet?]]\ |
49 | '''Church:''' I've been standing in this hallway thinking for a thousand years. I've had time. |
50 | -->-- ''WebAnimation/RedVsBlue'' |
51 | |
52 | ->''Well, I had to get to the future the hard way! [[CrapsackWorld Living through the... filth! The decay! And the bloodshed!]]'' |
53 | -->-- '''Vault Tec Rep''', ''VideoGame/Fallout4'' |
54 | |
55 | ->''[[TimeAbyss So many lives, it's become a blur. I don't know who I am anymore, only that I must sail onward; ever-onward down the river of time.]] Never resting, always moving, further draining my Nanite reserves beyond my ability to replenish. [[SuperPersistentPredator At each re-emergence I am pursued by the nameless force...]] '''I now know it's personal.''' I am a virus; an ''infection'' of Space-Time. [[ClockRoaches Call it what you like, this is Times' Antibody!]] And whether I am borne home or drowned in its' currents: this is my final journey...'' |
56 | -->-- '''Van Kleiss''', ''WesternAnimation/GeneratorRex'' |
57 | |
58 | ->'''Man''': This is shell of time-travelling device. Power source is from future. So not invented yet. So boring.\ |
59 | '''Victor''': Well, do you have any other way for us to get to the future?\ |
60 | '''Man''': Yes! Live very long time! Future come without machine! |
61 | -->-- ''ComicBook/{{Runaways}}'' |
62 | |
63 | ->'''Superman''': I was so afraid that I'd never see you again!\ |
64 | '''ComicBook/LoisLane''': What? Why? I mean... I worried when you disappeared, babe, but that was just a couple of hours ago!\ |
65 | '''Superman''': Is that all? Hard to believe... it was nearly five months for me.\ |
66 | '''Lois''': Five '''months'''?! |
67 | -->-- ''ComicBook/ActionComics #665'' |
68 | |
69 | ->''"I don't travel through time. Time travels through me."'' |
70 | -->-- '''[[TimeAbyss Arteche]]''', ''Series/TheMinistryOfTime'' |
71 | |
72 | ->'''Max:''' You... JERKS! |
73 | ->'''Sam:''' You made us go through the last year and a half all over again! |
74 | -->--''[[VideoGame/SamAndMaxFreelancePolice Sam and Max]] to their past selves, [=S2E4=] Chariot of the Dogs'' |
75 | |
76 | ->'''Mineru:''' There are stories about the secret stones and a forbidden act called draconification. "To swallow a secret stone is to become an immortal dragon, one blessed with eternal life." |
77 | ->'''Rauru:''' Interesting. Another way to reach the future... [[LampshadeHanging though not a very quick one]]. |
78 | -->--''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTearsOfTheKingdom'' |
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