Quotes / Metal Gear Solid V

aka: Metal Gear Solid V Ground Zeroes

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Character Quotes

"Your favorite song... Nicola, Bart - immigrants, wrongly executed... But their deaths served as a message to others: that ours is a society that murders the innocent. Do you, too, believe that your sacrifice will change the world?"

— Skull Face

"You've been in a coma for... quite some time. Yes, yes, I know. You would like to know how long. I'm afraid it's been... nine years."

— Dr. Evangelos Constantinou

"Now go! Let the Legend come back to life!"

— Ocelot

Snake: Kaz, it's me.
Miller: Snake...? What took you so long?

"Snake. Why are we still here? Just to suffer? Every night, I can feel my leg... and my arm... even my fingers. The body I've lost... the comrades I've lost... won't stop hurting... It's like they're all still there. You feel it, too, don't you? I'm the one who got caught up with Cipher. A group above nations... even the U.S. And I was the parasite below, feeding off Zero's power. They came after you in Cyprus... Then Afghanistan... Cipher... just keeps growing. Swallowing everything in its path... Getting bigger and bigger... Who knows how big now? (...) Boss. I'm gonna make them give back our past! Take back everything that we've lost! And I won't rest... until we do!"

— Kazuhira Miller

"Just one thing, Kaz... This isn't about the past...We're fighting for the future."

— Punished "Venom" Snake

"We pull in money, recruits, just to combat Cipher. Rubbing our noses in bloody battlefield dirt. All for revenge."

— Kazuhira Miller

Kazuhira Miller: A Visionary robbed of his Future
Quiet: A Sniper deprived of her Words
Eli: A Youth who Curses his Fate
Skull Face: A Ghost without a Past
Emmerich: A Technocrat who Stands his Ground
Ocelot: A Rival living a Lie
Code Talker: A Wise Man denied his Homeland
Those who "Don't Exist"
Punished Snake: A Fallen Legend

— Red Band Trailer

"The world calls for wet-work, and we answer! No greater good. No just cause!"

— Kazuhira Miller

"Word is that the Hamid fighters at Da Smasei Laman have been annihilated. It seems there were civilians among them, too. There are rumors within our forces that it was our handiwork. These rumors are utterly false. My comrades. The orders we receive are absolute. We stay true to the mission. If they tell us "Burn the village," we burn it. To crush the dushman, for the Motherland. But remember this: Never does that include murdering civilians. If we drag them into this, their resentment will only worsen this conflict. If a superior told me to kill a civilian... I would kill him instead. For that I am prepared. And I hope you all are, too. If you agree with me, make yourself known."

— Soviet Commander of Da Shago Kallai, Episode 3: A Hero's Way

"It is just a dream. It is all a dream. I am in it, and you are in it too. I am the dreamer, but you are having my dream. Do you get it now? You do, don't you? Peace Day never came ... Our wishes do not come true. We just cling on to our dreams, our phantoms. Mine and yours."

— Paz

"We hold our rifles in missing hands. We stand tall on missing legs. We stride forward on the bones of our fallen. Then, and only then, are we alive. This "Pain" is ours and no one else's. A secret weapon we wield, out of sight. We will be stronger than ever. For our peace... Still, It doesn't feel like this is over..."

— Kazuhira Miller

"I won't scatter your sorrow to the heartless sea. I will always be with you, plant your roots in me. I won't see you end as ashes. You're all diamonds... We are Diamond Dogs."

— Punished "Venom" Snake

Miller: Cipher sent us to hell - but we're going even deeper - take back everything that we've lost!
Snake: I know. I'm already a demon...Heaven's not my kind of place, anyway.

Kaz: We've expanded our housing. They'll have their own quarters. Separate from ours, won't be counted as staff.
Snake: So what, we're running a daycare now?
Kaz: They'll learn how to read and write; do basic jobs.
Snake: A chance at a real life... just not from behind a gun.
Kaz: Being behind a gun is what we do, Boss. There's no room for angels in our heaven.
Snake: Yeah...

— A conversation after the rescued war orphans are brought to base

"He mentioned something interesting: Cipher is pursuing new research. He claims that what they're doing in Africa is the missing piece... A weapon to surpass Metal Gear."

— Ocelot

"I was born in a small village. I was still a child when we were raided by soldiers. Foreign soldiers. Torn from my elders, I was made to speak their language. With each new post my masters changed. Along with the words they made me speak. With each change, I changed too. My thoughts, personality, how I saw right and wrong. Words - can - kill."

— Skull Face

"This world will become one; I have found the way. Race, tribal affiliations, national borders... Even our faces will be irrelevant. The world that The Boss envisioned will finally become a reality and it will make mankind whole again."

— Zero

"America is a country of liberty. A meeting of immigrants. Instead of simply assimilating, its citizens live alongside others. So the Major sought a system that used information, words, to control the subconscious."

— Skull Face

"In his eyes, the greatest symbiotic parasite the world's ever known isn't microbial. It's linguistic. Words are what keeps civilization, our world, alive. Free the world, not by taking men's lives but by taking their tongues."

— Ocelot

"We live and die by your order, Boss"

— Infected Soldier, before being executed by the Boss

"You too have known loss, and that loss torments you still. You hope hatred might someday replace the pain, but it never goes away. It makes a man hideous, inside and out. Wouldn't you agree? We both are demons. Our humanity won't return."

— Skull Face

"Les Enfants Terribles ... Zero called it."

— Punished "Venom" Snake

"Such a lust for revenge... WHOOOOOO?!"

— Skull Face

"The inspection was nothing but a smokescreen...I heard explosions then...RRGH! They played us LIKE A DAMN FIDDLE!!"

— Kazuhira Miller

Now do you remember? Who you are? What you were meant to do? I cheated death, thanks to you. And thanks to you, I've left my mark. You have too. You've written your own history. You're your own man. I'm Big Boss, and you are too. No... he's the two of us together. Where we are today, we built it. This story, this legend; it's ours. We can change the world, and with it, the future. I am you, and you are me. Carry that with you wherever you go. Thank you, my friend. From here on out... you're Big Boss.

— Big Boss

I haven't forgotten what you told me, Boss. We have no tomorrow: but there's still hope for the future. In our struggle to survive the present, we push the future farther away. Will I see it in my lifetime? Probably not. Which means there's no time to waste. Someday the world will no longer need us: no need for the gun, or the hand to pull the trigger. I have to drag out the demon inside me, build a better future. That's what I— what we will leave as our legacy. Another mission, right Boss?

— Punished "Venom" Snake

It's just a machine...

— Huey Emmerich, immediately prior to being revealed as a lying heap of trash by his late wife's last will and testament

I did not choose to be Quiet. I wanted to express my feelings to you. If only we shared a common tongue. Vengeance was what drove me to them... The only language left to me, revenge. But the words we shared... No, that was no language at all. That's why I... I chose the language of gratitude instead, and go back to silence. I am Quiet... I am... the absence of words.

— Quiet's recorded farewell

Song Lyrics

Here's To You

Here's to you, Nicola and Bart
Rest forever here in our hearts
The last and final moment is yours
That agony is your triumph
[verse repeated seven more times]

— Here's To You - Joan Baez

Not Your Kind of People

We are not your kind of people
You seem kind of phoney
Everything's a lie
We are not your kind of people
Something in your makeup
Don't see eye to eye

We are not your kind of people
Don't want to be like you
Ever in our lives
We are not your kind of people
We fight when you start talking
There's nothing but white noise

Ahhh... Ahhh... Ahhh... Ahhh...

Running around trying to fit in
Wanting to be loved
It doesn't take much
For someone to shut you down
When you build a shell
Build an army in your mind
You can't sit still
And you don't like hanging round the crowd
They don't understand

You dropped by as I was sleeping
You came to see the whole commotion
And when I woke I started laughing
The jokes on me for not believing

We are not your kind of people
Speak a different language
We see through your lies
We are not your kind of people
Won't be cast as demons
Creatures you despise

We are extraordinary people
We are extraordinary people
We are extraordinary people
We are extraordinary people
— Not Your Kind of People - Garbage

Sins of the Father

Blind in the deepest night
Reaching out, grasping for a fleeting memory
All the thoughts keep piercing this broken mind
I fall but I'm still standing motionless

Far in the distance
There is light; a light that burns these scars of old
All this pain, reminds me of what I am
I'll live, I'll become all I need to be

Words that kill
Would you speak them to me?
With your breath so still,
It makes me believe
In the Father's sins
Let me suffer now and never die
I'm alive

Pride feeds their blackened hearts
And the thirst, must be quenched, to fuel hypocrisy
Cleansing flames, is the only way to repent
Renounce, what made you

Words that kill
Would you speak them to me?
With your breath so still,
It makes me believe

The Sins never die
Can't wash this blood off our hands
Let the world fear us all
It's just means to an end

Our salvation lies (in the Father's sins)
Beyond the truth (Let me suffer now)

In my heart I just know that there's no way to light up the dark
In his eyes...
— Sins of the Father - Donna Burke

Nuclear

Standing on the edge of the crater
Like the prophets once said
And the ashes are all cold now
No more bullets, and the embers are dead

Whispers in the air tell the tales
Of the brothers gone
Desolation, devastation
What a mess we made when it all went wrong

Watching from the edge of the circus
For the games to begin
Gladiators draw their swords
Form their ranks for Armageddon

I'm Nuclear
I'm wild
I'm breaking up inside
A heart of broken glass
Defiled
Deep inside
The abandoned child

Standing on the edge of the underworld
Looking at the abyss
And I'm hoping for some miracle
To break out, to escape from all this

Whispers in the air tell the tale
Of a life that's gone
Desolation, devastation
What a mess we made when it all went wrong

I'm Nuclear
I'm wild
I'm breaking up inside
A heart of broken glass
Defiled
Deep inside
The abandoned child

I'm Nuclear
I'm wild
I'm breaking up inside
A heart of broken glass
Defiled
Deep inside
The abandoned child

Deep inside the abandoned child
— Nuclear - Mike Oldfield

Quiet's Theme

Birds... in the sky
Carry... these words for me
Life... tasted sweet
It let me live
Let me breathe
Love... hurt so bad
But still... saved my soul
Flowers of... our brighter past
They bloomed so free
Beneath the sun

Memories...
I want to give them to you...
So you can see...
What we left there...

When all hope bleeds out,
what remains is doubt
Should've left it all for you
for tomorrow...

As your time draws near,
will you live in fear?
Could've left it all for you,
but we let go...
— Quiet's Theme - Stefanie Joosten

The Man Who Sold The World

We passed upon the stair.
We spoke of "was" and "when".
Although I wasn't there,
he said I was his friend,
which came as some surprise.
I spoke into his eyes,
"I thought you died alone
a long, long time ago."

"Oh no! Not me!
I never lost control.
You're face to face
with The Man Who Sold The World."

I laughed and shook his hand
and made my way back home.
I searched for form and land.
For years and years I roamed.
I gazed a gazely stare
at all the millions here.
We must have died alone
a long, long time ago.

Who knows? Not me!
We never lost control.
You're face to face
with The Man Who Sold The World.

Who knows? Not me!
We never lost control.
You're face to face
with The Man Who Sold The World.
— The Man Who Sold The World - David Bowie (Midge Ure Cover)

A Phantom Pain

I'm searching for a whole new beginning
An endless void
This notion that I sense within me

You're still by my side

Oh, I feel your presence
You'll never leave here
But if I reach out there to hold you
Every part that's real disappears

As I become more present now
I can't see through the pain
A hollow cut through my veins
(the phantom takes his toll)

The days that just keep on coming
The stain that they leave
I wish I could break this casket
But I'm left here to grieve
In a world of my own design

As I become more present now
I can't see through the pain
A hollow cut through my veins
(the shadows takes their toll)
And did you leave me anything?
You're the phantom of my past...
Do you expect me to last, this way?
(a scar and a phantom pain)

— A Phantom Pain - Ludvig Forssell

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