This is a great thread of deep quotes that come from unexpected modern pop culture media. For the first example, you wouldn’t expect such a raw line from a video game like Halo, but here we are. There’s lots of other great examples from video games, movies, celebs, and more. This list really proves that art isn’t just fine art:
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“Humans need fantasy to be human. To be the place where the falling angel meets the rising ape.” Terry Pratchett, Hogfather.
“Sometimes a hypocrite is nothing more than a man in the process of changing.” -Brandon Sanderson, Oathbringer
“Other men, as they age, merely grow stranger. I fear that I am one of those. I am the bones of a foreign species left drying on the plain that was once, long ago, a sea. A curiosity, perhaps a reminder, that all has not always been as it is now.” -Also Brandon Sanderson, Oathbringer
”I’ve seen so many young men over the years who think they’re running at other young men. They are not. They’re running at me.” -Death, The Book Thief, Markus Zusak
“This is how liberty dies. With thunderous applause,” Padme Amidala, Revenge of the Sith
“It is a quiet thing to fall, but far more terrible to admit it.”
-Darth Kreia, KOTOR II
I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.-
Bene Gesserit Litany Against Fear, Dune
“Sometimes the only choices you have are bad ones, but you still have to choose” -The Doctor
“There’s no point in being grown up if you can’t be childish sometimes.”
The strength to stand alone is the strength to take a stand – Rost Horizon Zero Dawn
“Stand amongst the ashes of a trillion dead souls, and ask the ghosts if honor matters. The silence is your answer.” – Javik (Mass Effect 2)
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“You are, who you choose to be. You chose.”
-The Iron Giant
“Man cannot be freed by the same injustice that enslaved it.”
Darrow O’ Lykos
Red Rising
Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.
-Salvor Hardin
If violence wasn’t your last resort, you failed to resort to enough of it.
Schlock Mercenary
“I won’t let fear compromise who I am.” – Commander Shepard, Mass Effect 2
“It is a quiet thing to fall, but far more terrible to admit it.”
-Darth Kreia, KOTOR II
You are, at the moment, the luckiest person in Whitestone. Do you know why? Because you’re at the bottom of my List.
“…I would offer a gift. I think it has been a long time since anyone has pointed out to you that you are a fool. Pain doesn’t make people; it’s love that makes people. The pain is inconsequential; it’s love that saves them. And you would know that, but you have none around you. You said so yourself, you surround yourself with lies and deceptions. And I wish for you in the future to find someone who will mourn you when you are gone. Respectfully.”
– Caduceus Clay, Critical Role Campaign 2, Episode 110
“The ramblings of an upjumped zealot make for tedious listening.”
Grigori, Dragon’s Dogma