History Quotes / WorldOfSilence

->''"To serve the world, we must grow deaf to the self."''
-->-- '''Dr. Sofia Lamb''', ''VideoGame/BioShock2''

->'''Death:''' Down in the deepest kingdoms of the sea, where there is no light, there lives a type of creature with no brain and no eyes and no mouth. It does nothing but live and put forth petals of perfect crimson where none are there to see. It is nothing but a tiny ''yes'' in the night. And yet... And yet... It has enemies who bear it a vicious, unbending malice, who wish not only for its tiny life to be over but also that it had never existed. Are you with me so far?\\

'''Death:''' Good. Now, ''imagine what they think of humanity''.

->''And Tiffany saw it, like a Hogswatch card: birds frozen to their twigs, horses and cows standing still in their fields, frozen grass like daggers, no smoke from any chimney; a world without death because there was nothing left to die, and everything glittering like tinsel.\\
Now the sun turned red in a burning sky. Tiffany drifted through air like warm oil into the searing calm of deep deserts, where even camels die. There was no living thing. Nothing moved except ash.''

->''"She Who Lives In Her Name still hates the gods and their children, but her plans for the mortal world rarely express this hatred. She wishes to see the world become as she would have created it, a thing of absolute order and regulation, without the freedoms and insubordination that corrupt its hierarchies today. She wishes to rub the gods' noses in the knowledge that the world is already somewhat hers."''
-->-- '''Games of Divinity''', ''TabletopGame/{{Exalted}}''

->''"Evil? No, no, I will not accept that. They are conditioned simply to survive. They can survive only by becoming the dominant species. When all other life-forms are suppressed, when the Daleks are the supreme rulers of the universe -- then, you will have peace. Wars will end. They are power not of evil, but of good."''

->'''Cyber-Controller:''' You are proud of your emotions?\\

'''Cyber-Controller:''' Then tell me, Doctor: have you known grief, and rage, and pain?\\

'''Cyber-Controller:''' And they hurt?\\

'''Cyber-Controller:''' I could set you free. Would you not want that? A life without pain?\\

->''[[GodOfOrder The Weaver]] allows the Gauntlet to be open just enough for a tiny trickle of spirit to reach through both ways. The physical and spirit worlds are kept barely alive, almost on life support. This is the world of the science-fiction dystopia: few people dream, few aspire to change things, and society functions like clockwork. Human nature itself is almost unrecognizable; only a few people feel emotions to any degree, and even then, they are incapable of the same great acts of beauty and cruelty. There are, of course, [[TheMagicGoesAway no supernatural elements in the world at all]] -- no werewolves, no undead, no magic. The years pass like clockwork, the seasons so regular that after a while, it's impossible to tell whether or not time is passing at all. The universe continues to function, but it's hard to say whether this is any sort of mercy.''

->The world today is a simpler place. We've taken out all the complications. All the square pegs and the painful and the strange. In our utopia, lacking cultural referent for deviancy, [[CrapsaccharineWorld all are happy with their lot]]. [[TheBlank Everybody is exactly the same]]. Isn't it sweet?

->''"If the [[DoomsdayDevice Apprehension Engine]] is incorrectly calibrated, it [[GoMadFromTheRevelation exposes the mind to too much knowledge]], and the mind in turn determines the world. In perfect perception we find the end of uncertainty, of choice. Without choice, no consciousness. Without an uncertain future, no future at all. After a certain point, it is possible that this process would become self-perpetuating. What is possible would cease, and be replaced by... immutable history. Ice instead of water. Life would become Newtonian. Clockwork.\\
This is what [[DiabolicalMastermind Shem Shem Tsiem]] desires from me. From the machine. He wishes a great, appalling determination. He will know the universe into a kind of extinction. [[AGodAmI His union with God]] will not be complete until he has ended what God begun. Somehow, [[OmnicidalManiac this catastrophe is what he most desires]]. He will, unless prevented, destroy everything, not just now, but forever. Our universe will drift in the void, a solid, changeless block."''
-->-- '''[[MadScientist Frankie Fossoyeur]]''', ''Literature/{{Angelmaker}}''

->In the distance, Thibault can see some last German soldiers, injured and slow. [[ArtInitiatesLife The water-color manif]] must glance at their blockade, because it goes, imperfect for the desired scenery. [[RealityWarper A featureless street appears in its place]]. As the manif's look takes in the soldiers, they too, [[OneHitKill instantly are not there]].\\
A little [[TheBlank blank-faced]] [[HumanoidAbomination nonentity]] bringing peace and prettiness, ending the rubble. Where there is discord, it brings peace. Not even of death, but of nihil. Paris will be an empty city of charming houses.\\
This is what [[UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler the Fuhrer]]'s self-portrait proclaims.
-->-- ''Literature/TheLastDaysofNewParis''

->''Existence is suffering. [[TheEvilsOfFreeWill The cause of suffering is attachment to Ego. Ego is the separation of consciousness from universal One-ness. Suffering will continue as long as consciousness remains separate]]. Only the unification of all consciousness will end suffering. Birth is suffering. Aging is suffering. Illness is suffering. Death is suffering. Separation is suffering. Suffering will end when there is one consciousness; when the consciousness of the One is the consciousness of the Universe, and there is no distinction between self and other, object and subject, that which perceives and that which is perceived. The variety of forms is a cause of suffering. [[TheAssimilator All forms must be made alike; all forms must be made one. Only when all things are one with the Cylinder will suffering cease]]. The Cylinder is perfection. The Cylinder is liberation from suffering. The Cylinder will continue until all things are one. When all things are one, when all forms are perfected within the Cylinder, then the Cylinder will cease, and there will be peace. All is one. One is all. One is nothing. Nothing is all.''
-->-- Possibly '''The Eternal Cylinder''' itself, ''VideoGame/TheEternalCylinder''

->''And Tiffany saw it, like a Hogswatch card: birds frozen to their twigs, horses and cows standing still in their fields, frozen grass like daggers, no smoke from any chimney; a world without death because there was nothing left to die, and everything glittering like tinsel.''
->''Now the sun turned red in a burning sky. Tiffany drifted through air like warm oil into the searing calm of deep deserts, where even camels die. There was no living thing. Nothing moved except ash.''

->''"She Who Lives In Her Name still hates the gods and their children, but her plans for the mortal world rarely express this hatred. She wishes to see the world become as she would have created it, a thing of absolute order and regulation, without the freedoms and insubordination that corrupt its hierarchies today. She wishes to rub the gods’ noses in the knowledge that the world is already somewhat hers."''
-->--'''Games of Divinity''', ''TabletopGame/{{Exalted}}''

->''Evil? No, no, I will not accept that. They are conditioned simply to survive. They can survive only by becoming the dominant species. When all other life-forms are suppressed, when the Daleks are the supreme rulers of the universe -- then, you will have peace. Wars will end. They are power not of evil, but of good.''
-->-- '''Davros''' on his creations, ''Series/DoctorWho'', "Genesis of the Daleks"

-->-- ''Series/DoctorWho'', "The Age of Steel"

->''[[GodOfOrder The Weaver]] allows the Gauntlet to be open just enough for a tiny trickle of spirit to reach through both ways. The physical and spirit worlds are kept barely alive, almost on life support. This is the world of the science-fiction dystopia: few people dream, few aspire to change things, and society functions like clockwork. Human nature itself is almost unrecognizable; only a few people feel emotions to any degree, and even then, they are incapable of the same great acts of beauty and cruelty. There are, of course, [[TheMagicGoesAway no supernatural elements in the world at all -- no werewolves, no undead, no magic]]. The years pass like clockwork, the seasons so regular that after a while, it's impossible to tell whether or not time is passing at all. The universe continues to function, but it's hard to say whether this is any sort of mercy.''
-->--'''The Weaver Ascendant,''' ''TabletopGame/WerewolfTheApocalypse -- Apocalypse,''

-->--''From Homogenous To Honey'', by Creator/NeilGaiman and Creator/BryanTalbot

->If the [[DoomsdayDevice Apprehension Engine]] is incorrectly calibrated, it [[GoMadFromTheRevelation exposes the mind to too much knowledge]], and the mind in turn determines the world. In perfect perception we find the end of uncertainty, of choice. Without choice, no consciousness. Without an uncertain future, no future at all. After a certain point, it is possible that this process would become self-perpetuating. What is possible would cease, and be replaced by... immutable history. Ice instead of water. Life would become Newtonian. Clockwork.
->This is what [[DiabolicalMastermind Shem Shem Tsiem]] desires from me. From the machine. He wishes a great, appalling determination. He will know the universe into a kind of extinction. [[AGodAmI His union with God]] will not be complete until he has ended what God begun. Somehow, [[OmnicidalManiac this catastrophe is what he most desires]]. He will, unless prevented, destroy everything, not just now, but forever. Our universe will drift in the void, a solid, changeless block.
-->--'''[[MadScientist Frankie Fossoyeur]],''' ''Literature/{{Angelmaker}}''

->In the distance, Thibault can see some last German soldiers, injured and slow. [[ArtInitiatesLife The water-color manif]] must glance at their blockade, because it goes, imperfect for the desired scenery. [[RealityWarper A featureless street appears in its place]]. As the manif's look takes in the soldiers, they too, [[OneHitKill instantly are not there]].
->A little [[TheBlank blank-faced]] [[HumanoidAbomination nonentity]] bringing peace and prettiness, ending the rubble. Where there is discord, it brings peace. Not even of death, but of nihil. Paris will be an empty city of charming houses.
->This is what the [[UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler Fuhrer]]'s self-portrait proclaims.
-->--''Literature/TheLastDaysOfNewParis''

-->-- Possibly '''The Eternal Cylinder''' itself, ''Videogame/TheEternalCylinder''

->''Existence is suffering. [[TheEvilsOfFreeWill The cause of suffering is attachment to Ego. Ego is the separation of consciousness from universal One-ness. Suffering will continue as long as consciousness remains separate]]. Only the unification of all consciousness will end suffering. Birth is suffering. Aging is suffering. Illness is suffering. Death is suffering. Separation is suffering. Suffering will end when there is one consciousness; when the consciousness of the One is the consciousness of the Universe, and there is no distinction between self and other, object and subject, that which perceives and that which is perceived. The variety of forms is a cause of suffering. [[TheAssimilator All forms must be made alike; all forms must be made one. Only when all things are one with the Cylinder will suffering cease]. The Cylinder is perfection. The Cylinder is liberation from suffering. The Cylinder will continue until all things are one. When all things are one, when all forms are perfected within the Cylinder, then the Cylinder will cease, and there will be peace. All is one. One is all. One is nothing. Nothing is all.''

->''Evil? No, no, I will not accept that. They are conditioned simply to survive. They can survive only by becoming the dominant species. When all other life-forms are suppressed, when the Daleks are the supreme rulers of the universe - then, you will have peace. Wars will end. They are power not of evil, but of good.''

->''[[EldritchAbomination The Weaver]] allows the Gauntlet to be open just enough for a tiny trickle of spirit to reach through both ways. The physical and spirit worlds are kept barely alive, almost on life support. This is the world of the science-fiction dystopia: few people dream, few aspire to change things, and society functions like clockwork. Human nature itself is almost unrecognizable; only a few people feel emotions to any degree, and even then, they are incapable of the same great acts of beauty and cruelty. There are, of course, [[TheMagicGoesAway no supernatural elements in the world at all - no werewolves, no undead, no magic]]. The years pass like clockwork, the seasons so regular that after a while, it's impossible to tell whether or not time is passing at all. The universe continues to function, but it's hard to say whether this is any sort of mercy.''
-->--'''The Weaver Ascendant,''' ''TabletopGame/WerewolfTheApocalypse - Apocalypse,''

->'''Death:''' :Down in the deepest kingdoms of the sea, where there is no light, there lives a type of creature with no brain and no eyes and no mouth. It does nothing but live and put forth petals of perfect crimson where none are there to see. It is nothing but a tiny ''yes'' in the night. And yet... And yet... It has enemies who bear it a vicious, unbending malice, who wish not only for its tiny life to be over but also that it had never existed. Are you with me so far?\\

-->-- ''Literature/{{Wintersmith}}'', on the worlds of [[KillItWithIce Winter]] [[NotSoDifferent and]] [[KillItWithFire Summer]]

-->--''From Homogenous To Honey,''' by Creator/NeilGaiman and Creator/BryanTalbot

-->-- ''Series/DoctorWho'', "Age of Steel"

->'''Death:''' [[AC:Down in the deepest kingdoms of the sea, where there is no light, there lives a type of creature with no brain and no eyes and no mouth. It does nothing but live and put forth petals of perfect crimson where none are there to see. It is nothing but a tiny ''yes'' in the night. And yet... And yet... It has enemies who bear it a vicious, unbending malice, who wish not only for its tiny life to be over but also that it had never existed. Are you with me so far?]]\\

'''Death:''' [[AC:Good. Now, ''imagine what they think of humanity''.]]

->'''Death''': [[AC:Down in the deepest kingdoms of the sea, where there is no light, there lives a type of creature with no brain and no eyes and no mouth. It does nothing but live and put forth petals of perfect crimson where none are there to see. It is nothing but a tiny]] ''[[AC:yes]]'' [[AC:in the night. And yet... And yet... It has enemies who bear it a vicious, unbending malice, who wish not only for its tiny life to be over but also that it had never existed. Are you with me so far?]]\\
'''Susan''': Well, yes, but--\\
'''Death''': [[AC:Good. Now,]] ''[[AC:imagine what they think of humanity.]]''
-->-- ''Discworld/{{Hogfather}}'', on the Auditors of Reality

-->-- ''{{Discworld/Wintersmith}}'', on the worlds of [[KillItWithIce Winter]] [[NotSoDifferent and]] [[KillItWithFire Summer]]

-->--The worlds of [[KillItWithIce Winter]] [[NotSoDifferent and]] [[KillItWithFire Summer]], ''{{Discworld/Wintersmith}}''

->''"She Who Lives in Her Name is a fire surrounded by a crystal sphere. That fire whispers its name to the 100 fires that surround it, each in their own sphere. Each of those fires whispers its name to the 99,997 fires that whirl around the whole. Mortals and demons who hear the name that these fires whisper become its tool. They murmur or shout that name to those around them, never ceasing in this chant, and turn their hands and eyes to the lady's work. Until their voice fails and they fall from the chorus, they are the servants of the great fire at the center of She Who Lives in Her Name.''
->''"She Who Lives In Her Name embodies the principle of hierarchy. Her touch made the great things greater and the small things smaller. Her fires bound the small to the great. Creation is a place of hierarchies, of rulers and the rules, with chains of command descending from the greatest gods and kings to the smallest spirits and slaves. Before her vengeance, it held better orders, though their natures are unknown. Now, it reflects her nature, the organization of her fires. For all their glory, the gods fear that they live in her shadow—in the world she remade.''

->''Evil? No, no, I will not accept that. They are conditioned simply to survive. They can survive only by becoming the dominant species. When all other life-forms are suppressed, when the Daleks are the supreme rulers of the universe - then, you will have peace. Wars will end. They are power not of evil, but of good.''\\

--> '''Dr. Sofia Lamb''', ''VideoGame/BioShock2''

-->The worlds of [[KillItWithIce Winter]] [[NotSoDifferent and]] [[KillItWithFire Summer]], ''{{Discworld/Wintersmith}}''

-- '''Davros''' on his creations, ''Series/DoctorWho'', "Genesis of the Daleks"

-->--'''Games of Divinity''', ''{{Exalted}}''

-- '''Davros''' on his creations, ''Series/DoctorWho'', "Genesis of the Daleks''

-- '''Davros''' on his creations, ''[[Series/DoctorWho Genesis of the Daleks]]''

--> '''Dr. Sofia Lamb''', ''{{Bioshock}} 2''

-->The worlds of [[KillItWithIce Winter]] [[NotSoDifferent and]] [[KillItWithFire Summer]], ''{{Discworld/Wintersmith}}''

--> '''Dr. Sofia Lamb''', ''{{Bioshock}} 2''