"I see myself as a huge fiery comet, a shooting star. Everyone stops, points up, and gasps: 'Oh look at that!' Then whoosh, and I'm gone. And they'll never see anything like it ever again. And they won't be able to forget me — ever."
"I had accepted the fact, even as a young boy, that all great warriors are destined to perish like that star."
"I'd rather be dead than cool."
—Nirvana, "Stay Away"
Eldon Tyrell: You were made as well as we could make you.
Roy Batty: But not to last.
Tyrell: The light that burns twice as bright burns half as long - and you have burned so very, very brightly, Roy.
Roy Batty: But not to last.
Tyrell: The light that burns twice as bright burns half as long - and you have burned so very, very brightly, Roy.
"Nooo! NOOO! EVERYBODY REALLY LIKED HIM!! NOOO!"
— Randy Marsh, South Park, Titties And Dragons
