History Quotes / MadOracle

-->-- '''Dalek Caan''', ''Series/DoctorWho''

->''"[[UsefulNotes/WorldWarI I have stood knee deep in mud and bone, and filled my lungs with mustard gas.]] [[AMillionIsAStatistic I have seen two brothers fall.]] I have lain with [[UsefulNotes/ArabIsraeliConflict holy wars]] and copulated with the [[AtomicHate autumnal fallout]]. [[ThoseWackyNazis I have dug trenches for the refugees;]] [[UsefulNotes/HistoryOfTheUSSR I have murdered dissidents where the ground never thaws,]] [[UsefulNotes/CulturalRevolution and starved the masses into faith.]] [[UsefulNotes/AtomicBombingsOfHiroshimaAndNagasaki A child's shadow burnt into the brickwork.]] [[UsefulNotes/{{Cambodia}} A house of skulls in the jungle.]] The innocent, the'' innocent'', Mandus, [[UsefulNotes/TheHolocaust trod and bled and gassed and starved and beaten and murdered and enslaved]]. [[HumansAreBastards This is your coming century!]] They will eat them Mandus, they will make pigs of you all and they will bury their snouts into your ribs and they will'' [[PunctuatedForEmphasis eat. Your. Hearts!]]"

-->-- '''Fiver''', ''Literature/WatershipDown''

-->-- ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/14083408/2/The-Prophecies-Begin-Filtered-Through-Oral-Tradition The Prophecies Begin, Filtered Through Oral Tradition]]'', a ''Literature/WarriorCats'' fanfiction

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-->-- '''Cobweb''' fresh from losing her mind, ''Comicbook/CaptainBritain'', "[[Comicbook/ACrookedWorld The Sound And The Fury]]"

->''Who struck Malkav with the gift of visions that burned? I have given so much and yet the answer, the true answer, continues to flutter out of reach. The memories of us all are tainted, washed with fever here. Whatever event slashed into Malkav's mind, leaving this great, terrible, livid wound, it so scarred him that [[MultipleChoicePast he could never tell the same story to any two of his childer]]. The only times the stories agree are when a childe's story agrees with his sire's, or when a scholar quotes the ''Book of Nod'' -- but even the ''Book of Nod'' might not be true. Surely if any other of [[MonsterProgenitor Caine]]'s grandchilder had been with Malkav when the Sight struck him, they would have been stricken as well. The power of the thing...\\
The power of the Sight is the power of the world itself. It is more than a disease that runs in the blood -- it is a connection to the chaos that pools in invisible places. It is the vision to perceive the world's true angles.''

->''"Then tell me how a traitor can betray both sides at once," Anchet harshly says, "unless he is utterly mad!"\\
"Because he loves all things as one," Bicek says quietly, "because he sees all sides are the same, and so perhaps in that sense he is mad. It is said that those who see most clearly are holy fools and mad people. A curious paradox, is it not?"''
-->-- ''Change of Heart'', by Steven Scott Ripley

->"It is said that madmen and fools are the children of God and yet we seek to confine these children to the outer reaches of society, shut away and ignored. Is it possible that what we dismiss as their mad ravings may, in fact, be... the wisdom of prophets?"
-->-- '''The Control Voice''', ''Series/TheOuterLimits1995'', "Beyond The Veil"

->Two protons expelled at each coupling site creates the mode of force. The embryo becomes a fish, though we don't enter until A-plate. We're here to experience, evolve the little toe. Atrophy. Don't ask me how, I'll be dead in a thousand light-years. Thank you, thank you. Genesis turns to its source, reduction occurs stepwise though the essence is all one, end of line. All functions within parameters repeats the harlequin...
-->-- '''The Hybrid''', ''Series/{{Battlestar Galactica|2003}}''

->I've realized that you probably don't know how this all ends yet. I'm sorry about that. I forget these things. Ever since the tower fell, I have been at all places between two points. I forget that it's all linear to most people. Effects follow causes and causes precede effects. And I still live all those moments.\\

Oh, I'm sorry. Causes, ''then'' effects.

->[[VaguenessIsComing He is coming. The three-fold man!]] He dances in the lonely places! O creator of us all, the Doctor is coming! Nehahaha!

'''Toma:''' But aren't psychics supposed to have unbelievable mental-\\

->[[CrypticConversation Yes. Alive now, dead later.]] That's life. You all fall down. Girl next, then boy. You'll see. I see.

->Who struck Malkav with the gift of visions that burned? I have given so much and yet the answer, the true answer, continues to flutter out of reach. The memories of us all are tainted, washed with fever here. Whatever event slashed into Malkav's mind, leaving this great, terrible, livid wound, it so scarred him that [[MultipleChoicePast he could never tell the same story to any two of his childer]]. The only times the stories agree are when a childe's story agrees with his sire's, or when a scholar quotes the ''Book of Nod'' - but even the ''Book of Nod'' might not be true. Surely if any other of [[MonsterProgenitor Caine]]'s grandchilder had been with Malkav when the Sight struck him, they would have been stricken as well. The power of the thing...\\
The power of the Sight is the power of the world itself. It is more than a disease that runs in the blood - it is a connection to the chaos that pools in invisible places. It is the vision to perceive the world's true angles.
-->-- ''TabletopGame/VampireTheMasquerade - Clanbook: Malkavian (Revised)''

->[[GhostShip The crimson ship]]... he's not who he says she is, and it's going to burn... dinosaurs? ... he's furious... the man with the [[RedRightHand crest]]... [[KnowledgeBroker the voice in the darkness]], [[CatchPhrase boss]]... Chinese brothers... follow the lights to the end of the tunnel... [[TheTaxi where do you want to go?]]

->Oh ''shit''. A [[CloudCuckooLander Malkavian]]. I suppose I'll figure out what the hell you're talking about in a month or so. ''Man'', I hate talking to you guys! I always feel like I'm getting an answer to a question I haven't even asked yet.

->The [[TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}} Legion Astartes]] stand tallest of all men or gods - part machine, part flesh and possessed by a feral desire to smite their foes to dust. But [[TheCorruption Chaos corrupts all]] and many turned to face to dark with open hearts and let it embrace them what is this I write I do not understand all that I write I do not understand all that I know and the paper is stained with words I do not remember writing yet the ink is still wet! [[DreamingOfThingsToCome Voices echo from that I have never heard]] but I cannot stop Sigmar help

->[[CrystalDragonJesus The Lord Sigmar]] sends me visions of hell! I see [[HamsterWheelPower gigantic treadmills]] eternally turning in the dark. I see [[SwarmOfRats uncountable masses of swarming vermin]] [[RatMen standing on their hind legs in a foul parody of Man.]] I see [[{{Magitek}} diabolic machines]] made by deranged mutants. I see [[BabyFactory bloated queens with atrophied limbs]] breeding their rotten offspring. All this I see, and in my head [[ForDoomTheBellTolls the dreadful tolling of the cursed bells still scream]]. [[TerribleTicking It won't stop!]] The multitude of red eyes stare at us from the darkness of sewers and graves. They loathe us, and they will rise to devour us all for our sins! Make it stop, please make it stop!
-->-- '''Hieronymus Bouscus,''' ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer}}: Skaven Army Book (6th edition)''

->Legion's dead... and a week from now, catching up with the instant of his death, [[NoOntologicalInertia he will blink out of existence]]. Four days from now, we will make love for the last time. Afterwards, I cry... and after that... what happens after that? I didn't see it coming... Legion dead... [[AnArmAndALeg Wardog crippled]]... I'm making love to Legion. I'm scattering his ashes... I'm meeting him for the first time. But what happens after ''that? '''And why didn't I see it coming?''' '' [[MechanicalAbomination That thing outside]]... it just kills... and kills... [=McQuillan=] screaming... it killed her lover, too... [[BringMyBrownPants her bladder letting go]]... shouldn't be here... pattern broken... there was a [[HumanoidAbomination Crooked Man]] and he... white wine turning red... white and red, like blood and bone, like chessmen... [[CosmicChessGame the board's askew]]... [[BigGood the gamer's]] [[TakingTheBullet hands are scorched and blackened]]... all strategies are shredded in the random wind... nothing is certain now... But if this game is lost... if this world falls... I see [[RealityIsOutToLunch a universe eaten alive by chaos]]... and another universe... and another... like dominoes... tumbling... I see the future... ''[[EndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt and it is cancelled]].''
-->'''Cobweb''' fresh from losing her mind, ''Comicbook/CaptainBritain'', "[[Comicbook/ACrookedWorld The Sound And The Fury]]"

->"Then tell me how a traitor can betray both sides at once," Anchet harshly says, "unless he is utterly mad!"\\
"Because he loves all things as one," Bicek says quietly, "because he sees all sides are the same, and so perhaps in that sense he is mad. It is said that those who see most clearly are holy fools and mad people. A curious paradox, is it not?"

->The shadow's coming, boy. [[VaguenessIsComing The shadow's coming]]. Not here yet. Not for a little while. But it's coming. It's going to eat you up, boy. You listen! [[HomelessPigeonPerson The pigeons seen it!]] They seen it all! The shadow's coming. Young people never listen. He's coming for you, boy. Not yet, not yet... [[EmergencyTransformation you'll have to sing like the angels to keep him away]]. I ain't mad. I ain't crazy. They seen it coming. The pigeons know best. They seen it coming.
-->--'''Matthew's Grandmother,''' ''[[Literature/MatthewSwift A Madness Of Angels]]''