"Light only shines in the darkness. And sometimes innocence is just an excuse for the guilty."
Major Kira Nerys, Deep Space Nine: 'The Darkness and the Light'
"The center cannot hold, things fall apart.
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed
And everywhere the ceremony of innocence is drowned."
William Butler Yeats, 'The Second Coming'
"I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong,
neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favor to men of skill;
but time and chance happeneth to them all."
Ecclesiastes 9:11
"Blood is thicker than water."
Common phrase
"Man's fate is like that of the animals; the same fate awaits them both: As one dies, so dies the other. All have
the same breath; man has no advantage over the animal. Everything is meaningless."
Ecclesiastes 3:19
"Don't make me angry. You wouldn't like me when I'm angry."
David Bruce Banner, 'The Incredible Hulk'
"Passion. It lies in all of us. Sleeping, waiting, and though unwanted, unbidden, it will stir, open its jaws, and howl. [...]
It speaks to us, guides us. Passion rules us all, and we obey. What other choice to we have?
[...] Passion is the source of our finest moments: the joy of love, the clarity of hatred, and the ecstacy of grief.
It hurts sometimes more than we can bear. If we could live without passion, maybe we'd know some kind of
peace. But we would be hollow. empty rooms, shuttered and dank. Without passion, we'd be truly dead."
Angelus, Buffy the Vampire Slayer: 'Passion'
"My mommy always said there were no monsters, no real ones, but there are. Why do they tell little kids that?"
Rebecca 'Newt' Jorden, Aliens
"But first, on earth as Vampire sent,
Thy corpse shall from the tomb be rent:
Then ghastly haunt thy native place,
And suck the blood of all thy race;
There from thy daughter, sister, wife,
At midnight drain the stream of life;
Yet loathe the banquet which perforce
Must feed thy livid living corpse.
Shall know the demon for their sire,
At cursing thee, thou cursing them,
Thy flowers are withered on the stem."
Lord Byron, 'The Glamour', 1813, reputedly the first reference to vampires in English literature
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