Most people are nothing but pawns on a chessboard. Led by an unknown hand. Their lives exist only to be sacrificed for a higher goal. Jonas, Mikkel, the children, they're nothing but unfortunate, yet necessary chess moves in an eternal war between good and evil.
“Unfinished Business” · Season 1, Episode 15
In this episode: Dean Winchester (940), Damon Salvatore (715), Sam Winchester (665), Olivia Benson (637), Stephen Fry (608), Narrator (554), Clark Kent (523), Nate (486)
HDHelge Doppler 1986
Why would God want any of this?
Yes, why would God want any of this? After looking into hell, as you have, it can never be forgotten. It becomes a part of you. And the idea of God, of Jesus the Savior, becomes a thread of hope you cling to. All of us who know the darkness long for the light, but... there is no God. God didn't make this hole among us. God doesn't have a plan. There is no plan at all. There's nothing but chaos out there. Pain... and chaos.
HDHelge Doppler 1986
If there is no God, then why do we believe in a lie?
Because we prefer any lie to the pain.
CDCharlotte Doppler 1986
What are you doing here?
Bringing someone back from the dead.
CDCharlotte Doppler 1986
How does that work?
It's very hard to explain.
CDCharlotte Doppler 1986
[looking at the dead birds] Can you bring these back?
No, you have to find them when they're younger.
CDCharlotte Doppler 1986
But then, they're not dead yet.
That doesn't change the fact that they will die.
CDCharlotte Doppler 1986
You're crazy.
Maybe.
There was this sadness in his eyes. The kind you sometimes see in those who want to die, but life won't let them.
Your pain defines who you are, but it no longer holds power on you.
You could have saved Mikkel! Now I have another Grandma, and she's the principal of my school. Her husband, who's fucking my mom, is looking for his son, who's my father! A few days ago, I kissed my Aunt! And the crazy thing is... there's nothing wrong with any of them. They're okay. I'm what's wrong! I just want everything to go back to normal.
Why do we decide for one thing and against another? But does it matter whether the decision is based upon the consequence of a series of causal links? Or that instead it stems from an undefined feeling inside me? Perhaps everything in my life boils down to this one moment. That I’m part of this puzzle. One that I can neither understand nor influence.
Will you tell me what the future's like?
I'm hoping that by tomorrow, it'll already be different from today.
We're not free in what we do, because we're not free in what we want. We can't overcome what's deep within us.
ICInvestigator Clausen
Expectations lead to disappointment. "Have hope," my mother used to say, "not expectations. You might just be surprised, but not disappointed."
Have you ever heard the term "bootstrap paradox"? Well, in a bootstrap paradox an artifact, or any information, is sent back to the past from the future. And this, in turn, creates an infinite cycle in which the artifact doesn't have a real origin anymore. It exists without ever having been created. To put it simply, this book has traveled back through time. It found me before I even wrote it. It's all a question of origin. Where is the beginning? When is the beginning? Is there a beginning at all? The world is full of such paradoxes.
Where did it all begin? Where did this begin? In the past? In the future? Who can say where anything begins? Will we ever be able to know the origin of it all, or will there always be something - something that came before, and before that, and before that? Is there a beginning and an end, or is everything connected in one endless loop? Do the words 'beginning' and 'end' describe the very same moment?
I thought I had more time. Why does everyone say that? "To have time." How can we say that, when it's time that has us?
People are peculiar creatures. All their actions are driven by desire, their characters forged by pain. As much as they might try to suppress the pain, to repress desire they cannot liberate themselves from eternal servitude to their feelings. As long as the storm rages within them, they cant find peace, Not in life not in death. And so, day after day they will do all that must be done. Pain is their ship. Desire, their compass.
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