Noah quotes from Dark

Noah

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.

Noah

There was this sadness in his eyes. The kind you sometimes see in those who want to die, but life won't let them.

Noah

Your pain defines who you are, but it no longer holds power on you.

Why would God want any of this?

Noah

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.

If there is no God, then why do we believe in a lie?

Noah

Because we prefer any lie to the pain.

Jonas

[after Noah cuts the rope Jonas tried to hang himself with] What are you doing here? Are you following me?

Noah

You made me a promise. Adam made me a promise. You said that the apocalypse must happen. So we can get saved. So all of us can be saved. You cannot die.

Noah

You cannot take your own life. Because your older self already exists. Time won't permit it. No matter what you try, a force, or someone, will always stop you. Elisabeth and I, we found the passage. You must keep your promise. It will open up again. And then you take us...Adam takes us...to paradise, finally. He said we will become friends. Before you betray me.

Jonas

Why do you think it still isn't working?

Noah

Maybe Claudia doesn't want it to work.

Jonas

Why do you even trust her? Why did you trust him? Adam? He lied to you. There is no paradise. There is no world besides this one. I know you think I'm becoming him, but I'm not.

Noah

I know the portal will work. I've seen it. In the future. Everything repeats itself. If I travel back, I know I can change everything. My older self tried it before. But this time it's different. The components in the passage have changed. This time it'll work.

Jonas

She told you all that? Claudia? What do you really know about her? She sometimes disappears for days. How does she know all the things she knows? She said that not all that's here should exist here. What did she mean by that? ...Claudia's hiding something from us. We can't trust her. I hope you know that.