Adam quotes from Dark

Adam

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?

Adam

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.

Adam

[to Charlotte] Your path will always lead you here. To Elisabeth. To me. Time plays a cruel game. Have you decided? Just one more day and we can unravel this knot once and for all. But you must...like us all, play your part in it. Will you do your part? Eva will never achieve her goal. Her world is no more deserving of salvation than ours is.

Adam

Old Tannhaus. He firmly believed he was creating a paradise where we'd all be free of destiny, and free of our pain. A world outside your world and my world. But I...have finally realized what this paradise really is. Unending darkness, in which nothing exists. But for that...the apocalypse must happen. In my world...and in yours.

[voiceover] Every journey has a beginning. But yours has no end. It goes on forever and ever. [to Adam] I'm here to finally make your journey come to an end.

Adam

This is impossible. You should be dead. I had you killed.

You still have no idea just how this game is played. You want to destroy the knot, but every action you take continues its existence.

Adam

This can't be. I have killed it. I have killed the origin, and the origin within her.

Your world and Eve's world, they both should have never existed. You thought that the origin lies in the bindings of both worlds. But in reality, it's outside of both worlds. Our thinking is shaped by dualities. Black, white. Light and shadow. Your world and Eve's world. But this is false. You need a third dimension to fulfill it all.

Adam

The triquetra. [sighs] That means... a third world?

The world that gave birth to this knot. Where everything originates. Where a single mistake was made. Tannhaus, in the origin world, like you, he lost someone. And like you, he tried to bring that person back from the dead. But instead he divided and destroyed his world...And created our two worlds. But there is a way to destroy the knot. Through preventing, in the origin world...the invention of travel through space and time in the first place. I'd have liked to have spared you all that. But your path has to remain unchanged. Every step has to be taken as before. Up until this very moment.

Adam

This here... Has this happened before?

Your trying to destroy the origin has happened an infinite number of times. But this here, you and I... this is the first time. It's time for you to understand how everything is really connected.

Adam

Life is a labyrinth. Some wander around until their death in search of a way out of it. But there is only one path, and it leads ever deeper inside. Only when one reaches the center will one understand. Death is incomprehensible. But one can reconcile oneself with it. All that we've done...is ultimately forgotten. We are responsible... for this never-ending déjà vu. And we're the ones who have to end it. We...are the mistake.

Both of our fates are bound together in eternal damnation. Across both worlds. All is cause and effect. Every pain tempts us to act, forms our will. Tannhaus lost everything that ever meant anything to him in the origin world. His son, his daughter-in-law and his granddaughter died in a car accident. They were forced off a bridge and drowned in the river. He could never let go of his pain. Jonas and Martha...must take his pain away. So that he never looks for a way to undo everything. They must go to the origin world... and prevent our two worlds...from ever being created.