“Hell Bent” quotes from Doctor Who

Nothing's sad till it's over. Then everything is.

Why are they ringing all the bells?! Never heard so many! What's gone wrong this time, all the fuss they're always making...

You up there, you're not supposed to be there! I'll just put all that back, it's for the boys. If any of them ever want to come--

They'll kill you.

There was a saying, sir, in the Time War.

A saying?

First thing you notice about the Doctor of War is he's unarmed. For many, it's also the last.

Is this a story, or did this really happen?

Every story ever told really happened. Stories... are where memories go when they're forgotten.

Do you know what they did to me? The Confession Dial is a ritual act of purification. It allows a dying Time Lord to face his demons, make his peace before his mind is uploaded to the Matrix. It was never intended as a torture chamber for the living!

Rassilon grew concerned about the coming of the Hybrid.

Afraid.

You were entrapped and imprisoned at his command.

And look at him now.

Why did you banish him? Was it punishment, or for your own protection? Were you just being cruel, or just being cowardly?

One question. And you will answer: How long was the Doctor inside the Confession Dial?

We think... four-and-a-half billion years.

He could've left any time he wanted, he just had to say what he knew. The Dial would've released him.

Four-and-a-half billion years?

If she says so.

No! Why would you even do that? I was dead! I was dead and gone! Why? Why would you even do that to yourself?!

I had a duty of care!

You have gone too far. You have broken every code you ever lived by.

After all this time, after everything I've done, don't you think the universe owes me this?

Owes you what? All you're doing is giving her hope.

Since when is hope a bad thing?

Hope is a terrible thing on the scaffold.

Where can he run?

Where he always runs. Away. Just away.

What if one last heartbeat is all I've got? What if Time isn't healing? What if the universe needs me to die?

The universe is over! It doesn't have a say any more! We're standing on the last ember, the last fragment of everything that ever was. As of this moment, I'm answerable to no-one!

Tomorrow's promised to no one, Doctor, but I insist upon my past, I am entitled to that.

You and me, together... Look how far I went, for fear of losing you. This has to stop. One of us has to go.

[after seemingly reversed the polarity of the neural interface] You really don't know which?

Let's find out. Let's do it... like we've done everything else: together.

[losing memory of Clara] Run like hell, because you always need to. Laugh at everything, because it's always funny.

No. Stop it. You're saying goodbye. Don't say goodbye!

Never be cruel and never be cowardly. And if you ever are, always make amends.

Stop it! Stop! Stop it!

Never eat pears. They're too squishy and they always make your chin wet. That one's quite important. Write it down.

I didn't mean to do this. I'm sorry.

It's OK. It's OK. I went too far. I broke all my own rules. I became the Hybrid. This is right. I accept it.

I can't. There has to be something I can do.

Smile for me. Go on. Clara Oswald… one last time.

How could I smile?

It's OK. Don't you worry. I'll remember it.

What Clara told you in the Cloisters...

I don't remember a single thing about it.

You said memories become stories when we forget them. Maybe some of them become songs.

That would be nice...

Yeah, it would be, wouldn't it?