Darkest Hour/Quotes

"It's always darkest just before it goes pitch black."

—Unknown

"Well, Sarda, you did it.

You built us up, made us into warriors of legend. But now? We're demoralized, de-leveled and defeated. And it was all you."

—Black Mage, Eight Bit Theater

Red Mage: Maybe there's a side we haven't considered yet.
Red Mage: Maybe eternal torment is fun.
Black Mage: That's your alternative?

Red Mage: ...That's all we have left.

—Eight Bit Theater

"Have you ever heard of the hour of the wolf? My father told me about it. It's the time between 3:00 and 4:00 in the morning. You can't sleep, and all you can see is the troubles and the problems and the ways that your life should've gone but didn't. All you can hear is the sound of your own heart. I've been living in the hour of the wolf for seven days, Lyta. Seven days. The wolf and I are now on a first-name basis. In times like this, my father used to take one large glass of vodka before bed. To keep the wolf away, he said. And then he would take three very small drinks of vodka, just in case she had cubs while she was waiting outside. It doesn't work."

—Susan Ivanova, Babylon 5

"These are the times that try men's souls...."

—Thomas Paine, "The American Crisis," written in response to the defeat of the Continental Army at New York.