Metal Gear Solid

Solid Snake: Everyone feels sick the first time they kill someone... but Unfortunately, killing is one of those things that gets easier every time you do it.

Solid Snake: It's easy to forget what a sin is in the middle of a battlefield.

Master Miller: Listen. There's not a soldier alive that doesn't question himself. And if there is one, he's nothing more than a murderer.

Psycho Mantis: From the moment we're thrown into this world, we're fated to bring each other nothing but pain and misery.

Solid Snake: I never felt truly alive until I was staring death in the face.

Meryl Silverburgh: What's your name? Your real name?
Solid Snake: Name means nothing on the battlefield.
Meryl Silverburgh: How old are you?
Solid Snake: Old enough to know what death looks like.

Otacon: Life isn't all about loss, ya know.

Solid Snake: I don't believe in coincidences.

Otacon: Snake. What was she fighting for? What am I fighting for? What are you fighting for?
Solid Snake: If we make it through this I'll tell you.
Otacon: Okay. I'll be searching too.

Meryl Silverburgh: Any family?
Solid Snake: No, but I was raised by many people.
Meryl Silverburgh: Is there anyone you like?
Solid Snake: I've never been interested in anyone else's life...
Meryl Silverburgh: So you are all alone. Just like Mantis said...
Solid Snake: Other people just complicate my life. I don't like to get involved.
Meryl Silverburgh: ...You're a sad, lonely man.

Solid Snake: A strong man doesn't need to read the future, he makes his own.

Naomi: You mustn't allow yourself to be chained to fate, to be ruled by your genes. Human beings can choose the kind of life that they want to live. What's important is that you choose life... and then live.

Solid Snake: Building the future and keeping the past alive are one in the same thing.

President James Johnson: Even if a pawn becomes a queen, it is still just a playing piece...

Peter Stillman: Bomb Disposal Is a face off with your own mortality. Don't let the fear get to you. When you give in to the fear, the Darkness Comes.

Fatman: Bombs tell the time with every minute of their existence, and nothing else announces it's own end with such a fanfare.

President Johnson: Without free will, there's no difference between submission and rebellion.

Solidus Snake: Were all born with an expiration date. Life is nothing but a grace period to turn our genetic information into the next generations. Me and my brothers are called "Les Enfants Terribles", monsters of nature, with the ability to reproduce conveniently taken out. What I want is to be remembered by people, by history.

Colonel: There are certain things that cannot be contained in digital information.
Raiden: What's that?
Colonel: Human memories, ideas, culture, and history. Isn't it something that should be passed on? Should that information be kept at the mercy of nature?

Solid Snake: Fight for something you believe in and find it for yourself. If you do, pass it on to the future.
Raiden: Believe in what?
Solid Snake: That's your problem. Not mine.

Raiden: What am I supposed to believe in? What am I going to leave behind when I'm through?

Solid Snake: We can tell other people about - having faith. What we had faith in. What we found important enough to fight for. It's not whether you were right or wrong, but how much faith you were willing to have, that decides the future.

Solidus Snake: The data of life is transferred from parent to child. That's how it works. But we have no heirs, no legacy. Cloned from our father, with the ability to reproduce conveniently engineered out. What is our legacy if we cannot pass the torch?

Solid Snake: We don't use guns to help some politician.
Raiden: What do you fight for?
Solid Snake: A better future.

Raiden: Snake, you're a legend!
Solid Snake: A legend is usually bad news. A person tells it, and they pass it on.

Solid Snake: Recognized, but still on the fringe, huh?

Richard Ames: Silence beats talk.

Emma: You can't realize your dreams without greed.

Solid Snake: Choose your own legacy. It's for you to decide.

Raiden: People will remember the good part, the right part about you.
Solid Snake: There's nothing right about murder.

Solid Snake: Legends are fiction, kid. Someone tells it, someone else remembers, everyone passes it on.