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"We fall so that we may learn to pick ourselves up once again."

"Death cannot be escaped, but it can be postponed."

"[Encountering an obstacle] Even the cold stone seems bent on preventing passage."

"The darkness holds much worse than mere trickery and bogeymen."

"There is power in symbols. Collect the scattered scraps of faith and give comfort to the masses."

"[After killing the cannibalistic Hag] The wood is still poisoned. The way is still blocked. But less people will be eaten."

"[After killing the Prophet] Did he foresee his own demise? I care not, so long as he remains dead."

"I knew all these paths once; now they are as twisted as my own ambitions."

"[On the Necromancer] A devil walks these halls... only the mad or the desperate go in search of him."

"Robbed of their writings, the Swine will grow ever more ignorant - if such a thing were possible."

"Perhaps… things are not as bad as they seem… [rueful, sinister laugh]"

"Women and men, soldiers and outlaws, fools and corpses; all will find their way to us now that the road is clear."

"A predator is often blind to its own peril."

"The way is lit. The path is clear. We require only the strength to follow it."

"Even the fiercest beast will lie down when it hasn’t eaten."

"[On the swinefolk] They breed quickly down there in the dark… but perhaps we can slay them even faster."

"The fiends must be driven back. And what better place to begin, than the seat of our noble line."

"I beg you, deliver our family from the ravenous, clutching shadow… of the Darkest Dungeon."

"Alone in the woods or tunnels, survival is the same. Prepare. Persist. And overcome."

"Shoot, bandage, and pillage­­ - the dancing steps of war!"

"[On the Leper] This man understands that adversity and existence are one and the same."

"To those with a keen eye, gold gleams like a dagger's point."

"You remember our venerable house, opulent and imperial. It is a festering abomination!"

"[Blight/bleed kill] Great is the weapon that cuts on its own!"

"Curious is the trap-maker's art... his efficacy unwitnessed by his own eyes."

"As victories mount, so too will resistance."

"Remind yourself that overconfidence is a slow and insidious killer."

"In time, you will know the tragic extent of my failings..."

"Can you feel it? The walls between the sane world and that unplumbed dimension of delirium are tenuously thin here..."

"All the decadent horrors I have seen pale in comparison with that final, crowning thing. I could not look, nor could I look away!"

"A little hope, however desperate, is never without worth."

"Every creature has a weakness. The wise hero trains for what she will face."

"Some may fall, but their knowledge lives on."

"In the end, every plan relies upon a strong arm, and tempered steel."

"A strict regimen is paramount, if one is to master the brutal arithmetic of combat."

"They must learn more than brutal bloodletting — they must learn to survive!"

"You will arrive along the old road. It winds with a troubling, serpent-like suggestion through the corrupted countryside. Leading only, I fear, to ever more tenebrous places. There is a sickness in the ancient pitted cobbles of the old road and on its writhing path you will face viciousness, violence, and perhaps other damnably transcendent terrors. So steel yourself and remember: there can be no bravery without madness. The old road will take you to hell, but in that gaping abyss we will find our redemption."

"Corruption has soaked the soil, sapping all good life from these groves… let us burn out this evil."

"At last, wholesome marine life can flourish - if indeed there is such a thing."

"[On the Siren] Hideous matriarch, vile queen of the aphotic depths - she has no place in the sane world!"

"The plume… and the pistol. A fitting end to my folly, and a curse upon us all."

"You answered the letter. Now, like me, you are a part of this place."

"I was lord of this place… until the crows and rats made it their domain."

"The bigger the beast, the greater the glory."

"Monstrous size has no intrinsic merit, unless inordinate exsanguination be considered a virtue."

"[First line] Ruin has come to our family."