The Long Dark Quotes
2017 video games
Top Quotes
“This will come in handy!”
“I've never felt so cold...”
“You faded in The Long Dark...”
“"Sometimes even to live is an act of courage." - Seneca”
“"Extinction is the rule. Survival is the exception" - Carl Sagan”
“What am I living for and what am I dying for are the same question." - Margaret Atwood”
“"On a long enough time line, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero." - Chuck Palahniuk”
“"He is at home with his solitude as the note reverberating inside a bell." - Peter Heller, The Dog Stars”
“A mysterious geomagnetic storm has brought your plane crashing down into the Northern Canadian wilderness. How long can you survive?”
“"Extraordinary people survive under the most terrible circumstances and they become more extraordinary because of it." - Robertson Davies”
“"It is hard to adapt to chaos, but it can be done. I am living proof of that: It can be done" - Kurt Vonnegut, Breakfast of Champions”
“"He knelt among the shadows and felt his isolation bitterly. They were savages it was true; but they were human." - William Golding, Lord of the Flies”
“"It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is the most adaptable to change." - Charles Darwin”
“"The foraging for food and water, the struggle for life in a world without masters, housed in a body that man had made dependent on himself." - Richard Matheson, I Am Legend”
“"Life is an error-making and an error-correcting process, and nature in marking man's papers will grade him for wisdom as measured both by survival and by the quality of life for those who survive." - Jonas Salk”
“"No one can tell what goes on between the person you were and the person you become. No one can chart that blue and lonely section of hell. There are no maps of the change. You just come out the other side." - Stephen King, The Stand”
“"No lists of things to be done. The day providential to itself. The hour. There is no later. This is later. All things of grace and beauty such that one holds them to one's heart have a common provenance in pain. Their birth in grief and ashes." - Cormac McCarthy, The Road”
“You know, I once read an interesting book which said that, uh, most people lost in the wilds, they, they die of shame. Yeah, see, they die of shame. 'What did I do wrong? How could I have gotten myself into this?' And so they sit there and they... die. Because they didn't do the one thing that would save their lives. Thinking." - David Mamet, The Edge”
“The Long Dark is a post-disaster survival simulation. Although we strive to provide an experience steeped in realism, the game is not a replacement for proper wilderness survival training. As the result of the geomagnetic disaster which serves as part of the fictional foundation of the game, we have taken liberties with the potrayal of wildlife behaviour. Hinterland Studio Inc. does not condone the wanton destruction of wildlife.”