Disco Elysium Quotes

INLAND EMPIRE - His corpse is marked by stars.

YOU - What will mine be marked by?

INLAND EMPIRE - Alcohol and heartbreak.

PHYSICAL INSTRUMENT - Your fist clenches suddenly.

YOU - It will be riddled with disco.

SHIVERS - I NEED YOU. YOU CAN KEEP ME ON THIS EARTH. BE VIGILANT. I LOVE YOU.

When life closes a door, it opens a window. And if the fall is too steep, use the fire exit. Run to the roof -- you always have that airship on the dock. The most important thing is to keep moving. Keep dreaming.

29-year-old wunder-twins Guy and Keith Joost are the stars of the show, with their bomber jackets and white sneakers -- head curators of this art exhibition. It's the wompty-dom-di-dommiest event of the year and all the cool kids have RSVP’d. Where are you, if you are not there?

ESPRIT DE CORPS - “Torson?” “Yes.” “McLaine?” “Yes.” “Heidelstam?” “No.” “Vicquemare?” “Yes.” “Du Bois?” “Of course.”

ESPRIT DE CORPS - “Really?” Nix Gottlieb looks up from the list. “Harry's our man, he'll pull through -- and when he does he'll side with Revachol.”

KIM KITSURAGI - “You need to get your shit together.”

YOU - “But I don't wanna get my shit together!”

KIM KITSURAGI - “Then the world will turn away from you, and leave you behind.”

SHIVERS - There should be something here -- a memory, a feeling, even if it's just a glimpse -- but the depths of your psyche remain silent. You don't have a single memory of your mother.

I can't believe I met you. I can't believe the happiness I feel with you. You have a vast, vast soul and I will always, always, always come back to it. Kisses, kisses, kisses.

PAYPHONE - Calling...

PAYPHONE - Calling in the night....

EMPATHY - The saddest sound in the world.

PAIN THRESHOLD - Dance till you drop. Dance till you die, if you must.

HALF LIGHT - Look at his shit-eating grin... He knows there's nothing you can do to him. He's bullying you and you are helpless. Kill him. Kill him now. He won't see death coming.

INLAND EMPIRE - It's all gone now. You never became a poet or an entroponaut.

SUGGESTION - They're leaving. They're all turning away from you.

ELECTROCHEMISTRY - No. You can figure it out. *Replace* it! Replace the alcohol with amphetamine. Or GBL! Fuck it -- morphine! Graffito removal agent! Anything. It'll buy you time. All you need is time.

CUNO - “Cuno's got zero patience for this weepy shit. Cuno's been through way worse than this.”

PAIN THRESHOLD - Yeah, that kid's taken a beating -- or ten -- from his dad. He has regard for a man who can walk after taking some damage.

Every so often, you might hear a gunshot pierce the air somewhere in Jamrock. But in Martinaise? No gunshots, no sirens. The people are languishing in boredom and complacency. This place is a sepulcher. We'll paint it red. We bring the raucous -- you bring the sirens.

ELECTROCHEMISTRY - There's a satisfying crack as the cap comes off, and the hair on your back rises like an army at attention. You've been here before. Welcome back, detective. You're home now...

LITTLE LILY - I don't say bad words. Lamby doesn't either.

HALF LIGHT - FUCK OFF.

BLOATED CORPSE OF A DRUNK - No. It's gone. Three times gone and never coming back. You failed. You failed me.

BLOATED CORPSE OF A DRUNK - You failed Elysium

EMPATHY - He was confused when he died. Confused and alone, most likely. Overcome with the awful surprise of it all.

How did you get so cool, Kim?

MEASUREHEAD - PINKNESS IS A RACIAL QUALITY THAT HAS TO BE EARNED THROUGH CENTURIES OF ADVANCED BALLISTIC WARFARE AND CULTURAL DOMINATION THAT THE GRAAD PEOPLE HAVE UNDERGONE FOR DRINKING AL GUL AND SMOKING THE DEGENERATE *TABAC* HERB... AND FOR EATING *POTATO*.

THE HANGED MAN - Love did me in, brother Coppo. It was love all along...

YOU - I'm currently in-between names.

Harry, I wanted to write you a letter, so you can read it when you wake up. Maybe it will make you happy. Every morning when I step out and you're asleep behind me, I find a little piece of sadness in me. I carry it in my chest down Voyager Road...

You're *pursued* by a hunter. Smelling of apricots and sorrow. And the past.

VOLITION - I can't help you. I am totally useless. Everything I've said is lies. I want the exact same bad things you want. To stand here, like a pillar of salt.

It would take a million years of evolution – or a total reversal in the condition of the world – for your pain to end.

YOU - That's sad.

LIMBIC SYSTEM - Yes, it is. And you drowned in that sadness a long time ago.

YOU - What do you mean, “drowned”?

LIMBIC SYSTEM - You lost.

COALITION WARSHIP ARCHER - But as the sun sets, the shadows cast by those columns and arcades weave together to form an intricate umbral lattice. When you see it, you suddenly understand: It was all built for you, for *this very moment*.

LENA, THE CRYPTOZOOLOGIST'S WIFE - A defeat, I'm afraid. The people of this archipelago tried to build something new, something *different*. The rest of the world didn't like it, so they came and ended it. This was forty two years ago.