Buffy: Does it ever get easy?
Giles: You mean life?
Buffy: Yeah, does it get easy?
Giles: What do you want me to say?
Buffy: Lie to me.
Giles: Yes. It's terribly simple. The good guys are always stalwart and true. The bad guys are easily distinguished by their pointy horns or black hats, and, uh, we always defeat them and save the day. No one ever dies and... everybody lives happily ever after.
Buffy: Liar.
     - Buffy the Vampire Slayer, episode Lie To Me

"Why can't we get all the people together in the world that we really like, and then just stay together forever? Someone would leave. Someone always leaves. And then we'd have to say goodbye. I hate goodbyes."
     - Charlie Brown, Snoopy Come Home

"Once upon a time, a witch laid a curse which cast a princess into an eternal slumber. One day a young man appeared, intending to awake her. But then, a voice whispers "Awaken the princess from her sleep? What a cruel thing to do! For what if the princess wishes not to receive the kiss of awakening, but rather to continue to sleep forever?""
     - Introduction from Dreaming Aurora episode of Princess TuTu

"Do not speak unless you can improve the silence."
     - Baroness Rodmilla De Ghent, Ever After (Also a proverb)

"You know when I said I knew little about love? That wasn't true. I know a lot about love. I've seen it, centuries and centuries of it, and it was the only thing that made watching your world bearable. All those wars. Pain, lies, hate... It made me want to turn away and never look down again. But when I see the way that mankind loves... You could search to the furthest reaches of the universe and never find anything more beautiful. So yes, I know that love is unconditional. But I also know that it can be unpredictable, unexpected, uncontrollable, unbearable and strangely easy to mistake for loathing, and... What I'm trying to say is... I think I love you. My heart... It feels like my chest can barely contain it. Like it's trying to escape because it doesn't belong to me any more. It belongs to you. And if you wanted it, I'd wish for nothing in exchange - no gifts. No goods. No demonstrations of devotion. Nothing but knowing you loved me too. Just your heart, in exchange for mine."
     - Yvaine, Stardust

"I was really happy for the first time in a long time and as soon as I felt this thing, this happy thing, l- I wanted to be with you. You were the first person I wanted to be with. I mean, then it hit me, and this was around 6am you know, it hit me that... the reason that I was so sad when you got so happy... and I was happier when you got so sad... was not because I didn't want you to be happy. It was just because I wanted to be part of the reason you were happy. I wanna make you happy."
     - Josh, Kissing Jessica Stein

"Death comes to everyone and it is not something to fear. People fear, not death, but having life taken from them. Many waste the life given to them, occupying themselves with things that do not matter. When the end comes they say they did not have time enough to spend with loved ones, to fulfill dreams, to go on adventures they only talked about. But why should you fear death if you are happy with the life you have lead? If you can look back on everything and say "Yes, I am content," it is enough."
     - Dragon Age Origins (Wynne)

"And which is worse? The actions of those who believed they were right? Or the inaction of those who knew they were wrong?"
     - Dragon Age Origins (Sarel)