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DOCTOR: Do you know how lonely you are? You live in a great, big, giant spaceship and there aren't any chairs! And you haven't even noticed because nobody ever comes round!
— Fifteenth Doctor, Joy to the World
Tags: Speech
DOCTOR: Never be cruel. Never be cowardly. Hate is always foolish. Love is always wise. Always try to be nice, but never fail to be kind.
— Twelfth Doctor, Twice Upon a Time
DOCTOR: Winning? Is that what you think it's about? I'm not trying to win. I'm not doing this because I want to beat someone, or because I hate someone, or because, because I want to blame someone. It's not because it's fun and God knows it's not because it's easy. It's not even because it works, because it hardly ever does. I do what I do, because it's right! Because it's decent! And above all, it's kind. It's just that. Just kind. If I run away today, good people will die. If I stand and fight, some of them might live. Maybe not many, maybe not for long. Hey, you know, maybe there's no point in any of this at all, but it's the best I can do, so I'm going to do it. And I will stand here doing it till it kills me. You're going to die too, some day. How will that be? Have you thought about it? What would you die for? Who I am is where I stand. Where I stand, is where I fall. Stand with me. These people are terrified. Maybe we can help, a little. Why not, just at the end, just be kind?
— Twelfth Doctor, The Doctor Falls
RIVER: So, assuming tonight is all we have left.
DOCTOR: I didn't say that.
RIVER: How long is a night on Darillium?
DOCTOR: Twenty four years.
RIVER: I hate you.
DOCTOR: No, you don't.
— The Husbands of River Song
Tags: Sad Speech
DOCTOR: Nothing’s sad until it’s over, and then everything is.
— Twelfth Doctor, Hell Bent
DOCTOR: I've finally run out of corridor. There's a life summed up.
— Twelfth Doctor, Heaven Sent
BONNIE: It's not fair.
DOCTOR: Oh, it's not fair! Oh, I didn't realise that it was not fair! You know what? My TARDIS doesn't work properly and I don't have my own personal tailor.
BONNIE: The things don't equate.
DOCTOR: These things have happened, Zygella, they are facts. You just want cruelty to beget cruelty. You're not superior to people who were cruel to you, you're just a whole bunch of new cruel people. A whole bunch of new cruel people being cruel to some other people, who'll end up being cruel to you. The only way anyone can live in peace is if they're prepared to forgive. Why don't you break the cycle?
BONNIE: Why should we?
DOCTOR: What is it that you actually want?
BONNIE: War.
DOCTOR: Ah, ah right! And when this war is over, when you have a homeland free from humans, what do you think it's going to be like? Do you know? Have you thought about it? Have you given it any consideration? Because you're very close to getting what you want. What's it going to be like? Paint me a picture. Are you going to live in houses? Do you want people to go to work? Will there be holidays? Oh! Will there be music? Do you think people will be allowed to play violins? Who's going to make the violins? Well? Oh, you don't actually know, do you? Because, like every other tantrumming child in history, Bonnie, you don't actually know what you want. So, let me ask you a question about this brave new world of yours. When you've killed all the bad guys, and when it's all perfect and just and fair, when you have finally got it exactly the way you want it, what are you going to do with the people like you? The troublemakers. How are you going to protect your glorious revolution from the next one?
BONNIE: We'll win.
DOCTOR: Oh, will you? Well, maybe... maybe you will win! But nobody wins for long. The wheel just keeps turning. So, come on. Break the cycle.
BONNIE: Why are you still talking?
Because I want to get you to see, and I'm almost there!
BONNIE: You know what I see, Doctor? A box. A box with everything I need. A 50% chance.
KATE: For us, too.
DOCTOR: And we're off! Fingers on buzzers! Are you feeling lucky? Are you ready to play the game? Who's going to be quickest? Who's going to be the luckiest?
KATE: This is not a game!
DOCTOR: No, it's not a game, sweetheart, and I mean that most sincerely.
BONNIE: Why are you doing this?
KATE: Yes, I'd quite like to know that, too. You set this up -- why?
DOCTOR: Because it's not a game, Kate. This is a scale model of war. Every war ever fought, right there in front of you. Because it's always the same. When you fire that first shot, no matter how right you feel, you have no idea who's going to die! You don't know whose children are going to scream and burn! How many hearts will be broken! How many lives shattered! How much blood will spill until everybody does what they were always going to have to do from the very beginning -- sit down and talk! Listen to me. Listen, I just... I just want you to think. Do you know what thinking is? It's a fancy word for changing your mind.
BONNIE: I will not change my mind.
DOCTOR: Then you will die stupid. Alternatively, you could step away from that box, you can walk right out of that door and you could stand your revolution down.
BONNIE: No! I'm not stopping this, Doctor. I started it. I will not stop it. You think they'll let me go, after what I've done?
DOCTOR: You're all the same, you screaming kids. You know that? "Look at me, I'm unforgivable." Well, here's the unforeseeable. I forgive you... after all you've done. I forgive you.
BONNIE: You don't understand. You will never understand.
DOCTOR: I don't understand? Are you kidding? Me? Of course I understand. You mean, you call this a war? This funny little thing? This is not a war! I fought in a bigger war than you will ever know. I did worse things than you could ever imagine. And when I close my eyes... I hear more screams than anyone could ever be able to count! And do you know what you do with all that pain? Shall I tell you where you put it? You hold it tight... till it burns your hand, and you say this... No one else will ever have to live like this! No one else will have to feel this pain! Not on my watch!
— The Zygon Inversion
DOCTOR: We all change, when you think about it. We're all different people all through our lives. And that's okay, that's good, you've got to keep moving, so long as you remember all the people that you used to be. I will not forget one line of this. Not one day. I swear. I will always remember when the Doctor was me.
— Eleventh Doctor, The Time of the Doctor
DOCTOR: I'm a doctor. But probably not the one you're expecting.
— Eighth Doctor, The Night of the Doctor
DOCTOR: I walked away from the last Great Time War. I marked the passing of the Time Lords.
I saw the birth of the universe and I watched as time ran out, moment by moment, until nothing remained.
No time. No space. Just me.
I walked in universes where the laws of physics were devised by the mind of a mad man.
I've watched universes freeze and creations burn. I've seen things you wouldn't believe. I have lost things you will never understand.
And I know things. Secrets that must never be told. Knowledge that must never be spoken. Knowledge that will make parasite gods blaze.
So come on, then. Take it! Take it all, baby! Have it! You have it all!
— The Rings of Akhaten
HOUSE: Fear me. I've killed hundreds of Time Lords.
DOCTOR: Fear me. I've killed all of them.
— The Doctor’s Wife
DOCTOR: Who's she?
SARDICK: Nobody important.
DOCTOR: Nobody important. Blimey, that's amazing. Do you know, in nine hundred years of time and space, I've never met anyone who wasn't important before.
— A Christmas Carol
DOCTOR: The way I see it, every life is a pile of good things and bad things. The good things don’t always soften the bad things, but vice versa, the bad things don’t always spoil the good things or make them unimportant.
— Eleventh Doctor, Vincent and the Doctor
LUCIE: What did you say it stood for again? Time And Relative Dimensions...
THE DOCTOR: Yes..
LUCIE: Time And Relative Dimensions In Shed.
THE DOCTOR: That is not what is stands for.
LUCIE: Yes it does. It's a shed.
— Max Warp
DOCTOR: People assume that time is a strict progression of cause to effect, but actually from a non-linear, non-subjective viewpoint, it's more like a big ball of wibbly-wobbly, timey-wimey... stuff.
— Tenth Doctor, Blink
DOCTOR: Everybody lives, Rose. Just this once, everybody lives!
— Ninth Doctor, The Doctor Dances
DOCTOR: Do you know like we were saying about the Earth revolving? It's like when you were a kid. The first time they tell you the world's turning and you just can't quite believe it because everything looks like it's standing still. I can feel it. The turn of the Earth. The ground beneath our feet is spinning at a thousand miles an hour, and the entire planet is hurtling round the sun at sixty seven thousand miles an hour, and I can feel it. We're falling through space, you and me, clinging to the skin of this tiny little world, and if we let go. That's who I am. Now, forget me, Rose Tyler. Go home.
— Ninth Doctor, Rose
DOCTOR: I didn't expect to care for you as much as I did. That was my mistake.
When it came to it, with the Web of Time hanging in the balance, having to make
a choice between you and the universe, I'd say hang the Web of Time, you're
more important. Let the universe rot. Charley, you're worth more than all that. I
sacrificed myself for you, to save your life. And I did it gladly. I thought I'd never
see you again. That it wouldn't matter so long as I knew you were safe.
CHARLEY: I don't understand. You're saying you did care for me, after all. That
you loved me.
DOCTOR: Of course I loved you! I killed myself for you, didn't I? Of course I
loved you. Of course I love you.
— Scherzo
I’ve been too methodical recently, I think. Setting coordinates and things, actually deciding where we want to go. I’ve been getting far too safe and predictable these last few incarnations. Do you know I once traveled for centuries without ever knowing where I’d materialize next?
— Eighth Doctor, The Chimes of Midnight
DOCTOR: You feel that pounding in your heart? That tightness in the pit of your stomach? The blood rushing to your head, do you know what that is? That's adventure. The thrill and the fear, and the joy of stepping into the unknown. That's why we're all here, and that's why we're alive!
— Eighth Doctor, Storm Warning
DOCTOR: I love humans. Always seeing patterns in things that aren’t there.
— Eighth Doctor, Doctor Who (The TV Movie)
DOCTOR: There are worlds out there where the sky is burning, where the sea's asleep, and the rivers dream. People made of smoke, and cities made of song. Somewhere there's danger, somewhere there's injustice, and somewhere else the tea's getting cold. Come on, Ace, we've got work to do!
— Seventh Doctor, Survival
Tags: Funny
DAVROS: The Daleks shall become Lords of Time! We shall become all-
DOCTOR: - Powerful. Crush the lesser races. Conquer the galaxy. Unimaginable power. Unlimited rice pudding, et cetera, et cetera.
— Remembrance of the Daleks
DOCTOR: I say, what a wonderful butler. He's so violent.
— Fourth Doctor, City of Death
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