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Tags: Sad Speech
DOCTOR: It's funny, cos I wonder where the TARDIS goes at random. Maybe it lands on some outcrop by the sea. And there's a tribe and they worship it for 100 years. Then they grow up and try to burn it. Then they get wise. They preserve it. Then they build a city all around it, till the TARDIS is just a tiny little dot, surrounded by skyscrapers and monorails. Time passes and the city falls. It all gets swept away. And there's the TARDIS… still on its outcrop… by the sea. She's the only thing I've got left.
— Fourteenth Doctor, Wild Blue Yonder
DOCTOR: Oh, the blossomiest blossom. That's the only sad thing. I want to know what happens next. Right, then. Doctor Whoever-I'm-about-to-be. Tag, you're it.
— Thirteenth Doctor, The Power of the Doctor
SIXTH DOCTOR: Angel to the left of us, angel to the right
TENTH DOCTOR: Here I am, stuck in the middle with you
— Out of Time 3 – Wink
DOCTOR: You don’t need me telling you your family isn’t always the one you were born in. Usually it is, and that’s great, that’s fantastic, but it’s not always like that, and that’s ok. And if you do find people who love you - hold on tight.
— Ninth Doctor, Station to Station
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
Tags: Speech Sad
DOCTOR: Without hope. Without witness. Without reward.
— Twelfth Doctor, The Doctor Falls
DOCTOR: Who I am is where I stand. Where I stand is where I fall.
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?
RIVER: Does sarcasm help?
DOCTOR: Wouldn't it be a great universe if it did?
— The Husbands of River Song
DOCTOR: It's my back.
RIVER: Your back?
DOCTOR: Yeah, my back's playing up. It simply refuses to carry the weight of an entirely pointless stratum of society who contribute nothing of worth to the world and crush the hopes and dreams of working people.
Tags: TwelveClara
CLARA: No. Why would you even do that? I was dead! I was dead and gone. Why? Why would you even do that to yourself?
DOCTOR: I had a duty of care.
— Hell Bent
DOCTOR: If you think because she is dead I am weak, then you understand very little. If you were any part of killing her, and you're not afraid, then you understand nothing at all. So, for your own sake, understand this. I am the Doctor. I'm coming to find you, and I will never, ever stop.
— Twelfth Doctor, Heaven Sent
DOCTOR: I've finally run out of corridor. There's a life summed up.
DOCTOR: I'm so pleased to finally see you. I'm the Doctor and I will be your victim this evening. Are you my mummy?
— Twelfth Doctor, Mummy on the Orient Express
Tags: Sad
DOCTOR: Sometimes the only choices you have are bad ones. But you still have to choose.
DOCTOR: He asked you a question. Will you help me?
CLARA: You shouldn't have been listening.
DOCTOR: I wasn't. I didn't need to. That was me talking. You can't see me, can you? You look at me, and you can't see me. Have you any idea what that's like? I'm not on the phone, I'm right here, standing in front of you. Please, just, just see me.
— Deep Breath
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
WAR DOCTOR: You're my future selves?
TEN & ELEVEN: Yes!
WAR DOCTOR: Am I having a midlife crisis? Why are you pointing your screwdrivers like that? They're scientific instruments, not water pistols. Look like you've seen a ghost.
— The Day of the Doctor
TENTH DOCTOR: It's a machine that goes ding. Made it myself. Lights up in the presence of shape-shifter DNA. Ooo. Also it can microwave frozen dinners from up to twenty feet and download comics from the future. I never know when to stop.
— Tenth Doctor, The Day of the Doctor
ELEVENTH DOCTOR: Listen, what you get up to in the privacy of your own regeneration is your business.
TENTH DOCTOR: One of them is a Zygon.
ELEVENTH DOCTOR: Urgh. I'm not judging you.
DOCTOR: Charley, C'Rizz, Lucie, Tamsin, Molly. Friends, companions I've known, I salute you. And Cass, I apologise. Physician, heal thyself.
— 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
DOCTOR: Because every time you see them happy you remember how sad they’re going to be. And it breaks your heart. Because what’s the point in them being happy if they’re going to be sad later? The answer is, of course, because they are going to be sad later.
— Eleventh Doctor, The Doctor, the Widow and the Wardrobe
AMY: You want to be forgiven.
DOCTOR: Don't we all?
— The Doctor’s Wife
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