My Favourite Disco Elysium Quotes

Not a guide, just a list of some quotes from the game. May contain spoilers, view at your own discretion.

Intro

In this "guide", I compiled my favourite quotes from Disco Elysium. List 1 is for more serious quotes that broke me, rewired my brain, or both at the same time. List 2 is for the more goofy quotes - I want to have ♥♥♥♥ with you.

I'll keep updating the list as time goes on.
Last update: Dec 5 2024

List 1

• "No. This is somewhere to be. This is all you have, but it's still something. Streets and sodium lights. The sky, the world. You're still alive." - Volition
  
  
• "The limbed and headed machine of pain and undignified suffering is firing up again. It wants to walk the desert. Hurting. Longing. Dancing to disco music." - Ancient Reptilian Brain
  
  
• "0.000% of Communism has been built. Evil child-murdering billionaires still rule the world with a ♥♥♥♥-eating grin. All he has managed to do is make himself *sad*. He is starting to suspect Kras Mazov *♥♥♥♥♥♥ him over* personally with his socio-economic theory. It has, however, made him into a very, very smart boy with something like a university degree in Truth. Instead of building Communism, he now builds a precise model of this grotesque, duplicitous world."
  
  
• "There is a radio in the distance. A radio of the world. Playing sounds: Good morning, Elysium. Soon you will return to the world." - Perception
  
  
• "Right here. Tomorrow night. Once this dream starts happening it keeps happening — three times a week. At least, And Harry, it really really looks like it's started *happening* again. There's the video rental... I'm suffocatingly beautiful. And young. And I smell of tutti frutti chewing gum — like I did that time when I asked you for forgiveness. After leaving you the first time, so long ago..."
  
  
• "This is real darkness. It's not death, or war, or child molestation. Real darkness has love for a face. The first death is in the heart, Harry." - The Ex-Something
  
  
• "I AM A FRAGMENT OF THE WORLD SPIRIT, THE GENIUS LOCI OF REVACHOL. MY HEART IS THE WIND CORRIDOR. THE BOTTOM OF MY AIR IS RED. I HAVE A HUNDRED THOUSAND LUMINOUS ARMS. COME MORNING, I CARRY INDUSTRIAL DUST AND LET IT SETTLE ON TREE LEAVES. I SHAKE THE DUST FROM THOSE LEAVES AND ONTO YOUR COAT. I'VE SEEN YOU, I'VE SEEN YOU! I'VE SEEN YOU WITH HER — AND I'VE SEEN YOU WITHOUT HER. I'VE SEEN YOU ON THE CRESCENT OF THE HILL." - Shivers
  
  
• "It's quite easy: every hundred years or so our species gets together to decide what's next: who gets shot in the head and who gets the mineral rights — it's a real *kerfuffle*." - Joyce Messier
  
  
• "You are a violent and irrepressible miracle. The vacuum of cosmos and the stars burning in it are afraid of you. Given enough time you would wipe us all out and replace us with nothing — just by accident." - The Insulindian Phasmid
  
  
• "TRUE LOVE IS POSSIBLE ONLY IN THE NEXT WORLD - FOR NEW PEOPLE. IT IS TOO LATE FOR US. WREAK HAVOC ON THE MIDDLE CLASS" - The Mural
  
  
• "This was not about failure or success. This was always going to be horror. I should not have suggested it, and you should not have listened to me."
  
  
• "The mask of humanity fall from capital. It has to take it off to kill everyone -- everything you love; all the hope and tenderness in the world. It has to take it off, just for one second. To do the deed." - The Deserter
  
  
• "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." - Dora Ingerlund
  
  
• "Capital has the ability to subsume all critiques into itself. Even those who would *critique* capital end up *reinforcing* it instead." - Joyce Messier
  
  
• "All the gifts your parents gave you, all the love and patience of your friends, you drowned in a neurotoxin. You let misery win. And it will keep on winning till you die — or overcome it.
  
  
• "And then you see it. As it strangles and beats your friends to death... the sweetest most courageous people in the world. You see the fear and power in its eyes. Then you *know*. That the bourgeois are not human." - The Deserter
  
  
• "Mother, help me, there's a head attached to my neck and I'm *in* it."
  The stench of liquor rises from your mouth. And with it -- an *un-godly* headache.
  "Help! Someone! Cut my head off, it's trying to murder the rest of me!"
  
  
• "Every school of thought and government has failed in this city -- but I love it nonetheless. It belongs to me as much as it belongs to you." - Acele Berger
  
  
• "People imagine picking up and finding *something better* is an easy solution. But how is that supposed to work, when all your time and energy goes to staying alive? You have almost nothing to set aside to actually fight your way out."

List 2

• Starting off with the classic - "I want to have ♥♥♥♥ with you"
  
  
• "So I should just... just... get a hat and ♥♥♥♥ it, right?!’ point to your head where the hat should be ‘Engage in sexual intercourse with a hat, because you told me so? On the SEA ICE?!"
  Start jumping up and down on the sea ice, gesturing towards it with both hands, as if to say, THIS is where it was supposed to take place!
  
  
• "You need to bring the thumb of your right hand — your sword hand — to your rectum and stick it in there to form the Arch of Honours. All I ever wanted was to live with dignity — to die with honour. (Stick your thumb in your ass.)"
  
  
• You: Crime bros. (nod at Kim) We're called *crime bros*, my partner and I.
  Plaisance: You're called... *what*? What is this, a joke, mister policeman? Do you commit *crimes* together or what?
  Kim: (quickly turns away to hide the fact that he is just about to crack up)
  
  
• Savoir Faire: This is a cool moment. It needs a cool thing to be said.
  You: (Say the cool thing) Let's rock with our ♥♥♥♥.
  Kim: .. What?
  You: What?
  Kim: (Barely suppressing a laugh) What did you say?
  
  
• You: Kim, I know the alphabet now.
  Kim: Good. I also know the alphabet.
  
  
• "When you say *wounded* do you mean in a *cool* way? Like a *wild beast*?"
  
  
• "Say one of these fascist or communist things or ♥♥♥♥ off."
  
  
• Kim: I think this racist is better than the last, but the next racist will be the really good one.
  You: That will be our lucky racist!
  Kim: He will grant us three wishes.
  
  
• Kim: Do you remember how when we met Measurehead and I said the next racist will be the really good one?
  You: Yes.
  Kim: Well... (gestures toward Gary as if presenting a work of art) This is that racist.
  You: Our lucky racist! Will you grant us three wishes, Gary?
  
  
• "For your information you did not 'teleport' up the ladder, you climbed it with your eyes closed."
  
  
• Idiot Doom Spiral: Supposedly, when they performed the autopsy, the coroner discovered nearly a quarter kilo of coke jammed into his nasal cavity.
  Logic: That's... almost certainly anatomically impossible.
  Electrochemistry: WRONG AGAIN, NERD. Where there's a will, there's a way.
  
  
• "You're not an ultraliberal, Harry. Get the ♥♥♥♥ out of here. Don't be a retard."
  
  
• "This is the face of a late-stage alcoholic."
  
  
• "One moment you're running like the wind, then you've suddenly turned around and are giving him the finger. Furiously, with both hands. Why?! Why did I do this? Why did I have to use *both* my hands to flip him off? Why both..."
  
  
• "Talkin' ♥♥♥♥ about Cuno's velocity..."
  
  
• "A hug a day keeps the bourgeoisie away!"
  
  
• Logic: "She could have done it, but there's something else missing, Walla-Walla-Bing-Bang."
  You: "Walla-Walla-Bing-Bang?"
  Logic: "I don't know what it means, but that's what the witch-doctor would say!"

THE SMALLEST CHURCH IN SUSSEX

[Cornelius Johannes Cornwallis]

"In dark times, should the stars also go out?" - Steban (Communist Vision Quest)

[1000ADIM]

"The road to healing is a long one." doğrusu.

[Kozmik Latte]

Road to healing is going to be alone one
-Volition

[Ca1_A_Gat0r]

Just 2 of my favorites include:

You: "Is architecture art?"
Conceptualization: "No, of course not! It's just autism!"

Logic: "She could have done it, but there's something else missing, Walla-Walla-Bing-Bang."
You: "Walla-Walla-Bing-Bang?"
Logic: "I don't know what it means, but that's what the witch-doctor would say!"