Dark, Season 2

Investigator Clausen:
Expectations lead to disappointment. "Have hope," my mother used to say, "not expectations. You might just be surprised, but not disappointed."

H.G. Tannhaus:
Have you ever heard the term "bootstrap paradox"? Well, in a bootstrap paradox an artifact, or any information, is sent back to the past from the future. And this, in turn, creates an infinite cycle in which the artifact doesn't have a real origin anymore. It exists without ever having been created. To put it simply, this book has traveled back through time. It found me before I even wrote it. It's all a question of origin. Where is the beginning? When is the beginning? Is there a beginning at all? The world is full of such paradoxes.

Adam:
Where did it all begin? Where did this begin? In the past? In the future? Who can say where anything begins? Will we ever be able to know the origin of it all, or will there always be something - something that came before, and before that, and before that? Is there a beginning and an end, or is everything connected in one endless loop? Do the words 'beginning' and 'end' describe the very same moment?

Jonas Kahnwald:
I thought I had more time. Why does everyone say that? "To have time." How can we say that, when it's time that has us?

Adam:
People are peculiar creatures. All their actions are driven by desire, their characters forged by pain. As much as they might try to suppress the pain, to repress desire they cannot liberate themselves from eternal servitude to their feelings. As long as the storm rages within them, they cant find peace, Not in life not in death. And so, day after day they will do all that must be done. Pain is their ship. Desire, their compass.

Jonas Kahnwald:
What time are you from?

Martha Nielsen:
The question isn't from what time, but from what world.