- Gray Fox: Snake. We're not tools of the government, or anyone else. Fighting was the only thing... the only thing I was good at. But... at least I always fought for what I believed in.
- Otacon: Have you ever... loved someone?
- Solid Snake: That's what you came to ask?
- Otacon: No, I was wondering if even soldiers fall in love.
- Solid Snake: What are you trying to say?
- Otacon: I want to ask you. Do you think love can bloom even on a battlefield?
- Solid Snake: Yeah. I do. I think at any time, any place, people can fall in love with each other. But if you love someone, you have to be able to protect them.
- Naomi: You mustn't allow yourself to be chained to fate, to be ruled by your genes. Human beings can choose the kind of life that they want to live. What's important is that you choose life... and then live.
- Dr. Naomi Hunter: Are you smoking?
- Solid Snake: Yeah, so what?
- Dr. Naomi Hunter: Didn't you know that cigarettes contain benzopyrene, a chemical that leads to lung cancer? We now know that when benzopyrene enters the body, it changes to benzopyrene diolepoxide and attaches to the receptors on the P53 gene, the gene which causes lung cancer. The BPDE attaches to the P53 gene in three specific locations and causes pre-cancerous changes to the lung tissue.
- Solid Snake: You know a lot about science, but you don't know how good a cigarette tastes in the morning.
- Gray Fox: After Zanzibar, I was taken from the battle, neither truly alive, nor truly dead, an undying shadow, in a world of lights. Now, in front of you, I can finally die.
- Meryl Silverburgh: Any family?
- Solid Snake: No, but I was raised by many people.
- Meryl Silverburgh: Is there anyone you like?
- Solid Snake: I've never been interested in anyone else's life...
- Meryl Silverburgh: So you are all alone. Just like Mantis said...
- Solid Snake: Other people just complicate my life. I don't like to get involved.
- Meryl Silverburgh: ...You're a sad, lonely man.
- Naomi: Well, if you come back in one piece, maybe I'll let you do a strip search on me.
- Solid Snake: I'll hold you to that, doctor.
- Revolver Ocelot: The greatest gun ever created. The Colt Single Action Army.
- Solid Snake: If you ask me, there's no happiness to be found in death... no peace either. I'm leaving here alive.
- [about Wolf]
- Otacon: Snake. What was she fighting for? What am I fighting for? What are you fighting for?
- Solid Snake: If we make it through this I'll tell you.
- Otacon: Okay. I'll be searching too.
- Gray Fox: Good! Now we can fight as warriors! Hand to hand! It is the basis of all combat! Only a fool trusts his life to a weapon!
- Otacon: The truth is... my grandfather was part of the Manhattan Project. He lived with the guilt for the rest of his life. And my father... he was born on August 6, 1945.
- Solid Snake: The day of the Hiroshima bomb. God's got a sense of humor, all right.
- Vulcan Raven: You are a Snake which was not created by Nature. You and the Boss... you are from another world... a world that I do not wish to know...
- Meryl Silverburgh: So... tell me Snake, what's your name? Your real name?
- Solid Snake: A name means nothing on the battlefield.
- Meryl Silverburgh: How old are you?
- Solid Snake: Old enough to know what death looks like.
- Psycho Mantis: From the moment we're thrown into this world, we're fated to bring each other nothing but pain and misery.
- [Liquid suddenly appears in the Hind]
- Liquid Snake: So the Snake's finally come out of his hole? Are you ready now... my brother?
- Solid Snake: Why are you calling me brother? Who the hell are you?
- Liquid Snake: I'm YOU. I'm your shadow.
- Solid Snake: What?
- Liquid Snake: Ask the father that you killed. I'll send you to hell to meet him.
- Vulcan Raven: You live in Alaska too? You are aware of the Alaskan Indian-Eskimo Olypmics?
- Solid Snake: Yeah, I know it. You must be a real threat in the muktuk eating contest.
- Vulcan Raven: Yes, but there is another event that I excel at. It is called the ear pull. It is an event where two contestents pull each others' ears while enduring the harsh cold. It tests pysical as well as spiritual strength.
- Solid Snake: You wanna pull each other's ears?
- Solid Snake: Unfortunately, killing is just one of those things that gets easier the more you do it.
- Solid Snake: [Suspenseful music and sound effects play just like before the DARPA cheif and Baker's deaths. The music stops] You're not in pain are you?
- Otacon: Huh?
- Solid Snake: [Pats Otacon on the back] You feel okay? Nothin' bothering you?
- Otacon: What's wrong? Getting all friendly all of a sudden.
- Solid Snake: Oh, nothing. I'm glad you're okay.
- Otacon: You're strange...
- Solid Snake: I'm a little nervous. Everybody else I've saved suddenly dies.
- Otacon: You're bad luck.
- Sniper Wolf: I finally understand. I wasn't waiting to kill people, I was waiting for someone to kill me. A man like you. You're a hero.
- Master Miller: Listen. There's not a soldier alive that doesn't question himself. And if there is one, he's nothing more than a murderer.
- [Miller/Liquid Snake says this line, NOT Solid Snake]
- Solid Snake: Fox, why? What do you want from me?
- Gray Fox: I'm a prisoner of Death. Only you can free me...
- Solid Snake: Fox, stay out of this... What about Naomi? She's hell bent on taking revenge for you.
- Gray Fox: Naomi...
- Solid Snake: You're the only one that can stop her.
- Gray Fox: No... I can't.
- Solid Snake: Why?
- Gray Fox: Because I'm the one who killed her parents. I was young then and couldn't bring myself to kill her too. I felt so bad that I decided to take her with me. I raised her like she was my own blood to soothe my guilty conscience. Even now she thinks of me as her brother...
- Solid Snake: Fox...
- Gray Fox: From the outside, we might have seemed like a happy brother and sister. But every time I looked at her, I saw her parents' eyes staring back at me... Tell her for me. Tell her that I was the one who did it.
- Sniper Wolf: [as she is dying] I was born on a battlefield. Raised on a battlefield. Gunfire, sirens and screams... they were my lullabies... Hunted like dogs, day after day... driven from our ragged shelters... That... was my life. Each morning, I'd wake up... and find a few more of my family or friends dead beside me. I'd stare at the morning sun... and pray to make it through the day. The governments of the world turned a blind eye to our misery. But then... he appeared. My hero... Saladin... he took me away from all that...
- Solid Snake: Saladin... You mean Big Boss?
- Otacon: [if Meryl dies] Snake, people die. But death is not defeat, that's what Hemmingway said. I lost Wolf too, but that wasn't defeat. She and I will be together forever. We didn't lose anything.
- Liquid Snake: Foolish man. He prayed for death, and it found him. You see, Snake? You can't protect anyone, not even yourself!
- Solid Snake: [during the briefing of the mission] I told you. Even if I do owe you, I don't owe anything to this army or this country!
- Roy Campbell: You will accept this assignment.
- Solid Snake: Why should I be stupid enough to do that? I'm no patriot.
- Roy Campbell: Snake, there's enough dirt in your file, from your days as an agent, to keep you in the stockade until you're a very old man.
- Solid Snake: Oh I see... blackmail.
- Roy Campbell: No, Snake. I prefer to look at it as helping you come to a decision more easily.
- Gray Fox: I've come from another world to do battle with you.
- Solid Snake: What is it? Revenge?
- Gray Fox: It is nothing so trivial as revenge. A fight to the death with you. Only in that can my soul find respite.
- Meryl Silverburgh: Don't worry, I'm disguised in this enemy uniform.
- Solid Snake: You won't be for long with the way you walk.
- Meryl Silverburgh: What does that mean?
- Solid Snake: Oh... nothing.
- Solid Snake: How did they get your password?
- Kenneth Baker: I never had any training on how to resist torture.
- [coughs violently]
- Solid Snake: [about Ocelot] It looks like he had some fun with you alright.
- Kenneth Baker: Oh he isn't human, I tell you he loved every second of it.
- Solid Snake: What happened to your arm?
- Kenneth Baker: He broke it.
- Solid Snake: Looks like you're more than even now, his was sliced off.
- Kenneth Baker: Ha! You're a funny man.
- Roy Campbell: If you ask me, these so-called Next-Generation Special Forces should to be called "simulated soldiers". They have no real battle experience.
- Solid Snake: Video game players, huh?
- Meryl Silverburgh: So, there's something you like?
- Solid Snake: Yeah, you've got a great butt!
- Meryl Silverburgh: Oh, I see! First it's my eyes, now it's my butt! What's next?
- Solid Snake: On the battlefield, you never think about what's next.
- Roy Campbell: [after having submitted to Ocelot's torture, Snake escapes and makes his way back to where Sniper Wolf had gunned down Meryl. Colonel Campbell then contacts Snake via Codec] Snake, about Meryl.
- Solid Snake: Colonel, I'm sorry.
- Roy Campbell: Listen to me.
- Solid Snake: I wasn't able to protect her.
- Roy Campbell: Snake, it's okay. You did what you could. Now, let it rest.
- Solid Snake: Colonel...
- Roy Campbell: She joined up of her own free will. I'm sure she was prepared for this.
- Solid Snake: No, you're wrong.
- Roy Campbell: ...?
- Solid Snake: Meryl thought she had to become a soldier, thought it was the only way. She said she thought it would bring her closer to her dead father.
- Roy Campbell: [surprised] She said that?
- Solid Snake: She wasn't ready for real combat. I shouldn't have pushed her so hard. It's all my fault.
- Master Miller: That's not like you, Snake.
- Roy Campbell: Master? What is it?
- Master Miller: Sorry for eavesdropping, but I just couldn't listen anymore.
- Solid Snake: Master...
- Master Miller: Snake, you can have regrets if you want to. It's only natural, but you can't keep attacking yourself for things that happened in the past. That road leads to madness, believe me.
- Mei Ling: He's right. Don't kick yourself. It doesn't suit a legend like you. And besides that, for all we know, Meryl's okay, right?
- Solid Snake: Mei Ling...
- Roy Campbell: Snake, forget about Meryl. Stop Liquid. That's what Meryl would want, too.
- Solid Snake: You're right. Meryl would say the same thing.
- Naomi: Snake?
- Solid Snake: What?
- Naomi: Meryl... she's pretty special to you, huh?
- Solid Snake: Yes, she's special. There aren't many women like her around.
- Naomi: That's not what I meant.
- Solid Snake: She's the Colonel's niece, and a combat buddy.
- Naomi: Is that all? C'mon...
- Solid Snake: This is like a police interrogation.
- Naomi: No, I just...
- Roy Campbell: I guess it's in the genes.
- Solid Snake: The genes? What are you talking about, Colonel?
- Roy Campbell: [chuckles] No, I just remembered about Naomi's grandfather. I think Naomi said he rose as high as assistant secretary in the FBI during Edgar Hoover's time.
- Solid Snake: Is that right?
- Naomi: Yes. Yes, uh... he was, uh, Japanese, and he became a special undercover investigator to nab the mafia.
- Master Miller: When was that?
- Naomi: Oh, sometime in the '50's, I guess.
- Master Miller: Where?
- Naomi: Uh, New York, I think.
- Master Miller: Naomi, I thought you didn't have any family.
- Vulcan Raven: He and I will meet again in battle.
- Revolver Ocelot: Same prediction as always?
- Vulcan Raven: Yes. The raven on my head, it thirsts for his blood.
- Liquid Snake: [to Fox] In the Middle East we don't hunt foxes, we hunt jackals. Instead of fox hounds we use royal harriers.
- Solid Snake: Metal Gear is in an underground maintenance base to the north.
- Meryl Silverburgh: Take me too. I know this place better than you do.
- Solid Snake: You'll just slow me down. You don't have enough battle experience.
- Meryl Silverburgh: I won't slow you down. I promise...
- Solid Snake: And what if you do?
- Meryl Silverburgh: Then you can shoot me.
- Solid Snake: I don't like to waste bullets.
- Solid Snake: I'll only accept orders directly from you, Colonel. No cutoffs involved, okay?
- Roy Campbell: Agreed. That's why I was called. But one thing...
- Solid Snake: What?
- Roy Campbell: I'm not a Colonel anymore, just a retired old warhorse.
- Solid Snake: I understand... Colonel.
- Vulcan Raven: [after battling Solid Snake] He is just as you said. In battle, he is as if posessed by a demon.