Updated: January 6, 2024
Here’s a collection of quotes from the Korean drama, Death’s Game (2023):
Episode 1
- “What did I ever do? Why do I have to go there when I haven’t done anything wrong?” – Choi Yee Jae
- “You are guilty of coming to find me before I came to find you.” – Death
“I wanted a clean death. That was the only thing I ever wanted. To be able to do that, I can’t let myself die like this.” – Choi Yee Jae
“The most difficult thing to achieve is an ordinary life where you get a job and get married just like everyone else.” – Choi Yee Jae
“While I stood in place, unable to move forward, and the days kept repeating, what scared me the most was my uncertain future.” – Choi Yee Jae
- “There’s no further hope for me. It’s life that I’m afraid of. I’m not afraid of death at all.” – Choi Yee Jae
- “Death is merely a means of ending the pain I’m in. I refuse to struggle to survive anymore.” – Choi Yee Jae
“I am the only being that never dies. I am the thing you mocked. Death.” – Death
- “Do you still think death is the end of it all? This is only the beginning.” – Death
- “To me, death is the beginning.” – Death
“Each day felt like hell while I was alive. Now I have to go to hell even after I die.” – Choi Yee Jae
“Humans are really amazing. They say their life is like hell, but they bear with it and carry on living in their so-called hell.” – Death
- “What’s your impression of the real hell? Do you think you can even last a minute in there?” – Death
- “I can’t end up in hell. I have to survive. That’s right. This is an opportunity. I need to grab onto it, no matter what.” – Choi Yee Jae
- “These aren’t bonus rounds. This is a punishment that will teach you how scary and painful death can be before you go to hell.” – Death
“A parachute is the only lifeline in a fall.”
Episode 2
- “All these deaths are inevitable.” – Choi Yee Jae
- “It’s avoidable.” – Death
“I said this is a punishment. It’s natural that it’s painful.” – Death
- “Why did you kill yourself?” – Death
- “Because all I could see was darkness whether my eyes were open or shut.” – Choi Yee Jae
“Did school become hell because my bullies are demons? Or did I end up falling into hell because of something I had done?” – Kwon Hyeok Su
“It was never my goal to become rich. My humble wish was to get a job, get married, and start a family like everyone else. But to me, such common things were an unattainable goal.” – Choi Yee Jae
“Cliques are the problem, whether it’s in school or out in the world.” – Kwon Hyeok Su
“Isn’t that what you humans do? You care more about the thorn in your own finger than the knife inside someone else’s body.” – Death
Episodes 3-4
“At first, it felt so unfair. But now, I regret being trapped in a prison called death after going out of the way to ruin my own life. It’s too late now, though.” – Choi Yee Jae
“Now that I’ve seen what hell is like, I’ve realized that being alive in itself was a chance. That’s why I don’t think it’s too late for you yet.” – Cho Tae Sang
“No one is guaranteed anything in life. You’ve just been taking everything for granted.” – Death
- “Humans always struggle to life only after they die, not while they are still alive.” – Death
- “A man may give up his life for the woman he loves, but he would never give up the woman.” – Choi Yee Jae
- “If only I had kept you from leaving that night, if I hadn’t said those things, would you have made a different choice?” – Ji Su
“The uneventful days when we walked together hand in hand. Those moments alone were more than enough reason to go on. Why hadn’t I realized it sooner?” – Choi Yee Jae
“The reason we’re afraid of death is because there will be no tomorrow. That’s why I’m afraid that death might come knocking at this very moment.” – Choi Yee Jae
- “Does that story of yours have a happy ending?” – Ji Su
- “Do you think that a happy ending is possible?” – Choi Yee Jae
- “I sincerely hope that your story ends happily.” – Ji Su
“You can’t really say you’re living when you live in constant fear.” – Ji Su
“People are happiest when they can truly be themselves. In the end, life would be meaningless if you can never really be yourself.” – Ji Su
“Why didn’t I realize then that I had people in my life who would cry with me during difficult times?” – Choi Yee Jae
Episode 5
“A simpleton like you always ruins everything by overthinking it.” – Death
“Fire does not get burned. Water does not get wet. Death does not die.” – Death
- “Humans sometimes have to fight the losing battle.” – Choi Yee Jae
- “Humans never listen, no matter how much you warn them.” – Death
“I was born into an ordinary family, but I realized at an early age that I was born with a special gift. But the world failed to recognize my gift.” – Jeong Gyu Cheol
Episode 6
“My mom once told me, ‘Your sins will end up finding their way back to you, so don’t ever commit them’. But I learned that the sins of the rich never seem to come back to them.” – Choi Yee Jae
“The punished becomes the punisher? That will only make you pay a greater price.” – Death
“When will you realize that death never goes as planned?” – Death
“I belatedly realized that a person’s character is determined not by the beliefs they hold, but by the actions over the course of their lifetime.” – An Ji Hyeong
“Killers don’t walk around wearing name tags, you see. An ordinary-looking person may be a hideous demon on the inside.” – An Ji Hyeong
“I can’t do anything right even after I die.” – An Ji Hyeong
“You’re not the one who gets to decide how this story ends. Every good story always has a twist.” – Jang Geonu
Episode 7
“For someone who values his own life so much, you don’t seem to care much about the lives of others.” – An Ji Hyeong
“I kept running until I ran out of breath to get my revenge. All that was left for me was the fact that I had to die again.” – An Ji Hyeong
- “Due to my actions, many people ended up cherishing his memory. But the deeds I accomplished as An Ji Hyeon had nothing to do with me in the end.” – Choi Yee Jae
- “I don’t know who I am anymore.” – Choi Yee Jae
“I finally came to understand that being reborn time and again as different people was all pointless if I could no longer live as my true self.” – Choi Yee Jae
“The empty void left in his heart was desperately wishing for death. Just like how I had felt then. Once again, I had to make a choice.” – Choi Yee Jae
“Humans don’t recognize an opportunity even when it’s handed to them.” – Death
“Death is merely a means of ending the pain I’m in.” – Choi Yee Jae
Episode 8
- “I had always thought that I knew a lot about my mother. But it turns out that I didn’t know anything.” – Choi Yee Jae
- “Her happiness, which she thought would last forever, was but fleeting.” – Choi Yee Jae
“My mom walked through a much darker and deeper tunnel than I had ever walked. And yet, she never gave up or looked back. She simply kept trudging onward.” – Choi Yee Jae
- “I was blessed to have a mom like that. Foolishly, I never counted my blessings.” – Choi Yee Jae
- “Death is contagious. As I disappeared from the world, my death remained behind with those who loved me.” – Choi Yee Jae
“The death that caused me the most pain wasn’t when I burned to death or when my limbs were severed. It was the death of someone that I loved dearly.” – Choi Yee Jae
“But none of my words nor any of my feelings could reach her. That’s just how death is.” – Choi Yee Jae
“I lived for 32 years, which was longer than the time I lived as Choi Yee Jae in remembrance of the people to whom I’ve said goodbye.” – Choi Yee Jae
“You can’t really say you’re living when you live in constant fear. But since I was a coward, I always lived in constant fear. Afraid that the world wouldn’t recognize my worth, that I would fall behind my peers, and that I would be rejected. I ended up taking my own life due to this fear before my life could even blossom.” – Choi Yee Jae
“I only realized after dying that life in itself was an opportunity. And the pain that I thought engulfed my whole life was only a small part of it.” – Choi Yee Jae
“A clear day. A rainy day. A windy day. I learned that life was made up of these different days. And that it was okay to fail as long as I kept going.” – Choi Yee Jae
Genre: Fantasy, Drama
Synopsis: A man realizes the meaning of life after being sentenced by a mysterious being with 12 times of deaths and reincarnations before he falls down to hell.
Based on: a popular webtoon of the same name by Lee Won Sik
No of episodes: 8
Cast: Seo In-guk, Park So-dam, Kim Ji-hoon, Choi Si-won, Sung Hoon, Kim Kang-hoon, Jang Seung-joo, Lee Jae-wook, Lee Do-hyun, Go Youn-jung, Kim Jae-wook, Oh Jung-se
Writer: Ha Byung Hoon
Director: Ha Byung Hoon
Network: TVING
Streaming platform: Prime Video
Date: December 15, 2023
Subtitle translation: Prime Video
Images: TVING
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