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The games of the PlayStation 2 Ace Combat trilogy contain a number of quotes, which are shown in their respective loading screens. The quotes shown often carry a poetic or philosophical connotation, which fits with the games' setting. Many quotes are original lines written by the Project Aces staff, although a small number are from real life texts or individuals.

Ace Combat 04: Shattered Skies
"Amidst the blue skies, a link from past to future. The sheltering wings of the protector.../The flames of hatred scorch the skies, igniting Gaia's funeral pyre..."

- Original quote

Ace Combat 5: The Unsung War
"Amidst the eternal waves of time/From a ripple of change shall the storm rise/Out of the abyss peer the eyes of a demon/Behold the Razgriz, its wings of black sheath"

- Razgriz poem

"The demon soars through dark skies/Fear and death trail in its shadow beneath/Until men united wield a hallowed sabre/In final reckoning, the beast is slain"

- Razgriz poem fragment

"As the demon sleeps man turns on man/His blood and madness soon cover the earth/From the depths of despair awaken the Razgriz/Its black wings ablaze in majestic light"

- Razgriz poem fragment

"Nothing else comes close."

- Free Mission and scene viewer; also used as the game's tagline

"Focus. Control. Conviction. Resolve. A true ace lacks none of these attributes. Nothing can deter you from the task at hand except your own fears. This is your sky."

- Arcade Mode

Ace Combat Zero: The Belkan War
"For after all what is man in nature? A nothing in relation to infinity, all in relation to nothing, a central point between nothing and all and infinitely far from understanding either."

- Blaise Pascal, French philosopher, "Pascal's Wager"

"Then nothingness was not, nor existence. There was no air then, nor heavens beyond it. Who covered it? Where was it? In whose keeping? Was there then cosmic water, in depths unfathomed?"

- Hymn of creation, Indian Rigveda

"Without beginning or end, the ring stretches into the infinite. None could forsee that the history of the two would become one."

- Final mission, unknown author