Tragic Dream/Quotes

"Kim: You have absolutely no chance with her, you know? She is married and has a child.

Devon: So? Dude, fifty percent of marriages fail, and I'm a patient man.

Kim: No. You are a sad man.

Devon: Ha. That ain't gonna dissuade me. My delusional view of the world is what allows me to function like a normal person."

- All Manner of Bad

"Phillipe, Phillipe, Phillipe. The saddest thing is a retarded man who is crying and promising a broken egg that it will still be a chicken someday."

- Lie Bot, Achewood

"There is surely a really small wish. It is a wish that cannot be realised. It will remain in our hands. No matter how much one regrets, or how much one cries, what's gone and lost will never come back."

- Yuuno Scrya, Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha A's The Comics

"But why! I just wanted to understand this world's knowledge! I wanted to experience it! Free! I just wanted to be free! Free to know..."

-, Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood

"In the foregoing story, I tried to narrate the process of a defeat. I first thought of that archbishop of Canterbury who took it upon himself to prove there is a God; then, of the alchemists who sought the philosopher's stone; then, of the vain trisectors of the angle and squarers of the circle. Later I reflected that it would be more poetic to tell the case of a man who sets himself a goal which is not forbidden to others, but is to him. I remembered Averroes who, closed within the orb of Islam, could never know the meaning of the terms tragedy and comedy. I related his case; as I went along, I felt what that god mentioned by Burton must have felt when he tried to create a bull and created a buffalo instead. I felt that the work was mocking me. I felt that Averroes, wanting to imagine what a drama is without ever having suspected what a theater is, was no more absurd than I, wanting to imagine Averroes with no other sources than a few fragments from Renan, Lane and Asin Palacios."

- Jorge Luis Borges, Averroes's Search