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<option>They banished him from the Kingdom at the Center of the Earth. It seemed a harsh punishment at first. But then he saw the sky.|A Small Fiction</option>
<option>Mankind always yearned for the stars. We chased them, and found a new world. A home. But it wasn't long before we looked to the sky again.|A Small Fiction</option>
<option>She didn't fall to despair. She prepared, instead, for adventure. She knew what heroes knew. To save the world, it must first be in danger.|A Small Fiction</option>
<option>He was lost in the Old Wood, a place that had once birthed myths and nightmares. And, as he would soon find out, where they had never died.|A Small Fiction</option>
<option>The old mapmaker wet his quill. "Here be dragons," He labeled the wild beyond man's kingdom. "Here be monsters," he labeled the rest.|A Small Fiction</option>
<option>Humanity watched the stars. They were afraid something was out there, watching us. And also that nothing was.|A Small Fiction</option>
<option>We lit the constellations with lines of fire drawn from the stars. It burned out the stars, eventually. But for a time it was beautiful.|A Small Fiction</option>
<option>It took years to find a new Earth; centuries to reach it. At last, we stood under blue sky. A yellow sun. And wished it wasn't so familiar.|A Small Fiction</option>
<option>These woods are lovely, dark and deep,<br/>But I have promises to keep,<br/>And miles to go before I sleep,<br/>And miles to go before I sleep.|Robert Frost</option>
<option>Humanity was gone, they came for what we left behind. Our ruins didn't interest them. Instead they shifted through the echoes of our minds.|A Small Fiction</option>
<option>The Earth and the Stars had a wager to figure the pull with more sway: the gravity pulling men downward, or the longing that pulled them away.|A Small Fiction</option>
<option>I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.|Douglas Adams</option>
<option>Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit.|Henry Adams</option>
<option>This is the world as it is. This is where you start.|Saul D. Alinsky</option>
<option>There will come a time of fire and night, when enemies rise and empires fall, when the stars themselves begin to die.|Kevin J. Anderson</option>
<option>A ship is safe in a harbour. But then that's not what ships are for.</option>
<option>To venture in the fair unknown<br>I must enter as I leave:<br>A traveler, alone.</option>
<option>Here men from the planet Earth first set foot upon the Moon July 1969, A.D. We came in peace for all mankind.|Apollo 11 Lunar Plaque</option>
<option>What are men to rocks and mountains?|Jane Austen</option>
<option>There is a wilderness we walk alone/<br>However well-companioned|Stephen V. Benét</option>
<option>Message of the blowing wind<br/>Erasing memories<br/>Stars are the witnesses of our existence<br/><br/>Change is what the world awaits<br/>Could that be peace or war?<br/>The answer no one knows<br/>Trusting the break of dawn|Beyond the Bounds</option>
<option>Travelling beyond the bounds<br/>We have to take that step<br/>What are we waiting for? It's now or never<br/><br/>Fear to see "The World to Be"<br/>Is why we hesitate<br/>Repeat the same mistake<br/>Hoping to break new ground|Beyond the Bounds</option>
<option><small>We are travelers, constantly moving forward, and looking back. Alone and as one, We have no choice but to try for our insatiable curiosity, for our fear in what should happen if we don't. You are the explorer now. We will say goodbye, and you will look back one last time, and know that wherever you go, we will be with you. This is Commander Shepard, signing off.</small>|Bioware</option>
<option>Energy rightly applied and directed will accomplish anything.|Nellie Bly</option>
<option>There are but two powers in the world, the sword and the mind. In the long run the sword is always beaten by the mind.|Napoleon Bonaparte</option>
<option>We are at the edge of an abyss and we're close to being irrevocably lost.|David R. Brower</option>
<option>Nothing lives long<br/>Only the earth and mountains|Dee Brown</option>
<option>Between memory and reality there are awkward discrepancies...|Eileen Chang</option>
<option>Very few of us are what we seem.|Agatha Christie</option>
<option>Those wanderers must have looked on Earth, circling safely in the narrow zone between fire and ice, and must have guessed that it was the favourite of the Sun's children.|Arthur C. Clarke</option>
<option>I'm sure the universe is full of intelligent life. It's just been too intelligent to come here.|Arthur C. Clarke</option>
<option>Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.|Arthur C. Clarke</option>
<option>Following the light of the sun, we left the Old World.|Christopher Columbus</option>
<option>It was written I should be loyal to the nightmare of my choice.|Joseph Conrad</option>
<option>...and the thing that you know to be true is the lie that will kill you.|Glen Cook</option>
<option>One day they woke me up<br/>So I could live forever...|Jonathan Coulton</option>
<option>When once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the Earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you will always long to return.|Leonardo Da Vinci</option>
<option>She had the unmistakable look of a spacefarer, covered in tattoos of our night sky so aliens could send her home if death finally found her.|QuietPineTrees/T.R. Darling</option>
<option>Humans were drawn to that region of space. There wasn't enough Earth left to know it had been our home. The constellations just felt right.|QuietPineTrees/T.R. Darling</option>
<option>Stone and sea are deep in life. Two unalterable symbols of the world. Permanence at rest. And permanence in motion. Participants in the power that remains.|Stephen R. Donaldson</option>
<option>Knowledge has to be improved, challenged, and increased constantly, or it vanishes.|Peter F. Drucker</option>
<option>A nomad I will remain for life in love with distant uncharted places.|Isabelle Eberhardt</option>
<option>We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.|Thomas S. Eliot</option>
<option><small>What are the roots that clutch, what branches grow<br/>Out of this stony rubbish? Son of man,<br/>You cannot say, or guess, for you know only<br/>A heap of broken images, where the sun beats,<br/>And the dead tree gives no shelter, the cricket no relief,<br/>And the dry stone no sound of water. Only<br/>There is shadow under this red rock,<br/>(Come in under the shadow of this red rock),<br/>And I will show you something different from either<br/>Your shadow at morning striding behind you<br/>Or your shadow at evening rising to meet you;<br/>I will show you fear in a handful of dust.</small>|Thomas S. Elliot</option>
<option>Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.|Ralph W. Emerson</option>
<option>Every weakness contains within itself a strength.|Shūsaku Endō</option>
<option>Burn away the flags. Begin again.|Fallout: New Vegas</option>
<option>America sleeps ahead of you, its nightmares filled with quakes, storms. You'll need to find your own path.|Fallout: New Vegas</option>
<option>If war doesn't change, men must change, and so must their symbols. Even if it is nothing at all, know what you follow, courier... Just as I followed you to the end.|Fallout: New Vegas</option>
<option>I'm often asked, "Why would you leave Shangri-La?" But the truth is, I never left. To believe in something beyond yourself - That is true paradise. Shangri-La is within me, and within you.|Far Cry 4</option>
<option>Now all I want is to find a way home, to warn Earth. Look upward, and share... the wonders I have seen.|Farscape</option>
<option>If I make it back, (will they follow)? If I open a door, (are you ready)? Earth is unprepared (helpless) for the nightmares I've seen. Or should I stay, protect my home, not show them you exist. But then you'll never know...the wonders I've seen.|Farscape</option>
<option>I see! It is all so clear to me now; man is but a creature that constantly aims for the open sky! However, it seems that even for a mere imitation of man, it is still possible to achieve that fantasy!|Fate/Apocrypha</option>
<option>Heed my words: my will creates your body, and your sword creates my destiny.|Fate/Zero</option>
<option>I hereby swear that I shall be all the good in the world, and that I shall defeat all evil in the world.|Fate/Zero</option>
<option>Glory lies just beyond the horizon!|Fate/Zero</option>
<option>Glory lies just beyond the horizon; challenge it because it is unattainable.|Fate/Zero</option>
<option>Raise a wall against the wind; Close the gates of four directions; Come forth from the crown and follow the forked road to the Kingdom.|Fate/Zero</option>
<option>You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.|William Faulkner</option>
<option>And the sea will grant each man new hope, as sleep brings dreams of home.|Larry Ferguson</option>
<option>One mustn't look at the abyss, because there is at the bottom an inexpressible charm which attracts us.|Gustave Flaubert</option>
<option>It was war, and in war the truth was almost always the first casualty.|Vince Flynn</option>
<option>The Sky is dark, the wind is cold, the night is young before it's old and grey. We will know the thrill of it all.|Bryan Freey</option>
<option><small>Some say the world will end in fire,<br/>Some say in ice.<br/>From what I’ve tasted of desire<br/>I hold with those who favor fire.<br/>But if it had to perish twice,<br/>I think I know enough of hate<br/>To say that for destruction ice<br/>Is also great<br/>And would suffice.</small>|Robert Frost</option>
<Option>Humankind cannot gain anything without first giving up something in return. To obtain, something of equal value must be lost. This is alchemy's first law of equivalent exchange. In those days, we really believed that to be the world's one, and only, truth.|Fullmetal Alchemist</option>
<option>The night is dark and full of terrors... but the fire burns them all away.|Game of Thrones</option>
<option>A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of history.|Mahatma Gandhi</option>
<option>I don't think there is any truth. There are only points of view.|Allen Ginsberg</option>
<option><small>Your world can end in the blink of an eye. One event, one unexpected twist of fate... and suddenly the world as you knew... is gone. Forever. All that you held dear, all that you held close... is washed away in a sea of distant memory. Life... is cruel. Of this I have no doubt. But life continues on... with, or without you. One can only hope that one leaves behind a lasting legacy. But so often, the legacies we leave behind... are not the ones we intended.</small>|Gears of War 2</option>
<option>Maybe there is a beast... maybe it's only us.|William Golding</option>
<option>I'm not saying that everything is survivable. Just that everything except the last thing is.|John Green</option>
<option>Yea, all things live forever, though at times they sleep and are forgotten.|H. Rider Haggard</option>
<option>Never own more than you can carry in both hands at a dead run.|Robert A. Heinlein</option>
<option>There are no dangerous weapons; there are only dangerous men.|Robert A. Heinlein</option>
<option><small>There are things we don't do. From this moment on, let us all ensure our every action reflects well on us and our ancestors. Let us all live to the highest standards, lest we win this war only to find ourselves staring in the mirror at the face of our late enemy.</small>|John G. Hemry</option>
<option>Beware that which thinks but does not live.|John G. Hemry</option>
<option>Humans had spent thousands of years climbing out of caves and building technology so they could reach the moon and live in caves again.|John G Hemry</option>
<option>Without change something sleeps inside us and seldom awakens. The sleeper must awaken.|Frank Herbert</option>
<option>I, a stranger, and afraid, in a world I never made.|Alfred E. Housman</option>
<option>You shall know the truth and the truth shall make you mad.|Aldous Huxley</option>
<option>The tides are in our veins, we still mirror the stars, life is your child, but there is in me/<br>Older and harder than life and more impartial, the eye that watched before there was an ocean.|Robinson Jeffers</option>
<option>I have accepted fear as part of life – specifically the fear of change... I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back....|Erica Jong</option>
<option>As he caught his footing, his head fell back, and the Milky Way flowed down inside him with a roar.|Yasunari Kawabata</option>
<option>When patterns are broken, new worlds emerge.|Tuli Kupferberg</option>
<option>The future is now. It's time to grow up and be strong. Tomorrow may well be too late.|Neil LaBute</option>
<option>On that moment hung eternity. Time stood still. Space contracted to a pinpoint. It was as though the earth had opened and the skies split. One felt as though he had been privileged to witness the Birth of the World...|William Laurence</option>
<option><small>All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds, wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act on their dreams with open eyes, to make them possible.</small>|Thomas E. Lawrence CB DSO</option>
<option>I loved you, so I drew these tides of men into my hands<br/>and wrote my will across the sky in stars.|Thomas E. Lawrence, CB DSO</option>
<option>You've met with a terrible fate, haven't you?|Legend of Zelda</option>
<option>There are some truths that are never taught. One of this is this: When you hide you find what's been hidden.|Pascalle Lepas</option>
<option>The Wild still lingered in him and the wolf in him merely slept.|Jack London</option>
<option>I have seen the universe yawning<br>Where the black planets roll without aim -<br>Where they roll in their horror unheeded,<br>Without knowledge or luster or name.|Howard P. Lovecraft</option>
<option>They say foul beings of Old Times still lurk In dark forgotten corners of the world, And Gates still gape to loose, on certain nights, Shapes pent in Hell.|Howard P. Lovecraft</option>
<option><small>Whilst the greater number of our dreams are perhaps no more than faint and fantastic reflections of our waking experiences there are still a certain remainder whose immundane and ethereal character permits of no ordinary interpretation, and whose vaguely exciting and disquieting effect suggests possible minute glimpses into a sphere of mental existence no less important than physical life, yet separated from that life by an all but impassable barrier. Man, when lost to terrestrial consciousness, is indeed sojourning in another and uncorporeal life of far different nature from the life we know and of which only the slightest and most indistinct memories linger after waking.</small>|Howard P. Lovecraft</option>
<option>The vistas I relish most are those in which the sunset plays a transfiguring & glorifying part.|Howard P. Lovecraft</option>
<option>For there are objects in the great Abyss and the seeker of dreams must take care not to stir up or meet the wrong ones.|Howard P. Lovecraft</option>
<option>We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far.|Howard P. Lovecraft</option>
<option>I have seen beyond the bounds of infinity and drawn down daemons from the stars.... I have harnessed the shadows that stride from world to world to sow death and madness...|Howard P. Lovecraft</option>
<option>The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown.|Howard P. Lovecraft</option>
<option>I know always that I am an outsider; a stranger in this century and among those who are still men.|Howard P. Lovecraft</option>
<option>Those who fear the darkness have never seen what the light can do.|Magic: The Gathering</option>
<option><small>Familiarity, the first myth of reality: What you know the best, you observe the least.<br/>Devotion, the second myth of reality: The faithful are most hurt by the objects of their faith.<br/>Conviction, the third myth of reality: Only those who seek the truth can be deceived.<br/>Fellowship, the fourth myth of reality: As the tides of war shift, so do loyalties.<br/>Trust, the fifth myth of reality: Every truth holds the seed of betrayal.</small>|Magic: The Gathering</option>
<option>Remember this: Nothing is written in the stars. Not these stars, nor any others. No one controls your destiny.|Gregory Maguire</option>
<option>Was this the face that launch'd a thousand ships,<br>And burnt the topless towers of Ilium?|Christopher Marlowe</option>
<option>Day and night I always dream with open eyes.|José Martí</option>
<option>The world doesn't make sense until you force it to.|Frank Miller</option>
<option>To win any battle, you must fight as if you are already dead.|Miyamoto Musashi</option>
<option>Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.|Friedrich Nietzsche</option>
<option>You fool, you wanderer<br/>You challenged the gods and lost|Nightwish</option>
<option>The dead can survive as part of the lives of those that still live.|Kenzaburō Ōe</option>
<option>Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.|George Orwell</option>
<option>The mind once enlightened cannot again become dark.|Thomas Paine</option>
<option>They sicken of the calm who know the storm.|Dorothy Parker</option>
<option>Life is full of strange absurdities, which, strangely enough, do not even need to appear plausible, since they are true.|Luigi Pirandello</option>
<option>You should not honor men more than truth.|Plato</option>
<option>We have an unknown distance yet to run, an unknown river to explore.|John W. Powell</option>
<option>We all have a Monster within; the difference is in degree, not in kind.|Douglas Preston</option>
<option>One only dies once, and if one does not die well, a good opportunity is lost and will not present itself again.|José Rizal</option>
<option>Threefold the stride of Time, from first to last!<br/>Loitering slow, the Future creepeth —<br/>Arrow-swift, the Present sweepeth —<br/>And motionless forever stands the Past.|Friedrich Schiller</option>
<option>There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.|William Shakespeare</option>
<option>Here lies one from a distant star, but the soil is not alien to him, for in death he belongs to the universe.|Clifford D. Simak</option>
<option><small>Ask ten different scientists about the environment, population control, genetics and you'll get ten different answers, but there's one thing every scientist on the planet agrees on. Whether it happens in a hundred years or a thousand years or a million years, eventually our Sun will grow cold and go out. When that happens, it won't just take us. It'll take Marilyn Monroe and Lao-Tzu, Einstein, Morobuto, Buddy Holly, Aristophanes .. and all of this .. all of this was for nothing unless we go to the stars.</small>|J. Michael Straczynski</option>
<option>I'm not lost. I've simply wandered further into the darkness than you care to brave.|Fiona Summerville</option>
<option>...Come, my friends,<br>'Tis not too late to seek a newer world.|Alfred, Lord Tennyson</option>
<option>Not all who wander are lost.|John R.R. Tolkein</option>
<option>That is the purpose of stories, that no matter where we walk in the world, we walk twice: once in the warm sunshine, and once in the silvery light of every tale we have ever heard, seeing each thing as it is, and also as it was.|Catherynne M. Valente</option>
<option>Anything one man can imagine, other men can make real.|Jules Verne</option>
<option>Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers. |Voltaire</option>
<option>For he did not know, that beyond the lake he called home,<br/>There lied a deeper, and darker ocean green.<br/>Where waves are both wilder and more serene.<br/>To its ports I've been,<br/>To its ports I've been.|Alan Wake</option>
<option>This kingdom shall fall, and from the ashes shall arise a new order that will shake the very foundations of the world.|Warcraft 3: Reign of Chaos</option>
<option><small>There is a tower in the Emperor's palace called the Tower of Heroes: a black tower which rises high into the sky like a spike. At the summit of that tower hangs the Bell of Lost Souls. It is an ancient thing, massive as a building and adorned with dark runes, its peal like the scream of an anguished god. It is tolled but once when a great hero of the Imperium dies. Its wailing moan of grief lasts long and reaches the ears of millions, and its tones penetrate the unifying ether of humanity turning the thought of countless billions towards mankind's loss.</small>|Warhammer 40,000</option>
<option>Only in Death does Duty end.|Warhammer 40,000</option>
<option>One unbreakable shield against the coming darkness, One last blade forged in defiance of fate, Let them be my legacy to the galaxy I conquered, And my final gift to the species I failed.|Warhammer 40,000</option>
<option>We understand so much. But the sky behind those lights, mostly void, partially stars, that sky reminds us that we don't understand even more.|Welcome to Night Vale</option>
<option>For the dead and the living, we must bear witness.|Elie Wiesel</option>
<option>Your world needs a great defender<br/>Your world's in the way of harm|Casey Williams</option>
<option>Beware that the light is fading;<br/>Beware if the dark returns<br/>This world's unforgiving, even brilliant lights will cease to burn|Casey Williams</option>
<option>I have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.|Sarah Williams</option>
<option>All kinds of people want to take a trip to the End of the World, but what do they hope to gain?|Writers of the Future</option>
<option>It is easy to crush an enemy outside oneself but impossible to defeat an enemy within.|Eiji Yoshikawa</option>
<option>The Guard dies, but it does not surrender!|Pierre Cambronne or Claude-Étienne Michel</option>
<option>Do not mock those afraid of the dark. Teach them that the shadows do not bite; they hug and they comfort when nothing else will. Teach them to be as fearless as you are.|thebratfangs</option>
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