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<option>I, a stranger, and afraid, in a world I never made.|Alfred E. Housman</option>
<option>Not all who wander are lost.|John R.R. Tolkein</option>
<option>I have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.|Sarah Williams</option>
<option>To venture in the fair unknown
I must enter as I leave:
A traveler, alone.|Anonymous</option>
<option>...Come, my friends,
'Tis not too late to seek a newer world.|Alfred, Lord Tennyson</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>Was this the face that launch'd a thousand ships,
And burnt the topless towers of Ilium?|Christopher Marlowe</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>Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.|George Orwell</option>
<option>And the sea will grant each man new hope, as sleep brings dreams of home.|Larry Ferguson</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>Following the light of the sun, we left the Old World.|Christopher Columbus</option>
<option>A ship is safe in a harbour. But then that's not what ships are for.</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>Day and night I always dream with open eyes.|José Martí</option>
<option>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.|Thomas E. Lawrence CB DSO</option>
<option>I loved you, so I drew these tides of men into my hands
and wrote my will across the sky in stars.|Thomas E. Lawrence, CB DSO</option>
<option>For the dead and the living, we must bear witness.|Elie Wiesel</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 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>A nomad I will remain for life in love with distant uncharted places.|Isabelle Eberhardt</option>
<option>You shall know the truth and the truth shall make you mad.|Aldous Huxley</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>The tides are in our veins, we still mirror the stars, life is your child, but there is in me/
Older and harder than life and more impartial, the eye that watched before there was an ocean.|Robinson Jeffers</option>
<option>There is a wilderness we walk alone/
However well-companioned|Stephen V. Benét</option>
<option>You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.|William Faulkner</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>It was written I should be loyal to the nightmare of my choice.|Joseph Conrad</option>
<option>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.|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>Those who fear the darkness have never seen what the light can do.|Magic: The Gathering</option>
<option>Familiarity, the first myth of reality: What you know the best, you observe the least.
Devotion, the second myth of reality: The faithful are most hurt by the objects of their faith.
Conviction, the third myth of reality: Only those who seek the truth can be deceived.
Fellowship, the fourth myth of reality: As the tides of war shift, so do loyalties.
Trust, the fifth myth of reality: Every truth holds the seed of betrayal.|Magic: The Gathering</option>
<option>What are the roots that clutch, what branches grow
Out of this stony rubbish? Son of man,
You cannot say, or guess, for you know only
A heap of broken images, where the sun beats,
And the dead tree gives no shelter, the cricket no relief,
And the dry stone no sound of water. Only
There is shadow under this red rock,
(Come in under the shadow of this red rock),
And I will show you something different from either
Your shadow at morning striding behind you
Or your shadow at evening rising to meet you;
I will show you fear in a handful of dust.|Thomas S. Elliot</option>
<option>The Wild still lingered in him and the wolf in him merely slept.|Jack London</option>
<option>To win any battle, you must fight as if you are already dead.|Miyamoto Musashi</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>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>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>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>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.|Gears of War 2</option>
<option>I have seen the universe yawning
Where the black planets roll without aim -
Where they roll in their horror unheeded,
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>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.|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>The Guard dies, but it does not surrender!|Pierre Cambronne or Claude-Étienne Michel</option>
<option>The night is dark and full of terrors... but the fire burns them all away.|Game of Thrones</option>
<option>Without change something sleeps inside us and seldom awakens. The sleeper must awaken.|Frank Herbert</option>
<option>They sicken of the calm who know the storm.|Dorothy Parker</option>
<option>Threefold the stride of Time, from first to last!
Loitering slow, the Future creepeth —
Arrow-swift, the Present sweepeth —
And motionless forever stands the Past.|Friedrich Schiller</option>
<option>When patterns are broken, new worlds emerge.|Tuli Kupferberg</option>
<option>Maybe there is a beast... maybe it's only us.|William Golding</option>
<option>We have an unknown distance yet to run, an unknown river to explore.|John W. Powell</option>
<option>I'm not saying that everything is survivable. Just that everything except the last thing is.|John Green</option>
<option>Some say the world will end in fire,
Some say in ice.
From what I’ve tasted of desire
I hold with those who favor fire.
But if it had to perish twice,
I think I know enough of hate
To say that for destruction ice
Is also great
And would suffice.|Robert Frost</option>
<option>Message of the blowing wind
Erasing memories
Stars are the witnesses of our existence
Change is what the world awaits
Could that be peace or war?
The answer no one knows
Trusting the break of dawn|Beyond the Bounds</option>
<option>Travelling beyond the bounds
We have to take that step
What are we waiting for? It's now or never
Fear to see "The World to Be"
Is why we hesitate
Repeat the same mistake
Hoping to break new ground|Beyond the Bounds</option>
<option>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.|Bioware</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>Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers. |Voltaire</option>
<option>Very few of us are what we seem.|Agatha Christie</option>
<option>Anything one man can imagine, other men can make real.|Jules Verne</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>We are at the edge of an abyss and we're close to being irrevocably lost.|David R. Brower</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>The mind once enlightened cannot again become dark.|Thomas Paine</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>Between memory and reality there are awkward discrepancies...|Eileen Chang</option>
<option>...and the thing that you know to be true is the lie that will kill you.|Glen Cook</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>Nothing lives long
Only the earth and mountains|Dee Brown</option>
<option>The dead can survive as part of the lives of those that still live.|Kenzaburō Ōe</option>
<option>The world doesn't make sense until you force it to.|Frank Miller</option>
<option>Your world needs a great defender
Your world's in the way of harm|Casey Williams</option>
<option>Beware that the light is fading;
Beware if the dark returns
This world's unforgiving, even brilliant lights will cease to burn|Casey Williams</option>
<option>You've met with a terrible fate, haven't you?|Legend of Zelda</option>
aSh<option>There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.|William Shakespeare</option>
<option>I don't think there is any truth. There are only points of view.|Allen Ginsberg</option>
<option>Every weakness contains within itself a strength.|Shūsaku Endō</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>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>What are men to rocks and mountains?|Jane Austen</option>
<option>It was war, and in war the truth was almost always the first casualty.|Vince Flynn</option>
<option>For he did not know, that beyond the lake he called home,
There lied a deeper, and darker ocean green.
Where waves are both wilder and more serene.
To its ports I've been,
To its ports I've been.|Alan Wake</option>
<option>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.|John G. Hemry</option>
<option>You should not honor men more than truth.|Plato</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, Wilde Life</option>
<option>You fool, you wanderer
You challenged the gods and lost|Nightwish</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>Yea, all things live forever, though at times they sleep and are forgotten.|H. Rider Haggard</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>We all have a Monster within; the difference is in degree, not in kind.|Douglas Preston</option>
<option>It is easy to crush an enemy outside oneself but impossible to defeat an enemy within.|Eiji Yoshikawa</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>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>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.|J. Michael Straczynski</option>
<option>One day they woke me up
So I could live forever...|Jonathan Coulton</option>
<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>
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