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Pain is a sensation
sensations are to be enjoyed
I am in ectasy.

* In ''A Swiftly Tilting Planet'', Patrick's Rune is used for active protection as well as a comforting prayer. Starts out stating where you are or who you're with 'in this fateful hour' ('At Tara at this fateful hour' or 'With Chuck in this fateful hour', for example) and continues:

* In ''A Swiftly Tilting Planet'', Patrick's Rune is used for active protection as well as a comforting prayer. (This troper is in the midst of re-reading it right now and thinks that's right, anyway; Wikipedia seems to confirm?)
-->''At Tara in this fateful hour,''\\
''I place all Heaven with its power,''\\

''And the Earth with its starkness —''\\

** I believe it was "call on" all heaven. And "At Tara" was replaced by wherever the speaker happened to be.

*** Debatable, but what matters is that various people acted in a manner consistent with her "lie."
**** Nah, Ozai confirmed the statement when explaining where Ursa disappeared to during the Day of Black Sun Part 2. Ozai really was going to kill Zuko if it got him the throne. Given how he got Zuko out of the way a few years later, I guess this is not surprising.

* In the Unlimited Blade Works route of ''FateStayNight'', [[spoiler: Shirou repeats "it wasn't wrong!" to himself while fighting Archer in order to convince himself that his ideal is worth having.]] Many people consider this scene to be the CrowningMomentOfAwesome for the game.

* Kamina in ''TengenToppaGurrenLagann'' has this all over the place, with the most famous three being "Who the hell do you think I am?!", "Go beyond the impossible and kick reason to the curb!", and finally "Gattai! (Combine!)"

* ''The Mary Ellen Carter'' by Stan Rogers (rest in peace) became a this in addition to being a {{CrowningMusicofAwesome}} after the February 12, 1983 sinking of the ''Marine Electric'' off the coast of Virginia in a bad storm. The ship's Chief Mate, Bob Cusick, [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mary_Ellen_Carter clung to a damaged lifeboat for three hours]] in hypothermia-inducing temperatures, screaming part of the chorus in between waves to keep himself from letting go and drowning. [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fT-aEcPgkuA Here's the man himself]] telling the story (plus a performance of the song) from the documentary ''One Warm Line''.

* In ''Shardik'', children in the possession of [[CompleteMonster slave-dealer Genshed]] tell each other they'll be "home soon. Underground, all the way".

* * In Tad Williams' ''Tailchaser's Song'', the hero is taught a mantra/litany against fear to give him strength when in dire need [[spoiler:which is also used to restore an [[ObfuscatingStupidity insane]] companion to his [[SealedGoodInACan true]] [[AGodAmI form]] ]].

-->'''Atton Rand''': [[PsychicStatic Switch the face of the + 1/-1 card, the totals are nine-ten. Switch the face of the + 2/-2 card, the totals are eight-eleven...]]

* [[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/EternalDarkness This... Isn't... Really... HAPPENING!]]

* ''[[{{Lost}} "One...two...three...four...five."]]''

* Art Brut's ''Rusted Guns of Milan'':

* In the ''{{Firely}}'' fanfic series ''Fanfic/{{Name}}, the unnamed primary character repeats her mother's last words as her mantra, which reminds her to keep her cool.

* The titular heroine of {{Mulan}} chants, "Get of the roof, get off the roof," when the rocket is about to explode. It's both a SurvivalMantra and a CrowningMomentOfAwesome.

* [[ThatGuyWithTheGlasses ELEPHANT! * (the Burger King appears while an angelic chord plays)* ]]

* ''NeonGenesisEvangelion'': "I mustn't run away, I mustn't run away, I mustn't run away..." Not that it works very well. Sure, he doesn't run away when he starts chanting this... but it doesn't really stave off ''insanity''. We also have Asuka's, "I don't want to die!" in ''[[TheMovie The End of Evangelion]]''. Casebook example of SurvivalMantra as MadnessMantra or vica versa.

* In Umineko, in a scene that is both a TearJerker and CrowningMomentOfHeartWarming, [[spoiler: it is revealed that Maria's Uu-Uu is this. It is magic incantation that is supposed to make Rosa love her.]]

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* In A Swiftly Tilting Planet, Patrick's Rune is used for active protection as well as a comforting prayer. (This troper is in the midst of re-reading it right now and thinks that's right, anyway; Wikipedia seems to confirm?)