Quotes / Miles to Go Before I Sleep

When the battle is over, your work is not done. Your duty is not a destination. It is a journey. Victory is merely a landmark on that road, you will never reach a point where your work is done and you can leave the fighting to others. You will die with the road still to be walked.

— Daenyathos - "The Bullet and the Skull", Warhammer 40,000

I have followed you too far to fail now Ghazghkull Thraka. I bear the gift of death. You cannot outrun me. There's no place in this universe where you can hide. I have waited a long time for vengeance. I'm tired but not so tired I cannot kill you. Maybe then I won't see the faces of the dead. Maybe then I'll be able to sleep.

Commissar Sebastian Yarrick, Warhammer 40,000

"I am tired, weary, and I haven't a hope left. But I have to go on trying to get to the mountain, as long as I can move."

— Frodo Baggins, The Lord of the Rings

Are they still... aware? I hope not. It keeps me awake at night. I could make myself... sleep, but not yet. Not until I undo what he has done, and heal this wound. A wound first inflicted on me, but then one that I let bleed out to cause all this.

— Cassette Man, Freddy Fazbear's Pizzeria Simulator

"Death at the gates. Howling my name. Can't greet you today, I have a War to win"

— B.J. Blazkowicz, Wolfenstein: The New Order

The Crooked Man: It cannot be rushed. A few more hours cannot kill you.

The King: Nothing, it seems, will kill me. You promised me an end to all of this. I need to rest, to sleep. I want to lie in my crypt and decay to dust. You promised me that I would be allowed to die at last.

—The Book of Lost Things

"I should die already, but the work is not yet finished."

—Czeslaw Milosz

Give my heart, give my soul
I'd turn it back, it's my fault
Your destiny is forlorn
Have to live 'til it's undone

Give my heart, give my soul
I'll turn it back and then at last, I'll be on my way

—Within Temptation, "Jillian (I'd Give My Heart)"

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