Quotes / Tragic Dream

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

Fifteen years…sweating in a living Hell on a false charge. Fifteen years dreaming I might come home to a wife and child.

— Sweeney Todd, Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street

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, and that they'll play together in a field when it gets better.

—Lie Bot, Achewood

It was probably a really small wish. A wish that could not be realized. And the days left in our hands. However much we may cry, the past will not come back.

— Nanoha Takamachi, Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha A's The Comics and The Movie 2nd

Quitters never win, winners never quit, but those who never win and never quit are fuckin' idiots.

— Lily, The Bleachers

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''

And still I dream he'll come to me
And we will live the years together
But there are dreams that cannot be
And there are storms we cannot weather
I had a dream my life would be
So different from this hell I'm living
So different now from what it seems
Now life has killed the dream I dreamed.

— Fantine, Les Misérables

Let us tell the story of a certain man.The tale of a man who, more than anyone else, believed in his ideals, and was driven to despair by them.

— Opening narration of Fate/Zero, about Kiritsugu Emiya

Missy, both you and your dream were truly beautiful. However, you knew more than anyone that your dream would never come to fruition, but you continued to chase it. That's why you...

— Achilles on Atalanta , Fate/Apocrypha

I have squandered the splendid years that the Lord God gave to my youth

In attempting impossible things, deeming them alone worth the toil. Was it folly or grace? Not men shall judge me, but God.

I have squandered the splendid years:

Lord, if I had the years I would squander them over again,

Aye, fling them from me!

For this I have heard in my heart, that a man shall scatter, not hoard,

Shall do the deed of to-day, nor take thought of to-morrow's teen,

Shall not bargain or huxter with God; or was it a jest of Christ's

And is this my sin before men, to have taken Him at His word?

The lawyers have sat in council, the men with the keen, long faces,

And said, `This man is a fool,' and others have said, `He blasphemeth;

And the wise have pitied the fool that hath striven to give a life

In the world of time and space among the bulks of actual things,

To a dream that was dreamed in the heart, and that only the heart could hold.

—Patrick Pearse, "The Fool"

"Bet ya thought you were all going to grow old together, sitting around the table at Sunday dinner in the happily ever after. No... doesn't work like that, Rick. Not anymore."

— Negan, The Walking Dead

Young Lothric was meant to be a champion, and was expected to wield this platinum sword, but some things will remain distant dreams forever.

— Item description of Lothric's Holy Sword, the weapon formed from the soul of the cursed and frail Prince Lothric, Dark Souls III

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