The Quest/Quotes

Bahamut: Enough. The test of courage will reveal the true identity of the enlightened warrior.
Black Mage: This isn't some insipid quest wrought with danger, is it?
Bahamut: No.
Black Mage: Oh, good.
Bahamut: It is the ultimate quest. The quest for identity.
Black Mage: ...I think you're confused about what 'insipid' means.

—8-Bit Theater

To dream the impossible dream;
To fight the unbeatable foe;
To bear with unbearable sorrow;
To run where the brave dare not go;

To right the unrightable wrong;
To love, pure and chaste from afar;
To try, when your arms are too weary,
To reach the unreachable star!

This is my quest, to follow that Star,
No matter how hopeless, no matter how far;
To fight for the right, without question or pause,
To be willing to march into Hell for a Heavenly cause!
And I know if I'll only be true to this glorious quest,
That my heart will lie peaceful and calm when I'm laid to my rest.
And the world will be better for this,
That one man, scorned and covered with scars,
Still strove with his last ounce of courage,
To fight the unbeatable foe!
To reach the unreachable Star!"

—"The Impossible Dream", Man of La Mancha

"My shame ye count and know.
Ye say the quest is vain.
Ye have not seen my foe.
Ye have not told his slain.
Surely he fights again, again;
But when ye prove his line,
There shall come to your aid my broken blade
In the last, lost fight of mine!
And here is my lance to mend (Haro!),
And here is my horse to be shot!
Ay, they were strong, and the fight was long;

But I paid as good as I got!"—Last stanza of "The Quest", Rudyard Kipling

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