Tragic Dream/Quotes

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

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.

—Lie Bot, Achewood

There is surely a really small wish. It is a wish that cannot be realised. It will remain in our hands. No matter how much one regrets, or how much one cries, what's gone and lost will never come back.

—Yuuno Scrya, Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha A's The Comics

But why! I just wanted to understand this world's knowledge! I wanted to experience it! Free! I just wanted to be free! Free to know...

—Father, Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood

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