“Loss invites reflection and reformulating and a change of strategies. Loss hurts and bleeds and aches.

Loss is always ready to call out your name in the night. Loss follows you home and taunts you at the
breakfast table, follows you to work in the morning. You have to make accommodations and broker
deals to soften the rabbit punches that loss brings to your daily life. You have to take the word "loser"
and add it to your resume and walk around with it on your name tag as it hand-feeds you your own shit
in dosages too large for even great beasts to swallow. The word "loser" follows you, bird-dogs you, sniffs
you out of whatever fields you hide in because you have to face things clearly and you cannot turn away
from what is true.”

"There are places in this galaxy that are grand and important. The majority of us, we never see
those places. But we have our own stories... And sometimes, even when they seem blackened and
burnt... when they appear to hold no light, hope, or chance or redemption... when there appears
to be no possible outcome but an ending... they continue. Lycan said to me, 'Men are not driven
by altruism.' I'll prove him wrong."
―Darca Nyl[src]

"Some fights must be fought whether you believe you can win them or not."
―Finis Valorum[src]

"We cannot pick every battle we fight, General Jaeger. Win or lose, live or die—some battles
must be fought. If we choose to do nothing, then we kill hope. I will fight this fight—alone if I
must. But I will fight."
―Admiral Gar Stazi vows to evacuate the citizens of Dac[src]

"We do not know what our chances of survival are, so we fight as if they were zero. We do not
know what we are facing, so we fight as if it was the dark gods themselves. No one will
remember us now and we may never be buried beneath Titan, so we will build our own memorial
here. The Chapter might lose us and the Imperium might never know we existed, but the Enemy
— the Enemy will know. The Enemy will remember. We will hurt it so badly that it will never
forget us until the stars burn out and the Emperor vanquishes it at the end of time. When Chaos is
dying, its last thought will be of us. That is our memorial — carved into the heart of Chaos. We
cannot lose, Grey Knights. We have already won."

The meditation of the Feline Worldgate Team:

I will meet the cruel and the cowardly today, liars and the envious, the uncaring and unknowing:
they will be all around. But their numbers and their carelessness do not mean I have to be like
them. For my own part, I know my job; my commission comes from Those Who Are. My paw
raised is Their paw on the neck of the Serpent, now and always. I shall walk through Their
worlds as do the Powers that Be, seeing and knowing with Them and for Them, tending Their
worlds as if they were mine: for so indeed they are. Silently shall I strive to go my way, as They
do, doing my work unseen; the light needs no reminding by me of good deeds done by night.
And in this long progress through all that is, though I will know doubt and fear in the strange
places where I must walk, I will put these both aside, as the Oath requires, and hold myself to my
work ... for if They and I together cannot mend what is marred, who can? And having done my
work aright, though I may know weariness at day's end, come awakening I shall rise up and say
again, with Them, as if surprised, "behold, the world is made new ... !"

"Some must fight, so that all may be free."

Non est salvatori salvator,

neque defensori dominus,
nec pater nec mater,
nihil supernum.
(No rescuer hath the rescuer.
No Lord hath the champion,
no mother and no father,
only nothingness above.

“Civilization is held together by duct tape and spit, and I'm worried about the duct tape.”
― Jacqueline Patricks

“I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too
obnoxious, I break them. I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I
do.”
― Robert A. Heinlein

"Victims run off and hide. Prey runs off and hides. But I'm not a victim. And I'm not prey.
I'm the Emperor's Hand. I am the ultimate predator. And it's time for Dequc and Black
Nebula to die."

Vhailor: When the injustice is great enough, justice will lend me the strength needed to correct
it. None may stand against it. It will shatter every barrier, sunder any shield, tear through any
enchantment, and lend its servant the power to pass sentence. Know this: There is nothing on all
the Planes that can stay the hand of justice when it is brought against them. It may unmake
armies. It may sunder the thrones of gods. Know that for all who betray justice, I am their fate.
And fate carries an executioner's axe.
The Nameless One: I see.
Vhailor: No. You do not see. Pray that you never will.
— Planescape: Torment