Mars

“But I don’t want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness. I want sin.”

“In fact,” said Mustapha Mond, “you’re claiming the right to be unhappy.”

“All right then,” said the Savage defiantly, “I’m claiming the right to be unhappy.”

“Not to mention the right to grow old and ugly and impotent; the right to have syphilis and cancer; the right to have too little to eat; the right to be lousy; the right to live in constant apprehension of what may happen to-morrow; the right to catch typhoid; the right to be tortured by unspeakable pains of every kind.”

There was a long silence.

“I claim them all,” said the Savage at last.”
― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World

“To every cry of, 'Oh God'. He answers a hundred times, 'I am here'.”
― A. Helwa, Secrets of Divine Love: A Spiritual Journey into the Heart of Islam

“If we wait until we're ready, we'll be waiting for the rest of our lives.”
― Lemony Snicket, The Ersatz Elevator

“The world of the classical civilizations is full of ruins of once grand structures and communities that used to be teeming with life, inhabited by people who exulted in their wealth and accomplishments. Visit these ruins and notice the utter silence of these towns. Each soul that lived there is now in another state, waiting God's final judgment.”
― Hamza Yusuf Imam al-Mawlud