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

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

“Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than suffering itself.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

“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