-> ''When the battle is over, your work is not done. Your duty is not a destination. It is a journey. Victory is merely a landmark on that road, you will never reach a point where your work is done and you can leave the fighting to others. You will die with the road still to be walked.''
-->-- '''Daenyathos - "The Bullet and the Skull"''', ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}}''

->''I have followed you too far to fail now Ghazghkull Thraka. I bear the gift of death. You cannot outrun me. There's no place in this universe where you can hide. I have waited a long time for vengeance. I'm tired but not so tired I cannot kill you. Maybe then I won't see the faces of the dead. Maybe then I'll be able to sleep.''
-->'''Commissar Sebastian Yarrick''', ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}}''

->''"I am tired, weary, and I haven't a hope left. But I have to go on trying to get to the mountain, as long as I can move."''
-->-- '''Frodo Baggins''', ''Literature/TheLordOfTheRings''

->''Are [[PoweredByAForsakenChild they]] still... aware? I hope not. It keeps me awake at night. I could make myself... [[UnusualEuphemism sleep]], but not yet. Not until I undo what [[SerialKiller he]] has done, and heal this wound. A wound first inflicted on me, but then [[MyGreatestFailure one that I let bleed out to cause all this]].''
-->-- [[spoiler:'''Cassette Man''']], ''VideoGame/FreddyFazbearsPizzeriaSimulator''

->''"Death at the gates. Howling my name. Can't greet you today, I have a War to win"''
-->-- '''B.J. Blazkowicz''', ''VideoGame/WolfensteinTheNewOrder''

->'''The Crooked Man:''' It cannot be rushed. A few more hours cannot kill you.
->'''The King:''' [[WhoWantsToLiveForever Nothing, it seems, will kill me]]. You promised me an end to all of this. I need to rest, to sleep. I want to lie in my crypt and decay to dust. You promised me that I would be allowed to die at last.
-->--''Literature/TheBookOfLostThings''

->''"I should die already, but the work is not yet finished."''
-->--'''Czeslaw Milosz'''

->''Give my heart, give my soul''\\
''I'd turn it back, [[ItsAllMyFault it's my fault]]''\\
''Your destiny is forlorn''\\
''[[MustMakeAmends Have to live 'til it's undone]]''\\
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''Give my heart, give my soul''\\
''I'll turn it back [[DeathSeeker and then at last, I'll be on my way]]''
-->--''Music/WithinTemptation'', "Jillian (I'd Give My Heart)"
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