History Quotes / IronWoobie

I could offer you some excuses, if you like. I could tell you that I was an orphan by the time I was six. I could tell you that the foster father who eventually raised me subjected me to more forms of psychological and physical abuse than you could shake a stick at. I could tell you that i'd been held in unjust suspicion for my entire adult life by the White Council, whose principles and ideals I'd done my best to uphold. Or maybe I could say that I'd seen too many good people get hurt, or that I'd looked upon a lot of nasty things with my indelible wizard's Sight. I could tell you that I'd been caught and abused by the creatures of the night myself, and that I hadn't ever really gotten over it. [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking I could tell you that I hadn't gotten laid in a really long time]].\\

->''"I know how dark it is for you right now, curled up lying in your own emotional vomit. You're in Hell now Boomhauer, and the only way out is through a long, dark tunnel, and you're afraid to go in, because there's a train comin' at ya, carrying a boxcar full of heartbreak. Well let me tell you something, all you can do is let it hit you and then try to find your legs. I know, I've taken that hit more times than I can remember. Look at me Boomhauer, I'm fat, and I'm old, and every day I'm just gonna wake up fatter and older. But somehow, I manage to drag this fat old bald bastard out into the alley every day. I'm out there, diggin' holes, fallin' into 'em, climbing out, trying again. And tomorrow I'm gonna hang outside at a lady's prison, and the first thing those lady cons are gonna see after twenty years is me. Will I get one? Experience says no. Will I be out there next month? If I'm alive you better believe it."

-->--'''Prince Zuko''', ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender''

-->--'''Creator/ChristopherTitus'''

->''"I finally have you. But I can't get you home because of this blizzard. [[CosmicPlaything There's always something]]. Not that [[TheChosenOne you]]'d understand; you're like [[CainAndAbel my sister]]. [[BornWinner Everything always came easy to her.]] She's a [[PlayingWithFire firebending]] prodigy, and everyone adores her. [[BornLucky My father says she was born lucky]]. He says ''[[TheUnFavourite I]]'' was lucky to be ''born!''"\\

->''"I finally have you. But I can't get you home because of this blizzard. [[CosmicPlaything There's always something.]] Not that [[TheChosenOne you'd]] understand; you're like [[CainAndAbel my sister]]. [[BornWinner Everything always came easy to her.]] She's a [[PlayingWithFire firebending]] prodigy, and everyone adores her. [[BornLucky My father says she was born lucky.]] He says ''[[TheUnFavourite I]]'' was lucky to be ''born''!"\\

->Once you've driven a drunken father to mom's parole hearing, what else is there?
-->--'''Creator/ChristopherTitus'''

->''Everyone who has ever built anywhere a new heaven first found the power thereto in his own hell.''
-->-- '''Creator/FriedrichNietzsche'''

->''"I was telling my company supervisor in Nagasaki that one bomb had destroyed all of Hiroshima. He told me I was crazy. [[CueTheFlyingPigs Just as he said that, the bomb fell on Nagasaki]]."''
-->-- [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9_VsNZl6LGU&t=1m6s Interview with Tsutomu Yamaguchi]], a man who survived [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atomic_bombings_of_Hiroshima_and_Nagasaki both atomic bombings on Japan]].

->"I finally have you. But I can't get you home because of this blizzard. [[CosmicPlaything There's always something.]] Not that [[TheChosenOne you'd]] understand; you're like [[CainAndAbel my sister]]. [[BornWinner Everything always came easy to her.]] She's a [[PlayingWithFire firebending]] prodigy, and everyone adores her. [[BornLucky My father says she was born lucky.]] He says ''[[TheUnFavourite I]]'' was lucky to be ''born''!"\\
''({{beat}})''\\
"I don't need luck though. I don't ''want'' it. [[{{Determinator}} I've always had to struggle and fight]] and that's made me strong. It's made me who I am."
-->--'''Prince Zuko''', ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender''

->''They can rip you, bring you down, down to their size\\
But they will never get to the heart you hold inside...''
-->-- '''Little Mix''', "Change Your Life"

->''"Why me?"\\
Because only I can stand it.''
-->-- '''the Corio Dragon'''

-> A decent person would have rejected [[GodSaveUsFromTheQueen her]] [[DealWithTheDevil offer]] out of hand.\\

And all of those things would be true.
-->-- '''Harry Dresden''' about himself, ''Literature/TheDresdenFiles'': "Literature/SmallFavor"

->''"How many years has it been since I was kept awake by hopes for the future, rather than by nightmares of the past... I have had the same nightmare for nine long years. A nightmare in which I am constantly tormented by those who have died... They ask me why I have not avenged them... Why I got to live, yet they had to die... No matter how many corpses I piled up for them, in the end, their voices only grew louder. Voices loathing me, calling out to me... Their inescapable death cries ringing in my ears...clinging to my soul... Even now, I can always hear them. I am certain I will be hearing them until the day I die. But I will not cover my ears. I will go on living...and their voices will serve as a warning. As a king...and as a wretch who claimed countless lives...I will build a Kingdom where the people can live in peace. I am sure she would laugh and call such talk foolish... But I wish to change this world in my own way."''
-->-- '''Dimitri''', ''VideoGame/FireEmblemThreeHouses''

->''She wasn't discouraged nor did she cry at her fate.\\
She was beautiful.\\
She didn't bow to anyone and fought them all by herself.\\
She was noble.\\
She shone brightly, like a divine figure.\\
I needed someone like her.''
-->--'''Frederica Bernkastel''', in a poem about [[BadassAdorable Rena Ryuuguu]], ''VisualNovel/HigurashiWhenTheyCry''

->'''Cause I have been where you are before\\
And I have felt the pain of losing who you are\\
And I have died so many times, but I am still alive...''
-->-- '''Cristina Perri''', "I Believe"

->''I climb to fall, to begin again, to begin again\\
I climb to fall, suffer, hatred, deceit and pain\\
Anger, regret, loving in vain...''
-->-- "Useless", by '''Imogen Heap'''

->''In the fell clutch of circumstance''\\
''I have not winced nor cried aloud.''\\
''Under the bludgeonings of chance''\\
''My head is bloody, but unbowed."''

->''Whenever life knocks me down, I get right back up again. It's bound to get tired eventually.''
-->--'''Luigi,''' ''Webcomic/ItSucksToBeWeegie''

->'''Professor Ozpin:''' Meanwhile, Ruby herself has shown an amazing resilience and emotional strength given what she has gone through. Although there is a high chance she could be repressing her trauma under a strong front.\\
'''Winter Schnee:''' I have known Atlesian veterans who have seen half of what she has and broken under the pressure.
-->-- ''Fanfic/JauneArcLordOfHunger'', "[[Recap/JauneArcLordOfHungerEpilogue Epilogue]]"

->''"Naruto [[DisappearedDad grew up without a father]], same as you. ...[[ParentalAbandonment Actually, without any parents]]. He doesn't remember either one of them [[FriendlessBackground or have a single friend]]. And in all the time I've known him, I've never seen him cry, or use his troubles as an excuse to sulk or be a coward. Not once. He always tries his hardest, hoping someone will notice and give him a kind word or a pat on the back. That's his dream, and he's risked his life for it. I think one day he must have just gotten fed up with crying. He understands what it means to be strong. He knows what it costs and what it's worth, just as your father did.''
-->-- '''Kakashi''' to Inari, ''Manga/{{Naruto}}''

->''"All the life she has seen\\

A heart of steel starts to grow"''

->''"He was deceptively quiet. He appeared anemic and frail. He kept himself on the periphery. But Will was right about how much Nico had been through. He had been born in Mussolini's Italy. He had survived decades in the time-warp reality of the Lotus Casino. He'd emerged in modern times disoriented and culture-shocked, arrived at Camp Half-Blood, and promptly lost his sister Bianca to a dangerous quest. He had wandered the Labyrinth in self-imposed exile, being tortured and brainwashed by a malevolent ghost. He'd overcome everyone's distrust and emerged from the Battle of Manhattan as a hero. He'd been captured by giants during the rise of Gaea. He'd wandered Tartarus alone and somehow managed to come out alive. And through it all, he'd struggled with his upbringing as a conservative Catholic Italian male from the 1930s and finally learned to accept himself as a young gay man.''
->''Anyone who could survive all that had more resilience than Stygian iron."''
-->-- '''Apollo''', ''Literature/TheTrialsOfApollo''

->''She wasn't discouraged nor did she cry at her fate.\\
She was beautiful.\\
She didn't bow to anyone and fought them all by herself.\\
She was noble.\\
She shone brightly, like a divine figure.\\
I needed someone like her.''
-->--'''Frederica Bernkastel''', in a poem about [[BadassAdorable Rena Ryuuguu]], ''VisualNovel/HigurashiWhenTheyCry''

->''Whenever life knocks me down, I get right back up again. It's bound to get tired eventually.''
-->--'''Luigi,''' ''Webcomic/ItSucksToBeWeegie''

->''In the fell clutch of circumstance''\\
''I have not winced nor cried aloud.''\\
''Under the bludgeonings of chance''\\
''My head is bloody, but unbowed."''
-->-- '''William Ernest Henley''', ''Invictus''

->"I finally have you. But I can't get you home because of this blizzard. [[CosmicPlaything There's always something.]] Not that [[TheChosenOne you'd]] understand; you're like [[CainAndAbel my sister]]. [[BornWinner Everything always came easy to her.]] She's a [[PlayingWithFire firebending]] prodigy, and everyone adores her. [[BornLucky My father says she was born lucky.]] He says ''[[TheUnFavourite I]]'' was lucky to be ''born''!"\\

->''Mind strong, body strong\\
Try to find equilibrium\\
Head straight, screwed on\\
Been screwed up for too long...''
-->-- '''Bush''', "The Sound of Winter"

->''Everyone who has ever built anywhere a new heaven first found the power thereto in his own hell.''
-->-- '''Creator/FriedrichNietzsche'''

->'''Cause I have been where you are before\\
And I have felt the pain of losing who you are\\
And I have died so many times, but I am still alive...''
-->-- '''Cristina Perri''', "I Believe"

->''I climb to fall, to begin again, to begin again\\
I climb to fall, suffer, hatred, deceit and pain\\
Anger, regret, loving in vain...''
-->-- "Useless", by '''Imogen Heap'''

->''"Why me?"\\
Because only I can stand it.''
-->-- '''the Corio Dragon'''

->''"He was deceptively quiet. He appeared anemic and frail. He kept himself on the periphery. But Will was right about how much Nico had been through. He had been born in Mussolini's Italy. He had survived decades in the time-warp reality of the Lotus Casino. He'd emerged in modern times disoriented and culture-shocked, arrived at Camp Half-Blood, and promptly lost his sister Bianca to a dangerous quest. He had wandered the Labyrinth in self-imposed exile, being tortured and brainwashed by a malevolent ghost. He'd overcome everyone's distrust and emerged from the Battle of Manhattan as a hero. He'd been captured by giants during the rise of Gaea. He'd wandered Tartarus alone and somehow managed to come out alive. And through it all, he'd struggled with his upbringing as a conservative Catholic Italian male from the 1930s and finally learned to accept himself as a young gay man.''
->''Anyone who could survive all that had more resilience than Stygian iron."''
-->-- '''Apollo''', ''Literature/TheTrialsOfApollo''

->''"I was telling my company supervisor in Nagasaki that one bomb had destroyed all of Hiroshima. He told me I was crazy. [[CueTheFlyingPigs Just as he said that, the bomb fell on Nagasaki]]."''
-->-- [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9_VsNZl6LGU&t=1m6s Interview with Tsutomu Yamaguchi]], a man who survived [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atomic_bombings_of_Hiroshima_and_Nagasaki both atomic bombings on Japan]].

->''"Only the most broken people can make great leaders."''
-->-- '''Namor''', ''Film/BlackPantherWakandaForever''

-->-- '''William Ernest Henley''', ''Literature/{{Invictus}}''

->''"I was telling my company supervisor in Nagasaki that one bomb had destroyed all of Hiroshima. He told me I was crazy. Just as he said that, the bomb fell on Nagasaki."''

->''"Naruto [[DisappearedDad grew up without a father]], same as you. ...[[ParentalAbandonment Actually, without any parents]]. He doesn't remember either one of them [[FriendlessBackground or have a single friend]]. And in all the time I've known him, I've never seen him cry, or use his troubles as an excuse to sulk or be a coward. Not once. He always tries his hardest, hoping someone will notice and give him a kind word or a pat on the back. That's his dream, and he's risked his life for it. I think one day he must have just gotten fed up with crying. He understands what it mans to be strong. He knows what it costs and what it's worth, just as your father did.''

->''"Naruto [[DisappearedDad grew up without a father]], [[NotSoDifferent same as you]]. ...[[ParentalAbandonment Actually, without any parents]]. He doesn't remember either one of them [[FriendlessBackground or have a single friend]]. And in all the time I've known him, I've never seen him cry, or use his troubles as an excuse to sulk or be a coward. Not once. He always tries his hardest, hoping someone will notice and give him a kind word or a pat on the back. That's his dream, and he's risked his life for it. I think one day he must have just gotten fed up with crying. He understands what it mans to be strong. He knows what it costs and what it's worth, just as your father did.''

->''"He was deceptively quiet. He appeared anemic and frail. He kept himself on the periphery. But Will was right about how much Nico had been through. [[FishOutOfTemporalWater He had been born in Mussolini's Italy. He had survived decades in the time-warp reality of the Lotus Casino.]] He'd emerged in modern times disoriented and culture-shocked, arrived at Camp Half-Blood, and promptly lost his sister Bianca to a dangerous quest. He had wandered the Labyrinth in self-imposed exile, [[UnwittingPawn being tortured and brainwashed by a malevolent ghost]]. He'd overcome everyone's distrust and emerged from the Battle of Manhattan as a hero. He'd been captured by giants during the rise of Gaea. He'd wandered Tartarus alone and somehow managed to come out alive. And through it all, [[{{Gayngst}} he'd struggled with his upbringing as a conservative Catholic Italian male from the 1930s and finally learned to accept himself as a young gay man.]]''

->''"He was deceptively quiet. He appeared anemic and frail. He kept himself on the periphery. But Will was right about how much Nico had been through. [[FishOutOfTemporalWater He had been born in Mussolini's Italy. He had survived decades in the time-warp reality of the Lotus Casino.]] He'd emerged in modern times disoriented and culture-shocked, arrived at Camp Half-Blood, and promptly lost his sister Bianca to a dangerous quest. He had wandered the Labyrinth in self-imposed exile, [[UnwittingPawn being tortured and brainwashed by a malevolent ghost]]. He'd overcome everyone's distrust and emerged from the Battle of Manhattan as a hero. He'd been captured by giants during the rise of Gaea. He'd wandered Tartarus alone and somehow managed to come out alive. And through it all, [[{{Gayngst}} he'd struggled with his upbringing as a conservative Catholic Italian male from the 1930s and finally learned to accept himself as a young gay man.]]
Anyone who could survive all that had more resilience than Stygian iron."''

->''"Naruto [[DisappearedDad grew up without a father]], [[NotSoDifferent same as you]]. ...[[ParentalAbandonment Actually, without any parents]]. He doesn't remember either one of them [[FriendlessBackground or have a single friend]].And in all the time I've known him, I've never seen him cry, or use his troubles as an excuse to sulk or be a coward. Not once. He always tries his hardest, hoping someone will notice and give him a kind word or a pat on the back. That's his dream, and he's risked his life for it. I think one day he must have just gotten fed up with crying. He understands what it mans to be strong. He knows what it costs and what it's worth, just as your father did.''