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“Man is the only creature who refuses to be what he is.”
― Albert Camus

“If I had wings, would you steal them?"
"If you had wings," he said, with all the sincerity he possessed, "I'd want to see you fly.”
― Axie Oh, The Floating World

“For a moment he felt a wild hope: perhaps this really was a nightmare. Perhaps he would awake in his own bed, bathed in sweat, shaking, maybe even crying . . . but alive. Safe. Then he pushed the thought away. Its charm was deadly, its comfort fatal.”
― Stephen King, It

“It was almost like a reverse nightmare, like when you wake up from a nightmare, you're so relieved. I woke up into a nightmare."
"And what is that nightmare, Craig?"
"Life.”
― Ned Vizzini, It's Kind of a Funny Story