Will

“Joey laid his head on his arms and wept. What seemed trivial to others is the pure essence of Hell to the sufferer, and the incubus of realised cowardice is the worst that haunts manhood.

From that orgy of weakness and tears, Joey Donory rose with an iron resolve crystallising in his liquor-muddled brain. He had reached the state in which even the most trivial discomforts loom monstrously and deathly portent. And Joey's troubles were not trivial.”
― Robert E. Howard, Western Tales

“Francis Crozier believes in nothing. Life is solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short. It has no plan, no point, no hidden mysteries that make up for the oh-so-obvious miseries and banalities. Nothing he has learned in the past six months has persuaded him otherwise.

Has it?”
― Dan Simmons, The Terror

“They won't fall for this.'
'They already have, sister. Holy wars are easier to start than rumours, amongst your Kind or mine...”
― Clive Barker, Weave World

“Words are the only bullets in truth's bandolier. And poets are the snipers.”
― Dan Simmons, Hyperion