I remembered that one like 10 minutes after walking away from the computer.

And this is the one from Ikaruga:

I am not alive, thus I can not die.
I will not give up even if my Ideal is not fulfilled.
My will, just like my regrets, will never end.

Last edited by Overlord Morgus (05-23-2012 11:08:14 AM)

Ashnod has advised me to not post in this thread.

I haven't confirmed these words with any website, nor have I read the books in a decade.  I couldn't even tell you which of the books this one is from.  But I guess the words stuck in my head well enough for me to remember them.

Return this man to Huma's breast,
Beyond the wild, impartial skies.
Grant to him a warrior's rest,
And set the last spark of his eyes
Free from the smothering clouds of wars,
Beyond the torches of the stars,
And let the last surge of his breath
Take refuge in the cradling air,
Above the dreams of ravens, where
Only the hawk remembers death.
Then let his shade to Huma rise,
Beyond the wild, impartial skies.

From one or another of the Dragonlance books.  In hindsight, the writing in most of those books was execrable.  The poems, though, were always a high point.

Edited to add: I looked it up.  I got almost everything substantially right, except that "beyond" in line 6 should be "upon," which is much better.

Last edited by satyreyes (05-24-2012 07:16:13 PM)

More of a pledge than a prayer.

We, the people, pledge allegiance to the technocratic empire. May our nation prevail in the name of technology. May our enemies and traitors succumb to the rumbling sound of our holy machinery of scientific war, for it is the art, the cause and the glory which will lead us to victory.

"I'm not normally a praying man, but if you're up there, please save me, Superman!" - Homer Simpson, invoking the god we can rely on

"Can't we all just be nice and make babies?" the angel, Zauriel, from mid-90s Justice League of America

"'Vengeance is mine,' sayeth the Lord, but I'll help. Amen." - Sister Sara, Evil Come, Evil Go

"Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn" - via Lovecraft's careful documentation of weird cults

And, William Burroughs' grand Thanksgiving Prayer:

"Thanks for the wild turkey and the passenger pigeons, destined to be shit out through wholesome American guts
thanks for a Continent to despoil and poison
thanks for Indians to provide a modicum of challenge and danger
thanks for vast herds of bison to kill and skin, leaving the carcass to rot
thanks for bounties on wolves and coyotes
thanks for the American Dream to vulgarize and falsify until the bare lies shine through
thanks for the KKK, for nigger-killing lawmen feeling their notches, for decent church-going women with their mean, pinched, bitter, evil faces
thanks for Kill a Queer for Christ stickers
thanks for laboratory AIDS
thanks for Prohibition and the War Against Drugs
thanks for a country where nobody is allowed to mind his own business
thanks for a nation of finks—yes,
thanks for all the memories all right, lets see your arms you always were a headache and you always were a bore
thanks for the last and greatest betrayal of the last and greatest of human dreams."