[Suzerain of Sheol]

Oh, my, so many to pick from...

O wearisome condition of humanity!
Born under one law, to another bound;
Vainly begot and yet forbidden vanity;
Created sick, commanded to be sound. -Fulke Greville

Strangers, you bring pain. You bring suffering. You bring to so many dreams the dust of death. But, strangers, I am Icarium. And I bring far worse. -Steven Erikson

Not sure if songs count, but, "O, miserable sun, consign I will not. I shall not conjureth a false identity o' my kind... And thy light dost not err nocturnal lovers' affection/ Pure love flies in the night. When thou hast sunken beneath god's shameful world, hiding in shame, while my spirit remains... my cradle will rock in e'ery place where lovers mourn, when night feeds ye troth o'longing withing e'ery fall'n star -Draconian

And, my signature quote, I dream that I am a god. But a hunger... a hunger runs through me... splits me like rotted stone. How... could a god... hunger? -Scott Bakker