“I was exhausted. Fighting to save the universe will do that.”
“Fighting was an exhausting business, and so was fear.”
“A drowning man cannot be saved until he is utterly exhausted and ceases to make the slightest effort to save himself.”
“I'm fighting to save myself, and save myself, I will." Mary Magdalene in The Last Temptation of Christ”
“Nobody else will ever be able to save me if I’m not fighting as hard as I can to save myself.”
“How am I supposed to save the universe with all this noise?!”