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“We rip out so much of ourselves to be cured of things faster than we should that we go bankrupt by the age of thirty and have less to offer each time we start with someone new. But to feel nothing so as not to feel anything - what a waste!”
― Andre Aciman, Call Me by Your Name

“Everywere life is resurgent, but I've been colonized by death, I've seen too many dying people to be able to enjoy this summer as everything starts over again, human death has occupied my thoughts like a gnawing rat, and nothing can help them if they don't want to remember the war, the last years of my service in the Wermacht, or anything at all.”
― Drago Jančar, To noč sem jo videl

“Evil is a point of view...God kills, and so shall we; indiscriminately...for no creatures under God are as we are, none so like Him as ourselves.



God kills indiscriminately and so shall we. For no creatures under God are as we are none so like him as ourselves.”
― Anne Rice, Interview with the Vampire

“My heart filled with emotion, but I was in such anguish that the tears would not come. I wondered if the feeling I experienced then was what people mean by the well-worn phrase 'dignity of human life'.”
― Osamu Dazai, The Setting Sun