Asmaa

“I was frightened even by God. I could not believe in His love, only in His punishment. Faith. That, I felt, was the act of facing the tribunal of justice with one’s head bowed to receive the scourge of God. I could believe in hell, but it was impossible for me to believe in the existence of heaven.”
― Osamu Dazai, No Longer Human

“We all know that the world is empty and that the important thing, the only thing, is to try to maintain order in that emptiness.”
― Yukio Mishima

“I want to make a poem of my life.”
― Yukio Mishima

“That which proceeds from a man’s soul shall shape his soul; that which proceeds from his speech shall shape his speech, and deeds that proceed from his body shall shape his body.”
― Yukio Mishima, Spring Snow