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Ryūnosuke Akutagawa
“I don't have the strength to keep writing this. To go on living with this feeling is painful beyond description. Isn't there someone kind enough to strangle me in my sleep?”
Ryunosuke Akutagawa, Rashōmon and Seventeen Other Stories

Han Kang
“Why, is it such a bad thing to die?”
Han Kang, The Vegetarian

Keigo Higashino
“Sometimes, all you had to do was exist in order to be someone's saviour.”
Keigo Higashino, The Devotion of Suspect X

Ryūnosuke Akutagawa
“A man sometimes devotes his life to a desire which he is not sure will ever be fulfilled. Those who laugh at this folly are, after all, no more than mere spectators of life.”
Ryunosuke Akutagawa, Rashomon and Other Stories

Ryūnosuke Akutagawa
“I could wish for nothing more than to die for a childish dream in which I truly believed.”
Ryunosuke Akutagawa, Mandarins: Stories

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