“Love is a Christian word, Anjin-san. Love is a Christian thought, a Christian ideal. We have no word for 'love' as I understand you to mean it. Duty, loyalty, honor, respect, desire, those words and thoughts are what we have, all that we need.”
― Shōgun
― Shōgun
“How beautiful life is and how sad! How fleeting, with no past and no future, only a limitless now.”
― Shōgun
― Shōgun
“Like dew I was born
Like dew I vanish
..and all that I have ever done
Is but a dream
Within a dream”
― Shōgun, Volume 1
Like dew I vanish
..and all that I have ever done
Is but a dream
Within a dream”
― Shōgun, Volume 1
“How can a man be so brave and so stupid, so gentle and so cruel, so warming and so detestable -- all at the same time?”
― Shōgun
― Shōgun
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