Ryō Nagafuji

“Birds are not difficult to understand. Their behaviour tells me what they are thinking. Generally it runs along the lines of: Is this food? Is this? What about this? This might be food. I am almost certain that this is. Or occasionally: It is raining. I do not like it.”
― Susanna Clarke, Piranesi

“Is it sympathy for the sheep you wish to excite? I love a sheep from the bottom of my heart...”
― Edgar Allan Poe, The Fall of the House of Usher and Other Tales

“Do you imagine that I repine at Providence, or curse my creation, because I go out of life, and put a period to a being which, were it to continue, would become ineligible: but I thank providence, both for the good which I have already enjoyed, and for the power with which I am endowed of escaping the ills that threaten me.”
― David Hume, On Suicide

“All poetry is a call to action.”
― Amor Towles, A Gentleman in Moscow