Chris

“In general, things that were endowed with life did not, like the Golden Temple, have the rigid quality of existing once and for all. Human beings were merely allotted one part of nature's various attributes and, by an effective method of substitution, they diffused that part and made it multiply.”
― Yukio Mishima, The Temple of the Golden Pavilion

“Great men die twice, once when they leave this world and a second time when their life work disappears.”
― Ivo Andrić, The Bridge on the Drina

“Only knowledge can turn life's unbearableness into a weapon.”
― Yukio Mishima, The Temple of the Golden Pavilion

“Death's an old story, but new for each person.”
― Ivan Turgenev, Fathers and Children: Introduction by John Bayley