The benefit morality gives us is economy of time and effort. The damage it does is the complete paralysis of conscience.

A vague anxiety.

Life is not worth a single line of Baudelaire.

No evil is honorable: but death is honorable; therefore death is not evil.

-- Zeno of Citium

Thank God, I have done my duty.

-- Horatio Nelson

The death of a beautiful woman is, unquestionably, the most poetical topic in the world.

-- Edgar Allan Poe

Mine has been a life of much shame.

-- Osamu Dazai

I wish to die as Mori Rintaro, a man of Iwami.

-- Mori Ōgai

If I can make even one person happy in my lifetime, that is my own happiness.

-- Yasunari Kawabata