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

Life is not worth a single line of Baudelaire.

わたしはこの「ぼんやりした不安」のために苦しんでいる。

Life is like a long journey carrying a heavy burden. Never hurry.

-- The founder of Japan's Tokugawa shogunate

A human life of fifty years, compared to the span beneath heaven, is nothing but a dream, an illusion.

-- The revolutionary warlord who dismantled feudal Japan's medieval order and launched the country toward unification

If the cuckoo will not sing, I shall make it want to sing.

-- The peasant who became ruler of all Japan

I would rather betray the world than let the world betray me.

-- The dominant warlord of China's Three Kingdoms era

All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know.

-- Ernest Hemingway

You cannot find peace by avoiding life.

-- Virginia Woolf