A vague anxiety.

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.

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

-- Zeno of Citium

Thank God, I have done my duty.

-- Britain's greatest naval hero

Mine has been a life of much shame.

-- Osamu Dazai

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

-- Yasunari Kawabata

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

-- Edgar Allan Poe

I loved you: love perhaps has not yet faded entirely from my soul.

-- Alexander Pushkin