Corpses are more fit to be thrown out than is dung.

When is death not within ourselves?... Living and dead are the same, and so are awake and alseep, young and old.

Even sleepers are workers and collaborators on what goes on in the universe.

Man, like a light in the night, is kindled and put out.

We tend to suffer from the illusion that we are capable of dying for a belief or theory. What Hagakure is insisting is that even in merciless death, a futile d…

Life is short and truth works far and lives long: let us speak the truth.

If my life is to be prolonged now, I know that I must live out my old age, seeing worse, hearing less, learning with more difficulty, and forgetting more and m…