“The one who kills runs the risk of destroying the entire world just building up the courage to meet death eye-to-eye.”

“I faced the "dead lion" courageously but will definitely run if I meet a roaring one...”

“Eyes I dare not meet in dreamsIn death's dream kingdom”

“You can see the whole entire world in the eyes of a person who knows how to simply stand there and take all of it into him but then you can look into the eyes of someone else and the whole entire world goes away and all that's left is you.”

“How can one change one's entire life and build a new one on one moment of love? And yet, that's what you make me want to close my eyes and do.”

“He who kills from afar knows nothing at all about act of killing. He who kills from afar derives no lesson from life or from death; he neither risks nor stains his hands with blood, nor hears the breathing of his adversary, nor reads the fear, courage, or indifference in his eyes. He who kills from afar tests neither his arm, his heart, nor his conscience, nor does he create ghosts that will later haunt him every single night for the rest of his life. He who kills from afar is a knave who commends to others the dirty and terrible task that is his own.”