“...In the end, there's no sort of difference between dying from ignorance and dying under the feet of thousands of men who have regained their freedom. You close your eyes, and then there's nothing anymore. And death is never difficult. It requires neither a hero nor a slave. It eats what it's served.”
“It's different when the person you love dies. There's an awful finality to death. But it is final. The end. And there's the funeral, family gatherings, grieving, all of those necessary rituals. And they help, believe me. When the object of your love just disappears, there's no way to deal with the grief and pain.”
“Art requires neither complaisance nor politeness; nothing but faith, faith and freedom.”
“Kohaku aren't you afraid to die?No.Truly, there is neither fear nor hesitation in your eyes.”
“There's a kinship among men who have sat by a dying fire and measured the worth of their life by it.”
“You know, there's that silly saying 'We're born alone and we die alone' -it's nonsense. We're surrounded at birth and surrounded at death. It is in between that we're alone.”