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 death that knows neither flower nor fruit has dignity as the death of a human being. If we value so highly the dignity of life, how can we not also value the dignity of death? No death may be called futile.

if the world changed, i could not exist, and if i changed, the world could not exist

Human life is limited but I would like to live forever.

Perfect purity is possible if you turn your life into a line of poetry written with a splash of blood.

Actually the action called a kiss represented nothing more for me than some place where my spirit could seek shelter.

A man isn't tiny or giant enough to defeat anything.

Glory, as anyone knows, is bitter stuff.