"What I wanted was to die among strangers, untroubled, beneath a cloudless sky. And yet my desire differed from the sentiments of that ancient Greek who wanted to die under the brilliant sun. What I wanted was some natural, spontaneous suicide. I wanted a death like that of a fox, not yet well versed in cunning, that walks carelessly along a mountain path and is shot by a hunter because of its own stupidityâ€¦"

-- Yukio Mishima

#Suicide Quotes #Sky Quotes #Stupidity Quotes

“A lot of English traditional music is guesswork anyway, so it's very difficult for people to be vehemently opposed to experimenting with it.”
“Will you marry me, vile and abominable girl that you are? Yes, but, mind, it only to save my neck from being wrung!”
“There are some persons on whom virtue sits almost as ungraciously as vice.”
“Virtue treads paths that end not in the grave.”
“Work is the vessel into which we pour so much of ourselves hope and disappointment, elation and rage, satisfaction and frustration. Yet any damp display of these emotions is seen as weakness.”

Source : Lisa Belkin (2003). “Life's Work: Confessions of an Unbalanced Mom”, p.105, Simon and Schuster
“Love is our response to our highest values.”
“They started to try and keep us off the air in the beginning.”
“The most serious charge which can be brought against New England is not Puritanism, but February.... Spring is too far away to comfort even by anticipation, and winter long ago lost the charm of novelty. This is the very three a.m. of the calendar.”

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