The dead are too much with us.

The world was filling with ghosts. We were a haunted country in a haunted world.

when there is a tragedy, detail and a picture of the country emerges because people discuss it so much.

What haunted people even, perhaps especially, on their deathbed? What chased them, tortured them and brought some of them to their knees? And [he] thought he had the answer. Regret. Regret for things said, things done, and things not done. Regret for the people they might have been. And failed to be.

One thing I know about death is that it touches my psyche and mumbles in her magnificently unknown words; it floats within me and wanders through my bones every day.

We are the dead and the witnesses to death of hundreds of thousands of our people, of the water, the air, the animals and forests and grassy lands that sustained them and us not so very long ago.

My lands are where my dead lie buried.

If the living are haunted by the dead. Then the dead are haunted by their own mistakes."

When I consider the dead and their families, I cannot repress my mental agony.

Perhaps that is why we love life so much, Anjin-san. You see, we have to. Death is part of our air and sea and earth. You should know, Anjin-san, in this Land of Tears, death is our heritage.

My dad died, and my grandfather died, and my great-grandfather died. And the guy before him, I don't know. Probably died. … I come from a long line of death. That's my point. And so I fear it. I fear it a lot.

All these things have happened in our history, and we need to talk about them. What kind of country are we that our history is so tragic?

The death of our close friends and relatives proves that how close the death is to us!

I grew up in a shadowy world where death was all around, but it was secret — disappearances have all the direct cruelty of sadism, as well as a particular aura of the sinister unknown.