Japanese Literature Quotes: top 32 famous quotes about Japanese Literature

Japanese Literature Quotes & Sayings

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A leader gets people to do things they wouldn't do in their right minds. A manager tells him he spent too much money doing it. — William Peter Grasso

I want to see you game, boys, I want to see you brave and manly, and I also want to see you gentle and tender. — Theodore Roosevelt

I'm a big fan of rocky girls. I love Hayley Williams and the lead singer from Tonight Alive. — Ashton Irwin

Something has been said for sobriety but very little. — John Berryman

Life takes its own turns, makes its own demands, writes its own story, and along the way, we start to realize we are not the author. — Barack Obama

We are being programmed by mental pygmies. — Howard Hesseman

There weren't many people in this world who would let you be vulnerable and still believe you were strong. — Rob Thomas

Art, like Nebraska, is a journey into thin air, a walk into whiteness, where you lose everything but yourself. — Joan Acocella

I am an admirer of haiku, and I'm a great admirer of Japanese literature in general. — Richard Flanagan

I've been missing Japanese literature so much of late. — Utada Hikaru

Yes, sir. Certainly, it was I who found the body. — Ryunosuke Akutagawa

I didn't read so much Japanese literature. Because my father was a teacher of Japanese literature, I just wanted to do something else. — Haruki Murakami

Die? Then so be it. — Eiji Yoshikawa

Indian-styled garments are very popular in the U.S., especially in areas near the beach, like Hawaii and Los Angeles. — Maggie Grace

Don't yield! Keep up your courage! The same sun looks down on all of us! — Eiji Yoshikawa

For clearly it is impossible to touch eternity with one hand and life with the other. — Yukio Mishima

People can endure almost anything but there's one thing they can't survive. Man is an animal that can't stand boredom — Koji Suzuki

Just before I fell asleep, I had a moment of panic ... — Ryu Murakami

If you hurt her any more than you already have, the wound could be too deep to fix. — Haruki Murakami

I can only bow to the will of the heaven, but not to the will of these men. — Eiji Yoshikawa

An Affront to the Rule of Law and to the Constitution Itself — John Boehner

I have no models in Japanese literature. I created my own style, my own way. — Haruki Murakami

Not only must a warrior be strong with his bow, but he must have a heart full of pity for all living creatures. — Eiji Yoshikawa

Great robber though he was, Kandata could only trash about like a dying frog as he choked on the blood of the pond. — Ryunosuke Akutagawa

As much as any contemporary writer, Murakami grasps the bewildering fluidity of commoditized life. — Japan Foundation

Men fall in love with their eyes. Women fall in love with their ears. — Phil McGraw

The River Mogami has drowned
Far and deep
Beneath its surging waves
The flaming sun of summer — Matsuo Basho

Curiosity, easily frightened, takes refuge in puzzles, murder mysteries, and spectator sports. — Mason Cooley

Isn't there someone kind enough to come strangle me in my sleep? — Ryunosuke Akutagawa

He was beneath the waves, a creature crawling the ocean bottom. — Doppo Kunikida

'The Narrow Road to the Deep North' is one of the most famous books of all Japanese literature, written by the great poet Basho in 1689. — Richard Flanagan

From then on, my thesis hung over me like a curse, and with bloodshot eyes, I worked like a madman. — Soseki Natsume