Kawabata Quotes
Collection of top 46 famous quotes about Kawabata
Kawabata Quotes & Sayings
Happy to read and share the best inspirational Kawabata quotes, sayings and quotations on Wise Famous Quotes.
I could not bear the silences when the drum stopped. I sank down into the depths of the sound of the rain.
— Yasunari Kawabata
After all, only women are able really to love.
— Yasunari Kawabata
Time flows in the same way for all human beings; every human being flows through time in a different way.
— Yasunari Kawabata
Because you cannot see him, God is everywhere.
— Yasunari Kawabata
This is no world for gentle people
— Yasunari Kawabata
The baby understands that its mother loves it. [ ... ] Words have their origin in baby talk, so words have their origin in love.
— Yasunari Kawabata
I suppose even a woman's hatred is a kind of love.
— Yasunari Kawabata
As he caught his footing, his head fell back, and the Milky Way flowed down inside him with a roar.
— Yasunari Kawabata
THE TRAIN came out of the long tunnel into the snow country.
— Yasunari Kawabata
The high, thin nose was a little lonely, a little sad, but the bud of her lips opened and closed smoothly, like a beautiful little circle of leeches.
— Yasunari Kawabata
Father's life was only a very small part of the life of a tea bowl.
— Yasunari Kawabata
But a haiku by Buson came into his mind: 'I try to forget this senile love; a chilly autumn shower.' The gloom only grew denser.
— Yasunari Kawabata
The snow on the distant mountains was soft and creamy, as if veiled in a faint smoke.
— Yasunari Kawabata
From the way of Go the beauty of Japan and the Orient had fled. Everything had become science and regulation.
— Yasunari Kawabata
And I can't complain. After all, only woemn are able really to love
— Yasunari Kawabata
Here in our mountains, the snow falls even on the maple leaves.
— Yasunari Kawabata
The rich eyelashes again made him think that her eyes were half open.
— Yasunari Kawabata
Lunatics have no age. If we were crazy, you and I, we might be a great deal younger.
— Yasunari Kawabata
A child walked by, rolling a metal hoop that made a sound of autumn.
— Yasunari Kawabata
One can't stop and suddenly speak to a complete stranger, can one? ... When it happens I could die of sadness. I feel somehow empty and drained ...
— Yasunari Kawabata
Perhaps they don't realize where they were, so they went on living.
— Yasunari Kawabata
It's remarkable how we go on year after year, doing the same old things. We get tired and bored, and ask when they'll come for us
— Yasunari Kawabata
The labor into which a heart has poured its whole lovewhere will it have its say, to excite and inspire, and when? — Yasunari Kawabata
Stop. I don't like it. I don't like having people die.
— Yasunari Kawabata
It's not right to live so long in this world only moving backward."-from "Diary of My Sixteenth Year — Yasunari Kawabata
Put your soul in the palm of my hand for me to look at, like a crystal jewel. I'll sketch it in words ...
— Yasunari Kawabata
In a gourd that had been handed down for three centuries, a flower that would fade in a morning.
— Yasunari Kawabata
![Kawabata Quotes By Yasunari Kawabata: [ ... ] and yet the woman's existence,](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/kawabata-quotes-by-yasunari-kawabata-1868985.jpg "Kawabata Quotes By Yasunari Kawabata: [ ... ] and yet the woman's existence,")
[ ... ] and yet the woman's existence, her straining to live, came touching him like naked skin.
— Yasunari Kawabata
Again she lost herself in the talk, and again her words seemed to be warming her whole body.
— Yasunari Kawabata
A secret, if it's kept, can be sweet and comforting, but once it leaks out it can turn on you with a vengeance.
— Yasunari Kawabata
The stars, almost too many of them to be true, came forward so brightly that it was as if they were falling with the swiftness of the void.
— Yasunari Kawabata
Our language is primarily for expressing human goodness and beauty.
— Yasunari Kawabata
Oh, to be laughed at when I have the courage to speak my heart. I don't want to live in a world like this."-from "Diary of My Sixteenth Year — Yasunari Kawabata
When you die, there is nothingonly a life that will be forgotten."
-from "Gathering Ashes — Yasunari Kawabata
He heard a sound that only a magnificent old bell could produce, a sound that seemed to roar forth with all the latent power of a distant world.
— Yasunari Kawabata
They were words that came out of nothing, but they seemed to him somehow significant. He muttered them over again.
— Yasunari Kawabata
After he became the Master, the world believed that he could not lose, and he had to believe it himself. Therein was the tragedy.
— Yasunari Kawabata
Does pain go away and leave no trace, then?''You sometimes even feel sentimental for it. — Yasunari Kawabata
The course of one's life is a difficult thing."-from "Diary of My Sixteenth Year — Yasunari Kawabata
You've always been fond of understanding people too well.""They should arrange not to be understood quite so easily. — Yasunari Kawabata
Her awareness of her body was inseparable from her memory of his embrace.
— Yasunari Kawabata
I wonder what the retirement age is in the novel business.The day you die. — Yasunari Kawabata
Even when natural weather is good, human weather is bad.
— Yasunari Kawabata
Anyway, it's hardly a problem worth worrying about.
— Yasunari Kawabata
Thinking to be tactful and adroit, the woman stood
— Yasunari Kawabata
If you wanna be somebody be yourself dont try to be anybody your not
— Yasunari Kawabata