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For even in the triviality of a single playing card missing from a deck, the world's order is inevitably turned awry.
— Yukio Mishima
Human beings, Isao realized, could descend to communicating their feelings like dogs barking in the distance on a cold night.
— Yukio Mishima
He was a ship loaded down with a full cargo of emotion, riding low in the dark winter sea of death. Isao
— Yukio Mishima
Life is like swordplay. Grip it, hold it tightly, then make your move.
— Louis Edward Rosas
We human beings sometimes steer off in a direction in which we hope to find something a little bit better.
— Yukio Mishima
Honor knows no birthright.
— Louis Edward Rosas
The path we're taking is not a road, Kiyo, it's a pier, and it ends someplace where the sea begins. It can't be helped.
— Yukio Mishima
Beauty is something that burns the hand when you touch it.
— Yukio Mishima
The most appropriate type of daily life for me was a day-by-day world destruction; peace was the most difficult and abnormal state to live in.
— Yukio Mishima
Thus in a single phrase I can define the great illusion concerning 'love' in this world. It is the effort to join reality with the apparition.
— Yukio Mishima
Most writers are perfectly normal in the head and just carry on like wild men; I behave normally but I'm sick inside.
— Yukio Mishima
I had no taste for defeat - much less victory - without a fight.
— Yukio Mishima
A person who has been seriously wounded does not demand that the bandages that save his life be clean.
— Yukio Mishima
...living is merely the chaos of existence...
— Yukio Mishima
For me, beauty is always retreating from one's grasp: the only thing I consider important is what existed once, or ought to have existed.
— Yukio Mishima
For clearly it is impossible to touch eternity with one hand and life with the other.
— Yukio Mishima
Otaguro's bosom heaved with an ineffable surge of joy. "Every man is fighting," he murmured. "Every man.
— Yukio Mishima
The instant that the blade tore open his flesh, the bright disk of the sun soared up and exploded behind his eyelids.
— Yukio Mishima
The only people in this world I really trust are my fans - even if they do forget you so fast.
— Yukio Mishima
Men had been living a proud life, having felt no need for the spirit-until Christianity invented it.
— Yukio Mishima
go-go hall on my way home from school.
— Yukio Mishima
He was like a husband so jealous that he insists his wife have the very dreams he has.
— Yukio Mishima
Prudery is a form of selfishness, a means of self-protection made necessary by the strength of one's own desires.
— Yukio Mishima
It seems to me that before the photograph can exist as art it must, by its very nature choose whether it is to be a record or a testimony.
— Yukio Mishima
No human being can be so honest as to become completely false.
— Yukio Mishima
His emotion evident in the glitter of his eyes.
— Yukio Mishima
The cynicism that regards hero worship as comical is always shadowed by a sense of physical inferiority
— Yukio Mishima
But this girl simply let my hands gather on her own small, plump hands, like flies gathering on someone who is taking a nap.
— Yukio Mishima
There's the matter of picking the time. There's such a thing as the favorable moment. Determination alone counts for nothing.
— Yukio Mishima
Only knowledge can turn life's unbearableness into a weapon.
— Yukio Mishima
According to Eshin's Essentials of Salvation, the Ten Pleasures are but a drop in the ocean when compared to the joys of the Pure Land.
— Yukio Mishima
Better to be caught in sudden, complete catastrophe than to be gnawed by the cancer of imagination.
— Yukio Mishima
There is no virtue in curiosity. In fact, it might even be the most immoral desire a man can possess.
— Yukio Mishima
At no time are we ever in such complete possession of a journey, down to its last nook and cranny, as when we are busy with preparations for it.
— Yukio Mishima
Stutter, stutter!
— Yukio Mishima
I was born with gloomy nature. I do not think I have ever known what it is to be cheerful and at ease.
— Yukio Mishima
Still, the loss of something is significant, and I think that loss is the necessary source of a new manifestation.
— Yukio Mishima
I want to make a poem of my life.
— Yukio Mishima
If the world changed, i could not exist, and if i changed, the world could not exist
— Yukio Mishima
Perfect purity is possible if you turn your life into a line of poetry written with a splash of blood.
— Yukio Mishima
Actually the action called a kiss represented nothing more for me than some place where my spirit could seek shelter.
— Yukio Mishima
We live in an age in which there is no heroic death.
— Yukio Mishima
For an artist to do creative work, he needs at once physical health and some physiomental ill health. He needs both serenity and gloom.
— Yukio Mishima
Again and again, the cicada's untiring cry pierced the sultry summer air like a needle at work on thick cotton cloth.
— Yukio Mishima
Still immersed in his dream, he drank down the tepid tea. It tasted bitter. Glory, as anyone knows, is bitter stuff.
— Yukio Mishima
Other people must be destroyed. In order that I might truly face the sun, the world itself must be destroyed ...
— Yukio Mishima
It is a common failing of childhood to think that if one makes a hero out of a demon the demon will be satisfied.
— Yukio Mishima
Those words of my friend were like fertilizer poured over the poisonous weed of an idea deeply planted in me.
— Yukio Mishima
I still have no way to survive but to keep writing one line, one more line, one more line ...
— Yukio Mishima
I come out on the stage expecting the audience to weep, and instead they burst out laughing.
— Yukio Mishima
Beyond doubt, there was a certain splendor in pain, which bore a deep affinity to the splendor that lies hidden within strength.
— Yukio Mishima
A man may be hard to persuade by rational argument while he is easily swayed by a display of passion, even if it is feigned.
— Yukio Mishima
We all know that the world is empty and that the important thing, the only thing, is to try to maintain order in that emptiness.
— Yukio Mishima
The measure of a woman's power is the degree of suffering with which she can punish her lover.
— Yukio Mishima
Kensuke and his wife had, like all bored people, a sense of kindness that was close to disease.
— Yukio Mishima
Everybody's the same. People are all the same. But it's the prerogative of youth to think it's not so.
— Yukio Mishima
Ever since then violent anticipation has always been an anguish rather than joy for me.
— Yukio Mishima
Man does not live simply in order to die.
— Yukio Mishima
Quite possibly, what I call happiness may coincide with what others call the moment of imminent danger
— Yukio Mishima
Is there not a sort of remorse that precedes sin? Was it remorse at the very fact that I existed?
— Yukio Mishima
Let the darkness that is in my heart become equal to the darkness of the night that surrounds those innumerable lights!
— Yukio Mishima
Human life is limited but I would like to live forever.
— Yukio Mishima