Yukio Mishima Quotes
Top 80 wise famous quotes and sayings by Yukio Mishima
Yukio Mishima Famous Quotes & Sayings
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The parting, like the white fruit of an apple discolouring instantly around the bite, had begun three days before when they had met aboard the Rakuyo.
For even in the triviality of a single playing card missing from a deck, the world's order is inevitably turned awry.
Human beings, Isao realized, could descend to communicating their feelings like dogs barking in the distance on a cold night.
He was a ship loaded down with a full cargo of emotion, riding low in the dark winter sea of death. Isao
We human beings sometimes steer off in a direction in which we hope to find something a little bit better.
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.
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.
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.
Most writers are perfectly normal in the head and just carry on like wild men; I behave normally but I'm sick inside.
Prudery is a form of selfishness, a means of self-protection made necessary by the strength of one's own desires.
Men had been living a proud life, having felt no need for the spirit-until Christianity invented it.
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.
Still, the loss of something is significant, and I think that loss is the necessary source of a new manifestation.
Beyond doubt, there was a certain splendor in pain, which bore a deep affinity to the splendor that lies hidden within strength.
Let the darkness that is in my heart become equal to the darkness of the night that surrounds those innumerable lights!
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.
There's the matter of picking the time. There's such a thing as the favorable moment. Determination alone counts for nothing.
But this girl simply let my hands gather on her own small, plump hands, like flies gathering on someone who is taking a nap.
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.
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.
A person who has been seriously wounded does not demand that the bandages that save his life be clean.
There is no virtue in curiosity. In fact, it might even be the most immoral desire a man can possess.
For an artist to do creative work, he needs at once physical health and some physiomental ill health. He needs both serenity and gloom.
Actually the action called a kiss represented nothing more for me than some place where my spirit could seek shelter.
Perfect purity is possible if you turn your life into a line of poetry written with a splash of blood.
Still immersed in his dream, he drank down the tepid tea. It tasted bitter. Glory, as anyone knows, is bitter stuff.
The instant that the blade tore open his flesh, the bright disk of the sun soared up and exploded behind his eyelids.
Otaguro's bosom heaved with an ineffable surge of joy. "Every man is fighting," he murmured. "Every man.
The cynicism that regards hero worship as comical is always shadowed by a sense of physical inferiority
I was born with gloomy nature. I do not think I have ever known what it is to be cheerful and at ease.
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.
Quite possibly, what I call happiness may coincide with what others call the moment of imminent danger
Everybody's the same. People are all the same. But it's the prerogative of youth to think it's not so.
The perfectly ordinary girl and the great philosopher are alike: for both, the smallest triviality can become the vision that wipes out the world.
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.
You're not human. You're a being who is incapable of social intercourse. You're nothing but a creature, non-human and somehow strangely pathetic.
Those words of my friend were like fertilizer poured over the poisonous weed of an idea deeply planted in me.
It is a common failing of childhood to think that if one makes a hero out of a demon the demon will be satisfied.