Men had been living a proud life, having felt no need for the spirit-until Christianity invented it. — Yukio Mishima Copy Share Image
There isn't any fear in existence itself, or any uncertainty, but living creates it. — Yukio Mishima Copy Share Image
Perfect purity is possible if you turn your life into a line of poetry written with a splash of blood. — Yukio Mishima Copy Share Image
If we value so highly the dignity of life, how can we not also value the dignity of death No death may… — Yukio Mishima Copy Share Image
For clearly it is impossible to touch eternity with one hand and life with the other — Yukio Mishima Copy Share Image
Better to be caught in sudden, complete catastrophe than to be gnawed by the cancer of imagination. — Yukio Mishima Copy Share Image
“A person who has been seriously wounded does not demand that the bandages that save his life be clean.” — Yukio Mishima Copy Share Image
If we look on idly, heaven and earth will never be joined. To join heaven and earth, some decisive deed of purity… — Yukio Mishima Copy Share Image
The most appropriate type of daily life for me was a day-by-day world destruction; peace was the most difficult and abnormal state… — Yukio Mishima Copy Share Image
Was I ignorant, then, when I was seventeen? I think not. I knew everything. A quarter-century's experience of life since then has… — Yukio Mishima Copy Share Image
The highest point at which human life and art meet is in the ordinary. To look down on the ordinary is to… — Yukio Mishima Copy Share Image
“And it seemed increasingly obvious that the world would have to topple if he was to attain the glory that was rightfully… — Yukio Mishima Copy Share Image
“He heard the sound of waves striking the shore, and it was as though the surging of his young blood was keeping… — Yukio Mishima Copy Share Image
All my life I have been acutely aware of a contradiction in the very nature of my existence. For forty-five years I… — Yukio Mishima Copy Share Image
“There is nothing in the least special about you. I guarantee you a long life. You have not been chosen by the… — Yukio Mishima Copy Share Image
We had stretched out our arms to each other and supported something in our joined hands, but this thing we were holding… — Yukio Mishima Copy Share Image
The purest evil that human efforts could attain, in other words, was probably achieved by those men who made their wills the… — Yukio Mishima Copy Share Image
Yet how strange a thing is the beauty of music! The brief beauty that the player brings into being transforms a given… — Yukio Mishima Copy Share Image
“In general, things that were endowed with life did not, like the Golden Temple, have the rigid quality of existing once and… — Yukio Mishima Copy Share Image
Real danger is nothing more than just living. Of course, living is merely the chaos of existence, but more than that it's… — Yukio Mishima Copy Share Image
“At thirteen, Noboru was convinced of his own genius (each of the others in the gang felt the same way) and certain… — Yukio Mishima Copy Share Image
“When I arrived at the house in the suburbs that night I seriously contemplated suicide for the first time in my life.… — Yukio Mishima Copy Share Image
“Only through the group, I realised — through sharing the suffering of the group — could the body reach that height of… — Yukio Mishima Copy Share Image
If we look on idly, heaven and earth will never be joined. To join heaven and earth, some decisive deed of purity… — Yukio Mishima Copy Share Image
“The whole house is spic and span and everybody's supposed to be real honest and full of what he calls 'the good'.… — Yukio Mishima Copy Share Image
..and certain that life consisted of a few simple signals and decisions; that death took root at the moment of birth and… — Yukio Mishima Copy Share Image
His conviction of having no purpose in life other than to act as a distillation of poison was part of the ego… — Yukio Mishima Copy Share Image
The mind, by its very nature, persistently tries to live forever, resisting age and attempting to give itself a form... . When… — Yukio Mishima Copy Share Image
When a captive lion steps out of his cage, he comes into a wider world than the lion who has known only the wilds.… — Yukio Mishima Copy Share
Suddenly the full long wail of a ship's horn surged through the open window and flooded the dim room - a cry of boundless,… — Yukio Mishima Copy Share
The purest evil that human efforts could attain, in other words, was probably achieved by those men who made their wills the same and… — Yukio Mishima Copy Share
“Because in the pupils of his eyes there lingered the mysterious and eternal horizon that the sea leaves as a keepsake deep in the… — Yukio Mishima Copy Share
As usual, it occurred to me that words were the only thing that could possibly save me from this situation. This was a characteristic… — Yukio Mishima Copy Share
Mine was the unbearable jealousy a cultured pearl must feel toward a genuine one. Or can there be such a thing in this world… — Yukio Mishima Copy Share
“Svoju patnju, koju prihvatam, moram da prihvatim kao dragocenost. Ne postoji nijedan ispirač zlata koji iskopava samo zlato. Ispirač vadi pesak sa korita reke,… — Yukio Mishima Copy Share
I am one who has always been interested only in the edges of the body and the spirit, the outlying regions of the body… — Yukio Mishima Copy Share
Just let matters slide. How much better to accept each sweet drop of the honey that was Time, than to stoop to the vulgarity… — Yukio Mishima Copy Share
“Great cloud masses boiled up, immense in their quiet majesty. They seemed to drink up all the noise below, even the sound of the… — Yukio Mishima Copy Share
The special quality of hell is to see everything clearly down to the last detail. — Yukio Mishima Copy Share
It is a rather risky matter to discuss a happiness that has no need of words. — Yukio Mishima Copy Share
“Again, Saburo Tominaga once went to the Shirakawa Prefectural Office to cash his brother Morikuni’s bonus bond and, unwilling to touch paper currency defiled… — Yukio Mishima Copy Share
“To be strong and true had been the most important task he had set himself since early childhood. Once, as a boy, he had… — Yukio Mishima Copy Share
What transforms this world is — knowledge. Do you see what I mean? Nothing else can change anything in this world. Knowledge alone is… — Yukio Mishima Copy Share
