Quite possibly, what I call happiness may coincide with what others call the moment of imminent danger — Yukio Mishima Copy Share Image
The period of childhood is a stage on which time and space become entangled. — Yukio Mishima Copy Share Image
As long as you know I am waiting, take your time flowers of the spring. — Yukio Mishima Copy Share Image
When silence is prolonged over a certain period of time, it takes on new meaning. — Yukio Mishima Copy Share Image
For a long time I had not approached the forbidden fruit called happiness, but it was now tempting me with a melancholy… — Yukio Mishima Copy Share Image
At no time are we ever in such complete possession of a journey, down to its last nook and cranny, as when… — Yukio Mishima Copy Share Image
At no time are we ever in such complete possession of a journey, down to its last nook and cranny, as when… — Yukio Mishima Copy Share Image
“This time, Fusako was able to express herself with fluency and candor. The bold letters she had been writing week after week… — Yukio Mishima Copy Share Image
“Insensitive people are only upset when they actually see the blood, but actually by the time that the blood has been shed… — Yukio Mishima Copy Share Image
The past does not only draw us back to the past. There are certain memories of the past that have strong steel… — Yukio Mishima Copy Share Image
“I felt as though I owned the whole world. And little wonder, because at no time are we ever in such complete… — 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
“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
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
“On the spur of the moment she decided to go and view the blossoms by herself in the dark night. It was… — 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
“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
“How oddly situated a man is apt to find himself at age thirty-eight! His youth belongs to the distant past. Yet the… — 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
