“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
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
“…Her desire was close to that of the person who drowns himself; he does not necessarily covet death so much as what… — Yukio Mishima Copy Share Image
Human beings - they go on being born and dying, dying and being born. It's kind of boring, isn't it? — Yukio Mishima Copy Share Image
What I wanted was to die among strangers, untroubled, beneath a cloudless sky. And yet my desire differed from the sentiments of… — Yukio Mishima Copy Share Image
He had never looked forward to the wisdom and other vaunted benefits of old age. Would he be able to die young—and… — 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
“Isao had never felt that he might want to be a woman. He had never wished for anything else but to be… — Yukio Mishima Copy Share Image
We tend to suffer from the illusion that we are capable of dying for a belief or theory. What Hagakure is insisting… — Yukio Mishima Copy Share Image
To see human beings in agony, to see them covered in blood and to hear their death groans, makes people humble. It… — 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
He was in a room of the Gesshuuji, which he had thought it would be impossible to visit. The approach of death… — 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
Isao had never felt that he might want to be a woman. He had never wished for anything else but to be… — 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
The special quality of hell is to see everything clearly down to the last detail. — Yukio Mishima Copy Share Image
It is a rather risky matter to discuss a happiness that has no need of words. — Yukio Mishima Copy Share Image
