--- title: "4 Despise Quotes By Yukio Mishima" description: "4 Despise quotes by Yukio Mishima. Plus more from Yukio Mishima and more Despise sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/005/yukio-mishima-1418_art_the-highest-point-at-which-human-life-an_793801.jpg" --- > [The highest point at which human life and art meet is in the ordinary. To look down on the ordinary is to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/yukio-mishima/the-highest-point-at-which-human-life-and-art-meet-is-in-the-ordinary/) [Yukio Mishima](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/yukio-mishima/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/005/yukio-mishima-1418_art_the-highest-point-at-which-human-life-an_793801.jpg) > [ “\[A\] nation must ravage itself before foreigners can ravage it, a man must despise himself before others can despise him.” ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/yukio-mishima/a-nation-must-ravage-itself-before-foreigners-can-ravage-it-a-man/) [Yukio Mishima](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/yukio-mishima/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ee7/yukio-mishima-1418_contempt_a-nation-must-ravage-itself-before-forei_1325081.jpg) > [We are not wounded so deeply when betrayed by the things we hope for as when betrayed by things we try our…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/yukio-mishima/we-are-not-wounded-so-deeply-when-betrayed-by-the-things-we-hope-for/) [Yukio Mishima](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/yukio-mishima/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/323/yukio-mishima-1418_betrayal_we-are-not-wounded-so-deeply-when-betray_2142282.jpg) > [Time is what matters. As time goes by, you and I will be carried inexorably into the mainstream of our period, even…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/yukio-mishima/time-is-what-matters-as-time-goes-by-you-and-i-will-be-carried/) [Yukio Mishima](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/yukio-mishima/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/887/yukio-mishima-1418_despise_time-is-what-matters-as-time-goes-by-you_2382139.jpg) ## Other authors on Despise ## More by Yukio Mishima > [When a captive lion steps out of his cage, he comes into a wider world than the lion who has known only the wilds.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/yukio-mishima/when-a-captive-lion-steps-out-of-his-cage-he-comes-into-a-wider-world/) [Yukio Mishima](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/yukio-mishima/) > [Suddenly the full long wail of a ship's horn surged through the open window and flooded the dim room - a cry of boundless,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/yukio-mishima/suddenly-the-full-long-wail-of-a-ship-s-horn-surged-through-the-open/) [Yukio Mishima](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/yukio-mishima/) > [The purest evil that human efforts could attain, in other words, was probably achieved by those men who made their wills the same and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/yukio-mishima/the-purest-evil-that-human-efforts-could-attain-in-other-words-was/) [Yukio Mishima](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/yukio-mishima/) > [“Because in the pupils of his eyes there lingered the mysterious and eternal horizon that the sea leaves as a keepsake deep in the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/yukio-mishima/because-in-the-pupils-of-his-eyes-there-lingered-the-mysterious-and/) [Yukio Mishima](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/yukio-mishima/) > [As usual, it occurred to me that words were the only thing that could possibly save me from this situation. This was a characteristic…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/yukio-mishima/as-usual-it-occurred-to-me-that-words-were-the-only-thing-that-could/) [Yukio Mishima](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/yukio-mishima/) > [Mine was the unbearable jealousy a cultured pearl must feel toward a genuine one. Or can there be such a thing in this world…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/yukio-mishima/mine-was-the-unbearable-jealousy-a-cultured-pearl-must-feel-toward-a/) [Yukio Mishima](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/yukio-mishima/) > [“Svoju patnju, koju prihvatam, moram da prihvatim kao dragocenost. Ne postoji nijedan ispirač zlata koji iskopava samo zlato. Ispirač vadi pesak sa korita reke,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/yukio-mishima/svoju-patnju-koju-prihvatam-moram-da-prihvatim-kao-dragocenost-ne/) [Yukio Mishima](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/yukio-mishima/) > [I am one who has always been interested only in the edges of the body and the spirit, the outlying regions of the body…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/yukio-mishima/i-am-one-who-has-always-been-interested-only-in-the-edges-of-the-body/) [Yukio Mishima](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/yukio-mishima/) > [Just let matters slide. How much better to accept each sweet drop of the honey that was Time, than to stoop to the vulgarity…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/yukio-mishima/just-let-matters-slide-how-much-better-to-accept-each-sweet-drop-of/) [Yukio Mishima](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/yukio-mishima/) > [“Great cloud masses boiled up, immense in their quiet majesty. They seemed to drink up all the noise below, even the sound of the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/yukio-mishima/great-cloud-masses-boiled-up-immense-in-their-quiet-majesty-they/) [Yukio Mishima](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/yukio-mishima/) > [The special quality of hell is to see everything clearly down to the last detail.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/yukio-mishima/the-special-quality-of-hell-is-to-see-everything-clearly-down-to-the/) [Yukio Mishima](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/yukio-mishima/) > [It is a rather risky matter to discuss a happiness that has no need of words.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/yukio-mishima/it-is-a-rather-risky-matter-to-discuss-a-happiness-that-has-no-need/) [Yukio Mishima](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/yukio-mishima/) > [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/yukio-mishima/again-saburo-tominaga-once-went-to-the-shirakawa-prefectural-office/) [Yukio Mishima](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/yukio-mishima/) > [“To be strong and true had been the most important task he had set himself since early childhood. Once, as a boy, he had…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/yukio-mishima/to-be-strong-and-true-had-been-the-most-important-task-he-had-set/) [Yukio Mishima](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/yukio-mishima/) > [What transforms this world is — knowledge. Do you see what I mean? Nothing else can change anything in this world. Knowledge alone is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/yukio-mishima/what-transforms-this-world-is-knowledge-do-you-see-what-i-mean/) [Yukio Mishima](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/yukio-mishima/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/despise/yukio-mishima/#itemlist", "name": "4 Despise Quotes By Yukio Mishima", "numberOfItems": 4, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "The highest point at which human life and art meet is in the ordinary. To look down on the ordinary is to despise what you can't have. Show me a man who fears being ordinary, and I'll show you a man who is not yet a man.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Yukio Mishima" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/yukio-mishima/the-highest-point-at-which-human-life-and-art-meet-is-in-the-ordinary/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/005/yukio-mishima-1418_art_the-highest-point-at-which-human-life-an_793801.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/005/yukio-mishima-1418_art_the-highest-point-at-which-human-life-an_793801.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/005/yukio-mishima-1418_art_the-highest-point-at-which-human-life-an_793801.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“The highest point at which human life and art meet is in the ordinary. To look down on the ordinary is to…” — Yukio Mishima", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“[A] nation must ravage itself before foreigners can ravage it, a man must despise himself before others can despise him.”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Yukio Mishima" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/yukio-mishima/a-nation-must-ravage-itself-before-foreigners-can-ravage-it-a-man/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ee7/yukio-mishima-1418_contempt_a-nation-must-ravage-itself-before-forei_1325081.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ee7/yukio-mishima-1418_contempt_a-nation-must-ravage-itself-before-forei_1325081.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ee7/yukio-mishima-1418_contempt_a-nation-must-ravage-itself-before-forei_1325081.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“[A] nation must ravage itself before foreigners can ravage it, a man must despise himself before others can…” — Yukio Mishima", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 3, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "We are not wounded so deeply when betrayed by the things we hope for as when betrayed by things we try our best to despise. In such betrayal comes the dagger in the back.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Yukio Mishima" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/yukio-mishima/we-are-not-wounded-so-deeply-when-betrayed-by-the-things-we-hope-for/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/323/yukio-mishima-1418_betrayal_we-are-not-wounded-so-deeply-when-betray_2142282.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/323/yukio-mishima-1418_betrayal_we-are-not-wounded-so-deeply-when-betray_2142282.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/323/yukio-mishima-1418_betrayal_we-are-not-wounded-so-deeply-when-betray_2142282.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“We are not wounded so deeply when betrayed by the things we hope for as when betrayed by things we try our…” — Yukio Mishima", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 4, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Time is what matters. As time goes by, you and I will be carried inexorably into the mainstream of our period, even though we’re unaware of what it is. And later, when they say that young men in the early Taisho era thought, dressed, talked, in such and such a way, they’ll be talking about you and me. We’ll all be lumped together…. In a few decades, people will see you and the people you despise as one and the same, a single entity.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Yukio Mishima" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/yukio-mishima/time-is-what-matters-as-time-goes-by-you-and-i-will-be-carried/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/887/yukio-mishima-1418_despise_time-is-what-matters-as-time-goes-by-you_2382139.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/887/yukio-mishima-1418_despise_time-is-what-matters-as-time-goes-by-you_2382139.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/887/yukio-mishima-1418_despise_time-is-what-matters-as-time-goes-by-you_2382139.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Time is what matters. As time goes by, you and I will be carried inexorably into the mainstream of our…” — Yukio Mishima", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } } ] }, { "@type": "CollectionPage", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/despise/yukio-mishima/#webpage", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/despise/yukio-mishima/", "name": "Despise Quotes by Yukio Mishima", "isPartOf": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#website" }, "mainEntity": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/despise/yukio-mishima/#itemlist" }, "primaryImageOfPage": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/005/yukio-mishima-1418_art_the-highest-point-at-which-human-life-an_793801.jpg" }, "description": "4 Despise quotes by Yukio Mishima. Plus more from Yukio Mishima and more Despise sayings from other authors.", "breadcrumb": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/despise/yukio-mishima/#breadcrumb" } }, { "@type": "BreadcrumbList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/despise/yukio-mishima/#breadcrumb", "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "name": "Home", "item": "https://sms4smile.com/" }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "name": "Quotes", "item": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/" }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 3, "name": "Topics", "item": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/categories/" }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 4, "name": "Despise", "item": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/despise/" }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 5, "name": "Yukio Mishima", "item": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/despise/yukio-mishima/" } ] }, { "@type": "WebSite", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#website", "name": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/", "publisher": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } }, { "@type": "Organization", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization", "name": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/", "logo": { "@type": "ImageObject", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/themes/sq/assets/icons/icon-512.png", "width": 512, "height": 512 } } ] } ```