Best Yukio Mishima Quotes
- For an artist to do creative work, he needs at once physical health and some physiomental ill health. He needs both serenity and gloom. Artist
- Men had been living a proud life, having felt no need for the spirit-until Christianity invented it. Been
- The mind, by its very nature, persistently tries to live forever, resisting age and attempting to give itself a form... . When a person passes… Age
- if the world changed, i could not exist, and if i changed, the world could not exist Changed
- Anything can become excusable when seen from the standpoint of the result Excusable
- True beauty is something that attacks, overpowers, robs, and finally destroys. Attacks
- What transforms this world is — knowledge. Do you see what I mean? Nothing else can change anything in this world. Knowledge alone is capable… Alone
- Perfect purity is possible if you turn your life into a line of poetry written with a splash of blood. Blood
- Abruptly he thrust his snow-drenched leather gloves against my cheeks. I dodged. A raw carnal feeling blazed up within me, branding my cheeks. I felt… Abruptly
- Was I ignorant, then, when I was seventeen? I think not. I knew everything. A quarter-century's experience of life since then has added nothing to… Added
- His conviction of having no purpose in life other than to act as a distillation of poison was part of the ego of an eighteen-year-old.… Act
- Dreams, memories, the sacred--they are all alike in that they are beyond our grasp. Once we are even marginally separated from what we can touch,… Acquires
- However, as words become particularized, and as men begin - in however small a way - to use them in personal, arbitrary ways, so their… Arbitrary
- If we look on idly, heaven and earth will never be joined. To join heaven and earth, some decisive deed of purity is necessary. To… Accomplish
- i still have no way to survive but to keep writing one line, one more line, one more line... Keep Writing
- ..and certain that life consisted of a few simple signals and decisions; that death took root at the moment of birth and man’s only recourse… Birth
- An ugliness unfurled in the moonlight and soft shadow and suffused the whole world. If I were an amoeba, he thought, with an infinitesimal body,… Amoeba
- What I wanted was to die among strangers, untroubled, beneath a cloudless sky. And yet my desire differed from the sentiments of that ancient Greek… Along
- Amid the moon and the stars, amid the clouds of the night, amid the hills which bordered on the sky with their magnificent silhouette of… All
- Possessing by letting go of things was a secret of ownership unknown to youth. Go
- When a captive lion steps out of his cage, he comes into a wider world than the lion who has known only the wilds. While… Attacks
- Other people must be destroyed. In order that I might truly face the sun, the world itself must be destroyed.... Destroyed
- …the samurai ethic is a political science of the heart, designed to control such discouragement and fatigue in order to avoid showing them to others.… Avoid
- a samurai is a total human being, whereas a man who is completely absorbed in his technical skill has degenerated into a ‘function’, one cog… Absorbed
- The cynicism that regards hero worship as comical is always shadowed by a sense of physical inferiority Comical
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