Mountain Quote by Yasunari Kawabata

Along the coast the sea roars, and inland the mountains roar – the roaring at the center, like a distant clap of thunder.

— Yasunari Kawabata

A child walked by, rolling a metal hoop that made a sound of autumn.

— Yasunari Kawabata

“And the Milky Way, like a great aurora, flowed through his body to stand at the edges of the earth. There was a quiet,…

— Yasunari Kawabata

“if you wanna be somebody be yourself dont try to be anybody your not”

— Yasunari Kawabata

“One can’t stop and suddenly speak to a complete stranger, can one?…When it happens I could die of sadness. I feel somehow empty and…

— Yasunari Kawabata

In the depths of the mirror the evening landscape moved by, the mirror and the reflected figures like motion pictures superimposed one on the…

— Yasunari Kawabata

The woman was silent, her eyes on the floor. Shimamura had come to a point where he knew he was only parading his masculine…

— Yasunari Kawabata

“It may be said that the Master was plagued in his last match by modern rationalism, to which fussy rules were everything, from which…

— Yasunari Kawabata

“After he became the Master, the world believed that he could not lose, and he had to believe it himself. Therein was the tragedy.”

— Yasunari Kawabata

THE TRAIN came out of the long tunnel into the snow country.

— Yasunari Kawabata

“What of it? Tokyo people are complicated. They live in such noise and confusion that their feelings are broken to little bits.” “Everything is…

— Yasunari Kawabata

“Is it a boy or a girl?" "It's a girl. Really! Can't you tell by looking at it? "Is it mine?" "It is not."…

— Yasunari Kawabata