Quote by Yukio Mishima Download Open image ““He felt that taking naps was much more beneficial than confronting catastrophes.”” — Yukio Mishima ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.3 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“I take a nap. ... It doesn't help much, but then it doesn't do any harm.” — Pamela Ball Copy Share Image
“After a night filled with more activity than sleep, he felt justified in their late awakening.” — Vivienne Savage Copy Share Image
“The cause isn’t worth getting up for, but it is worth sleeping for. Just trying to do my part to help humanity.” — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
“He was taking advantage of the brief lull in the battle to take a little nap, for do not all men, even heroes, need… — Günter Grass Copy Share Image
“...these sleepless nights, when oddly enough my concentration was high, fueled perhaps by the effort to ignore the all-engrossing threat of bombs and rockets.” — Azar Nafisi Copy Share Image
“Hell, life was so hard that you have to spend a third of it asleep just to have the energy to deal with the… — Anthony Tambakis Copy Share Image
“He was tired, he realized, emotionally and physically. He wanted to lie down and turn off the world and sleep for a week.” — Allan Folsom Copy Share Image
“Nothing more exhilarating (he wrote) than saving yourself by the simple act of waking.” — Junot Díaz Copy Share Image
“And yet when I went to sleep, it was like I became part of some larger human experience that was utterly heartbreaking. It was… — Sebastian Junger 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