Sentimenti Quote 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.…

— 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,…

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— 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,…

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— Yukio Mishima

The special quality of hell is to see everything clearly down to the last detail.

— Yukio Mishima

It is a rather risky matter to discuss a happiness that has no need of words.

— Yukio Mishima