Quotes by Yukio Mishima

Yukio Mishima

..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 thereafter was to water and tend it; that propagation was a fiction; consequently, society was a fiction too; that fathers and teachers, by virtue of being fathers and teachers, were guilty of a grievous sin.

Father

Simple

Teacher

A man isn’t tiny or giant enough to defeat anything.

Giants

Men

Tiny

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 in a machine.

Cogs

Men

Skills

According to Eshin’s Essentials of Salvation, the Ten Pleasures are but a drop in the ocean when compared to the joys of the Pure Land.

Joy

Land

Ocean

As usual, it occurred to me that words were the only thing that could possibly save me from this situation. This was a characteristic misunderstanding on my part. When action was needed, I was absorbed in words; for words proceeded with such difficulty from my mouth that I was intent on them and forgot all about action. It seemed to me that actions, which are dazzling, varied things, must always be accompanied by equally dazzling and equally varied words.

Action

Mouths

Usual

Beyond doubt, there was a certain splendor in pain, which bore a deep affinity to the splendor that lies hidden within strength.

Doubt

Lying

Pain

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, the object is sanctified; it acquires the beauty of the unattainable, the quality of the miraculous. Everything, really, has this quality of sacredness, but we can desecrate it at a touch. How strange man is! His touch defiles and yet he contains the source of miracles.

Dream

Memories

Men

Even when we’re with someone we love, we’re foolish enough to think of her body and soul as being separate. To stand before the person we love is not the same as loving her true self, for we are only apt to regard her physical beauty as the indispensable mode of her existence. When time and space intervene, it is possible to be deceived by both, but on the other hand, it is equally possible to draw twice as close to her real self.

Love Is

Real

Thinking

For clearly it is impossible to touch eternity with one hand and life with the other.

Eternity

Hands

Impossible

Glory, as anyone knows, is bitter stuff.

Bitter

Glory

Stuff

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Desire

Details

Done

Doubt

Dream

Dying

Emotional

Eternity

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Eye

Facts

Fate

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Flower

Forever

Forget

Giants

Glory

Goes On

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Hands

Heart

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Heroic Death

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Imagine

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Quotes by Yukio Mishima

Yukio Mishima

A man isn’t tiny or giant enough to defeat anything.

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 in a machine.

According to Eshin’s Essentials of Salvation, the Ten Pleasures are but a drop in the ocean when compared to the joys of the Pure Land.

Beyond doubt, there was a certain splendor in pain, which bore a deep affinity to the splendor that lies hidden within strength.

For clearly it is impossible to touch eternity with one hand and life with the other.

Glory, as anyone knows, is bitter stuff.

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