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Yukio Mishima Quotes

Yukio Mishima quotes about world

Japanese Author, Playwright, Writer January 14, 1925 – November 25, 1970

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Mine was the unbearable jealousy a cultured pearl must feel toward a genuine one. Or can there be such a thing in this world as a man who is jealous of the woman who loves him, precisely because of her love? Yukio Mishima
There's a huge seal called 'impossibility' pasted all over this world. And don't ever forget that we're the only ones who can tear it off once and for all. Yukio Mishima
To see human beings in agony, to see them covered in blood and to hear their death groans, makes people humble. It makes their spirits delicate, bright, peaceful. It's never at such times that we become cruel or bloodthirsty. No, it's on a beautiful spring afternoon like this that people suddenly become cruel. It's at a moment like this, don't you think, while one's vaguely watching the sun as it peeps through the leaves of the trees above a well-mown lawn? Every possible nightmare in the... Yukio Mishima
What transforms this world is? knowledge. Do you see what I mean? Nothing else can change anything in this world. Knowledge alone is capable of transforming the world, while at the same time leaving it exactly as it is. When you look at the world with knowledge, you realize that things are unchangeable and at the same time are constantly being transformed. Yukio Mishima
Japanese people today think of money, just money: Where is our national spirit today? The Jieitai must be the soul of Japan. … The nation has no spiritual foundation. That is why you don’t agree with me. You will just be American mercenaries. There you are in your tiny world. You do nothing for Japan. … I salute the Emperor. Long live the emperor! Yukio Mishima
Yukio Mishima quote: "if the world changed, i could not exist, and if i changed, the..."
if the world changed, i could not exist, and if i changed, the world could not exist 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. While he was in captivity, there were only two worlds for him - the world of the cage, and the world outside the cage. Now he is free. He roars. He attacks people. He eats them. Yet he is not satisfied, for there is no third world that is neither the world of the cage nor the world outside the cage. Yukio Mishima
Yukio Mishima quote: "of all the kinds of decay in this world, decadent purity is..."
...of all the kinds of decay in this world, decadent purity is the most malignant. Yukio Mishima
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, I could defeat ugliness. A man isn’t tiny or giant enough to defeat anything. Yukio Mishima
Yukio Mishima quote: "All six of us are geniuses. And the world, as you know, is empty."
All six of us are geniuses. And the world, as you know, is empty. Yukio Mishima
Yukio Mishima quote: "Other people must be destroyed. In order that I might truly..."
Other people must be destroyed. In order that I might truly face the sun, the world itself must be destroyed.... Yukio Mishima

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