Yukio Mishima Quotes

“I am one who has always been interested only in the edges of the body and the spirit, the outlying regions of the body and the outlying regions of the spirit.

The depths hold no interest for me; I leave them to others, for they are shallow, commonplace. What is there, then, at the outer most edge? Nothing, perhaps, save a few ribbons, dangling down into the void.”

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

“The cynicism that regards hero worship as comical is always shadowed by a sense of physical inferiority.”

“Was I ignorant, then, when I was seventeen? I think not. I knew everything.

A quarter-century's experience of life since then has added nothing to what I knew. The one difference is that at seventeen I had no 'realism'.”