Yukio Mishima Quotes
Best The Decay of the Angel Quotes by Yukio Mishima
The Decay of the Angel Quotes
“The perfectly ordinary girl and the great philosopher are alike: for both, the smallest triviality can become the vision that wipes out the world.”
The Decay of the Angel
“To have to live was blacker than the most joyless kind of blackness, to have to see every day a man who sought to understand the deepest thing within him, and succeeded in it.”
The Decay of the Angel
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“Closing your eyes isn't going to change anything. Nothing's going to disappear just because you can't see what's going on. In fact, things will even be worse the next time you open your eyes. That's the kind of world we live in. Keep your eyes wide open. Only a coward closes his eyes. Closing your eyes and plugging up your ears won't make time stand still.”
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Yukio Mishima Sources
- All quotes by Yukio Mishima (56 quotes)
- After the Banquet (1 quote)
- Confessions of a Mask (7 quotes)
- Forbidden Colors (1 quote)
- Runaway Horses (4 quotes)
- Spring Snow (8 quotes)
- Sun and Steel (4 quotes)
- The Decay of the Angel (2 quotes)
- The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea (7 quotes)
- The Temple of Dawn (1 quote)
- The Temple of the Golden Pavilion (10 quotes)
- Thirst for Love (5 quotes)
- Other quotes by Yukio Mishima (6 quotes)