Yukio Mishima Quotes



Best 7 The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea Quotes by Yukio Mishima

The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea Quotes

“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.”

The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea

“Living is merely the chaos of existence.”

The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea

“Possibly a man who hates the land should dwell on shore forever. Alienation and the long voyages at sea will compel him once again to dream of it, torment him with the absurdity of longing for something that he loathes.”

The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea

“Real danger is nothing more than just living. Of course, living is merely the chaos of existence, but more than that it's a crazy mixed-up business of dismantling existence instant by instant to the point where the original chaos is restored, and taking strength from the uncertainty and the fear that chaos brings to re-create existence instant by instant.

You won't find another job as dangerous as that. There isn't any fear in existence itself, or any uncertainty, but living creates it.”

The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea

“Still immersed in his dream, he drank down the tepid tea. It tasted bitter. Glory, as anyone knows, is bitter stuff.”

The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea

“There isn't any fear in existence itself, or any uncertainty, but living creates it.”

The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea

“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.”

The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea

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