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Yukio Mishima Quotes

Total quotes: 6
“When silence is prolonged over a certain period of time, it takes on new meaning.”
— Yukio Mishima, Thirst for Love
Tagged: Silence, Communication, Meanings, meanings of silence, Life
“The cynicism that regards all hero worship as comical is always shadowed by a sense of physical inferiority.”
— Yukio Mishima, Sun & Steel
Tagged: Hero Worship, Fandom, Fans
“Nobody even imagines how well one can lie about the state of one’s own heart.”
— Yukio Mishima, Thirst for Love
Tagged: Lies, Self Deception, heart, 107 Of The Greatest Single Sentences In Literature, Perfect Sentences
“A dead man’s face can tell us better than anything else in this world how far removed we are from the true existence of physical substance, how impossible it is for us to lay hands on the way in which this substance exists.”
— Yukio Mishima, The Temple of the Golden Pavilion
Tagged: Death
“When I think of the past twenty-five years within myself I am astonished at their emptiness. I can scarcely say that I have lived.”
— Yukio Mishima, Mishima: A Biography
Tagged: LifeandDeath, Living, Suicide
“One summer day, heated by training, I was cooling my muscles in the breeze coming through an open window. The sweat vanished as though by magic, and coolness passed over the surface of the muscles like a touch of menthol. The next instant, I was rid of the sense of the muscles' existence, and—in the same way that words, by their abstract functioning, can grind up the concrete world so that the words themselves seem never to have existed—my muscles at that moment crushed something within my being, so that it was as though the muscles themselves had similarly never existed.”
— Yukio Mishima, Sun and Steel
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