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 tran….

Anything can become excusable when seen from the standpoint of the result.

In the pale light of daybreak the gravestones looked like so many white sails of boats anchored in a busy harbor. They were sails that would never ag….

Yet how strange a thing is the beauty of music! The brief beauty that the player brings into being transforms a given period of time into pure contin….

Living is merely the chaos of existence..

For clearly it is impossible to touch eternity with one hand and life with the other..

Human beings - they go on being born and dying, dying and being born. It's kind of boring, isn't it?.

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, brig….

When silence is prolonged over a certain period of time, it takes on new meaning..

Perfect purity is possible if you turn your life into a line of poetry written with a splash of blood..

The special quality of hell is to see everything clearly down to the last detail..

Dreams, memories, the sacred--they are all alike in that they are beyond our grasp. Once we are even marginally separated from what we can touch, the….

As long as you know I am waiting, take your time flowers of the spring..

True beauty is something that attacks, overpowers, robs, and finally destroys..

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

The highest point at which human life and art meet is in the ordinary. To look down on the ordinary is to despise what you can't have. Show me a man ….

Beauty is something that burns the hand when you touch it..

For an artist to do creative work, he needs at once physical health and some physiomental ill health. He needs both serenity and gloom..

He had never looked forward to the wisdom and other vaunted benefits of old age. Would he be able to die young—and if possible free of all pain? A gr….

Nobody even imagines how well one can lie about the state of one’s own heart..

a samurai is a total human being, whereas a man who is completely absorbed in his technical skill has degenerated into a ‘function’, one cog in a mac….