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…

- Yukio Mishima

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

- Yukio Mishima

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…

- Yukio Mishima

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

- Yukio Mishima

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

- Yukio Mishima

Pain, I came to feel, might well prove to be the sole proof of the persistence of consciousness within the flesh, the sole physical expression of con…

- Yukio Mishima

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

- Yukio Mishima

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…

- Yukio Mishima

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…

- Yukio Mishima