7 Quotes by Masuji Ibuse

..there was a moment when the living room vanished and I saw a great, mushroom-shaped cloud rising into a blue sky. I saw it quite distinctly.

I wonder why people work so hard to become politicians just in order to do something wrong.

Could this be my own face, I wondered. My heart pounded at the idea, and the face in the mirror grew more and more unfamiliar.

Never does one so constantly see so many different things as when peering from a small window.

Like flowers in a storm, life is full of goodbyes.

I hated war. Who cared, after all, which side won? The only important thing was to end it all soon as possible: rather an unjust peace, than a “just” war! I.

War, I concluded, paralyzes people’s power of judgment.