56 Quotes by Sōseki Natsume

Doğa, bir mücevheri yaratana kadar kim bilir kaç yıl harcamıştır. Yine o mücevher, madencinin şansı yaver gidene dek, yıldızlar altında kaç yıl, tek başına parlamıştır?

This may be our last good-by. Take care of yourself."Her eyes were full of tears. I did not cry, but was almost goingto. After the train had run some distance, thinking it wouldbe all right now, I poked my head out of the window and lookedback. She was still there. She looked very small.

Saku's figure before me looked like a morning glory drawn with one stroke of the brush. My only regret was that the drawing was not by the hand of a master.

The autumn leaves, arranged in two or three scarlet terraces among the pine-trees, have fallen like ancient dreams.

I am a cat. As yet I have no name.

Use your intellect to guide you, and you will end up putting people off. Rely on your emotions, and you will forever be pushed around. Force your will on others, and you will live in constant tension. There is no getting around it – people are hard to live with.

I believe that words uttered in passion contain a greater living truth than do those words which express thoughts rationally conceived. It is blood that moves the body. Words are not meant to stir the air only: they are capable of moving greater things.

On a charcoal kiln a vine keeps climbing, while being burned to death.

London is a city that offers all kinds of temptations, and whenever I go for a walk I discover things that I would like to bring back as souvenirs. But my resources are very limited. I cannot buy anything, and I make a point of taking my walks a good distance from these riches.