27 Quotes by Shūsaku Endō

People are linked together by enmity than by love.

Every weakness contains within itself a strength.

In order to pile weakness upon weakness he was trying to drag others along the path that he himself had walked.

Christianity, to be effective in Japan, must change.

I became a Catholic against my will.

Christ did not die for the good and beautiful. It is easy enough to die for the good and beautiful; the hard thing is to die for the miserable and corrupt.

Sin, he reflected, is not what it is usually thought to be; it is not to steal and tell lies. Sin is for one man to walk brutally over the life of another and to be quite oblivious of the wounds he has left behind.

The smell of death was thick in the city of Vara?asi. And in Tokyo as well. And yet the birds blissfully sang their songs.

A person never knows their own true face. Everybody thinks that the phoney, posed social mask they wear is their real face.