90 Quotes by Yasunari Kawabata

Stop. I don’t like it. I don’t like having people die.

For such a tiny death, the empty eight-mat room seemed enormous.

The winter moon becomes a companion, the heart of the priest, sunk in meditation upon religion and philosophy, there in the mountain hall, is engaged in a delicate interplay and exchange with the moon; and it is this of which the poet sings.

A feeling of nagging, hopeless impotence came over Shimamura at the thought that a simple misunderstanding had worked its way so deep into the woman’s being.

Women are odd,” he said, to extricate himself. “Two or three of them have told me they’re sure I modeled one of my characters on them. And they were complete strangers, women I’d had nothing to do with. What kind of delusion could that be?” “Lots of women are unhappy, so they console themselves with delusions.

Lunatics have no age. If we were crazy, you and I, we might be a great deal younger.

Father’s life was only a very small part of the life of a tea bowl.

Our language is primarily for expressing human goodness and beauty.

Any kind of inhumanity, given practice, becomes human. All the varieties of transgression are buried in the darkness of the world.