Quotes by : Kōbō Abe

It’s a real handicap to have a face with shifty eyes.

If animal history has been a history of evolution, then the history of mankind is one of retrogression.....

You can only do what you can no matter how you try.

Clinging to one’s outward appearance interferes with living.

Defeat begins with the fear that one had lost.

And again, the dark street. The dark, dark street. The women out shopping for the evening meal of course,....

I want to spy on all sorts of places, and the box is a portable hole that occurred to me under the circumstances,....

Something whose connection with human experience we cannot grasp is bound to be frightening.

The future is forever a projection of the present.

Loneliness—since I was trying to escape it—was hell; and yet for the hermit who seeks it, it is apparently....