Quotes by : Kōbō Abe

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

The dial of the clock wears out unevenly; Most worn Is the area round eight. As it is stared at with....

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

Do you shovel to survive, or survive to shovel?

Just as trees bear their fruit before winter, just as bamboo grass produces its seeds just before it....

Clinging to one’s outward appearance interferes with living.

When will you ever accept the true ugliness of health?

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

It would seem that marsupials are poor imitations of full-fledged mammals. Their inadequacy gives them....

There are apparently two hypotheses about jealousy: that it is a product of civilization and that it....