Quotes by : Sōseki Natsume

Reflection may be essential to a scholar, but it’s taboo in social intercourse.

No matter how fierce was the passion that gripped him, the fact is he was paralyzed, transfixed by the....

Watch birth and death:The lotus has alreadyOpened its flower.

That's a good point," Professor Hirota said. "But there is one thing we ought to keep in mind in the....

On the whole, all people are good, or at least they're normal. The frightening thing is that they can....

Desire is a frightening thing.

I am an inconsistent creature. Perhaps it is the pressure of my past, and not my own perverse mind, that....

Living as I do with human beings, the more that I observe them, the more I am forced to conclude that....

Words are not meant to stir the air only: they are capable of moving greater things.

The memory of having sat at someone’s feet will later make you want to trample him underfoot. I’m....