Quotes Tagged With :mishima

A feeling of liberation should contain a bracing feeling of negation, in which liberation itself is not....

To see human beings in agony, to see them covered in blood and to hear their death groans, makes people....

...being aware that the sacred quality hidden in the experience of eroticism is something impossible....

For everything sacred has the substance of dreams and memories, and so we experience the miracle of what....

No human being can be so honest as to become completely false.

We are not wounded so deeply when betrayed by the things we hope for as when betrayed by things we try....

Might it have been nothing but life itself? Life; this limitless complex sea, filled with assorted flotsam,....

The special quality of hell is to see everything clearly down to the last detail.