Quote

I cried sobbingly until at last those visions reeking with blood came to comfort me. And then I surrendered myself to them, to those deplorably brutal visions, my most intimate friends.

Yukio Mishima

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Yukio Mishima
Age: 45 †
Born: 1925
Born: January 14
Died: 1970
Died: November 25
Actor
Author
Critic
Essayist
Film Actor
Film Director
Lyricist
Military Personnel
Model
Novelist
Playwright
Poet
Prosaist
Screenwriter
City of Tokyo
Mishima Yukio
Kimitake Hiraoka
Hiraoka Kimitake
Intimate
Comfort
Blood
Vision
Reeking
Came
Surrendered
Friends
Visions
Lasts
Brutal
Last
Cried

More quotes by Yukio Mishima

Image
A man isn't tiny or giant enough to defeat anything.
Yukio Mishima
Image
If the photographer is to create works that will stand for his spirit in the same way as artists in other genres, he must first - having no ready-made, abstract components such as works and sounds - supply other means to abstraction instead.
Yukio Mishima
Image
All my life I have been acutely aware of a contradiction in the very nature of my existence. For forty-five years I struggled to resolve this dilemma by writing plays and novels. The more I wrote, the more I realized mere words were not enough. So I found another form of expression.
Yukio Mishima
Image
For clearly it is impossible to touch eternity with one hand and life with the other.
Yukio Mishima
Image
For a long time I had not approached the forbidden fruit called happiness, but it was now tempting me with a melancholy persistence. I felt as though Sonoko were an abyss above which I stood poised.
Yukio Mishima
Image
Other people must be destroyed. In order that I might truly face the sun, the world itself must be destroyed.
Yukio Mishima
Image
Beauty is something that burns the hand when you touch it.
Yukio Mishima
Image
The cynicism that regards hero worship as comical is always shadowed by a sense of physical inferiority
Yukio Mishima
Image
The highest point at which human life and art meet is in the ordinary. To look down on the ordinary is to despise what you can't have. Show me a man who fears being ordinary, and I'll show you a man who is not yet a man.
Yukio Mishima
Image
Quite possibly, what I call happiness may coincide with what others call the moment of imminent danger
Yukio Mishima
Image
True beauty is something that attacks, overpowers, robs, and finally destroys.
Yukio Mishima
Image
Anything can become excusable when seen from the standpoint of the result
Yukio Mishima
Image
It is a common failing of childhood to think that if one makes a hero out of a demon the demon will be satisfied.
Yukio Mishima
Image
When silence is prolonged over a certain period of time, it takes on new meaning.
Yukio Mishima
Image
if the world changed, i could not exist, and if i changed, the world could not exist
Yukio Mishima
Image
The instant that the blade tore open his flesh, the bright disk of the sun soared up and exploded behind his eyelids.
Yukio Mishima
Image
Beyond doubt, there was a certain splendor in pain, which bore a deep affinity to the splendor that lies hidden within strength.
Yukio Mishima
Image
The period of childhood is a stage on which time and space become entangled.
Yukio Mishima
Image
A father is a reality-concealing machine, a machine for dishing up lies to kids, and that isn't even the worst of it: secretly he believes that he represents reality.
Yukio Mishima
Image
I had no taste for defeat - much less victory - without a fight.
Yukio Mishima