Yukio Mishima Quotes about Dying

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Human beings - they go on being born and dying, dying and being born. It's kind of boring, isn't it?

Human beings - they go on being born and dying, dying and being born. It's kind of boring, isn't it?

Dying, Goes On, Kind

"Ken" (1963) (translation by John Bester)

We tend to suffer from the illusion that we are capable of dying for a belief or theory. What Hagakure is insisting is that even in merciless death, a futile death that knows neither flower nor fruit has dignity as the death of a human being. If we value so highly the dignity of life, how can we not also value the dignity of death? No death may be called futile.

Yukio Mishima

Flower, Suffering, Dying

"Yukio Mishima on Hagakure: The Samurai Ethic and Modern Japan". Book by Yukio Mishima and Jocho Yamamoto translated by Kathryn Sparling, 1977.