Yukio Mishima Quotes about Spring

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As long as you know I am waiting, take your time flowers of the spring.

As long as you know I am waiting, take your time flowers of the spring.

Spring, Flower, Long

To see human beings in agony, to see them covered in blood and to hear their death groans, makes people humble. It makes their spirits delicate, bright, peaceful. It's never at such times that we become cruel or bloodthirsty. No, it's on a beautiful spring afternoon like this that people suddenly become cruel. It's at a moment like this, don't you think, while one's vaguely watching the sun as it peeps through the leaves of the trees above a well-mown lawn? Every possible nightmare in the world, every possible nightmare in history, has come into being like this.

Yukio Mishima

Beautiful, Spring, Humble

Yukio Mishima (2011). “The Temple of the Golden Pavilion”, p.95, Tuttle Publishing

The past does not only draw us back to the past. There are certain memories of the past that have strong steel springs and, when we who live in the present touch them, they are suddenly stretched taut and then they propel us into the future.

Yukio Mishima

Strong, Memories, Spring

Yukio Mishima (1959). “The temple of the golden pavilion”, Alfred A. Knopf

Yukio Mishima Quotes about Spring

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