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More Quotes by Yasunari Kawabata
And I can't complain. After all, only women are able really to love.
The woman was silent, her eyes on the floor. Shimamura had come to a point where he knew he was only parading his masculine shamelessness, and yet it seemed likely enough that the woman was familiar with the failing and need not be shocked by it. He looked at her. Perhaps it was the rich lashes of the downcast eyes that made her face seem warm and sensuous. She shook her head very slightly, and again a faint blush spread over her face.
The snow on the distant mountains was soft and creamy, as if veiled in a faint smoke.
A child walked by, rolling a metal hoop that made a sound of autumn.
Does pain go away and leave no trace, then?’ ‘You sometimes even feel sentimental for it.
The true joy of a moonlit night is something we no longer understand. Only the men of old, when there were no lights, could understand the true joy of a moonlit night.
Because you cannot see him, God is everywhere.
From the way of Go the beauty of Japan and the Orient had fled. Everything had become science and regulation.
Lunatics have no age. If we were crazy, you and I, we might be a great deal younger.
A secret, if it's kept, can be sweet and comforting, but once it leaks out it can turn on you with a vengeance.
