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More Quotes by Yasunari Kawabata
Does pain go away and leave no trace, then?’ ‘You sometimes even feel sentimental for it.
The sound of the freezing of snow over the land seemed to roar deep into the earth. There was no moon. The stars, almost too many of them to be true, came forward so brightly that it was as if they were falling with the swiftness of the void. As the stars came nearer, the sky retreated deeper and deeper into the night color. The layers of the Border Range, indistinguishable one from another, cast their heaviness at the skirt of the starry sky in a blackness grave and somber enough to communicate their mass. The whole of the night scene came together in a clear, tranquil harmony.
The labor into which a heart has poured its whole love--where will it have its say, to excite and inspire, and when?
Because you cannot see him, God is everywhere.
Cosmic time is the same for everyone, but human time differs with each person. Time flows in the same way for all human beings; every human being flows through time in a different way.
It's remarkable how we go on year after year, doing the same old things. We get tired and bored, and ask when they'll come for us
Put your soul in the palm of my hand for me to look at, like a crystal jewel. I'll sketch it in words.
Now, even more than the evening before, he could think of no one with whom to compare her. She had become absolute, beyond comparison. She had become decision and fate.
I suppose even a woman's hatred is a kind of love.
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.
