More Quotes by Yasunari Kawabata
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.
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.
Does pain go away and leave no trace, then?’ ‘You sometimes even feel sentimental for it.
Because you cannot see him, God is everywhere.
And I can't complain. After all, only women are able really to love.
A poetess who had died young of cancer had said in one of her poems that for her, on sleepless nights, 'the night offers toads and black dogs and corpses of the drowned.
Seeing the moon, he becomes the moon, the moon seen by him becomes him. He sinks into nature, becomes one with nature. The light of the "clear heart" of the priest, seated in the meditation hall in the darkness before the dawn, becomes for the dawn moon its own light.
Put your soul in the palm of my hand for me to look at, like a crystal jewel. I'll sketch it in words.
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.
A secret, if it's kept, can be sweet and comforting, but once it leaks out it can turn on you with a vengeance.
