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From the way of Go the beauty of Japan and the Orient had fled. Everything had become science and regulation.
― Yasunari Kawabata
Yasunari Kawabata
Japan
Regulation
Way
They were words that came out of nothing, but they seemed to him somehow significant. He muttered them over again.
― Yasunari Kawabata
Yasunari Kawabata
Significant
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.
― Yasunari Kawabata
Yasunari Kawabata
Stars
Fall
Moon
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.
― Yasunari Kawabata
Yasunari Kawabata
Dog
Cancer
Night
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.
― Yasunari Kawabata
Yasunari Kawabata
Time
Perception
Novelists
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.
― Yasunari Kawabata
Yasunari Kawabata
Night
Men
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.
― Yasunari Kawabata
Yasunari Kawabata
Hands
Jewels
Soul
Our language is primarily for expressing human goodness and beauty.
― Yasunari Kawabata
Yasunari Kawabata
Language
Goodness
Humans
The labor into which a heart has poured its whole love--where will it have its say, to excite and inspire, and when?
― Yasunari Kawabata
Yasunari Kawabata
Heart
Inspire
Labor
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.
― Yasunari Kawabata
Yasunari Kawabata
Heart
Moon
Light
I suppose even a woman's hatred is a kind of love.
― Yasunari Kawabata
Yasunari Kawabata
Hatred
Kind
Because you cannot see him, God is everywhere.
― Yasunari Kawabata
Yasunari Kawabata
God
Everywhere
The road was frozen. The village lay quiet under the cold sky. Komako hitched up the skirt of her kimono and tucked it into her obi. The moon shone like a blade frozen in blue ice.
― Yasunari Kawabata
Yasunari Kawabata
Moon
Blue
Ice
A secret, if it's kept, can be sweet and comforting, but once it leaks out it can turn on you with a vengeance.
― Yasunari Kawabata
Yasunari Kawabata
Sweet
Comforting
Secret
Lunatics have no age. If we were crazy, you and I, we might be a great deal younger.
― Yasunari Kawabata
Yasunari Kawabata
Crazy
Age
Might
People have separated from each other with walls of concrete that blocked the roads to connection and love. and Nature has been defeated in the name of development.
― Yasunari Kawabata
Yasunari Kawabata
Wall
Names
People
In the depths of the mirror the evening landscape moved by, the mirror and the reflected figures like motion pictures superimposed one on the other. The figures and the background were unrelated, and yet the figures, transparent and intangible, and the background, dim in the gathering darkness, melted into a sort of symbolic world not of this world. Particularly when a light out in the mountains shone in the center of the girl's face, Shimamura felt his chest rise at the inexpressible beauty of it.
― Yasunari Kawabata
Yasunari Kawabata
Girl
Mirrors
Light
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
― Yasunari Kawabata
Yasunari Kawabata
Tired
Years
Does pain go away and leave no trace, then?’ ‘You sometimes even feel sentimental for it.
― Yasunari Kawabata
Yasunari Kawabata
Pain
Doe
Going Away
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.
― Yasunari Kawabata
Yasunari Kawabata
Fate
Thinking
Decision
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