Kimitake Hiraoka known also under the pen name Yukio Mishima, was a Japanese author, poet, playwright, actor, model, film director, nationalist, and founder of the Tatenokai. These motivational Yukio Mishima Quotes will elevate your life.
Best Yukio Mishima Quotes
- “Beauty is something that burns the hand when you touch it.” – Yukio Mishima
- “Perfect purity is possible if you turn your life into a line of poetry written with a splash of blood.” – Yukio Mishima
- “True beauty is something that attacks, overpowers, robs, and finally destroys.” – Yukio Mishima
- “As long as you know I am waiting, take your time flowers of the spring.” – Yukio Mishima
- “Nobody even imagines how well one can lie about the state of one’s own heart.” – Yukio Mishima
- “The special quality of hell is to see everything clearly down to the last detail.” – Yukio Mishima
- “Quite possibly, what I call happiness may coincide with what others call the moment of imminent danger” – Yukio Mishima
- “For an artist to do creative work, he needs at once physical health and some physiomental ill health. He needs both serenity and gloom.” – Yukio Mishima
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“When silence is prolonged over a certain period of time, it takes on new meaning.” – Yukio Mishima
- “For clearly it is impossible to touch eternity with one hand and life with the other.” – Yukio Mishima
- “Human beings – they go on being born and dying, dying and being born. It’s kind of boring, isn’t it?” – Yukio Mishima
- “Beyond doubt, there was a certain splendor in pain, which bore a deep affinity to the splendor that lies hidden within strength.” – Yukio Mishima
- “if the world changed, I could not exist, and if i changed, the world could not exist” – Yukio Mishima
- “Anything can become excusable when seen from the standpoint of the result” – Yukio Mishima
- “The cynicism that regards hero worship as comical is always shadowed by a sense of physical inferiority” – Yukio Mishima
- “Living is merely the chaos of existence.” – Yukio Mishima
- “The most appropriate type of daily life for me was a day-by-day world destruction; peace was the most difficult and abnormal state to live in.” – Yukio Mishima
- “I had no taste for defeat – much less victory – without a fight.” – Yukio Mishima
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“I want to make a poem of my life.” – Yukio Mishima
- “A man isn’t tiny or giant enough to defeat anything.” – Yukio Mishima
- “The instant that the blade tore open his flesh, the bright disk of the sun soared up and exploded behind his eyelids.” – Yukio Mishima
- “Better to be caught in sudden, complete catastrophe than to be gnawed by the cancer of imagination.” – Yukio Mishima
- “It is a rather risky matter to discuss a happiness that has no need of words.” – Yukio Mishima
- “Glory, as anyone knows, is bitter stuff.” – Yukio Mishima
- “Possessing by letting go of things was a secret of ownership unknown to youth.” – Yukio Mishima
- “We live in an age in which there is no heroic death.” – Yukio Mishima
- “Men had been living a proud life, having felt no need for the spirit-until Christianity invented it.” – Yukio Mishima
- “Again and again, the cicada’s untiring cry pierced the sultry summer air like a needle at work on thick cotton cloth.” – Yukio Mishima
- “If we value so highly the dignity of life, how can we not also value the dignity of death No death may be called futile.” – Yukio Mishima
- “A father is a reality-concealing machine, a machine for dishing up lies to kids, and that isn’t even the worst of it: secretly he believes that he represents reality.” – Yukio Mishima
