Forbidden Colors
Yukio Mishima
Top 10 Best Quotes
“Beauty is something that burns the hand when you touch it.”
“Everybody's the same. People are all the same. But it’s the prerogative of youth to think it’s not so.”
“We human beings sometimes steer off in a direction in which we hope to find something a little bit better.”
“The process in which a writer is compelled to counterfeit his true feelings is exactly the opposite of that which the man of society is compelled to counterfeit his. The artist disguises in order to reveal; the man of society disguises in order to conceal”
“A woman is never so drunk with happiness as when she discovers desire in the eyes of a man”
“When we plot the happiness of another, we unconsciously impute to the other person what is in another form the dream in which our own happiness is fulfilled. Thus by not thinking of our own happiness we make it possible for ourselves to become egotistic.”
“Someone once said that homosexuals have on their faces a certain loneliness that will not come off.”
“Beautiful things always intimidate me [...] More than that, they drag me down. How can that be? Is it a superstition that beauty elevates mankind?”
“True beauty makes men dumb [...] criticism, like beauty, sought above all to strike men dumb [...] Criticism's method was to evoke silence without calling on beauty [...] At some time, however, the faith that beauty must strike dumb became a thing of the past. Beauty has not only failed to silence people, it has gotten so even when it passes through the middle of a banquet people don't stop talking. Those of you who have gone to Kyoto do not fail to go to the Stone Garden at the Ryoanji Temple [...]It is a garden to strike men dumb. The amusing thing , though, is that [...] saying that it would not do not to say a word, they screw up their faces trying to squeeze out a haiku [...] It has gotten so we feel we must say something in a great hurry. It has gotten so feel we must convert beauty right away. If we don't convert it, it's dangerous. [...] With this, the age of criticism began.”
“In short, spirit must be viewed as the special characteristic that differentiates man from the animals. It is the only essential difference.”
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Book Keywords:
nihilism, desire, beauty, apathy, criticism, egoism, woman, happiness, philosophy
