Yukio Mishima Quotes About Desire

Quotes about: Desire

• I seemed like a baby bird keeping its truly innocent animal lusts hidden under its wing. I was being tempted, not by the desire of possession, but simply by unadorned temptation itself.

  Yukio Mishima

  Baby, Animal, Wings

  Yukio Mishima (1958). “Confessions of a Mask”, p.72, New Directions Publishing

• What I wanted was to die among strangers, untroubled, beneath a cloudless sky. And yet my desire differed from the sentiments of that ancient Greek who wanted to die under the brilliant sun. What I wanted was some natural, spontaneous suicide. I wanted a death like that of a fox, not yet well versed in cunning, that walks carelessly along a mountain path and is shot by a hunter because of its own stupidity.

  Yukio Mishima

  Suicide, Sky, Stupidity

  Yukio Mishima (1958). “Confessions of a Mask”, New Directions Publishing

• There is no virtue in curiosity. In fact, it might be the most immoral desire a man can possess.

  Yukio Mishima

  Men, Curiosity, Desire

  Yukio Mishima (1958). “Confessions of a Mask”, p.222, New Directions Publishing

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