Yukio Mishima Quotes About Dying

Quotes about: Dying

• His conviction of having no purpose in life other than to act as a distillation of poison was part of the ego of an eighteen-year-old. He had resolved that his beautiful white hands would never be soiled or calloused. He wanted to be like a pennant, dependent on each gusting wind. The only thing that seemed valid to him was to live for the emotions--gratuitous and unstable, dying only to quicken again, dwindling and flaring without direction or purpose.

  Yukio Mishima

  Beautiful, Hands, Years

  Yukio Mishima (1990). “Spring Snow”, Vintage

• Human beings - they go on being born and dying, dying and being born. It's kind of boring, isn't it?

  Yukio Mishima

  Dying, Goes On, Kind

  "Ken" (1963) (translation by John Bester)

• We tend to suffer from the illusion that we are capable of dying for a belief or theory. What Hagakure is insisting is that even in merciless death, a futile death that knows neither flower nor fruit has dignity as the death of a human being. 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

  Flower, Suffering, Dying

  "Yukio Mishima on Hagakure: The Samurai Ethic and Modern Japan". Book by Yukio Mishima and Jocho Yamamoto translated by Kathryn Sparling, 1977.

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