Quotes by Yukio Mishima, The Temple of the Golden Pavilion

Explore a curated collection of 9 quotes by Yukio Mishima, The Temple of the Golden Pavilion. Discover timeless wisdom, insightful thoughts, and memorable words that have inspired readers around the world. Browse through the gallery below and click on any quote to read more.

What transforms this world is — knowledge. Do you see what I mean? Nothing else can change anything in this world. Knowl — Yukio Mishima, The Temple of the Golden Pavilion
Amid the moon and the stars, amid the clouds of the night, amid the hills which bordered on the sky with their magnifice — Yukio Mishima, The Temple of the Golden Pavilion
Thus in a single phrase I can define the great illusion concerning 'love' in this world. It is the effort to join realit — Yukio Mishima, The Temple of the Golden Pavilion
To put it in a rather vulgar way, I had been dreaming about love in the firm belief that I could not be loved, but at th — Yukio Mishima, The Temple of the Golden Pavilion
So far as feelings were concerned, there was no discrepancy between the very finest feeling in this world and the very w — Yukio Mishima, The Temple of the Golden Pavilion
Only knowledge can turn life's unbearableness into a weapon. — Yukio Mishima, The Temple of the Golden Pavilion
The special quality of hell is to see everything clearly down to the last detail. — Yukio Mishima, The Temple of the Golden Pavilion
It seemed that hell could appear day or night, at any time, at any place, simply in response to one's thoughts or wishes — Yukio Mishima, The Temple of the Golden Pavilion
To see human beings in agony, to see them covered in blood and to hear their death groans, makes people humble. It makes — Yukio Mishima, The Temple of the Golden Pavilion