Quotes by Japanese Authors

In the pre-war era when itinerant home-remedy salesmen still wandered the country, they had a traditional patter for selling a potion that was supposed to be particularly effective in treating burns and cuts. A toad with four legs in front and six behind would be placed in a box with mirrors lining the four walls. The toad, amazed at its own appearance from every angle, would break into an oily sweat. This sweat would be collected and simmered for 3,721 days while being stirred with a willow branch. The result was the marvelous potion.When writing about myself, I feel something like that toad in the box.
Akira Kurosawa
Even when the moon shrinks and disappears, it shows itself again gradually. When ancient people saw that eternal cycle of death and recovery, they prayed to the moon for their own rebirth. Rebirth. Will I be reborn? ... If I were reborn, what would I become?
Fuminori Nakamura
Sheer effort enables those with nothing to surpass those with privilege and position.
Toyotomi Hideyoshi
Bushido as an independent code of ethics may vanish, but its power will not perish from the earth; its schools of martial prowess or civic honor may be demolished, but its light and its glory will long survive their ruins. Like its symbolic flower, after it is blown to the four winds, it will still bless mankind with the perfume with which it will enrich life.
Inazo Nitobe
In every motions to put colors on my canvas, I feel like I am screaming, "I AM HERE"... To whom?.. To where?... Where am I going to...?
Hiroko Sakai
I just didn't want to be a loser anymore...-Mitsuko Souma
Koushun Takami
Kira is evil ... There's no denying that ... But lately I've been starting to think of it more like this ... The real evil is the power to kill people. Someone who finds himself with that power is cursed. No matter how you use it, anything obtained by killing people can never bring true happiness.
Tsugumi Ohba
I hurt myself deeply, though at the time I had no idea how deeply. I should have learned many things from that experience, but when I look back on it, all I gained was one single, undeniable fact. That ultimately I am a person who can do evil. I never consciously tried to hurt anyone, yet good intentions notwithstanding, when necessity demanded, I could become completely self-centred, even cruel. I was the kind of person who could, using some plausible excuse, inflict on a person I cared for a wound that would never heal.
Haruki Murakami
You're a bad man who made her pound a shot of Jäger.
Yuhta Nishio
I'd rather be in danger with you than be safe without you.
Fuyumi Ono
When you care about things, it ends up wearing you out.
Io Sakisaka
By changing our history and our memory, they try to erase all our shame.
Ruth Ozeki
Don't worry, I won't abandon you. I promise.
Yuhta Nishio
Using someone else's kitchen feels a little like reading their diary. I'm so anxious.
Yuhta Nishio
I make it a point not to talk about the past. But you're special.
Yuhta Nishio
What each of us believes in is up to us, but life is impossible without believing in something.
Kentetsu Takamori
Keisuke: "It's alright for you to kill someone?"Akira: "As long as they have tags. According to the rules, if there's three people present, it's an official battle. I'm not sure how you're supposed to start it, though."Keisuke: "So killing people is just a game, huh?"Akira: "It's the only way to survive.
Suguro Chayamachi
I'm Allen Walker!"My life....is over...I'm going to die....
Katsura Hoshino
There had to be something wrong with my life. I should have been born a Yugoslavian shepherd who looked up at the Big Dipper every night.
Haruki Murakami