Kenzaburō Ōe Quotes

It takes a person of great care and insight to watch for any abnormality in the green grass even while it grows abundantly and healthily.

Understanding comes hard to persons of high rank who are accustomed to phony lifestyles that involve no daily work.

The dead can survive as part of the lives of those that still live.

We are much too tolerant of the moral aberration of statesmen and bureaucrats.

Peril-ridden and fragile, the imperfect human body, what a shameful thing it was!

Once a person has been poisoned by self-deception, he can't make decisions about himself as neatly as all that.