Japanese Quotes

I really hope that the Japanese are going to stop demonstrating to the world what man-made radiation does to people.

Read Hearn, the most eloquent and truthful interpreter of the Japanese mind, and you see the working of that mind to be an example of the working of Bushido.

The blue of the sky is one of the most special colors in the world, because the color is deep but see-through both at the same time.

Calligraphy is an art form that uses ink and a brush to express the very souls of words on paper.

[The] Japanese were a people in a profound, inverse, reverse, or if I preferred it, even perverse sense, more in love with death than living.

He was beneath the waves, a creature crawling the ocean bottom.

Last year nothing happenedThe year before nothing happenedAnd the year before that nothinghappened.

From the moment of my birth, I lived with pain at the center of my life. My only purpose in life was to find a way to coexist with intense pain.

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Bushido is realized in the presence of death. This means choosing death whenever there is a choice between life and death. There is no other reasoning.

To tell others thatIt is a rumor Will not do. When your own heart asks How will you respond?

Great robber though he was, Kandata could only trash about like a dying frog as he choked on the blood of the pond.

This was her heritage. Her people. So why did she feel so small and weak? So far removed from it?

I am a lonely man, ' Sensei said. 'And so I am glad that you come to see me. But I am also a melancholy man, and so I asked you why you should wish to visit me so often.

Swift waters parted by the jagged rocks are joined at river's end. / 瀬をはやみ 岩にせかるる 滝川の われても末に あはむとぞ思ふ

If you can't change it don't worry about it.

When I was walking in the mountains with the Japanese man and began to hear the water, he said, 'What is the sound of the waterfall?' 'Silence, ' he finally told me.

Words are not meant to stir the air only: they are capable of moving greater things.

Minding his own business had been his motto living in a strange foreign country with a world-recognized social issue of failing morals.

Welcome to thee, O sword of eternity!Through BuddhaAnd through Daruma alikeThou hast cleft thy way.

Impassionate gods have never seen the red that is the Tatsuta River. /ちはやぶる 神代も聞かず 竜田川 からくれなゐに 水くくるとは

Oh, you cherry petals, On this calm and balmy day, Why are you so restless, So keen to fly away? / ひさかたの 光のどけき 春の日に しづ心なく 花の散るらむ

With people you can never tell, Will they have changed when next we meet? But here in my dear old home at least, The plums still smell as sweet. / 人はいさ 心も知らず ふるさとは 花ぞ昔の 香ににほひける

Those who get in the way of love's path will be kicked by horses.~Kyoya

May I live to see the day when I long for the agony I feel now. /ながらへば またこのごろや しのばれむ 憂しと見し世ぞ いまは恋しき

Would the mountain cherry blossoms return my affection for there is no one else out here. /もろともに あはれと思へ 山桜 花よりほかに 知る人もなし

The color of the flower has faded, while I lost myself in idle thought in this long rain / 花の色は うつりにけりな いたづらに わが身世にふる ながめせし間に

Never settle for normal, Miss Lyons, ” Shinzo told her. “Normal is not natural. Extraordinary is natural, and that’s why you’re here. To do something extraordinary.

It seems like the best escape games come from Japan for some reason. It makes me proud.

She trailed behind Baba and Jiji as they left the palace, nightingales singing a sad farewell.

I've deprived my family in order to buy books. No doubt there is a special punishment in hell for such self-indulgence. Perhaps I shall be struck with blindness among the rarest known to men.

Everyone calls him BlockheadNo one sings his praisesOr takes him to heart...That is the kind of personI want to be