#japan

Here--you warriors--why this moaning and complaining? Have you no more sense than toads and vipers? Our time hasn't come. Have you no patience? Are we not the 'trodden weed' still? The time is not yet here for us to raise our heads. Must you still complain? ↗

— Eiji Yoshikawa

#taira-no-kiyomori #the-heike-story #love

See, see how the sun has moved onward while we talked. Nothing can stop it in its course. Prayers cannot halt the revolving of nature. It is the same with human life. Victory and defeat are one in the vast stream of life. Victory is the beginning of defeat, and who can rest safely in victory? Impermanence is the nature of all things of this world. Even you will find your ill fortunes too will change. It is easy to understand the impatience of the old, whose days are numbered, but why should you young ones fret when the future is yours? ↗

— Eiji Yoshikawa

#the-heike-story #change

I speak as if he had no secrets from me. Well, then, you must know I was suffering from love and I knew him as intimately as I knew my own image in a mirror. In other words, I knew him only in relation to myself. ↗

— Angela Carter

#ego #love #love

Everything in my life revolves around people playing at being something. ↗

— Banana Yoshimoto

#inspirational #japanese #life #personal #inspirational

An obstacle which would frighten discreet men is nothing to determined women. They dare what men avoid, and sometimes they achieve an unusual success. ↗

— Ōgai Mori

#japanese #japanese-literature #women #men

There's nothing in Chinese culture that is an equivalent of the geisha. It's so different, so special to Japan. ↗

— Ziyi Zhang

#chinese culture #culture #different #equivalent #geisha

Well the least favourite question is the one that one's asked particularly about in Japan is what's the difference between theatre and cinema and I think, well, that's about eighty bucks. ↗

— Andrew Lloyd Webber

#asked #between #bucks #cinema #difference

The Japanese keenly learned from Western civilisation in a bid to modernize and preserve the nation. ↗

— Akihito

#civilisation #japanese #keenly #learned #modernize

We don't mind that we still have troops in Germany, or that we still have troops in Japan or Korea. But they are not in danger, and we know that they are in danger in Iraq. ↗

— Thelma Drake

#germany #iraq #japan #know #korea

The Japanese do not fear God. They only fear bombs. ↗

— Jerome Cady

#fear #fear god #god #japanese #only