Yukio Mishima Quotes

Held in the custody of childhood is a locked chest; the adolescent, by one means or another, tries to open it. The chest is opened: inside, there is nothing. So he reaches a conclusion: the treasure chest is always like this, empty. From this point on, he gives priority to this assumption of his rather than to reality. In other words, he is now a 'grown-up.'

Yukio Mishima

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My own being can be judged by the depths I reach in making these historical origins my own.

Karl Jaspers
- Own
- Reach
- My Own
It's extraordinary what children put up with. I happened to see two of my uncles put my father up against the wall of my grandmother's house and knock his teeth out, because he'd been unpleasant to my mother. The next day I went upstairs and found my father making a rather half-hearted attempt to gas himself.

Jack Straw
- Up
- Children
- Mother
I didn't want to leave Newcastle, but that's football.

Gary Speed
- Want
- Football
- Leave
A horse never runs so fast as when he has other horses to catch up and outpace.

Ovid
- Up
- Never
- Horse
The next day, I got a phone call from him and he told me to come and read for a movie called New Jack City. So I went over there and they told me I was gonna wear dreads and play a cop.

Ice T
- Movie
- City
- Day
I don't like baseball movies. I like movies about moral courage and people who are indomitable and courageous and right.

Harrison Ford
- People
- Moral
- Courage