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Akutagawa X Quotes By Ryunosuke Akutagawa

I have heard unsavory rumors about you and the umbrella-maker's daughter — Ryunosuke Akutagawa

Akutagawa X Quotes By Ryunosuke Akutagawa

Isn't there someone kind enough to come strangle me in my sleep? — Ryunosuke Akutagawa

Akutagawa X Quotes By Ryunosuke Akutagawa

Directly beneath the Lotus Pond of Paradise lay the lower depths of Hell, and as He peered through the crystalline waters, He could see the River of Three Crossings and the Mountain of Needles as clearly as if He were viewing pictures in a peep-box. — Ryunosuke Akutagawa

Akutagawa X Quotes By Ryunosuke Akutagawa

It is unfortunate for the gods that, unlike us, they cannot commit suicide. — Ryunosuke Akutagawa

Akutagawa X Quotes By Ryunosuke Akutagawa

Do I still love this woman? he asked himself. He was in the habit of observing himself so closely that the answer came as a surprise to him: I do. — Ryunosuke Akutagawa

Akutagawa X Quotes By Ryunosuke Akutagawa

Everyone is the same under the skin. — Ryunosuke Akutagawa

Akutagawa X Quotes By Ryunosuke Akutagawa

E understood far more deeply than anyone else the loneliness that lurked beneath his jaunty mask. — Ryunosuke Akutagawa

Akutagawa X Quotes By Ryunosuke Akutagawa

I may be a lunatic, but then, wasn't my lunacy caused by a monster that lurks at the bottom of every human mind? Those who call me a madman and spurn me may become lunatics tomorrow. They harbor the same monster. — Ryunosuke Akutagawa

Akutagawa X Quotes By Howard Norman

What good is intelligence,' Akutagawa asked, 'if you can't ever discover a useful melancholy? — Howard Norman

Akutagawa X Quotes By Ryunosuke Akutagawa

A man sometimes devotes his life to a desire which he is not sure will ever be fulfilled. Those who laugh at this folly are, after all, no more than mere spectators of life. — Ryunosuke Akutagawa

Akutagawa X Quotes By Ryunosuke Akutagawa

The pale whiteness of her upturned face as she choked on the smoke; the tangled length of her hair as she tried to shake the flames from it; the beauty of her cherry-blossom robe as it burst into flame: it was all so cruel, so terrible! — Ryunosuke Akutagawa

Akutagawa X Quotes By Ryunosuke Akutagawa

He disliked his own lies as much as his parents', but still he continued to lie
boldly and cunningly. He did this primarily out of need, but also for the pathological pleasure of killing a god. — Ryunosuke Akutagawa

Akutagawa X Quotes By Ryunosuke Akutagawa

He wanted to live life so intensely that he could die at any moment without regrets. — Ryunosuke Akutagawa

Akutagawa X Quotes By Ryunosuke Akutagawa

O-suzu left whatever work she was doing at her sewing machine and dragged Takeo back to O-yoshi and her son.
How dare you behave so selfishly! Now tell O-yoshi-san that you are sorry. Get down on the mats and make a proper bow! — Ryunosuke Akutagawa

Akutagawa X Quotes By Ryunosuke Akutagawa

The cable was still sending sharp sparks into the air. He could think of nothing in life that he especially desired, but those purple sparks
those wildly-blooming flowers of fire
he would trade his life for the chance to hold them in his hands."
-from "The Life of a Stupid Man — Ryunosuke Akutagawa

Akutagawa X Quotes By Ryunosuke Akutagawa

I could have sworn that the man's eyes were no longer watching his daughter dying in agony, that instead the gorgeous colors of flames and the sight of a woman suffering in them were giving him joy beyond measure. — Ryunosuke Akutagawa

Akutagawa X Quotes By Ryunosuke Akutagawa

The human heart harbors two conflicting sentiments. Everyone of course sympathizes with people who suffer misfortunes. Yet when those people manage to overcome their misfortunes, we feel a certain disappointment. We may even feel (to overstate the case somewhat) a desire to plunge them back into those misfortunes. And before we know it, we come (if only passively) to harbor some degree of hostility toward them. — Ryunosuke Akutagawa

Akutagawa X Quotes By Ryunosuke Akutagawa

He felt so lost, he said later, that the familiar studio felt like a haunted valley deep in the mountains, with the smell of rotting leaves, the spray of a waterfall, the sour fumes of fruit stashed away by a monkey; even the dim glow of the master's oil lamp on its tripod looked to him like misty moonlight in the hills. — Ryunosuke Akutagawa

Akutagawa X Quotes By Ryunosuke Akutagawa

A shimmering of heat
Outside the grave
Alone I dwell. — Ryunosuke Akutagawa

Akutagawa X Quotes By Ryunosuke Akutagawa

Yes, sir. Certainly, it was I who found the body. — Ryunosuke Akutagawa

Akutagawa X Quotes By Ryunosuke Akutagawa

I have no conscience at all
least of all an artistic conscience. All I have is nerves. — Ryunosuke Akutagawa

Akutagawa X Quotes By Patti Smith

It occurred to me that I was on a run of suicides. Akutagawa. Dazai. Plath. Death by water, barbiturates, and carbon monoxide poisoning; three fingers of oblivion, outplaying everything. — Patti Smith

Akutagawa X Quotes By Ryunosuke Akutagawa

I could wish for nothing more than to die for a childish dream in which I truly believed. — Ryunosuke Akutagawa

Akutagawa X Quotes By Ryunosuke Akutagawa

Time and tide wait for no man. — Ryunosuke Akutagawa

Akutagawa X Quotes By Ryunosuke Akutagawa

As you can imagine, those who had fallen this far had been so worn down by their tortures in the seven other hells that they no longer had the strength to cry out. — Ryunosuke Akutagawa

Akutagawa X Quotes By Ryunosuke Akutagawa

What is the life of a human being - a drop of dew, a flash of lightning? This is so sad, so sad. — Ryunosuke Akutagawa

Akutagawa X Quotes By Ryunosuke Akutagawa

This passion for pictures gave him a whole new way of looking at the world. He began to pay constant attention to the curve of a branch or the swell of a woman's cheek. — Ryunosuke Akutagawa

Akutagawa X Quotes By Ryunosuke Akutagawa

People used to say that on moonless nights Her Ladyship's broad-skirted scarlet trousers would glide eerily along the outdoor corridor, never touching the floor. — Ryunosuke Akutagawa

Akutagawa X Quotes By Ryunosuke Akutagawa

People say they need freedom, but in fact, nobody wants freedom. — Ryunosuke Akutagawa

Akutagawa X Quotes By Ryunosuke Akutagawa

He moved on from Anatole France to the eighteenth-century philosophers, though not to Rousseau. Perhaps this was because one side of him - the side easily moved by passion - was too close to Rousseau. Instead, he approached the author of 'Candide', who was closer to another side of him - the cool and richly intellectual side.
At twenty-nine, life no longer held any brightness for him, but Voltaire supplied him with man-made wings.
Spreading these man-made wings, he soared with ease into the sky. The higher he flew, the farther below him sank the joys and sorrows of a life bathed in the light of intellect. Dropping ironies and smiles upon the shabby towns below, he climbed through the open sky, straight for the sun - as if he had forgotten about that ancient Greek who plunged to his death in the ocean when his man-made wings were singed by the sun. — Ryunosuke Akutagawa