Japanese Minimalism Quotes & Sayings

One who has passed the thirtieth year
already is as good as dead
it would be best to kill you off by then. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Am I really a mistake, he wondered, and supposing I am, what significance. what consequences does it have for a human being to know that he's a mistake. — Jose Saramago

Until I was diagnosed with mouth cancer, I'd never heard of it. — Jack Wild

They could not make a deep and powerful connection to the larger world until they were able to connect to themselves. And, in an example of the kind of feedback loops that characterize all living systems, they were not able to connect to themselves until they were in authentic relationship with others. — Helen LaKelly Hunt

These definitions coincide with the terms which, since Greek antiquity, have been used to define the forms of government as the rule of man over man - of one or the few in monarchy and oligarchy, of the best or the many in aristocracy and democracy, to which today we ought to add the latest and perhaps most formidable form of such dominion, bureaucracy, or the rule by an intricate system of bureaux in which no men, neither one nor the best, neither the few nor the many, can be held responsible, and which could be properly called the rule by Nobody. Indeed, if we identify tyranny as the government that is not held to give account of itself, rule by Nobody is clearly the most tyrannical of all, since there is no one left who could even be asked to answer for what is being done. It is this state of affairs which is among the most potent causes for the current world-wide rebellious unrest. — Hannah Arendt

Generally the whole entertainment business now is bland. — Eartha Kitt

I'm writing a movie about Mozart going to New York in the '60s. I've been reading so many novels. — John Cale

For thirty minutes I sat back and felt the glimmer of pride that historically precedes the most catastrophic falls. — Antony John