Masuji Ibuse > Quotes

“Like flowers in a storm, life is full of goodbyes”
― Masuji Ibuse

“Could this be my own face, I wondered. My heart pounded at the idea, and the face in the mirror grew more and more unfamiliar.”
― Masuji Ibuse, Black Rain

“I wonder why people work so hard to become politicians just in order to do something wrong.”
― Masuji Ibuse, Lieutenant Lookeast, and other stories;

“Never does one so constantly see so many different things as when peering from a small window.”
― Masuji Ibuse, Lieutenant Lookeast, and other stories;

“I hated war. Who cared, after all, which side won? The only important thing was to end it all soon as possible: rather an unjust peace, than a “just” war! I”
― Masuji Ibuse, Black Rain

“..there was a moment when the living room vanished and I saw a great, mushroom-shaped cloud rising into a blue sky. I saw it quite distinctly.”
― Masuji Ibuse, Black Rain

“War, I concluded, paralyzes people’s power of judgment.”
― Masuji Ibuse, Black Rain

“The one thing that troubles me is the ringing; it persists in my ear day and night, like the tolling of a distant temple bell, warning man of the folly of the bomb…. —”
― Masuji Ibuse, Black Rain