Riichi Yokomitsu > Quotes

“It's always worthless sort of person who puts himself out in order to get somebody else worked up.”
― Riichi Yokomitsu, Kikai

“Eyes are funny things, and when two people have been thinking at the same level of consciousness and their wandering gazes meet, they pierce right through to the back of each other's mind.”
― Riichi Yokomitsu, Kikai

“As soon as people start to do anything, they are obliged to give themselves away.”
― Riichi Yokomitsu, Kikai

“Happiness exists because there are unfortunate people. Who are we to make the unfortunate happy?”
― Riichi Yokomitsu, Shanghai: A Novel by Yokomitsu Riichi (Volume 33)

“Miracles are not imposed upon us from outside; they are produced by our own poverty and ugliness of spirit.”
― Riichi Yokomitsu, Kikai