Beautiful Star Quotes

“Every morning, the newspapers are crammed full of human-interest stories, and on television we see one human after another. When animals do make an occasional appearance, they are ascribed human characteristics to make them palatable. And people only talk about themselves. Even if the subject is natural phenomena like earthquakes, tsunamis or cherry blossoms coming into full bloom, everything is seen in terms of the impact on people. Nothing delights people more than to talk about people dying or being killed.”
― Yukio Mishima, Beautiful Star

“What if fleshly entanglements were originally patterned on the erotic union of minds, and merely served as inevitable compensation born from despair?”
― Yukio Mishima, Beautiful Star