Japanese Culture Quotes

“The spring breeze felt like the warm breath of a child on Kumiko’s face. It played delicately with her hair like tiny fingers, and made the trees whisper a breathless song.”
― John Rachel, Love Connection: Romance in the Land of the Rising Sun

“Even adults who were stiffened by the starch of their miserable lives, for whom breaking the stony discipline of austere and judgmental intolerance was usually off the table, melted in the magical luminescence and energetic charm of the pre-pubescent Ruka.”
― John Rachel, Love Connection: Romance in the Land of the Rising Sun

“The optimism was like the sun after a long spell of clouds and rain, a euphoric rush which produced both envy and awe in anyone who had become jaded, resigned, who had given up on their dreams.”
― John Rachel, Love Connection: Romance in the Land of the Rising Sun

“Hungry stomachs growl the same tune.”
― John Rachel, Love Connection: Romance in the Land of the Rising Sun

“Words are not meant to stir the air only: they are capable of moving greater things.”
― Natsume Soseki

“If they can’t get to Europe, they’ll find their way to a local theme-park Eiffel Tower. Even a place that we write off as “inauthentic,” they realize, can arouse emotions that are entirely authentic.”
― Pico Iyer, A Beginner's Guide to Japan: Observations and Provocations

“According to The History of the Body, edited by Corbin, Courtine, and Vigarello, the "criminalization of the gaze" that took hold around the dawn of the twentieth century had led to the decline of the freak show, which was subsequently replaced in popularity by the Monsters of Hollywood. Now, with costumes serving as an ethical cushion, people could enjoy ogling deformity without guilt or reserve.”
― Saou Ichikawa, Hunchback

“私の傷、私の王冠。”
― Abhijit Naskar, Yarasistan: My Wounds, My Crown

“傷のあるところには光がある。”
― Abhijit Naskar, Yarasistan: My Wounds, My Crown

“愛は恩恵です、
愛は災難だ、
愛は平和です、
愛は痛みだ。”
― Abhijit Naskar, Aşk Mafia: Armor of The World

“愛は時間の記録である、
時間は愛の記録です。”
― Abhijit Naskar, Aşk Mafia: Armor of The World

“痛みのない詩はない。”
― Abhijit Naskar, Aşk Mafia: Armor of The World

“失敗は成功の支点です。”
― Abhijit Naskar, Aşk Mafia: Armor of The World

“愛は最高の宗教である、
愛は最高法則であり、
愛は最高の科学です。”
― Abhijit Naskar, Sin Dios Sí Hay Divinidad: The Pastor Who Never Was

“あなたの痛み、私の痛み。”
― Abhijit Naskar, Sin Dios Sí Hay Divinidad: The Pastor Who Never Was

“論理的な愛は愛ではない。”
― Abhijit Naskar

“愛があるところに天国があります。”
― Abhijit Naskar

“心が先、お金は後。”
― Abhijit Naskar, Dervish Advaitam: Gospel of Sacred Feminines and Holy Fathers

“私の世界、私の責任。”
― Abhijit Naskar, Aşkanjali: The Sufi Sermon

“目覚めよ、立ち上がれ、世界を背負って。”
― Abhijit Naskar, Amantes Assemble: 100 Sonnets of Servant Sultans

“日本人がいるかぎり、日本は亡ぶはずはない。”
― Naoki Hyakuta（百田尚樹）

“規律なくして成長なし。”
― Abhijit Naskar, Insan Himalayanoğlu: It's Time to Defect

“A lot of things we consider to be traditional culture unique to Japan are in reality social systems created quite recently.”
― Shoji Yamada, Shots in the Dark: Japan, Zen, and the West

“Being able to take apart things we thought were real, and, conversely, seeing real Japanese culture in things that were thrust aside as fake—this kind of flexible thinking is important.”
― Shoji Yamada, Shots in the Dark: Japan, Zen, and the West

“The main thing that resonated with me was that while all our companies might evolve to offer different services over time, the overall vision that took us there, and that we were trying to attain, wouldn’t change. That really stuck with me. And the same applies to your ikigai as well: Just because you know what drives you doesn’t mean you should stay in your comfort zone and focus on that solely.
It’s something you can come back to, and you need to be challenged and push the boundaries. But having a goal and a key driver is important. Think of ikigai as the fuel to your motor – you need to make the engine run.”
― Erin Niimi Longhurst, A Little Book of Japanese Contentments: Ikigai, Forest Bathing, Wabi-sabi, and More

“世界は愛、愛は世界。”
― Abhijit Naskar, Visvavictor: Kanima Akiyor Kainat

“Yet, at this, how bitter I feel! / As the gods are my witness, / what galls me the most / is that even in my dreams, / I could never have known. . . . / Seeing him repeatedly / and hearing his voice, / how hateful it is that I / should yearn for him so . . ./”
― Fukuchi Ôchi, Kagami Jishi

“I felt lost for a moment and then suddenly released. I realized once again how imperfectly my judgments could cull meaning from this strange world, even from this group of potential new relatives. So many of my beliefs and instincts were irrelevant here. I had no choice but to relinquish the task of navigating this place - and now this family - with any real acuity, of anticipating its slights and wounds and managing them or guarding myself from them.”
― Tracy Slater, The Good Shufu: Finding Love, Self, and Home on the Far Side of the World

“If we stand still in life, we will be devoured by apathy. If you cannot stop the wave, change yourself into the wave. Ganbatte!”
― Albert Liebermann

“nothing means
but we're alive”
― Alexandru Vilt, Poems of The New Evangelion: an NGE inspired collection