Soseki Natsume famous quotes

04-17-2025

Some say that life has no form, that it is extremely diffuse. I think I can agree with them. ... A life without conclusions is painful.
-- Soseki Natsume

#Life #Thinking #Painful
Into the field of Yellow flowers The red setting sun!
-- Soseki Natsume

#Inspirational #Life #Flower
The artist, even when he imitates nature, always feels himself to be not a slave but a demigod.
-- Soseki Natsume

#Artist #Slave #Demigods
On a charcoal kiln a vine keeps climbing, while being burned to death.
-- Soseki Natsume

#Perseverance #Climbing #Vines
I am a cat. As yet I have no name
-- Soseki Natsume

#Cat #Names
London is a city that offers all kinds of temptations, and whenever I go for a walk I discover things that I would like to bring back as souvenirs. But my resources are very limited. I cannot buy anything, and I make a point of taking my walks a good distance from these riches.
-- Soseki Natsume

#Distance #Cities #Temptation
Loneliness is the price we have to pay for being born in this modern age, so full of freedom, independence, and our own egotistical selves.
-- Soseki Natsume

#Loneliness #Self #Independence
I believe that words uttered in passion contain a greater living truth than do those words which express thoughts rationally conceived. It is blood that moves the body. Words are not meant to stir the air only: they are capable of moving greater things.
-- Soseki Natsume

#Believe #Moving #Passion
An artist is a person who lives in the triangle which remains after the angle which we may call common sense has been removed from this four-cornered world.
-- Soseki Natsume

#Artist #Common Sense #World
From this observed behavior a major psychological truth about this race of forked destroyers may be deduced: that, just as nature abhors a vacuum, "mankind abhors equality."
-- Soseki Natsume

#Race #Vacuums #May

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