"If we lived forever, if the dews of Adashino never vanished, if the crematory smoke on Toribeyama never faded, men would hardly feel the pity of things. The beauty of life is in its impermanence. Man lives the longest of all living things... and even one year lived peacefully seems very long. Yet for such as love the world, a thousand years would fade like the dream of one night."

-- Yoshida Kenko

#Dream Quotes #Night Quotes #Men Quotes

“I do not stick to rules when cooking. I rely on my imagination.”
“All through autumn we hear a double voice: one says everything is ripe; the other says everything is dying. The paradox is exquisite. We feel what the Japanese call "aware"--an almost untranslatable word meaning something like "beauty tinged with sadness.”

Source : Gretel Ehrlich (1985). “The solace of open spaces”, Viking Pr
“Every year I hear people complain that the quality of screenplays and movies is declining. In my opinion, the vast majority of scripts written - as well as most movies that are released - are not very original, well-written, or interesting. It has always been that way, and I think it always will be.”
“I don't want to do anything to revisit Freaks and Geeks that isn't awesome.”
“If we functionally define a capitalist household as one that receives at least half of the annual income it spends on consumption in the form of return on invested capital, less than 1 percent of United States households are capitalists.”
“The wrong sort of people are always in power because they would not be in power if they were not the wrong sort of people.”
“A very important thing is not to make up your mind that you are any one thing.”
“I think that, as life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time at peril of being judged not to have lived.”

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