"I have heard unsavory rumors about you and the umbrella-maker's daughter"

--

RyÅ«nosuke Akutagawa

#Daughter Quotes #Rumor Quotes #Umbrella Quotes

“We cannot observe external things without some degree of Thought; nor can we reflect upon our Thoughts, without being influenced in the course of our reflection by the Things which we have observed.”

Source : William Whewell (1848). “Elements of morality incluiding polity”, p.1
“A long time ago, I read in a book that a woman's homeland is wherever she fell in love.”
“Truly there is no such thing as finality.”

Source : Bram Stoker (2006). “Dracula - Literary Touchstone Edition”, p.172, Prestwick House Inc
“I have to go and say farewell to all the countries that I have been to, if I can. I am 73 now, it is taxing on me.”
“I will have spent my life trying to understand the function of remembering, which is not the opposite of forgetting, but rather its lining. We do not remember. We rewrite memory much as history is rewritten. How can one remember thirst?”

Source : "Fictional character: Narrator". "Sans Soleil", www.imdb.com. 1983.
“To all that he touched he gave a new meaning, a new color, a new outline, a new loveliness, and a new poignancy.”
“The world may be broken, but hope is not crazy.”
“The most dangerous type of atheism is not theoretical atheism, but practical atheism -that's the most dangerous type. And the world, even the church, is filled up with people who pay lip service to God and not life service. And there is always a danger that we will make it appear externally that we believe in God when internally we don't. We say with our mouths that we believe in him, but we live with our lives like he never existed. That is the ever-present danger confronting religion. That's a dangerous type of atheism.”

You may also like:

Akira Kurosawa
Film director
Junichiro Tanizaki
Author
Kenji Miyazawa
Poet
Kenzaburo Oe
Author
Kobo Abe
Writer
Osamu Dazai
Author
Soseki Natsume
Novelist
Yasunari Kawabata
Writer
Yukio Mishima
Author