The Sound of Waves Quotes

“He heard the sound of waves striking the shore, and it was as though the surging of his young blood was keeping time with the movement of the sea's great tides. It was doubtless because nature itself satisfied his need that Shinji felt no particular lack of music in his everyday life.”
― Yukio Mishima, The Sound of Waves

“In the pale light of daybreak the gravestones looked like so many white sails that would never again be filled with wind, sails that, too long unused and heavily drooping, had been turned into stone just as they were. The boats' anchors had been thrust so deeply into the dark earth that they could never again be raised.”
― Yukio Mishima, The Sound of Waves

“With a heart unaccustomed to doubting, he never wondered for an instant whether the girl would brave such a storm to keep their rendezvous. He knew nothing of that melancholy and all-too-effective way of passing time by magnifying and complicating his feelings, whether of happiness or uneasiness, through the exercise of imagination.”
― Yukio Mishima, The Sound of Waves

“The wind was bitterly cold, but while he pulled the first rope toward the pulley Shinji stared out over the dark-indigo sea and felt boiling up within him energy for the toil that would soon have him sweating. The pulley began to turn and heavy, wet rope came rising from the sea. Through his thin gloves Shinji could feel the thick, icy rope he grasped in his hands. As it passed over the pulley the taut rope threw off a sleet-like spray of salt water.”
― Yukio Mishima, The Sound of Waves

“The surface of the sea in the lee of the island was black, but the offing was stained with dawn. The mountains enclosing the Gulf of Ise could be seen clearly. In the pale light of daybreak the gravestones looked like so many white sails of boats anchored in a busy harbor. They were sails that would never again be filled with wind, sails that, too long unused and heavily drooping, had been turned into stone just as they were.”
― Yukio Mishima, The Sound of Waves

“El hecho de que Shinji no experimentara ningún tipo de carencias musicales en en su vida cotidiana se debía sin duda a que el mar satisfacía su necesidad.”
― Yukio Mishima, The Sound of Waves

“Hatsue, elini hafifçe üzerinden geçirdiği resmi Şinji'ye geri verdi. Gözleri gururla parlıyordu. Şinji'yi koruyan kuvvetin kendi resmi olduğunu düşündü.
Aynı anda genç balıkçı da düşünceye daldı. Onun düşündüğü şey başkaydı: O gece bütün tehlikeleri alt etmesini sağlayan tek şey kendi gücü ve iradesiydi..." s.174”
― Yukio Mishima, The Sound of Waves

“Chiyoko was convinced of the advantages of a face as ugly as she believed her own to be: once such a face hardened in its mold, it could hide emotions far more cleverly than could a beautiful one.”
― Yukio Mishima, The Sound of Waves

“Thus it came about that, because she had tried to do a good deed and had failed, the mother was lonelier than ever.”
― Yukio Mishima, The Sound of Waves

“Surrounded though he was by the vast ocean, Shinji did not especially burn with impossible dreams of great adventure across the seas. His fisherman’s conception of the sea was close to that of the farmer for his land. The sea was the place where he earned his living, a rippling field where, instead of waving heads of rice or wheat, the white and formless harvest of waves was forever swaying above the unrelieved blueness of a sensitive and yielding soil.”
― Yukio Mishima, The Sound of Waves

“Chiyoko began to long for Tokyo. She longed for the Tokyo where, even on such a stormy day, the automobiles went back and forth as usual, the elevators went up and down, and the streetcars bustled along. There in the city almost all nature had been put into uniform, and the little power of nature that remained was an enemy. Here on the island, however, the islanders enthusiastically entered into an alliance with nature and gave it their full support.”
― Yukio Mishima, The Sound of Waves

“Tanrılar beni bu bencil dualarımdan ötürü cezalandırır mı acaba?”
― Yukio Mishima, The Sound of Waves

“Frauen sind wirklich kluge Wesen, was? (S.89, Jukichi)”
― Yukio Mishima, The Sound of Waves

“Böse Absichten reisen nicht so weit wie gute. (S.37, Leuchtturmwärter)”
― Yukio Mishima, The Sound of Waves