Beauty and Sadness Quotes

“Time passed. But time flows in many streams. Like a river, an inner stream of time will flow rapidly at some places and sluggishly at others, or perhaps even stand hopelessly stagnant. Cosmic time is the same for everyone, but human time differs with each person. Time flows in the same way for all human beings; every human being flows through time in a different way.”
― Yasunari Kawabata, Beauty and Sadness

“I suppose even a woman's hatred is a kind of love.”
― Yasunari Kawabata, Beauty and Sadness

“I wonder what the retirement age is in the novel business.

The day you die.”
― Yasunari Kawabata, Beauty and Sadness

“...he heard a sound that only a magnificent old bell could produce, a sound that seemed to roar forth with all the latent power of a distant world.”
― Yasunari Kawabata, Beauty and Sadness

“Her awareness of her body was inseparable from her memory of his embrace.”
― Yasunari Kawabata, Beauty and Sadness

“Un dia, mientras escribia una carta, Otoko abrio el diccionario para consultar el ideograma 'pensar'. Al repasar los restantes significados (añorar, ser incapaz de olvidar, estar triste) sintio que el corazon se le encogia. Tuvo miedo de tocar el diccionario... Aun ahi estaba Oki. Innumerables palabras se lo recordaban. Vincular todo lo que veia y oia con su amor equivalia a estar viva. La conciencia de su propio cuerpo era inseparable del recuerdo de aquel abrazo.”
― Kawabata Yasunari, Lo bello y lo triste

“She could not say why these rather inconspicuous green slopes had so touched her heart, when along the railway line there were mountains, lakes, the sea at times even clouds dyed in sentimental colors. But perhaps their melancholy green, and the melancholy evening shadows of the ridges across them, had brought on the pain. Then too, they were small, well-groomed slopes with deeply shaded ridges, not nature in the wild; and the rows of rounded tea bushes looked like flocks of gentle green sheep.”
― Yasunari Kawabata, Beauty and Sadness

“She was afraid to touch the dictionary — Oki was even there. Innumerable words reminded her of him. To link whatever she saw and heard with her love was nothing less than to be alive. Her awareness of her body was inseparable from her memory of his embrace.”
― Yasunari Kawabata, Beauty and Sadness

“Even if you took it as cascading snowy mountains,it was not a cool snow-white. The cold of the snow and it's warm colour made a kind of music.”
― Yasunari Kawabata, Beauty and Sadness

“¿Pero cuánto durará esta belleza? A las mujeres nos entristece pensar en eso”
― Yasunari Kawabata , Beauty and Sadness

“Your ears are lovely, he said, but there's a kind of eerie beauty to your profile.”
― Yasunari Kawabata, Beauty and Sadness

“El tiempo corre de la misma manera para todos los seres humanos; pero todo ser humano flota de distinta manera en el tiempo.”
― Yasunari Kawabata, Beauty and Sadness

“Supongo que en una mujer, hasta el odio es una forma del amor.”
― Yasunari Kawabata, Beauty and Sadness

“Now that Otoko had heard about the night at Enoshima, that old love flared up ominously within her. Yet in those flames she could see a single white lotus blossom. Their love was a dreamlike flower that not even Keiko could stain.”
― Yasunari Kawabata, Beauty and Sadness

“I like the idea of saying thank you on behalf of the weather.”
― Yasunari Kawabata, Beauty and Sadness

“Esperar a Oki es lo mismo que esperar el pasado… El tiempo y los ríos no corren para atrás.”
― Yasunari Kawabata, Beauty and Sadness

“Supongo que en una mujer, hasta el odio es una forma del amor”
― Yasunari Kawabata, Beauty and Sadness

“Quiero que nos abramos paso a través de nuestro destino y que flotemos sobre las aguas. El mañana siempre se nos escapa.”
― Yasunari Kawabata, Beauty and Sadness

“¡El hombre es la medicina que da vida a la mujer! Todas las mujeres tienen que consumirla.”
― Yasunari Kawabata, Beauty and Sadness

“A no ser por la mirada melancólica de sus ojos, cuando pensaba en Oki, nadie habría advertido su tristeza. Y hasta esa ocasional sombra sólo contribuía a acentuar su belleza.”
― Yasunari Kawabata, Beauty and Sadness

“La conciencia de su propio cuerpo era inseparable del recuerdo de aquel abrazo.”
― Yasunari Kawabata, Beauty and Sadness

“Se preguntó si era su juventud y su inocencia lo que habían dado tanta intensidad a ese amor. Quizás eso explicara su pasión ciega e insaciable. Cuando en un espasmo mordía el hombro de Oki, ni siguiera advertía la sangre que manaba de la herida.”
― Yasunari Kawabata, Beauty and Sadness

“No me importa que sólo dure cinco o diez días, pero necesito a alguien que pueda hacerme olvidar completamente de mí misma.”
― Yasunari Kawabata, Beauty and Sadness

“Women are odd,” he said, to extricate himself. “Two or three of them have told me they’re sure I modeled one of my characters on them. And they were complete strangers, women I’d had nothing to do with. What kind of delusion could that be?” “Lots of women are unhappy, so they console themselves with delusions.”
― Yasunari Kawabata, Beauty and Sadness

“Sabi, a su vez, es la impermanencia, la fugacidad, lo inapresable de las cosas, conceptos íntimamente relacionados con la percepción del tiempo en la cosmovisión budista”
― Yasunari Kawabata, Lo bello y lo triste. Edición 2024 (Biblioteca Breve)

“de su estética siempre asociados: wabi sabi. Por un lado wabi, la belleza que reside en la sencillez y la simpleza, pero también en la imperfección, la asimetría, lo incompleto; de ahí que la que posee Keiko, aunque atractiva”
― Yasunari Kawabata, Lo bello y lo triste. Edición 2024 (Biblioteca Breve)

“El tiempo pasó. Pero el tiempo se divide en muchas corrientes. Como en un río, hay una corriente central rápida en algunos sectores y lenta, hasta inmóvil, en otros. El tiempo cósmico es igual para todos, pero el tiempo humano difiere con cada persona. El tiempo corre de la misma manera para todos los seres humanos; pero todo ser humano flota de distinta manera en el tiempo”
― Yasunari Kawabata, Beauty and Sadness

“Lo bello una vez más ha resultado ser inseparable de lo triste: un amor oscuro, una ruina que todo lo ilumina”
― Yasunari Kawabata, Beauty and Sadness

“Hãy cho cả em cũng có chút kỷ niệm về ngôi mộ... Cho ngôi mộ có ý nghĩa cho em cũng như cho anh... Bởi ngôi mộ này đã mời gọi trái tim anh. Nó không còn là mộ."
“Không còn là mộ ư...” Taichiro thẫn thờ nhắc lại. “Mộ trải qua hàng trăm năm sẽ không còn là mộ…”
“Anh nói cái gì? Em không nghe rõ.”
“Anh bảo rằng cả những ngôi mộ đá quả cũng đến lúc mất đi sinh mệnh...”
― Yasunari Kawabata, Beauty and Sadness

“Bây giờ Otoko đã biết Keiko ngủ đêm tại khách sạn Enoshima với Oki, đam mê cũ bùng cháy mãnh liệt. Vậy mà trong rừng lửa ấy, nàng thấy một bông sen trắng đơn độc. Tình nàng với Oki như bông sen mộng ấy, mà ngay cả Keiko cũng không làm vẩn đục được.
[…]
Nàng nghĩ, mình phải vẽ ngay bức Em bé lên trời. Nếu không chắc chẳng bao giờ mình còn vẽ được. Ngay bây giờ bức tranh đang thay đổi và không còn như nàng muốn... cái buồn lẫn cái yêu đang hư hao đi. Lòng nàng sôi sục thế này, phải chăng vì ảo ảnh bông sen trong bể lửa vừa thấy.
Với nỗi sục sôi trong trái tim thuần khiết ấy, phải chăng người con gái tên Keiko này cũng là bông sen trong lửa. Cớ sao sen lại nở trong lửa? Cớ sao sen nở trong lửa mà không tàn rụi?”
― Yasunari Kawabata, Beauty and Sadness