Yasunari Kawabata Quotes

A collection of quotes by Yasunari Kawabata.

Yasunari Kawabata (1899-1972) was a Japanese novelist and short-story writer. He was the first Japanese author to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1968. Known for his delicate and lyrical style, Kawabata explored themes of beauty, memory, and the ephemeral nature of life in his works. His notable novels include "Snow Country", "Thousand Cranes", and "The Sound of the Mountain".

Wistaria sprays, as they trail in the breeze, suggest softne

Wistaria sprays, as they trail in the breeze, suggest softness, gentleness, reticence. Disappearing and then appearing again in the early summer greenery, they have in them that feeling for the poignant beauty of things long characterized by the Japanese as mono no aware.

Yasunari Kawabata

Beauty

Now, even more than the evening before, he could think of no

Now, even more than the evening before, he could think of no one with whom to compare her. She had become absolute, beyond comparison. She had become decision and fate.

Yasunari Kawabata

Beauty