Quotes from Sh?saku End?

but our Lord was not silent. Even if he had been silent, my life until this day would have spoken of Him.

Lord, why are you silent? Why are you always silent...?

No matter what the circumstances, no man can completely escape from vanity.

The earth is not just for the clever and the strong.

It is easy enough to die for the good and beautiful; the hard thing is to die for the miserable and corrupt.

But pity was not action. It was not love. Pity, like passion, was no more than a kind of instinct.

At the core of her senseless actions, she vaguely perceived that she yearned for something. A something that would provide her with a sure sense of fulfillment. But she could not fathom what that something might be.

Man is a strange being. He always has a feeling somewhere in his heart that whatever the danger he will pull through. It's just like when on a rainy day you imagine the faint rays of the sun shining on a distant hill.

There are neither the strong nor the weak. Can anyone say that the weak do not suffer more than the strong?

We priests are in some ways a sad group of men. Born into the world to render service to mankind, there is no one more wretchedly alone than the priest who does not measure up to his task.

I did pray. I kept on Praying. But prayer did nothing to alleviate their suffering.

Behind the depressing silence of the sea, the silence of God …. the feeling that while men raise their voices in anguish God remains with folded arms, silent.

The reason why darkness terrifying for us, he reflected, is that there remains in us the instinctive fear the primitive man had when there was as yet no light.

To be a saint or a man of too good a nature in today's pragmatic world, with everyone out to get the other fellow, was equivalent to being a fool, wasn't it?

No doubt his fellow priests would condemn his act as sacrilege; but even if he was betraying them, he was not betraying his Lord. He loved him now in a different way from before. Everything that had taken place until now had been necessary to bring him to this love. 'Even now I am the last priest in this land. But Our Lord was not silent. Even if he had been silent, my life until this day would have spoken of him.