Quotes from Yasunari Kawabata

It was such a beautiful voice that it struck one as sad. In all its high resonance it seemed to come echoing back across the snowy night.

Quando si vede un arcobaleno si ha l'impressione di essere tra la primavera e l'estate.»

The man was clearly ill, however, and illness shortens the distance between a man and a woman.

per noi adulti l'arcobaleno è un auspicio di felicità.»

In fondo, per 'aprire gli occhi', basta vivere a lungo.»

Sì, è possibile che il ponte che unisce due anime sia simile a un arcobaleno.»

Inezie ci consolano perché inezie ci affliggono.»

He was conscious of an emptiness that made him see Komako's life as beautiful but wasted, even though he himself was the object of her love; and yet the woman's existence, her straining to live, came touching him like naked skin. He pitied her, and he pitied himself.

Si può cadere vivi nell'inferno per non precipitarvi chi si ama.»

But could there be anything uglier than an old man lying the night through beside a girl put to sleep, unwaking? Had he not come to this house seeking the ultimate in the ugliness of old age?

Su voz era tan dulce que daba tristeza que reverberara en la noche helada.