Yoshida Kenko Quotes

The hour of death waits for no order. Death does not even come from the front. It is ever pressing on from behind. All men know of death, but they do not expect it of a sudden, and it comes upon them...

Yoshida Kenko

Tsurezure-Gusa - Essays in Idleness The Tzuredzure gusa of Yoshida no Kaneyoshi as translated by George Sansom - 1911.

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A man who would be a success, the world must first of all be a judge of moods, for untimely speeches will offend the ears and hurt the feelings of others, and so fail in their purpose. He has to...

Yoshida Kenko

Tsurezure-Gusa - Essays in Idleness The Tzuredzure gusa of Yoshida no Kaneyoshi as translated by George Sansom - 1911.

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Ambition never comes to an end.

Yoshida Kenko

Tsurezure-Gusa - Essays in Idleness The Tzuredzure gusa of Yoshida no Kaneyoshi as translated by George Sansom - 1911.

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The truth is at the beginning of anything and its end are alike touching.

Yoshida Kenko

Tsurezure-Gusa - Essays in Idleness The Tzuredzure gusa of Yoshida no Kaneyoshi as translated by George Sansom - 1911.

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Leave undone whatever you hesitate to do.

Yoshida Kenko

Tsurezure-Gusa - Essays in Idleness The Tzuredzure gusa of Yoshida no Kaneyoshi as translated by George Sansom - 1911.

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A certain recluse, I know not who, once said that no bonds attached him to this life, and the only thing he would regret leaving was the sky.

Yoshida Kenko

Tsurezure-Gusa - Essays in Idleness The Tzuredzure gusa of Yoshida no Kaneyoshi as translated by George Sansom - 1911.

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To sit alone in the lamplight with a book spread out before you, and hold intimate converse with men of unseen generations - such is a pleasure beyond compare.

Yoshida Kenko

Tsurezure-Gusa - Essays in Idleness The Tzuredzure gusa of Yoshida no Kaneyoshi as translated by George Sansom - 1911.

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One should write not unskillfully in the running hand, be able to sing in a pleasing voice and keep good time to music; and lastly, a man should not refuse a little wine when it is pressed upon him.

Yoshida Kenko

Tsurezure-Gusa - Essays in Idleness The Tzuredzure gusa of Yoshida no Kaneyoshi as translated by George Sansom - 1911.

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To while away the idle hours, seated the livelong day before the inkslab, by jotting down without order or purpose whatever trifling thoughts pass through my mind, truely this is a queer and crazy...

Yoshida Kenko

Tsurezure-Gusa - Essays in Idleness The Tzuredzure gusa of Yoshida no Kaneyoshi as translated by George Sansom - 1911.

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