“ What kind of man will feel depressed at being idle? There is nothing finer than to be alone with nothing to distract him.If you follow the ways of the world, your heart will be drawn to its sensual de… Yoshida Kenkō
“ I have relinquished all that ties me to the world, but the one thing that still haunts me is the beauty of the sky Yoshida Kenkō
“ Are we to look at cherry blossoms only in full bloom, the moon only when it is cloudless? To long for the moon while looking on the rain, to lower the blinds and be unaware of the passing of the sprin… Yoshida Kenkō
“ Looking back on months and years of intimacy, to feel that your friend, while you still remember the moving words you exchanged, is yet growing distant and living in a world apart—all this is sadder f… Yoshida Kenkō
“ To sit alone in the lamplight with a book spread out before you and hold intimate converse with men of unseen generations - such is pleasure beyond compare. Yoshida Kenkō
