Kenzaburō Ōe Quotes

The dead can survive as part of the lives of those that still live.

Hiroshima is like a nakedly exposed wound inflicted on all mankind.

It takes a person of great care and insight to watch for any abnormality in the green grass even whi...

When the Russian delegate this summer indicated the Soviet Union's interest in sending medical equip...

We naturally try to forget our personal tragedies, serious or trifling, as soon as possible (even so...

Understanding comes hard to persons of high rank who are accustomed to phony lifestyles that involve...

Once a person has been poisoned by self-deception, he can't make decisions about himself as neatly ...

We are much too tolerant of the moral aberration of statesmen and bureaucrats.

For ten years after the atomic bomb was dropped there was so little public discussion of the bomb or...

However, please allow me to say that the fundamental style of my writing has been to start from my p...

Peril-ridden and fragile, the imperfect human body, what a shameful thing it was!

Once a person has been poisoned by self-deception, he can't make decisions about himself as neatly a...

The people of Hiroshima went to work at once to restore human society in the aftermath of the great ...