1. All happiness comes from hardship.
——Natsume Soseki's "I am a Cat"
2. I have tasted the sweet and spicy taste of the world, and I know the warmth and coldness of the words.
—— Natsume Soseki's "I am a Cat"
3. People, in order to kill time, insist on wagging their lips, laughing at things that are not ridiculous, and enjoying things that are not enjoyable. Nothing else.
——Natsume Soseki's "I am a Cat"
4. Hard-won opportunities will make all animals do things they don't like to do.
—— Natsume Soseki's "I am a Cat"
5. People like to cut the vast world into pieces with a knife, draw their own domain, and Among them, the ground is a prison. Just stick to your footing and never step beyond the boundaries at any time.
——Natsume Soseki's "I am a Cat"
6. It turns out that most people who abuse romantic ghosts are not qualified to be romantic; most people who claim to be romantic are also not qualified to be romantic.
—— Natsume Soseki's "I am a Cat"
7. If a tiger is imprisoned in a zoo, it must endure being next to pigs. In front of the chopping board, the swan goose in distress is no different from a chicken.
—— Natsume Soseki's "I am a Cat"
8. In times of crisis, you can do things that you normally cannot do. This is called "God's blessing".
—— Natsume Soseki's "I am a Cat"
9. Before you know the true appearance of something, you really want to know it, but once you know it, you will envy you because you don't know it. In that era of glory, I often regret becoming the person I am now.
——Natsume Soseki's "After the Spring Equinox"
10. Even if there is only one in the world, you must find something great and beautiful that can capture your heart. Something, or something kind.
——Natsume Soseki's "After the Spring Equinox"
11. If you remember kneeling before that person before, this time, you have to put your feet on his head. In order to avoid being insulted in the future, we must refuse respect today. I am willing to endure my loneliness today instead of enduring my loneliness in the future, which will be even lonelier than today.
—— Natsume Soseki's "Heart"
12. There are no bad guys in this world who are carved out like molds. Usually everyone is a good person, or at least an ordinary person. But precisely because he will turn into a bad guy at a critical moment, it is scary, so he cannot be taken lightly.
——Natsume Soseki's "Heart"
13. I feel very uneasy. We don’t know when we will reach the shore, nor where we will sail. All I know is that the ship keeps moving forward, blowing out black smoke. The huge waves are soaring into the sky, they are so blue that they are indescribably blue, and sometimes they turn purple. Only the hull was always surrounded by foam. I feel very uneasy. I thought, instead of staying on the boat, I would rather jump to the bottom of the sea.
——Natsume Soseki's "Ten Nights of Dreams"
14. Isn't it true that the sun goes to the west and ends in the east? The sun rises in the east and its hometown is in the west. Isn't this true? Really? I am on top of the waves, sleeping on my pillow, drifting again and again.
——Natsume Soseki's "Ten Nights of Dreams"
15. Born innately, but intangible by birth; However, without body, it does not exist. Therefore, it is said: "Incredible."
——Natsume Soseki's "Ten Nights of Dreams"
16. The so-called likability is a soft weapon that can defeat powerful opponents.
—— Natsume Soseki's "Poppy Poppies"
17. If you use your talents, you will stand out; if you rely on your emotions, you will become worldly; if you insist on your own opinions, you will be constrained by many things. In short, it is difficult to live in this world.
—— Natsume Soseki's "Grass Pillow"
18. If you are too rational, you will easily have friction with others; if you are too obedient to emotions, you will be influenced by emotions; if you are too insistent on your own opinions, you will eventually go away. At the end of the road.
—— Natsume Soseki's "Grass Pillow"
19. If a certain objective purpose is placed on a person from the beginning, it is tantamount to taking it away from the person after birth. his freedom.
——Natsume Soseki's "What Happened Later"
20. Love affairs that are in line with God's will but contrary to man's will often gain social recognition only after the lover dies in love.
——Natsume Soseki's "What Happened Later"
21. This world is a distant "past" to him at ordinary times, but it also carries with it the inevitable changes in an emergency. into the nature of “now”.
——Natsume Soseki's "Roadside Grass"
22. There is almost no real solution in the world. Once something happens, it will continue forever, but the form will change. It’s just for all kinds of reasons that neither others nor oneself can understand clearly.
——Natsume Soseki's "Roadside Grass"