Kóbó Abe: Quotes about the world

Kóbó Abe was Japanese writer, playwright, photographer and inventor. Explore interesting quotes on world.
Kóbó Abe: 32   quotes 9   likes

“When I look at small things, I think I shall go on living: drops of rain, leather gloves shrunk by being wet… When I look at something too big, I want to die: the Diet Building, or a map of the world…”

Kóbó Abe book The Box Man

Source: The Box Man

World , Thinking

“He wanted to believe that his own lack of movement had stopped all movement in the world, the way a hibernating frog abolishes winter.”

Kóbó Abe book The Woman in the Dunes

Part 1, Ch. 8
Source: The Woman in the Dunes (1962)

World , Way , Winter