1. Quotes
  2. Authors
  3. Ryūnosuke Akutagawa

Ryūnosuke Akutagawa Quotes

Ryūnosuke Akutagawa , art name Chōkōdō Shujin , was a Japanese writer active in the Taishō period in Japan. He is regarded as the "father of the Japanese short story", and Japan's premier literary award, the Akutagawa Prize, is named after him. He took his own life at the age of 35 through an overdose of barbital. Wikipedia  

✵ 1. March 1892 – 24. July 1927
Ryūnosuke Akutagawa photo

Works

In a Grove
In a Grove
Ryūnosuke Akutagawa
In a Grove
In a Grove
Ryūnosuke Akutagawa
Ryūnosuke Akutagawa: 2 quotes4 likes

Ryūnosuke Akutagawa Quotes

“A man sometimes devotes his life to a desire which he is not sure will ever be fulfilled. Those who laugh at this folly are, after all, no more than mere spectators of life.”

Ryūnosuke Akutagawa

Yam Gruel (1916), in Rashomon and Other Stories https://books.google.it/books?id=DYHQAgAAQBAJ&pg=PT29 (Tuttle, 2011).

“Truly, human life is as ephemeral as dew and as brief as lightning.”

Ryūnosuke Akutagawa book In a Grove

In a Grove (1922), quoted in A Study Guide for Ryunosuke Akutagawa's "In a Grove" https://books.google.it/books?id=EAPQDAAAQBAJ&pg=PT13 (Gale, 2017).

Similar authors

Kenzaburō Ōe photo
Kenzaburō Ōe43
Japanese author None
Yasunari Kawabata photo
Yasunari Kawabata44
Japanese author, Nobel Prize winner None
Haruki Murakami photo
Haruki Murakami655
Japanese author, novelist None
Yukio Mishima photo
Yukio Mishima60
Japanese author None
Makoto Kobayashi (physicist) photo
Makoto Kobayashi (physicist)3
Japanese physicist None
Kanō Jigorō photo
Kanō Jigorō19
Japanese educator and judoka None
Daisaku Ikeda photo
Daisaku Ikeda25
Japanese writer None
Kazuo Ishiguro photo
Kazuo Ishiguro76
Japanese-born British author None
Hayao Miyazaki photo
Hayao Miyazaki34
Japanese animator, film director, and mangaka None
Wisława Szymborska photo
Wisława Szymborska92
Polish writer None