Junichiro Tanizaki Quotes

Each worm to his taste;
some prefer to eat nettles.

Were it not for shadows, there would be no beauty.

There are those who say that when civilization progresses a bit further transportation facilities will move into the skies and under the ground, and that our streets will again be quiet, but I know perfectly well that when that day comes some new device for torturing the old will be invented.

We delight in the mere sight of the delicate glow of fading rays clinging to the surface of a dusky wall, there to live out what little life remains to them.

The heart of mine is only one, it cannot be known by anybody but myself.

Find beauty not only in the thing itself but in the pattern of the shadows, the light and dark which that thing provides.

The older we get the more we seem to think that everything was better in the past.