Yamamoto Tsunetomo Quotes

Death is so genuine a fact that it excludes falsehoods, or betrays its emptiness; it is a touchstone that proves the gold, and dishonors the baser metal.

The world, life and human beings are only an illusion, a phantom, a dream image.

The minute you try to do something that is not true to you, is not something that you really know about, and is not a lifestyle or world that you live in or can relate to, it's going to come off as false.

Affectation is the product of falsehood.

I'm not always sincere. One can't be in this world, you know.

We are buried when we're born. The world is a place of graves occupied and graves potential. Life is what happens while we wait for our appointment with the mortician.

There's nothing glamorous about being dead.

The moment you sense someone is making something because they think people are gonna buy it or like it, it's just so phony! The public has a nose for phony like nobody else.

The best care on earth cannot prevent us all dying in the end.

Out of five hundred who speak glibly of love, not one can spell the first letter of his name.

There's nothing I despise more than people trying to be something that they're not.

No lie ever reaches old age.

I am not sincere, even when I say I am not.

I am not honest.

I abhor hypocrisy.

We ought to see far enough into a hypocrite to see even his sincerity.

Always be sincere, even if you don't mean it.

It is the lot of man but once to die.

The greatest mistake is trying to be more agreeable than you can be.

Millions of people die every day. Everyone's got to go sometime.

Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.

Put away from you a dissembling mouth.

Fakery in allegiance to the truth.

No lie can live forever.

I don't think there is a single character in 'The Graduate' that is not a phony, to one degree or another, except Benjamin and Elaine, and only in the scenes when they are alone together.