Hideo Kojima Quotes

Everyone goes through their winters and springs, and their summers and autumns.

The aster has not wasted spring and summer because it has not blossomed. It has been all the time preparing for what is to follow, and in autumn it is the glory of the field, and only the frost lays it low. So there are many people who must live forty or fifty years, and have the crude sap of their natural dispositions changed and sweetened before the blossoming time can come; but their lives have not been wasted.

What's more interesting than the arc of lives?

Four seasons fill the measure of the year; there are four seasons in the minds of men.

Four Seasons fill the measure of the year; There are four seasons in the mind of man: He has his lusty Spring, when fancy clear Takes in all beauty with an easy span: He has his Summer, when luxuriously Spring's honey'd cud of youthful thought he loves To ruminate, and by such dreaming high Is nearest unto heaven: quiet coves His soul has in its Autumn, when his wings He furleth close; contented so to look On mists in idleness—to let fair things Pass by unheeded as a threshold brook. He has his Winter too of pale misfeature, Or else he would forego his mortal nature.

A man's diary is a record in youth of his sentiments, in middle age of his actions, in old age of his reflections.

In the morn of life we are alert, we are heated in its noon, and only in its decline do we repose.

Do you suppose you will look the same when you are an old woman as you do now? Most folk have three faces—the face they get when they’re children, the face they own when they’re grown, and the face they’ve earned when they’re old. But when you live as long as I have, you get many more. I look nothing like I did when I was a wee thing of thirteen. You get the face you build your whole life, with work and loving and grieving and laughing and frowning.

I think the interesting aspect of life is that you're always sort of in the middle. You're never the youngest and you're never the oldest.

We are each given a block of marble when we begin a lifetime, and the tools to shape it into sculpture. We can drag it behind us untouched, we can pound it to gravel, we can shape it into glory. Examples from every other life are left for us to see, lifeworks finished and unfinished, guiding and warning. Near the end our sculpture is nearly finished, and we can smooth and polish what we started years before. We can make our progress then, but to do it we must see past the appearances of age.

We are born, we grow up, we live our lives as best we can. If we are thoughtful we are good parents and good partners. If we are wise we strive for integrity and intimacy. If we are fortunate we discover love and joy. If we are able, we make the world a little better than we found it.

Going from--toward; it is the history of every one of us.

We arrive at the various stages of life quite as novices.

Time can be such a menace to a man. By this age do that; by that age do better.

Travel is a caprice in childhood, a passion in youth, a necessity in manhood, and an elegy in old age.

Aging is a chance to make what was good, great, and what was never so good, better...

Life consists of burning up questions.

The seven ages of man: spills, drills, thrills, bills, ills, pills and wills.

I've learned that asking ourselves not just what we want to be, but who we want to be is important at every stage of our lives, not just when we're starting out in the world. That's because in a way, we're starting out fresh in the world every single day.

The habits of a young man are, like his coat, removable; the habits of an old man are like the drapery of a statue.

I think that growing up is something that you should do gradually.

Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through.

I figure if Doc is right about the time I have left,I should wrap up my adolescence in the next few days, get into my early productive stages about the third week of school, go through my midlife crisis during Martin Luther King Jr's birthday, redouble my efforts at productivity and think about my legacy, say, Easter, and start cashing in my 401(k)s a couple weeks before Memorial Day.