“Real danger is nothing more than just living. Of course, living is merely the chaos of existence, but more than that it's a crazy mixed-up business of dismantling existence instant by instant to the point where the original chaos is restored, and taking strength from the uncertainty and the fear that chaos brings to re-create existence instant by instant. You won't find another job as dangerous as that. There isn't any fear in existence itself, or any uncertainty, but living creates it.”
― Yukio Mishima, The Sailor Who Fell from Grace With the Sea
― Yukio Mishima, The Sailor Who Fell from Grace With the Sea
In my opinion this is one of the most powerful quotes in the novel. Something so eloquent, so simple and yet something that is usually overlooked. It takes a minute to wrap your head around the idea that the real struggle and danger in life is in fact living. Some people might say that that kind of thinking is rather pessimistic but I believe it is just a realists point of view. Sometimes our minds might wander thinking that death is really the easiest thing in life. Almost pure. And Mishima mentions in the novel, the act of death starts at birth where time is only the space in between these two. I think that's beautiful. This is not to say that life isn't worth living but maybe just one part of the circle that makes up our very existence.
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