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Top 10 Junichiro Tanizaki Quotes (2025 Update)

Junichiro Tanizaki Quote: “Find beauty not only in the thing itself but in the pattern of the shadows, the light and dark which that thing provides.”

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

— Junichiro Tanizaki

Junichiro Tanizaki Quote: “Yet for better or worse we love things that bear the marks of grime, soot, and weather, and we love the colors and the sheen that call to mind the past that made them.”

2. “Yet for better or worse we love things that bear the marks of grime, soot, and weather, and we love the colors and the sheen that call to mind the past that made them.”

— Junichiro Tanizaki

Junichiro Tanizaki Quote: “The older we get the more we seem to think that everything was better in the past.”

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

— Junichiro Tanizaki

Junichiro Tanizaki Quote: “The heart of mine is only one, it cannot be known by anybody but myself.”

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

— Junichiro Tanizaki

Junichiro Tanizaki Quote: “Were it not for shadows, there would be no beauty.”

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

— Junichiro Tanizaki

Junichiro Tanizaki Quote: “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.”

6. “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.”

— Junichiro Tanizaki

Junichiro Tanizaki Quote: “Whenever I sit with a bowl of soup before me, listening to the murmur that penetrates like the distant song of an insect, lost in contemplation of the flavours to come, I feel as if I were being drawn into a trance.”

7. “Whenever I sit with a bowl of soup before me, listening to the murmur that penetrates like the distant song of an insect, lost in contemplation of the flavours to come, I feel as if I were being drawn into a trance.”

— Junichiro Tanizaki

Junichiro Tanizaki Quote: “And isn’t it better really to leave things only hinted at?”

8. “And isn’t it better really to leave things only hinted at?”

— Junichiro Tanizaki

Junichiro Tanizaki Quote: “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.”

9. “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.”

— Junichiro Tanizaki

Junichiro Tanizaki Quote: “Such is our way of thinking – we find beauty not in the thing itself but in the patterns of shadows, the light and the darkness, that one thing against another creates.”

10. “Such is our way of thinking – we find beauty not in the thing itself but in the patterns of shadows, the light and the darkness, that one thing against another creates.”

— Junichiro Tanizaki

Junichiro Tanizaki Quote: “For a woman who lived in the dark it was enough if she had a faint, white face -a full body was unnecessary.”

11. “For a woman who lived in the dark it was enough if she had a faint, white face -a full body was unnecessary.”

— Junichiro Tanizaki

Junichiro Tanizaki Quote: “The novelist Natsume Soseki counted his morning trips to the toilet a great pleasure, ‘a physiological delight’ he called it. And surely there could be no better place to savor this pleasure than a Japanese toilet where, surrounded by tranquil walls and finely grained wood, one looks out upon blue skies and green leaves.”

12. “The novelist Natsume Soseki counted his morning trips to the toilet a great pleasure, ‘a physiological delight’ he called it. And surely there could be no better place to savor this pleasure than a Japanese toilet where, surrounded by tranquil walls and finely grained wood, one looks out upon blue skies and green leaves.”

— Junichiro Tanizaki

Junichiro Tanizaki Quote: “The parlor may have its charms, but the Japanese toilet truly is a place of spiritual repose.”

13. “The parlor may have its charms, but the Japanese toilet truly is a place of spiritual repose.”

— Junichiro Tanizaki

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