Life is a dream. Why spend it on what you hate?
Yamamoto Tsunetomo, Hagakure, Book 2
Life is a dream. Why spend it on what you hate?
Yamamoto Tsunetomo, Hagakure, Book 2
The source
"Life is a dream. Why spend it on what you hate?" Yamamoto Tsunetomo said it in Hagakure, Book 2. Translated from the original Japanese by Spartan Surfers.
"夢の間の世の中に、すかぬ事許りして苦を見て暮すは愚なることなり"Original Japanese, Hagakure, Book 2. Japanese: Hagakure, vol. 1 (1937 printing), NDL digital text.
Who said it
Yamamoto Tsunetomo (1659–1719). Samurai turned monk whose spoken reflections were written down as Hagakure, Hidden by Leaves.
Questions
- Who said "Life is a dream. Why spend it on what you hate?"?
- Yamamoto Tsunetomo (1659–1719). Source: Hagakure, Book 2.
- What is the original Japanese?
- 夢の間の世の中に、すかぬ事許りして苦を見て暮すは愚なることなり. Translated from the original Japanese by Spartan Surfers.
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More from Yamamoto Tsunetomo
- There is only this one moment. Moment on moment makes a life.Hagakure, Book 2
- Life is very short. Spend it doing what you love.Hagakure, Book 2
- As for me, I like sleeping.Hagakure, Book 2
- Caught in the rain? Running won't keep you dry. Accept getting wet.Hagakure, Book 1
- In training, you are never done.Hagakure, Book 1
- Die still thinking 'not enough', and you were a master.Hagakure, Book 1