If a man wanted to put the entire universe in his breast, he couldn't do it with his chest stuck out.

It's interesting, isn't it? Being in the world.

The world is a stone wall ... and they have put the stones so close together that there is not a single crack through which one may enter.

Great character is forged through hardships.

Beyond the shadow of a doubt, food was more important than a woman's suffering.

Love was like a toothache.

To Kiyomori each stall, each soul here seemed borne under by the crushing weight of the world; everyone here was a pitiful weed, trodden underfoot -- a conglomeration of human lives putting down roots in this slime, living and letting live in the struggle to survive; and he was stirred by the fearful and magnificent courage communicated by the scene.