Shūsaku Endō Quotes

True religion should be able to respond to the dark melodies, the faulty and hideous sounds that echo from the heart of men.

Every weakness contains within itself a strength.

I don't want to die in darkness any thicker than this. I want to bring some kind of resolution in my life.

I did pray. I kept on Praying. But prayer did nothing to alleviate their suffering.

The reason why darkness terrifying for us, he reflected, is that there remains in us the instinctive fear the primitive man had when there was as yet no light.

A man who wields a pen has to be accountable to society.

The seeds of salvation are buried in every act of evil.

Behind the depressing silence of the sea, the silence of God …. the feeling that while men raise their voices in anguish God remains with folded arms, silent.

Lord, why are you silent? Why are you always silent...?

To be a saint or a man of too good a nature in today's pragmatic world, with everyone out to get the other fellow, was equivalent to being a fool, wasn't it?

The earth is not just for the clever and the strong.

In order to pile weakness upon weakness he was trying to drag others along the path that he himself had walked.

No matter what the circumstances, no man can completely escape from vanity.