126 quotes found
Writer · Japanese · 1964
Japanese writer (born 1964)
“I never tell my boyfriend that I'm busy when I'm not. No matter how effective they are, cheap techniques like that just don't agree with me. So it's always okay, it's always all right. In my opinio...”
“When people start getting depressed theres just no end to itthings just seem to get worse and worse.”
“Nakajimas past would always be there, so the foundation could crumble at any moment. Thats what happens, I realized, when people destroy other people.”
“I felt sure of this. However much I loved him, and as beautiful as the world was, none of it was powerful enough to take the weight off his heart, that heaviness that dragged him down, into the bey...”
“To the extent that I had come to understand that despair does not necessarily result in annihilation, that one can go on as usual in spite of it, I had become hardened. Was this what it means to be...”
“The days Id passed with my mom before she died were still there, it seemed, seared into the corners of my heart.The atmosphere of the station brought it all back. I could see myself running to the ...”
“We ran into lots of old friends. Friends from elementary school, junior high school, high school. Everyone had matured in their own way, and even as we stood face to face with them they seemed like...”
“Just being with Nakajima made me feel as if we were detached from history, and had no particular age.”
“The way we think may be completely different, but you and I are an ancient, archetypal couple, the original man and woman. We are the model for Adam and Eve. For all couples in love, there comes a ...”
“The ritual of our daily lives permeate our very bodies.”
“Whenever you get something in this world, you lose something too that's just the way things work.”
“Things are just things. They can't bring back the dead. it just makes me feel better.”
“When things get really bad, you take comfort in the placeness of a place.”
“Once you've recognized your own limits, you've raised yourself to a higher level of being, since you're closer to the real you...”
“My fury was lofty, pure, cool. It was an emotion that none of these people, struggling so hard to impose a shape on life when life has no shape, could begin to understand.”
“Why were we so far apart, even when we were together? It was a nice loneliness, like the sensation of washing your face in cold water.”
“My loneliness was an important part of my own little universe, not some pathological disease that needs to be gotten [sic] rid of.”
“We've been very lonely, but we had it easy. Because death is so heavy - we, too young to know about it, couldn't handle it. After this you and I may end up seeing nothing but suffering, difficulty ...”
“A particular variety of loneliness, like peering deep into the darkness. It's only natural, when two separate universes touch.”
“I had the impression that her place was near mine, but even by bus it took about twenty minutes. She lived alone in an apartment house, square and white like a block of tofu, on the edge of town.”
