84 quotes found
“I'm all alone, but I'm not lonely.”
“Wherever there's hope there's a trial.”
“It's not me but the world that's deranged.”
“I can bear any pain as long as it has meaning.”
“But hell, you've gotta work with what you've got.”
“Loneliness becomes an acid that eats away at you.”
“If you can love someone with your whole heart, even one person, then there's salvation in life. Even if you can't get together with that person.”
“I'm tired of living unable to love anyone. I don't have a single friend - not one. And, worst of all, I can't even love myself. Why is that? Why can't I love myself? It's because I can't love anyon...”
“A person learns how to love himself through the simple acts of loving and being loved by someone else.”
“Life is not like water. Things in life don't necessarily flow over the shortest possible route.”
“It seemed to me that this world has a serious shortage of both logic and kindness.”
“Wasn't it better if they kept this desire to see each other hidden within them, and never actually got together? That way, there would always be hope in their hearts. That hope would be a small, ye...”
“This is what it means to live on. When granted hope, a person uses it as fuel, as a guidepost to life. It is impossible to live without hope.”
“No, I don't want your money. The world moves less by money than by what you owe people and what they owe you. I don't like to owe anybody anything, so I keep to myself as much on the lending side a...”
“People lose fifty million skin cells every day. The cells get scraped off and turn into invisible dust, and disappear into the air. Maybe we are nothing but skin cells as far as the world is concer...”
“Dont you see? You and he might never cross paths again. Of course, a chance meeting could occur, and I hope it happens. I really do, for your sake. But realistically speaking, you have to see there...”
“I'm not afraid to die. What I'm afraid of is having reality get the better of me, of having reality leave me behind.”
“Only by learning the truthwhatever that truth might becould people be given the right kind of power.”
“There is nothing in this world that never takes a step outside a person's heart.”
“In the name of God, they stole her time and her freedom, putting shackles on her heart. They preached about God's kindness, but preached twice as much about his wrath and intolerance.”
“I don't have a thing," Tengo said, "except my soul.""Sounds like a job for Mephistopheles," she said.”
“Hundreds of butterflies flitted in and out of sight like short-lived punctuation marks in a stream of consciousness without beginning or end.”
