50 quotes
Japanese writer
“There are some things we can never assign to oblivion, memories we can never rub away. They remain with us forever, like a touchstone.”
"Our faces were no more than ten inches apart, but she was light years away from me."
on Love
"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."
on Hope
"Hatred is like a tow-edged sword. When you cut the other person, you cut yourself."
on Philosophy
"Memories warm you up from the inside. But they also tear you apart."
on Life
"People fall in love without reason, without even wanting to. You can't predict it. That's love."
"Time expands, then contracts, all in tune with the stirrings of the heart."
on Time
"Violence does not always take visible form, and not all wounds gush blood."
"That's what we all do : endlessly take the long way around."
"To wit, existence is communication and communication is existence."
on Communication
"Civilization is communication. When that which should be expressed and transmitted is lost, civilization comes to an end."
"So the fact that I’m me and no one else is one of my greatest assets. Emotional hurt is the price a person has to pay in order to be independent."
"Once the ego is born into this world, it has to shoulder morality."
"People leave traces of themselves where they feel most comfortable, most worthwhile."
on Relationships
"Each "way of thinking" has its own shape and color, which wax and wane like the moon."
"When you come out of the storm you won't be the same person that walked in. That's what the storm is all about."
"It seems to me that very sad things always contain an element of the comical"
on Emotion
"The power to concentrate was the most important thing. Living without this power would be like opening one’s eyes without seeing anything."
"If you can't understand it without an explanation, you can't understand it with an explanation."
on Wisdom
"Love can rebuild the world, they say, so everything's possible when it comes to love."
"Sometimes fate is like a small sandstorm that keeps changing direction."
