Why do people have to be this lonely? What's the point of it all? Millions of people in this world, all of them yearning, looking to others to satisfy them, yet isolating themselves. Why? Was the eart...
When you sneak into somebody’s backyard, it does seem that guts and curiosity are working together. Curiosity can bring guts out of hiding at times, maybe even get them going. But curiosity usually ev...
What I want is for the two of us to meet somewhere by chance one day, like, passing on the street, or getting on the same bus.
To keep on going, you have to keep up the rhythm.
There are times when the understanding does not come until later, when it no longer matters. Other times I do what I must do, not knowing my own mind, and I am led astray.
The world [...] an endless battle of contrasting memories.
The song is over. But the melody lingers on.
The right words always seemed to come too late.
The light of morning decomposes everything.
The faintest gleam of their lost memories glimmered for the briefest moment in their hearts.
Tendencies. Yougottendencies. Soevenifyoudideverythingoveragain, yourwholelife, yougottendenciestodojustwhatyoudid, alloveragain. -The Sheep Man.
Silence, I discover, is something you can actually hear.
Reality was one step out of line, a cardigan with the buttons done up wrong.
Pointless thinking is worse than no thinking at all.
Our responsibility begins with our imagination.
Of course, reading novels was just another form of escape. As soon as he closed their pages he had to come back to the real world. But at some point Tengo noticed that returning to reality from the wo...
Not that we were incompatible: we just had nothing to talk about.
Nobody likes being alone that much. I don't go out of my way to make friends, that's all. It just leads to disappointment.
No truth can cure the sorrow we feel from losing a loved one. No truth, no sincerity, no strength, no kindness can cure that sorrow. All we can do is see it through to the end and learn something from...
No matter how honestly you open up to someone, there are still things you cannot reveal.