I’m just kinda tired. Like a monkey in the rain.
I’m the kind of person who likes to be by himself. To put a finer point on it, I’m the type of person who doesn’t find it painful to be alone. I find spending an hour or two every day running alone, n...
I’ve built a wall around me, never letting anybody inside and trying not to venture outside myself
Jealousy—at least as far as he understood it from his dream—was the most hopeless prison in the world. Jealousy was not a place he was forced into by someone else, but a jail in which the inmate enter...
Judging from the spiderwebs clinging to it, the emergency stairway was hardly ever used. To each web clung a small black spider, patiently waiting for its small prey to come along. Not that the spider...
Judging the mistakes of strangers is an easy thing to do - and it feels pretty good.
Knowledge and ability were tools, not things to show off.
Like a Chinese box, the world of the novel contained smaller worlds, and inside those were yet smaller worlds. Together, these worlds made up a single universe, and the universe waited there in the bo...
Like dry ground welcoming the rain, he let the solitude, silence, and loneliness soak in.
Listen up—there’s no war that will end all wars,’ Crow tells me. ‘War breeds war. Lapping up the blood shed by violence, feeding on wounded flesh. War is a perfect, self-contained being. You need to k...
Losing you is most difficult for me, but the nature of my love for you is what matters. If it distorts into half-truth, then perhaps it is better not to love you. I must keep my mind but loose you.
Lots of different ways to live and lots of different ways to die. But in the end that doesn't make a bit of difference. All that remains is a desert.
Memories and thoughts age, just as people do. But certain thoughts can never age, and certain memories can never fade.
Memory is so crazy! It's like we've got these drawers crammed with tons of useless stuff. Meanwhile, all the really important things we just keep forgetting, one after the other.
Most human activities are predicated on the assumption that life goes on. If you take that premise away, what is there left?
My biggest fault is that the faults I was born with grow bigger each year.
Never being constrained, thinking about things freely—that’s what you’re hoping for? Exactly. But it seems to me that thinking about things freely can’t be easy. It means leaving behind your physical...
No matter how much long-distance running might suit me, of course there are days when I feel kind of lethargic and don’t want to run. Actually, it happens a lot. On days like that, I try to think of a...
No matter how quiet and conformist a person’s life seems, there’s always a time in the past when they reached an impasse. A time when they went a little crazy. I guess people need that sort of stage i...
No matter where i go, i still end up me. What's missing never changes. The scenery may change, but i'm still the same incomplete person. The same missing elements torture me with a hunger that i can n...
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