Quotes by Japanese Authors - Page 23

I love fortune readings! because when I get in troubles, if the reading says that I am in a lucky day, I can think my troubles are just some kind of mistakes, and if the reading says that I am in the unlucky day, I can think that my troubles are just because of my bad luck. Either ways, I can know the reason of my troubles.
Hiroko Sakai
When you paint late at night, drinking beer or wine or both, you gotta be very careful to watch what you are doing...
Hiroko Sakai
yes, i have dated Salvador Dali guy when i was a high school girl. he was a great lover. but i had to dump him because he stole my inspiration of bent clock*~* .... who cares...
Hiroko Sakai
...I gotta burn these scales... sigh*
Hiroko Sakai
I'm OK with being single, but I'm not OK when the time comes where I have to move my furniture around and to change the high ceiling light balls...
Hiroko Sakai
If somebody tells me what to do, I will do my best not to do it.
Hiroko Sakai
How come I have too many things to do all the time...??
Hiroko Sakai
Eve: I don't understand this word..."Freedom." Does it mean...I do what I want?Sven: Yes.Eve: Then I wouldn't have to kill anymore?Sven: No more killing.
Kentaro Yabuki
Even though I dislike being kicked by others, I do enjoy the feeling of kicking others
Yana Toboso
Does it seem like I'm out of it? No you seemed like you were in total control as you fell down the stairs.
Aya Nakahara
If god is dead, who's going to fix this mess?
Satoshi Kon
Or should I say that he is like the hand that is able to scratch your itchy parts with the perfect amount of strength!
Memeko Arii
Just Echo.
Jun Mochizuki
If you're going to give up so quickly, I don't think you'll last long but you should try telling yourself you won't ever give up. Nobody can say how this will turn out but you should try the hardest you've ever tried in your life so you'll have no regrets
Hitori Nakano
Beautiful day out there,” I said, perching on the stool and crossing my legs. “It’s autumn, Sunday, great weather, and crowded everywhere you go. Relaxing indoors like this is the best thing you can do on such a nice day. It’s exhausting to get into those crowds. And the air is bad. I mostly do laundry on Sundays—wash the stuff in the morning, hang it out on the roof of my dorm, take it in before the sun goes down, do a good job of ironing it. I don’t mind ironing at all. There’s a special satisfaction in making wrinkled things smooth. And I’m pretty good at it, too. Of course, I was lousy at it at first. I put creases in everything. After a month of practice, though, I knew what I was doing. So Sunday is my day for laundry and ironing. I couldn’t do it today, of course. Too bad: wasted a perfect laundry day.
Haruki Murakami
But sometimes things happen that no one hopes for. Events that cause everything you've worked towards, the life you've carefully constructed piece by piece, to come tumbling down all around you. No one is to blame, but you're left with a wound you can't heal on your own and can't believe you'll ever learn to accept, so you struggle to escape the pain. Only time can heal wounds as deep as that - a lot of time - and all you can really do is place yourself in its hands and try to consider the passing of each day a victory. You tough it out moment by moment, hour by hour, and after some weeks or months you begin to see signs of recovery. Slowly the wound heals into a scar.
Ryū Murakami
everything in the world has its reasons for doing what it does. The wind has its reasons. We just don't notice as we go about our lives. But then, at some point, we are made to notice. The wind envelops you with a certain purpose in mind, and it rocks you. The wind knows everything that's inside you. And not just the wind. Everything, including a stone. They all know us very well. From top to bottom. It only occurs to us at certain times. And all we can do is go with those things. As we take them in, we survive, and deepen.
Haruki Murakami
It is chronic water shortage in the body that causes most diseases of the human body.Dr. Fereydoon Batmanghelidj
Masaru Emoto
What happens when people open their hearts?""They get better.
Haruki Murakami
I will take away your means of escape.
Natsuki Takaya
I'm safe inside this container called me.
Haruki Murakami
I'll let you in on a secret ...How to avoid taking a wrong turn. I speak from experience. Don't blame the world around you. The world is very much larger ...than you realize. Large enough to embrace all of you.
Yellow Tanabe
Your mission isn't your guide. You have to find your own way.
Yellow Tanabe
It isn't 'Too late now', shouldn't it be 'From now on'? That is the password that will take away the regret.
Matsushita Yuya
Nothing's going to change if you're just thinking about it. No matter how much you worry about someone else's problems.... you can't fix it for them.
Inio Asano
My father always told me: 'Give somebody a hand and he'll take an arm.
Haruki Murakami
He is nothing more than one of my pawns. However, he is not a normal pawn. He is a pawn that can get across the whole board in one move.
Yana Toboso
I was born to end up alone.
Yana Toboso
Do you want to run away by dying? Or to live and accept the challenge? - Ciel Phantomhive
Yana Toboso
Some people talk about illogical things like love.. But then they can rationally sacrifice their relatives. - Sebastian Michaelis
Yana Toboso
What a disgrace! They were afraid...ashamed...they chose to conceal it...they buried the roots of a Great Civilization...they lacked the courage to go further...and turned their backs on what science had to offer them...and tried to seal away forever the hole they had torn open with their own hands.
Katsuhiro Otomo
Tobacco kills a lot of people, but cigarette vending machines are killing that woman by stealing her job.
Otsuichi
Death is not friendly. It's dark, black where you look at it. You're all alone. But it's no different when you're alive, right? No matter how many relationships we seem to have, we're all alone. - Misaki Mei
Yukito Ayatsuji
TO EAT IS VERY IMPORTANT, AND VERY PLEASUREABLE THING, BUT IT CAN ALSO BE VERY FRIGHTENING
CLAMP
Time is a terrible thing because it can erase both joys and pains.
Gosho Aoyama
Every mystery novel I ever read, the great detective was such an arrogant fuck you could replace 70% of his dialogue with 'Are you stupid?' and the conversation would still make sense.
NisiOisiN
There is something in this world which no one has ever seen.It is soft and sweet.If it is spotted, I'm sure everyone will want to have it,Which is why no one has ever seen it.For this world has hidden it quite well, so that it is difficult to obtain.But, there will come a day when it is discovered by somebody,And only those who should obtain it will be able to find it.That is all.
Yuyuko Takemiya
Flowers are fragile and ephemeral...Even if you meant to protect them with a surrounding fence from wind and rain, they would die without sunlight...and a spindly fence has no power against a strong wind. - Haibara Ai
Gosho Aoyama
Black is modest and arrogant at the same time. Black is lazy and easy - but mysterious. But above all black says this: "I don’t bother you - don’t bother me".
Yohji Yamamoto
To put it in a rather vulgar way, I had been dreaming about love in the firm belief that I could not be loved, but at the final stage I had substituted desire for love and felt a sort of relief. But in the end I had understood that desire itself demanded for its fulfillment that I should forget about the conditions of my existence, and that I should abandon what for me constituted the only barrier to love, namely the belief that I could not be loved. I had always thought of desire as being something clearer than it really is, and I had not realized that it required people to see themselves in a slightly dreamlike, unreal way.
Yukio Mishima
I can understand where he's coming from... I too was once secretly in love with you, and I could do nothing but watch from afar. Being close to you while pretending that we're nothing more than friends. The first time I touched you with sexual intention, it was like an electrical current flowing through my fingertips and it paralyzed me. I wanted to make your senses go numb with pleasure. Not only physical pleasure, but desire too, deep inside.
Yonezou Nekota
You wanted to show everyone you could write about the black heart of a killer. And all the while pretending you don't even have your own dark desires.
Naoyuki Ochiai
There is what we desire to do, and what we are able to do. When those two things don’t coincide, which path should we pursue to find happiness?
Hiroshi Sakurazaka
Desire is a frightening thing.
Sōseki Natsume
Life has a time limit. And we are changing all the time. So are our ambitions, desires, and purposes . . . The important thing is to find something that never changes in you.
Fumio Obata
What if someone had the potential to discover a formula to unlock the mysteries of the universe wanted to become a pulp fiction writer? What if someone who had the potential to create unparalleled gastronomic delicacies had his heart set on civil engineering? There is what we desire to do, and what we are able to do. When those two things don't coincide, which path should we pursue to find happiness?
Hiroshi Sakurazaka
When my desiregrows too fierceI wear my bed clothesinside out,dark as the night’s rough husk.
Ono no Komachi
Humans do not possess a single, focused will. In their hearts, they have countless bugs, buzzing in all directions. There are times when all these bugs pounce on the same food, but when they are focused on different desires, people take actions that can only be described as incoherent.
Kouhei Kadono
Why so scrawny, cat?Starving for fat fish or mice...Or backyard love?
Bashō Matsuo
Why... is human desire so unsatisfying?
Ai Yazawa
Okay, let’s put it this way. I would like to sleep with you. But it’s alright if I don’t sleep with you. What I’m saying is I’d like to be as fair as possible. I don’t want to force anything on anybody, any more than I’d want anything forced on me. It’s enough that I feel your presence or see your commas swirling around me.
Haruki Murakami
If I stayed here, something inside me would be lost forever—something I couldn't afford to lose. It was like a vague dream, a burning, unfulfilled desire. The kind of dream people have only when they're seventeen.
Haruki Murakami
You won't know the meaning of success without knowing how it feels to fail.
Kazu Kibuishi
The greatest happiness of life was to stand at the difficult border between success and failure.
Eiji Yoshikawa
Foe unvanquished, I will not perish in the field; I will be born again to take up the halberd seven more times.
Kuribayashi Tadamichi
There are three reasons I failed. Not enough training. Not enough training. And not enough training.
Haruki Murakami
I think perfection is ugly. Somewhere in the things humans make, I want to see scars, failure, disorder, distortion.
Yohji Yamamoto
In reality of everyday occurrences I've had to submit to people in order not to lose them. It's less the submission that bothers me, I guess, than how it makes my life miserable. And what happens if I can't forgive myself for making that choice? And what if, in order to keep on living, I have to continue to accept myself? What am I supposed to do? Conclusion: It'd be best if I'm destroyed. The best thing is for me just to vanish.
Natsuo Kirino
When you're in an extreme situation you tend to avoid facing it by getting caught up in little details. Like a guy who's decided to commit suicide and boards a train only to become obsessed with whether he remembered to lock the door when he left home.
Ryū Murakami
It is unfortunate for the gods that, unlike us, they cannot commit suicide.
Ryūnosuke Akutagawa