Kyoichi Katayama Quotes & Sayings

I wished the dream were real, and this reality a dream. But that wasn't the case. And that was why, whenever I woke up, I'd be crying. It wasn't because I was sad. When you return from a happy dream to sad reality, there's a chasm you have to step across, and you can't cross it without shedding tears. It doesn't matter how many times you do it. — Kyoichi Katayama

It's not the parting or the absence that's sad. You love them, and that's why saying good-bye breaks your heart. — Kyoichi Katayama

It's really easy for us to miss each other in this big, big world... People I've met after a long time of looking; my important people. — Kyoichi Katayama

When you think you have no future, it's strange how pure you can become; but when you find yourself alive, you star to have desires again. — Kyoichi Katayama

A world without you is unknown to me. I don't even know if it exists. — Kyoichi Katayama

In spite of all the progress we seem to have made, human emotions stay the same. Deep inside our hearts, we don't change very much. This poem was written two thousand years ago or more. It's from a time long before the quatrains and other formal styles you've learned in school were established. And yet, even today, we can understand the feelings of people from that time. You don't need education or scholarship for that. These feelings can be understood by anybody, I think. — Kyoichi Katayama

A life lived alone simply feels long and boring. But a life shared with someone you love reaches the place of parting in no time at all. — Kyoichi Katayama