Hikikomori Quotes & Sayings

A magician with decreasing practice sessions will give defective performances. — Amit Kalantri

He has but one great fear that fears to do wrong. — Christian Nestell Bovee

The life of the sane, average man was dull, worse than death. There seemed to be no possible alternative. Education also seemed to be a trap. The little education I had allowed myself had made me more suspicious. What were doctors, lawyers, scientists? They were just men who allowed themselves to be deprived of their freedom to think and act as individuals. I went back to my shack and drank ... — Charles Bukowski

To a hikikomori, winter is painful because everything feels cold, frozen over, and lonely. To a hikikomori, spring is also painful because everyone is in a good mood and therefore enviable. Summer, of course, is especially painful ... — Tatsuhiko Takimoto

Things Cleo can never know - lest she should find out how the two of us are linked. — Ella James

CNN's problem goes to its very core and to the identity it's sought ever since the rise of Fox News, on its right: CNN is the channel for people who don't want to watch the other channels! That's a stupid strategy. — Alex Pareene

If you can be content right now, then you'll always be content, because it's always right now. — Willie Nelson

Ideas are one thing and what happens is another. — John Cage

After a spate of parties that led to nothing but being threatened by some drunk white boys, and dozens of classes where not a single girl looked at him, he felt the optimism wane, and before he even realised what had happened he had buried himself in what amounted to the college version of what he'd majored in all throughout high school: getting no ass. His happiest moments were genre moments, like when Akira was released (1988). — Junot Diaz

There is a wealth of twentieth century music that is being re-discovered by a generation that hasn't heard it. — Helen Reddy

The only people discussing "race" with any insight and courage are loud middle-aged white men who romanticize the Kennedys and Motown, well-read open-minded white kids like the tie-dyed familiar sitting next to me in the Free Tibet and Boba Fett T-shirt, a few freelance journalists in Detroit, and the American hikikomori who sit in their basements pounding away at their keyboards composing measured and well-thought-out responses to the endless torrent of racist online commentary. — Paul Beatty

Far from being the basis of the good society, the family, with its narrow privacy and tawdry secrets, is the source of all our discontents. — Edmund Leach

What breaks my heart is in the United States hundreds of thousands wake up on a Sunday and church never crosses their mind. — Andy Stanley

Kazuko was worried about him, calling him a hikikomori, a self-imposed shut-in. — Shuichi Yoshida

No pressure is greater than God's power. — Charles R. Swindoll

Those who begin coercive elimination of dissent soon find themselves exterminating dissenters. Compulsory unification of opinion achieves only the unanimity of the graveyard. — Robert Jackson