Hitoshi Quotes & Sayings

When you say "I" and "my" too much, you lose the capacity to understand the "we" and "our". — Steve Maraboli

It's called Stockholm syndrome," I said. "When people start to sympathize with their captors. — Ransom Riggs

Had I listened to my agent, I'd be running around in tights, climbing buildings and stuff. — Heath Ledger

Barack Obama said he may negotiate with the Taliban. A lot of people are saying okay, but be careful. But I said this guy has experience negotiating with the enemy. For gosh sake, he lives with his mother-in-law, you know. — David Letterman

A lover should die after a long lifetime. I lost Hitoshi at the age of twenty, and I suffered from it so much that I felt as if my own life had stopped. The night he died, my soul went away to some other place and I couldn't bring it back. It was impossible to see the world as I had before. My brain ebbed and flowed, unstable, and I passed the days in a relentless state of dull oppression. — Banana Yoshimoto

There was a dark aura about him, a hint of caged power in that deceptively casual, sprawled poise. Danger personified.
If this had been a film she would have expected to hear the warning wail of an electric guitar creep over the soft background bustle of the city. — Heather R. Blair

If last night proved anything, it's that life is a strong drink served up in an extremely short - and fragile - shot glass. — Samantha Sotto

I'll write to you. A super-long letter, like in an old-fashioned novel — Haruki Murakami

Death is not necessarily what gives meaning to life LIFE gives meaning to life, and what we do with life, which is to create knowledge like music, art, science To this end, I believe intelligent life might be evolution's secret weapon: the ultimate hack that might help us transcend entropy. — Jason Silva

Hitoshi:
I'll never be able to be here again. As the minutes slide by, I move on. The flow of time is something I cannot stop. I haven't a choice. I go.
One caravan has stopped, another starts up. There are people I've yet to meet, others I'll never see again. People who are gone before you know it, people who are just passing through. Even as we exchange hellos, they seem to grow transparent. I must keep living with the flowing river before my eyes.
I earnestly pray that a trace of my girl-child self will always be with you.
For waving good-bye, I thank you. — Banana Yoshimoto

Teleus, who had faced his failures and his death and the death of his friend and accepted his own salvation at the hand of a man he despised, ran out of the strength to accept any more. He contradicted the king. — Megan Whalen Turner

I regard it as a waste of time to think only of selling: one forgets one's art and exaggerates one's value. — Camille Pissarro

Dream big ... don't let anybody or anything break your wishbone. Stay strong, full of faith, and courageous ... keep that backbone straight. And along the way, don't forget to laugh and enjoy the journey. — Charles R. Swindoll

How I keep trying to force our story into a fairy tale, but from the beginning, it's been more like a nursery rhyme."
"Bizarre and adorable?"
"Just like you."
"With rings in your pockets and bells on your toes"
"Ooh, I should really invest in some toes bells. — Shannon Hale

I ignore the jealous, I ignore the malicious, I ignore the ignorant, and I ignore the paranoid. If the shoe fits anyone, wear it. — Rick Pitino

Truth has not single victories; all things are its organs,
not only dust and stones, but errors and lies. — Ralph Waldo Emerson