Kawakami Quotes & Sayings

Physical pain inspires the worst kind of helplessness. — Hiromi Kawakami

Everyone causes trouble for someone at some point in their lives. — Hiromi Kawakami

My mission is to kill time, and time's to kill me in its turn. How comfortable one is among murderers. — Emile M. Cioran

Why would you turn right on a red light when we can all just sit here behind you waiting to die ... #AHOLE — A.O. Storm

Every man for himself, and the Devil take the hindmost. — Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

Would you consider a relationship with me, based on a premise of love? — Kawakami Hiromi

even a cracked pot has a lid that fits. — Hiromi Kawakami

I rode the bus alone, I walked around the city alone, I did my shopping alone, and I drank alone. — Hiromi Kawakami

It's strange how a word, a phrase, a sentence, can feel like a blow to the head. — Veronica Roth

Love is kind, love is patient but also, mainly, above all - yes - Love is perverted. — Caroline Kepnes

The first time I asked a girl on date, well, I actually wrote out something like a flow chart of how the conversation might go — Kawakami Hiromi

Confucius does his crossword with a pen. — Tori Amos

If the love is true, then treat it the same way you would plant - feed it, protect it from the elements - you must do absolutely everything you can. But if it isn't true, then it's best to just let it wither on the vine. — Hiromi Kawakami

I felt a sudden rush of warmth in my body, and felt the tears well up once again. But I didn't cry. It's always better to drink than to cry. — Hiromi Kawakami

Forcing myself to make conversation felt like standing on a cliff, peering over the edge, about to tumble down headfirst. — Hiromi Kawakami

When a poet mentions the spring, we know that the zephyrs are about to whisper, that the groves are to recover their verdure, the linnets to warble forth their notes of love, and the flocks and herds to frisk over vales painted with flowers: yet, who is there so insensible of the beauties of nature, so little delighted with the renovation of the world, as not to feel his heart bound at the mention of the spring? — Samuel Johnson

being in love makes people uncertain. — Hiromi Kawakami

And most people have a woman in their heart, most men have a woman in their heart and most women have a man in their heart. — Leonard Cohen

I seem to be a brief light that flashes but once in all the aeons of time a rare, complicated, and all-too-delicate organism on the fringe of biological evolution , where the wave of life bursts into individual, sparkling, and multicolored drops that gleam for a moment ... only to vanish forever. — Alan Watts

Stop," I said. "Please do not further endorken yourself to me. You have great hair and a car that is most fly, and you have just saved me with your mad ninja driving skills, so do not sully your heroic hottie image in my mind by further reciting your nerdy scholastic agenda. Don't tell me what you're studying, Steve, tell me what's in your soul. What haunts you?"
And he was like, "Dude, you need to cut back on the caffeine. — Christopher Moore

A person can learn all manner of things, no matter where he finds himself, provided his spirit is determined. — Hiromi Kawakami

It was exciting at first... Then it became routine. I guess everything does, even if it's dangerous. — Peter Mayle

The form a city assumes as it evolves over time owes more to large-scale works of civil engineering - what we now call infrastructure - than almost any other factor save topography. — Martin Filler

The most money we have ever been able to get appropriated for the juvenile justice bills was $55 million a year, about one-tenth of what was necessary. — Bobby Scott

He'll rock your world then toss you aside like you're yesterday's trash." Chico Rivera — Bella Jeanisse

We will journey in hope, and trust the Swift Sure Hand to guide us.'
'A little guidance would not go amiss right now,' I confessed, gazing out at the trackless waste of hills and empty sky.
'Llew,' he said, 'we have ever been led. — Stephen R. Lawhead

Physical intimacy is essential. No matter how old are you, it's extremely important. — Hiromi Kawakami