Kokoro Soseki Quotes & Sayings

It is the calm and silent waters that drown you. — Edwidge Danticat

Works that have a certain imperfection to them have an appeal for that very reason - or at least they appeal to certain types of people. Just like you're attracted to Soseki's The Miner. There's something in it that draws you in, more than more fully realized novels like Kokoro or Sanshiro. You discover something about that work that tugs at your heart - or maybe we should say the work discovers you. Schubert's Sonata in D Major is sort of the same thing. — Haruki Murakami

We who are born into this age of freedom and independence and the self must undergo this loneliness. It is the price we pay for these times of ours. — Soseki Natsume

If you had come to me a hundred years ago, do you think I should have dreamed of the telephone? Why, even now I cannot understand it! I use it every day, I transact half my correspondence by means of it, but I don't understand it. Think of that little stretched disk of iron at the end of a wire repeating in your ear not only sounds, but words - not only words, but all the most delicate and elusive inflections and nuances of tone which separate one human voice from another! — William Crookes

Anything vertical will eventually be horizontal. — George Sorbane

Ideas rose in clouds; I felt them collide until pairs interlocked, so to speak, making a stable combination. — Henri Poincare

I don't vote party lines. Never have. I vote for the best candidate. — Curt Schilling

Send the witch my love. — Becca Fitzpatrick

Raymond Carver is good. I think he'll be appreciated more and more. He's an easy writer to imitate. — Leslie Fiedler

I live in the present because the future is always chancy. When it comes to being with you, I'm willing to take the risk. — Cinda Williams Chima

Do not be in a hurry to succeed. What would you have to live for afterwards? Better make the horizon your goal; it will always be ahead of you. — William Makepeace Thackeray

In things which we know, everyone will trust us ... and we may do as we please, and no one will like to interfere with us; and we are free, and masters of others; and these things will be really ours, for we shall turn them to our good. — Plato