I realized that the world did not exist for my benefit. It followed that the ratio of pleasant and unpleasant things around me would not change. It wasn’t up to me. It was clear that the best thing to do was to adopt a sort of muddled cheerfulness.
BANANA YOSHIMOTOWhy is it we have so little choice? We live like the lowliest worms. Always defeated – defeated we make dinner, we eat, we sleep. Everyone we love is dying. Sill, to cease living is unacceptable.
More Banana Yoshimoto Quotes
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It didn’t matter whether he was nearby or far away. His image would drift up into your mind just when you least expected it, shocking you, making your chest pound. Making your heart ache.
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Everyone lives the way she knows best. What I mean by ‘their happiness’ is living a life untouched as much as possible by the knowledge that we are really, all of us, alone. That’s not a bad thing.
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I saw the sky and sea and sand and the flickering flames of the bonfire through my tears. All at once, it rushed into my head with tremendous speed, and made me feel dizzy. It was beautiful. Everything that happened was shockingly beautiful, enough to make you crazy.
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When things get really bad, you take comfort in the placeness of a place.
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Everything that had happened was shockingly beautiful, enough to make you crazy.
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I really believe that no matter how old people get, they tend to change in certain ways depending on how people treat them – they change their colors.
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It was at once a miracle and the most natural thing in the world.
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This is what it means to be loved… when someone wants to touch you, to be tender.
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No matter what, I want to continue living with the awareness that I will die. Without that, I am not alive.
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Good tea is eloquent enough, it turns out, to change a person’s mind.
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I should have told her at the time. I could have taken a deep breath, looked away, and forced myself to say it.
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The night glittered brilliantly then.
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Why is it that everything I eat when I’m with you is so delicious?’ I laughed. ‘Could it be that you’re satisfying hunger and lust at the same time?
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This world of ours is piled high with farewells and goodbyes of so many different kinds, like the evening sky renewing itself again and again from one instant to the next-and I didn’t want to forget a single one.
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I held the feeling in my heart; the urge to discuss it died out. There was all the time in the world. In the endless repetition of other nights, other mornings, this moment, too, might become a dream.
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