Kyoichi Katayama Quotes

A life lived alone simply feels long and boring. But a life shared with someone you love reaches the place of parting in no time at all.

It's not the parting or the absence that's sad. You love them, and that's why saying good-bye breaks your heart.

A world without you is unknown to me. I don't even know if it exists.

He seemed to be absorbed by what he'd just said. Then he turned to me and asked, "What do you think beauty really is?"

"Pass," I said curtly.

"There are things that come true in life, and things that don't," he said. "The things that actually happen, people forget about them right away. But the things that never come true stay in our hearts forever. Dreams and… longings. I think it's our feelings for these that sustain the beauty of life. All the things that didn't happen ~have~ come true, as beauty.

In spite of all the progress we seem to have made, human emotions stay the same. Deep inside our hearts, we don't change very much. This poem was written two thousand years ago or more. It's from a time long before the quatrains and other formal styles you've learned in school were established. And yet, even today, we can understand the feelings of people from that time. You don't need education or scholarship for that. These feelings can be understood by anybody, I think.

It's really easy for us to miss each other in this big, big world... People I've met after a long time of looking; my important people.

I wished the dream were real, and this reality a dream. But that wasn't the case. And that was why, whenever I woke up, I'd be crying. It wasn't because I was sad. When you return from a happy dream to sad reality, there's a chasm you have to step across, and you can't cross it without shedding tears. It doesn't matter how many times you do it.

When you think you have no future, it's strange how pure you can become; but when you find yourself alive, you star to have desires again.