Nana Komatsu Quotes

Getting carried away is stupid, it won't get me anywhere.
-Nana Komatsu ~ Ai Yazawa

Nana acts like a stray cat, wild, free, and proud ... But inside her heart, she houses a wound. Dense as I am, i thought that. This trait of hers was a part of her charm as well..but she never realized how much pain it brought her ... -Nana Komatsu ~ Ai Yazawa

Junko: Why don't you find a guy who's a fan of Trapnest, and go to the concert with him?
Kyousuke:Yeah! Do that, Nana. You'll find yourself a boyfriend, and you'll even be able to see the concert! Then you'll be killing two birds with one stone.
Nana Komatsu: I don't want a boyfriend. I'll never fall in love again.
*SILENCE*
Nana Komatsu, thinking: Plus, I've got Nana <3
Junko and Kyousuke, thinking: What will we do? If you take love away from Nana, there's nothing left! ~ Ai Yazawa

You can't plan your life. Life plans for you. ~ Nana

The conclusion of things is the good. The good is, in other words, the conclusion at which all things arrive. Let's leave doubt for tomorrow," Komatsu said. "That is the point. ~ Haruki Murakami

Marry someone who can grow with you and who can allow you to grow. ~ Nana Awere Damoah

For us who choose our dreams over our love the only thing we can do for love is perhaps to release the lock around our necks. Through that, the pain may vanish. ~ Ai Yazawa

A big nose does not necessarily mean a sharper sense of smell. ~ Nana Awere Damoah

I know it looks vaguely unsanitary and potentially scandalous, Nana, but I promise that Izzy and I are only pursuing noble...pursuits. We've even got a chaperone! Izzy, who was that woman who went into the cave?'
I blanked, not sure how to describe Maya. I settled on, "My...also my Nana. ~ Rachel Hawkins

A handful of patience is worth more than a bushel of brains." Dutch proverb ~ Nana Awere Damoah

The things that stress me out haven't changed.
But I don't wanna lose anything.
So I thought that at least I would change.
I'm lucky ... that I'm afraid of losing something. ~ Ai Yazawa

The dreams we are chasing and the reality that is chasing us are always parallel; they never meet. ~ Ai Yazawa

His biases played a large role here, but for Komatsu bias was an important element of truth. ~ Haruki Murakami

Hey Nana, do you remember the first time we met? I beleive in things like fate.
So I think it was fate. ~ Ai Yazawa

Loss taught me the value of tears. Just as the rains come down to wash away debris and dust, tears unleashed can bring relief. ~ Nana Awere Damoah

Nkrumah declared that we faced neither East nor West but we faced forward. But, see, we can face forward and just look at the horizon. Sometimes, as I think of Ghana, I am tempted to believe that we kept looking East and West and never made up our minds, so we just stood still. ~ Nana Awere Damoah

If relationships were hard, mariage was even harder ... it seemed like most couples struggled. It went with the territory. What did Nana always say? Stick two different people with two different sets of expectations under one roof and it ain't always going to be shrimp and grits on Easter. ~ Nicholas Sparks

And you stole my underwear,' Nana added. 'What did you want with my underwear? ~ Wendy Wunder

She woke to the sound of the sea, the sound of home. A cool breeze floated through the open window, carrying a dandelion seed inside with it. Jinny-Joes as she called them, although Nana Martha insisted they were called fairies in Yorkshire, and if you caught one you had to make a wish. Olivia watched it dance in a shaft of sunlight before it settled onto the pillow beside her. She picked it up and twirled it around between her thumb and finger. Something about its fragility spoke to her of letting go, of being blown on the wind to some unknown place. She closed her eyes and made a wish. ~ Hazel Gaynor

The flow of time cleanses the past and heals the wounds in people's hearts. But there are wounds we cant speak of. ~ Ai Yazawa

I have been so lucky to receive so much love from those who enjoy my music, that I feel I have to give as much of it as I can back to children. ~ Nana Mouskouri

Hope is a good breakfast but a bad dinner, it has been said, but in Ghana, we have deteriorated to the point of having hope as dessert after dinner. We don't plan anything and the future just seems to happen to us, without our input. All we seem to do is to just show up. ~ Nana Awere Damoah

The idea of the European community is never face a war again. ~ Nana Mouskouri

When you want something very dearly, you make the time. ~ Nana Mouskouri

I, who was empty ... I made myself believe that I could only fill it.. by falling in love ... at that time to me.. in this world around you, Nana ... Everything was so shiny that I was blinded. That doesn't mean that anyone would suit me ... I just wanted to be in the same light as you. ~ Ai Yazawa

On a freezing night like this, someone, please warm him up for me- Nana ~ Ai Yazawa

The politicians will reduce effusions with gbeshie-inspired confidence on political platforms if there are no cheering crowds. ~ Nana Awere Damoah

Tell me, Nana,
If for example we had been a love couple,
Would a hug have been enough to wash away my sadness?
Or then; does every single being carry this loneliness, like a burden?
I wans't intending to monopolizing you
I just wanted you to need me. ~ Ai Yazawa

I think sometimes you are born with a song. ~ Nana Mouskouri

We love to quote the saying "Rome was not built in a day" but we fail to remember that Rome was eventually built, and it must have been so magnificent that when people admired it, they were told that it didn't happen in just a day. The question, then, is: if Rome was not built in a day, how was it built? Answer: It was built every day. ~ Nana Awere Damoah

Sometimes isn't it better to have some time and space to ourselves? We will have new perception of things. ~ Ai Yazawa

Luck is personal; we all have our own. Sometimes it's good, sometimes it's bad, but it's yours, and it follows you wherever you go...And luck can change, because as my nana always insisted, luck was a state of mind. ~ Lynne Matson

Nana never remarried, but not for lack of offers. She was resolute: it was one thing to be a young man's darling, she said, but she wasn't going to be an old man's slave. ~ Kate Morton

The more my dream are fulfilled the quicklier they become realities losing their shine. ~ Ai Yazawa

The table was her stage. The mobile phone was the microphone. And the new moon was the spotlight. That kind of magic only Nana could make it happen. ~ Ai Yazawa

Ghana will not be built in a day. But it should be built every day and the body that houses the eyes reading this owns the hands that will ensure this. ~ Nana Awere Damoah

The Berlin Wall go down, that was the most wonderful thing that could happen, absolutely. I celebrated with everybody in Berlin that day when the Wall was down. ~ Nana Mouskouri

How you looked was not important. It was what you did and how you did it. Decide to do it and then do it the best way you can. ~ Nana Mouskouri

Living in the bush teaches you that life is a magnificent cycle of birth and death, and nothing showed me that more powerfully than when Nana gave birth to a beautiful baby boy around the time of Lawrence's passing.

Of course I named him Lolo. ~ Francoise Malby Anthony

When I started to work with UNICEF, it was a new way of giving some love and care to the world. ~ Nana Mouskouri