Japanese-literature Quotes

People have separated from each other with walls of concrete that blocked the roads to connection an...

I felt as though I owned the whole world. And little wonder, because at no time are we ever in such ...

A feeling of liberation should contain a bracing feeling of negation, in which liberation itself is ...

Might it have been nothing but life itself? Life; this limitless complex sea, filled with assorted f...

…In the very simplicity of her desire to punish herself appeared egoism in its purest form. Never be...

…Her desire was close to that of the person who drowns himself; he does not necessarily covet death ...

I really should have died then, Tsukuru often told himself. Then this world, the one in the here and...

Even at a time like this, the street is bright enough and filled with people coming and going—people...

People die all the time. Life is a lot more fragile than we think. So you should treat others in a w...

I was afraid to go into a restaurant because I was intimidated by the waiters furtively hovering beh...

Unhappiness. There are all kinds of unhappy people in the world. I suppose it would be no exaggerati...

Why can’t people get along without criticizing one another?” Urashima shakes his head as he ponders ...