Actually, time had always been passing. I had just managed to avoid thinking about it very much. It would be hard for me to recapture that feeling–life wasn’t so easy anymore. Small things pricked my heart. In those early days, I lived in a world of overwhelming sensations; it was like I had just fallen out of love. Banana Yoshimoto
Habit rules the unreflecting herd.
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William Wordsworth
His sensitive nature was still smarting under the lashes of an undivided and squalid way of life. His soul was still disquieted and cast down by the dull phenomenon of Dublin. He had emerged from a two years' spell of revery to find himself in...
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James Joyce
I know. I was there. I saw the great void in your soul, and you saw mine.
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Sebastian Faulks
Not everyone born free and equal, but everyone made equal. Each man the image of every other; then all are happy, for there are no mountains to make them cower, to judge themselves against. So! A book is a loaded gun in the house next...
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Ray Bradbury
Introspective reflections that might otherwise be liable to stall are helped along by the flow of the landscape...
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Alain De Botton
More Quotes By Banana Yoshimoto
Love is the kind of thing that's already happening by the time you notice it, that's how it works, and no matter how old you get, that doesn't change. Except that you can break it up into two entirely distinct types -- love where there's...
No matter where you are, you're always a bit on your own, always an outsider.
But I have my life, I’m living it. It’s twisted, exhausting, uncertain, and full of guilt, but nonetheless, there’s something there.
Everything that had happened was shockingly beautiful, enough to make you crazy.
When was it I realized that, on this truly dark and solitary path we all walk, the only way we can light is our own? Although I was raised with love, I was always lonely. Someday, without fail, everyone will disappear, scattered into the blackness...
