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“But I have my life, I’m living it. It’s twisted, exhausting, uncertain, and full of guilt, but nonetheless, there’s something there.” ― Banana Yoshimoto

“We've known for a long time that it was no longer possible to overturn this world, nor reshape it. There's only one possible resistance: to not take it seriously. But I think our jokes have lost their power." ― Milan Kundera

Top 10 Books. A difficult list. 1. Norwegian Wood 2. The Sun Also Rises 3. Unbearable Lightness of Being 4. Kitchen, Banana Yoshimoto 5. Pinball 1973 6. A Wild Sheep Chase 7. Crime & Punishment 8. Cathedral, Raymond Carver 9. Spring Snow, Mishima 10. Black Boy, Richard Wright

“Everything has been figured out, except how to live.” ― Sartre

“I still loved Naoko. Bent and twisted as that love might be, I did love her. Somewhere inside me, there was still preserved a broad, open space, untouched, for Naoko and no one else.”

“Sometimes I feel like a caretaker of a museum -- a huge, empty museum where no one ever comes, and I'm watching over it for no one but myself.”

"But loving someone, and being loved means so much to me. We always make fun of it and stuff. But isn't everything we do in life a way to be loved a little more?" ― Before Sunrise

It’s all so strange. It’s like nothing ever really happened. No, it happened, only it’s gone. Taking it hard? I shook my head. Things that come out of nowhere go back to nowhere, that’s all. The thing we had shared was nothing more than a fragment of time that had died long ago.

"But the glow of their memories was far too weak, and their thoughts no longer had the clarity of fourteen years earlier. Without a word, they passed each other, disappearing into the crowd. Forever."

"We were wonderful traveling companions but in the end no more than lonely lumps of metal in their own separate orbits. From far off they look like beautiful shooting stars, but in reality they're nothing more than prisons, where each of us is locked up alone, going nowhere."

"When the orbits of these two satellites of ours happened to cross paths, we could be together. Maybe even open our hearts to each other. But that was only for the briefest moment. In the next instant we'd be in absolute solitude. Until we burned up and became nothing."

“When spring came, even the false spring, there were no problems except where to be happiest. The only thing that could spoil a day was people... People were always the limiters of happiness, except for the very few that were as good as spring itself.” ― Ernest Hemingway

“In the end, like so many beautiful promises in our lives, that dinner date never came to be.”

“I wasn't in love with her. And she didn't love me. For me the question of love was irrelevant. What I sought was the sense of being tossed about by some raging, savage force, in the midst of which lay something absolutely crucial."

“I don't think you will ever be able to understand what it is like - the utter loneliness, the feeling of desperation - to be abandoned in a deep well in the middle of the desert at the edge of the world, overcome by intense pain in total darkness."

“I was living for one thing only, and that was to confirm my own lack of feeling.”

"In his or her own way, each person I saw before me looked happy. Whether they really were happy or just looked it, I couldn't tell. But they did look happy on this pleasant early afternoon, and because of that I felt a kind of loneliness that was new to me."

“Maybe that’s enlightenment enough: to know that there is no final resting place of the mind; no moment of smug clarity. Perhaps wisdom is realizing how small I am, and unwise, and how far I have yet to go." ― Anthony Bourdain

Some of us are luckier than others. Some are tough and some are weak. Some are rich and some poor. But no one’s superman—in that way, we’re all weak. If we own things, we’re terrified we’ll lose them; if we’ve got nothing we worry it’ll be that way forever. We’re all the same.

“There are some things about myself I can’t explain to anyone. There are some things I don’t understand at all. I can’t tell what I think about things or what I’m after... But if I start thinking about these things in too much detail the whole thing gets scary."