5 Beautiful Quotes on Life by Japanese Writers

First Published | Jun 28, 2024, 1:04 PM IST

Read these thought-provoking and inspiring quotes on life and its complexities penned by these iconic Japanese writers.

Haruki Murakami


“As time goes on, you’ll understand. What lasts, lasts; what doesn’t, doesn’t. Time solves most things. And what time can’t solve, you have to solve yourself.” 

Kazuo Ishiguro


“Many of our deepest motives come, not from an adult logic of how things work in the world, but out of something that is frozen in childhood.”
 

Yasunari Kawabata


“Time flows in the same way for all human beings; every human being flows through time in a different way.”

Banana Yoshimoto (Born July 24, 1964)


“Was that what it means to be an adult, to live with ugly ambiguities?”
 

Natsuo Kirino


“It wasn’t so much that I was afraid of the place itself, but  I was afraid of the creatures who masqueraded as people.”

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