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More Quotes by Kazuo Ishiguro
After all, what can we ever gain in forever looking back and blaming ourselves if our lives have not turned out quite as we might have wished?
Indeed — why should I not admit it? — in that moment, my heart was breaking.
You say you’re sure? Sure that you’re in love? How can you know it? You think love is so simple?
The problem, as I see it, is that you've been told and not told. You've been told, but none of you really understand, and I dare say, some people are quite happy to leave it that way.
The evening's the best part of the day. You've done your day's work. Now you can put your feet up and enjoy it.
I half closed my eyes and imagined this was the spot where everything I'd ever lost since my childhood had washed up, and I was now standing here in front of it, and if I waited long enough, a tiny figure would appear on the horizon across the field and gradually get larger until I'd see it was Tommy, and he'd wave, and maybe even call.
What I'm not sure about, is if our lives have been so different from the lives of the people we save. We all complete. Maybe none of us really understand what we've lived through, or feel we've had enough time.
Poor creatures. What did we do to you? With all our schemes and plans?
I can't even say I made my own mistakes. Really - one has to ask oneself - what dignity is there in that?
Sometimes I get so immersed in my own company, if I unexpectedly run into someone I know, it's a bit of a shock and takes me a while to adjust.
