Dhian > Dhian's Quotes

“Arguing with anonymous strangers on the Internet is a sucker's game because they almost always turn out to be—or to be indistinguishable from—self-righteous sixteen-year-olds possessing infinite amounts of free time.”
― Neal Stephenson, Cryptonomicon

“I do not remember many things, and for all those things I do not remember, I am grateful, because the things I do remember hurt me enough.”
― Viet Thanh Nguyen, The Displaced: Anthology of refugee writers describing loss, resilience, and unexpected new homes.

“Still, being able to feel pain was good, he thought. It's when you can't even feel pain anymore that you're in real trouble.”
― Haruki Murakami, Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage

“Maybe I am fated to always be alone, Tsukuru found himself thinking. People came to him, but in the end they always left. They came, seeking something, but either they couldn’t find it, or were unhappy with what they found (or else they were disappointed or angry), and then they left. One day, without warning, they vanished, with no explanation, no word of farewell. Like a silent hatchet had sliced the ties between them, ties through which warm blood still flowed, along with a quiet pulse.”
― Haruki Murakami, Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage

“If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.”
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

“Despite your best efforts, people are going to be hurt when it's time for them to be hurt.”
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

“What a terrible thing it is to wound someone you really care for and to do it so unconsciously.”
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

“I may not have been sure about what really did interest me, but I was absolutely sure about what didn't.”
― Albert Camus, The Stranger

“You saved me once, now I'm going to save you.”
― Sing Shong, OMNISCIENT READER'S VIEWPOINT

“I thought he was mature for his age, but a kid was a kid. He didn’t know being mature and being an adult were two separate things.
And this world was full of despicable adults who would take advantage of his “maturity.”
― singNsong, Omniscient Reader's Viewpoint, Vol. 1

“People who adjust to the new world each have different ways of coping with it. Some descend into madness, while others turn to fanaticism. And some cling to irrational optimism.”
― singNsong, Omniscient Reader's Viewpoint, Vol. 1

“We kill something and eat it to live. That is the life of humans. That is how it’s always been. But why did this feel different?”
― singNsong, Omniscient Reader's Viewpoint, Vol. 1

“Having wounded each other, the two of us licked each other's wounds.
Damaged goods both, we sought out each other.
"If you want to die tomorrow, I'm ready for my life to end tomorrow - if you care to live for today, then so will I," I vowed out loud.
Thus begins the tale of the wounded ones.
A tale of blood that splattered red and dried up black.
The tale of our never-to-heal, precious wound.
I will tell it to no one.”
― NisiOisiN, KIZUMONOGATARI: Wound Tale

“It’s not that I was afraid to die, though. I was afraid of not having enough time to live. Ending without knowing what I wanted to know. Dying while having things I didn’t know, that would’ve been unacceptable.”
― NisiOisiN, Zaregoto, Book 1: The Kubikiri Cycle

“After a time, her smile faded, then finally reappeared as she sighed. The pleasure of nostalgia is never without its companion, loneliness.”
― Isuna Hasekura, Spice & Wolf, Vol. 01

“When someone’s lying, what’s important is not the content of the lie, but the reasoning behind it,”
― Isuna Hasekura, Spice and Wolf, Vol. 1

“Happiness is something that you have to choose of your own volition, through your own words and actions, by letting yourself feel joy and excitement, by cherishing the people important to you, and cherishing yourself.”
― Yoru Sumino, また、同じ夢を見ていた

“Life is like a bento box. [...] I can’t fit in everything I like.”
― Yoru Sumino, I Had That Same Dream Again

“Kebahagiaan tidak berjalan mendekat. Karena itu kita yang menghampiri.”
― Yoru Sumino, また、同じ夢を見ていた

“Hanya orang yang bisa berusaha sekuat tenaga untuk apa yang sangat disukainyalah yang akan mampu menghasilkan sesuatu yang mengagumkan.”
― Yoru Sumino, I Had That Same Dream Again

“Bagaimana kau mengubah menjadi happy ending, semua tergantung bagaimana usahamu memperbaiki dan menyempurnakannya.”
― Yoru Sumino, I Had That Same Dream Again

“Most of our distress begins when we imagine how different life should have been. Entrusting your hopes to something as flimsy as your possibilities is the root of all evil.”
― Tomihiko Morimi, The Tatami Galaxy

“When your chance comes, don’t miss it. When it comes, you can’t go idly doing the same things you’ve always done. Be bold, and try seizing your chance by doing sometimes completely different. If you do that, your dissatisfaction will disappear, and you be able to walk down a new path.”
― Tomihiko Morimi, The Tatami Galaxy

“He didn't take any sort of action but boldly specialized in simply living his life. That was either a gentlemanly manner maintained by formidable self-control or the height of idiocy.”
― Tomihiko Morimi, The Tatami Galaxy

“I must shoulder the burden of my current self for the rest of my life, I mustn't avert my eyes from that reality.
I can't look away, but it's just so hard to watch.”
― Tomihiko Morimi, The Tatami Galaxy

“What had kept me bound to life thus for had been the shallow hope that something good might happen someday.”
― Sugaru Miaki, Three Days of Happiness

“Just take each step you’re able to manage, persevere little by little, and build it up that way.”
― Sugaru Miaki, Three Days of Happiness

“The future wasn’t set in stone. Maybe something good would happen. Perhaps I would experience something that made me glad I kept living. The chances weren’t zero. And that meant I couldn’t yet give in to the allure of death.”
― Sugaru Miaki, Three Days of Happiness

“I’m not really sure what it is you’re trying to do, but if you want to achieve anything, the first thing you’ll need is your health,”
― Sugaru Miaki, Three Days of Happiness

“Every single empire in its official discourse has said that it is not like all the others, that its circumstances are special, that it has a mission to enlighten, civilize, bring order and democracy, and that it uses force only as a last resort. And, sadder still, there always is a chorus of willing intellectuals to say calming words about benign or altruistic empires, as if one shouldn't trust the evidence of one's eyes watching the destruction and the misery and death brought by the latest mission civilizatrice.”
― Edward W. Said, Orientalism