Joseph > Joseph's Quotes

“A short story must have a single mood and every sentence must build towards it.”
― Edgar Allan Poe

“Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.”
― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own

“Humanity as such, we might say, is a large collective drifting into the future with survival as its shared interest. This law differs from the “laws“ that we have written down, and that have such an inorganic connotation. This law exists hardly to reign in outpourings of human instinct, but rather, is aligned with the incohate impulses toward life esconced in our hearts; it is an unspoken agreement among human beings where there are more than one. In short, this naked law, fundamental to survival,was altered and institutionalized over many thousands of years of history before our laws came to be.”
― Koji Suzuki

“Right. Mutation is the trigger that moves evolution forward. So, how do mutations happen?”
― Koji Suzuki, Spiral

“Asakawa himself didn't much care if the company made money or lost it. All that mattered to him was whether or not the work was engaging. No matter how easy a job was physically, if it didn't involve imagination, it usually ended up exhausting you.”
― Koji Suzuki, Ring

“Reality and the virtual space reflect each other. They correspond to each other.”
― Koji Suzuki, Birthday

“People can endure almost anything but there's one thing they can't survive. Man is an animal that can't stand boredom”
― Koji Suzuki, Spiral

“My life's been defined by my actions. I've shaped my destiny through my battles. I would rather keep chasing after my dreams until I crumble into dust than sit around waiting for fate to show me mercy.”
― Koji Suzuki, Paradise

“Think! There's nothing certain in our future! All we can hope for is a vague continuation. But in spite of that, you're going to keep on living. You can't give up on life just because it's vague. It's a question of possibilities...”
― Koji Suzuki, Ring

“There was no more meaningless phrase in all of language than "Cheer up!" The only way to get someone to cheer up was to help them forget, and saying "cheer up" had quite the opposite effect, only reminding the person why he or she was depressed in the first place.”
― Koji Suzuki, Spiral

“That old woman taught me my catechism!" said the young man; and there was a world of meaning in this simple comment.”
― Nathaniel Hawthorne, Young Goodman Brown

“borders
are man-made
they only divide us physically
don't let them make us
turn on each other

- we are not enemies”
― Rupi Kaur, The Sun and Her Flowers