Afreen

“It's the future you'll never get to see that you really regret mission most of all when you die. I realize its strange to use the word "regret" about things that haven't happened yet, but I couldn't stop myself from thinking, if only I could live longer, I could do this or that. It's a weird train of thought, because the list of things that I wanted to do was made up of things that didn't really matter in the end.”
― Genki Kawamura, If Cats Disappeared from the World

“If you’re trying to separate out the scores of “meaningless things” in the world from everything else, you’ll eventually have to make a judgment about human beings, about our existence. In my case, I think that it’s all the movies that I’ve enjoyed and the memories I have of enjoying them over the years that give my life some meaning. They’ve made me who I am.”
― Genki Kawamura, If Cats Disappeared from the World

“To live means: to cry and shout, to love, to do silly things, to feel sadness and joy, to even experience horrible, frightening things... and to laugh.”
― Genki Kawamura, If Cats Disappeared from the World

“From now on, little by little, you must prepare yourself to face death. If you devote all of your future energy to living, you will not be able to die well. You must begin to shift gears, a little at a time. Living and dying are, in a sense, of equal value.”
― Haruki Murakami, After the Quake