Jireh

“I love that word. Forever. I love that forever doesn't exist, but we have a word for it anyway, and use it all the time. It's beautiful and doomed.”
― Viv Albertine, Clothes, Clothes, Clothes. Music, Music, Music. Boys, Boys, Boys

“Whenever he contemplated these things, Nobuo felt that life was an empty, melancholy thing.
'If meeting means parting, surely it would be better not to meet anyone in the first place,' he told himself, and felt a bitter desolation at the bottom of his heart.
That's right. It's just as your teacher said, 'Living, we die' means simply that people who are alive die. As for why they die, no matter how hard people think about it, nobody knows the answer. All I know is that some day I'll die, and some day you'll die too.'
'Is that so?' Nobuo wondered. 'Can it be true that no one knows why people die?'
'Aren't you afraid of dying?' he asked his cousin.
'It's a frightening thought. Even if I knew I was going to die, I'd want to live just a moment longer, but I suppose there's no getting away from it.”
― Ayako Miura, Shiokari Pass