Three Days of Happiness Quotes

“I believe those three days,

compared to the tragic thirty years I would have lived,

compared to the worthwhile thirty days I would have lived,

were of much, much more value.”
― Sugaru Miaki, 三日間の幸福

“If I just wouldn't be happy, or just wouldn't make anyone happy, or just wouldn't achieve any dreams, or just wouldn't contribute to society - if I would just be worthless in one of their categories, I'd be fine with that.

But if I wouldn't be happy and wouldn't make anyone happy and wouldn't achieve any dreams and wouldn't contribute to society... I didn't know where I could look to for salvation.”
― Sugaru Miaki, 三日間の幸福

“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

“Dan kupikir, hidup yang pendek tapi berharga mungkin akan lebih baik daripada hidup yang panjang tapi kurang berharga”
― Sugaru Miaki, Three Days of Happiness

“Nothing good will happen in my life, and I could see it as a blessing”
― Sugaru Miaki, Three Days of Happiness

“Better an artifice enjoyed than a truth ignored.”
― 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

“Hey, listen. Tell me—you don’t seriously think your own life was worth three hundred thousand yen simply because they told you so, right?”
― Sugaru Miaki, Three Days of Happiness

“Writing it down helps me organize it. I’m taking all the things in my head and moving them around to locations where they fit better. It’s like a defrag process.”
― Sugaru Miaki, Three Days of Happiness

“without a partner to help you find mental solace, you had to support your entire world by yourself. When that solitary pillar breaks, the agony that results is plenty enough to drive you to destruction.”
― Sugaru Miaki, Three Days of Happiness

“Until very recently, spending money and eating at a fancy restaurant wasn't an option. I'd been living in poverty for years, and I must have lost a lot of imagination in that time, too.”
― Sugaru Miaki, Three Days of Happiness

“If anything, I felt relief, as if a weight had been lifted off my shoulders.
The thing that kept me attached to life was a shallow hope that maybe, just maybe, something good might happen in the future. As baseless as that hope was, it was extraordinarily difficult to give it up. Even the most worthless human can hope for that improbable stroke of luck that wipes out all that misfortune.
That was my salvation, and my trap. In a way, having someone definitively tell me, “Nothing good will happen in the life ahead of you” was kind of liberating.
Now I could die in peace.”
― Sugaru Miaki, Three Days of Happiness

“They are experts in the means of becoming miserable, and no matter how fortunate their circumstances are, they will always find a way out and skillfully evade any kind of happiness. Because this entire mental process is happening subconsciously, they think everything about the world is hell - but the truth is that they are turning wherever they go into their own personal hell instead.”
― Sugaru Miaki, Three Days of Happiness

“Sometimes it’s best not to fight the flow of feelings, but to leap into the abyss of despair headlong and wallow in the muck of your own self-pity. It can be the quickest way to get back on your feet.”
― Sugaru Miaki, Three Days of Happiness

“He was a bit more blessed in his posture and face than most, but his expression deserved special mention. It was a relaxed expression as if to cover a kind of self-confidence. I’d recently begun to understand what it took to create such a look.
In essence, it was an expression that could only be had by those with the confidence from loving someone and being loved.”
― Sugaru Miaki, Three Days of Happiness

“Now that my body was all but certain to die before I turned twenty-one, it was much more impatient than a body that intended to live to eighty. The weight of each empty second passing was much greater. When I expected to live to eighty, I always had that unconscious arrogance of knowing I had sixty more years in me. Now that sixty years had become just three months, I was plagued by an insistence that I always had to do something.”
― Sugaru Miaki, Three Days of Happiness

“Dai precedenti vent'anni di esperienza, l'istinto mi suggeriva che per riflettere su un problema a cui non si trovava una soluzione valida, la cosa migliore era camminare senza sosta.”
― Sugaru Miaki, Three Days of Happiness

“Ormai non mi è rimasto più nulla da fare. Ho esaurito tutte le cose che avevo scritto nella lista. A cosa potrei dedicarmi da qui in avanti?"
"Dovresti fare quello che ti piace. Avrai qualche hobby, no?"
"Sì, ascoltare musica, leggere libri... Ma a pensarci ora, entrambe le cose erano solo un mezzo per poter continuare a vivere. Li usavo solo per venire a compromessi con una vita altrimenti insostenibile. E ora che non devo più prolungarla a tutti i costi, la musica e i libri non sono più così importanti per me".
"Dovresti apprezzarli in modo diverso, sotto un altro punto di vista. Godere della loro bellezza pura e semplice."
"Però poi alla fine ricado sempre sulla stessa questione. Qualsiasi cosa ascolti o legga, si crea in me un senso di mancata appartenenza, come se io non c'entrassi nulla. A mio parere, sono opere create nella stragrande maggioranza per chi ha ancora una vita davanti. Del resto è naturale, nessuno scriverebbe per chi sta per morire".
[...]
Stavo per morire senza lasciare alcuna traccia.
Una volta sognavo di essere immortale, ma ora non era più necessario coltivare simili speranze. Non mi interessava più che qualcuno si ricordasse di me.
Perchè ora avevo lei accanto, e con lei il suo sorriso.
"Allora, caro Kusunoki..." disse a un certo punto Miyagi con un sorriso strepitoso in volto. "Come vogliamo trascorrere i prossimi tre giorni?"
Avevo la sensazione che quei tre giorni sarebbero stati per me molto più preziosi dei trent'anni di vita miserabile, e anche di quegli ultimi trenta giorni pur significativi, che avrei altrimenti potuto vivere.
Alla fine non ero diventato nè famoso nè ricco. Ma in effetti qualcosa di meraviglioso mi era successo. Ero arrivato a pensare, dal profondo del cuore, che era valsa la pena di vivere.”
― Sugaru Miaki, Three Days of Happiness

“Stavo per morire senza lasciare alcuna traccia. Alla fine non ero riuscito a diventare nè importante nè ricco. Ma qualcosa di meraviglioso mi era successo. Ero arrivato a pensare, dal profondo del cuore, che era valsa la pena di vivere.”
― Sugaru Miaki, Three Days of Happiness

“No matter where you set your eyes, the scenery was flavorless, but at this moment in time, everything about it was beautiful. I had no need to perceive the world in an efficient way anymore, and no need to blame it for my predicament. I had the wherewithal to view everything for exactly what it was.”
― Sugaru Miaki, Three Days of Happiness

“A fool will be cured before his death”
― Sugaru Miaki, Three Days of Happiness

“If people could actually retain their greatest memories of the past in vivid detail, we’d all look more miserable living in the empty present. And if we kept the worst memories of the past in vivid detail, we’d look even more miserable living in the empty present. Everyone just says they remember these things, because it’s better to pretend that you do.”
― Sugaru Miaki, Three Days of Happiness

“I’m just reading them. I don’t get anything out of it . . . I don’t have that part of my brain that’s supposed to keep anything of value from them. I’m just pouring out soup from a huge pot into a little tiny dish. As soon as it hits the dish, it’s spilling over, and the whole point is gone.”
― Sugaru Miaki, Three Days of Happiness

“Kebanyakan orang mungkin akan merindukan keluarga mereka di saat seperti ini. … Meski begitu, keluarga tidak selalu tempat yang nyaman bagi semua orang.”
― Sugaru Miaki, Three Days of Happiness