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Quotes About Life

If some priest or other comes to take my confession and give me sacrament, tell him to clear out, quick, and leave me his curse instead! I´ve done heaps and heaps of things in my life, but I still did not do enough. Men like me ought to live a thousand years.
~ Kazantsakis Nikos
We all complete. Maybe none of us really understand what we've lived through, or feel we've had enough time.
~ Kazuo Ishiguro
Your life must now run the course that's been set for it.
~ Kazuo Ishiguro
He chose a certain path in life, it proved to be a misguided one, but there, he chose it, he can say that at least. As for myself, I cannot even claim that. You see, I trusted. I trusted in his lorship's wisdom. All those years I served him, I trusted I was doing something worthwhile. I can't even say I made my own mistakes. Really - one has to ask oneself - what dignity is there in that?
~ Kazuo Ishiguro
The rest of my life stretches out as an emptiness before me.
~ Kazuo Ishiguro
She might be a great person, but life's so much bigger than just loving someone.
~ Kazuo Ishiguro
It's hard to appreciate the beauty of a world when one doubts its very validity….But I've long since lost all such doubts, Ono,' he continued. 'When I am an old man, when I look back over my life and see I have devoted it to the task of capturing the unique beauty of that world, I believe I will be well satisfied. And no man will make me believe I've wasted my time.
~ Kazuo Ishiguro
If one has failed only where others have not had the courage or will to try, there is a consolation – indeed, a deep satisfaction – to be gained from this observation when looking back over one's life.
~ Kazuo Ishiguro
It doesn't matter how old someone is, it's what they've experienced that counts. People can get to be a hundred and not experience a thing.
~ Kazuo Ishiguro
It might be just some trend that came and went, I said. But for us, it's our life.
~ Kazuo Ishiguro
One thing I have witnessed is that public life can change people unrecognizably in a few short years.
~ Kazuo Ishiguro
For however one may come in later years to reassess one's achievements, it is always a consolation to know that one's life has contained a moment or two or real satisfaction
~ Kazuo Ishiguro
None of you will go to America, none of you will be film stars. And none of you will be working in supermarkets as I heard some of you planning the other day. Your lives are set out for you. You'll become adults, then before you're old, before you're even middle-aged, you'll start to donate your vital organs.
~ Kazuo Ishiguro
All right, so neither of us are exactly in our first flush of youth, but you've got to keep looking forward.' And I believe it was then that he said: 'You've got to enjoy yourself. The evening's the best part of the day. You've done your day's work. Now you can put your feet up and enjoy it. That's how I look at it. Ask anybody, they'll all tell you. The evening's the best part of the day.
~ Kazuo Ishiguro
Then Tommy said: "So there's definitely nothing. No deferral, nothing like that." "Tommy," I murmured, and glared at him. But Miss Emily said gently: "No, Tommy. There's nothing like that. Your life must now run the course that's been set for it.
~ Kazuo Ishiguro
It might be just some trend that came and went," I said. "But for us, it's our life.
~ Kazuo Ishiguro
then before you're old, before you're even middle-aged, you'll start to donate your vital organs. That's what each of you was created to do.
~ Kazuo Ishiguro
I wish him the very best. All I'm saying is that there are all kinds of ways to lead a successful life.
~ Kazuo Ishiguro
It's a great privilege, after all, to have been given a part to play, however small, on the world's stage.
~ Kazuo Ishiguro
Cabia a cada um de nós fazer o máximo da própria vida.
~ Kazuo Ishiguro
Belki de hiçbirimiz yaÅŸad?klar?m?z? tam olarak anlam?yor ve yeterli zaman?m?z kal?p kalmad???n? hissedemiyoruz.
~ Kazuo Ishiguro
Your lives are set out for you. You'll become adults, then before you're old, before you're even middle-aged, you'll start to donate your vital organs. That's what each of you was created to do.
~ Kazuo Ishiguro
It might be just some trend that came and went,' I said. 'But for us, it's our life.
~ Kazuo Ishiguro
if some of us are prepared to sacrifice much in life in order to pursue such aspirations, surely that is in itself, whatever the outcome, cause for pride and contentment.
~ Kazuo Ishiguro