Kazuo Ishiguro Quotes

Breakups are still uncomfortable, period, and especially when you really are in love with somebody. They are not the easiest things to deal with, and once you break up, you're trying to get used to not being with that person.

Our love is strong. Why carry on without me?

Never love a wild thing, Mr. Bell,’ Holly advised him. ‘That was Doc’s mistake. He was always lugging home wild things. A hawk with a hurt wing. One time it was a full-grown bobcat with a broken leg. But you can’t give your heart to a wild thing; the more you do, the stronger they get. Until they’re strong enough to run into the woods. Or fly into a tree. Then a taller tree. Then the sky. That’s how you’ll end up Mr. Bell. If you let yourself love a wild thing. You’ll end up looking at the sky.

If you stay, I'll do whatever you want. I'll quit the band, go with you to New York. But if you need me to go away, I'll do that, too. I was talking to Liz and she said maybe coming back to your old life would be too painful, that maybe it'd be easier for you to erase us. And that would suck, but I'd do it. I can lose you like that if I don't lose you today. I'll let you go. If you stay.

I went through my first big breakup, with a boyfriend who I had been with for more than two years. He had been one of my dancers, and it was my first love and his.

Any time you end a relationship, and everyone has ended plenty in their life, it's always a tough thing and hard to get over.

Falling out of love is like losing weight. It's a lot easier putting it on than taking it off.

What of soul was left, I wonder, when the kissing had to stop?

Have you ever loved somebody, loved her completely, but had to end the relationship for life reasons?

My first heartbreak was extreme. I went to Australia for 10 months when I was at school and told the girl I was madly in love with not to come out to see me - and of course, when I came back, she met me at the airport to tell me she'd met someone else.

Relationships are temporary, and everyone needs to understand that.

It's difficult talking about someone you love when you've split up with them, because it's painful to rake up all those old emotions again.

I don't think breakups are ever easy for anybody. If they are, they aren't much of a breakup.

Not following her is the hardest thing I've ever done.

Don't go," she whispered, her eyes closed. It was all happening too fast. She couldn't give Daniel up. Not yet. She didn't think she ever could.

Then she kissed me and I realized she probably was right, there must be fifty ways to leave your lover.

There is no use in loving things if you have to be torn from them, is there? And it's so hard to keep from loving things, isn't it?

For the first time I was learning how much easier it was to leave than to stay behind and love.

Sometimes love means letting go when you want to hold on tighter.

Alice: It's the only way to leave. "I don't love you anymore. Goodbye." Dan: Supposing you do still love them? Alice: You don't leave.

Pain, loss and separation are inevitable on the path of love, and the only way of avoiding them is by deciding not to take that path at all. In order not to suffer, you have to renounce love.It was like putting out your own eyes in order not to see the bad things in life.

I hate you for all the years I 'll have to live without you. How can a heart hurt this much and still go on beating? How can I feel this bad without dying from it? I 've bruised my knees with praying to have you back. None of my prayers have been answered. I tried to send them up to heaven but they 're trapped here on earth, like bobwhites beneath the snow. I try to sleep and it's like I 'm suffocating. Where have you gone? Once you said that if I wasn't with you, it wouldn't be heaven. I can't let go of you. Come back and haunt me. Come back.

I crossed a thousand leagues to come to you, and lost the best part of me along the way. Don't tell me to leave.

No one teaches you how to walk away from someone who you know loves you. NO one teaches you how to say good-bye.

That's the one thing you wake up with every day: How long have I got left? And that's the saddest thing in the world, because you have this absolute realization that everything you love you're going to have to let go of and give up. I look at my daughter and I think, There's going to be a point where I'm not going to be around for her. Even the thought of that breaks my heart.