Kazuo Ishiguro Quotes

I'm not sure exactly what Victor told Dr. Goldman, but I don't think he fully knew what was going on... I think he was really oblivious. I don't think he knew.

People are just dumb. They misunderstand.

When he to whom one speaks does not understand, and he who speaks himself does not understand, that is metaphysics.

Most of the arguments to which I am party fall somewhat short of being impressive, owing to the fact that neither I nor my opponent knows what we are talking about.

Obscurity is the realm of error.

If you understand everything, you must be misinformed.

But why, why, why can't people just say what they mean?

I feel like people didn't understand where I was about to go. And a lot of people still don't.

He swallowed a lot of wisdom, but all of it seems to have gone down the wrong way.

I could add her to the long list of people I didn't understand.

Half-knowledge is worse than ignorance.

So this was how secrets got started, I thought to myself. People constructed them little by little.

...a truth you don't understand is more dangerous than a lie.

I like that confusion when people are speaking in the same language but still can't understand each other. It's also usually my experience of being in America - when I speak no one can understand what I'm saying.

Things are really weird around here, and most of us don't know everything. Half of everything.

It was not death she feared. It was misunderstanding.

A lack of communication leaves fear and doubt.

There's the bullshit you know that you know; the bullshit you don't know and know you don't know; and the bullshit you just think you know but really don't.

He must be able to mystify his officers and men by false reports and appearances, and thus keep them in total ignorance.

There is as much deception in noise as there is in silence

People will tell you most of the story… and I’ve learned that the part they neglect to tell you is often the most important part. People hide the truth because they’re afraid.

His ignorance seemed to widen with everything he read.

The plan is not what you think.

As the past has ceased to throw its light upon the future, the mind of man wanders in obscurity.

Each of us assumes everyone else knows what HE is doing. They all assume we know what WE are doing. We don't...Nothing is going on and nobody knows what it is. Nobody is concealing anything except the fact that he does not understand anything anymore and wishes he could go home.