Kazuo Ishiguro Quotes

You can't help but just be aware that things might not always be as good as they are, because people's feelings about others can turn on a dime.

I wonder how it is that people's philosophies have come to spin faster than the changing seasons.

Nothing works until it does. Nobody knows anything. You don't know what people are going to respond to. People are always surprised by stuff.

There is absolutely nothing that can be taken for granted in this world.

What has happened makes the world. Live on the edge, looking.

The world's a scene of changes.

The world is always changing brightness and hotness and soundness, I never know how it's going to be the next minute.

I see the world in very fluid, contradictory, emerging, interconnected terms, and with that kind of circuitry I just don't feel the need to say what is going to happen or will not happen.

Love is an experiment ... what happens next is always surprising.

Knowledge is dangerous and men lie and the world changes, whether I want it to or not.

I did not know then that this is what life is - just when you master the geometry of one world, it slips away, and suddenly again, you're swarmed by strange shapes and impossible angles.

Given the complexity of interpersonal relationships and institutions and the complexity of co-ordination of the actions of many people, it is enormously unlikely that, even if there were one ideal pattern for society, it could be arrived at in an a priori fashion. And even supposing that some great genius did come along with a blueprint, who could have the confidence that it could work

You never know what's going to happen to you when you head out into the big world. And when you get older, you don't know how you're going to be thought of or seen.

You never can expect what people's reactions are going to be. You can only hope that everyone feels the way that you do.

Cling to your insecurity, in this world, it's the only thing you can be sure of.

She didn't like to be talked about. Equally, she didn't like not to be talked about, when the high-minded chatter rushed on as though she was not there. There was no pleasing her, in fact. She had the grace, even at eleven, to know there was no pleasing her. She thought a lot, analytically, about other people's feelings, and had only just begun to realize that this was not usual, and not reciprocated.

It was a strangely disorienting feeling, to have something you'd relied on for so long start to change, like finding out that gravity no longer worked on Mondays.

He is less likely to be mistaken who looks forward to a change in the affairs of the world than he who regards them as firm and stable.

People would pull the rug out from under me. So I learnt how to dance on a moving carpet.

In this world, only winter is certain

World is suddener than we fancy it.

Dealing with the unknown, the unexpected, is a reflection for me musically of what's happening in the world, because people are learning how to dialog with each other without any past strategy or any kind of formula from the past.

Now the 21st century approaches and with it the inevitability of change. We must wonder if the American people will find renewal and rejuvenation within themselves, will discover again their capacity for innovation and adaptation. If not, alas, the nation's future will be shaped by sightless forces of history over which Americans will have no control.

It is merely this world that is chaotic, bringing changes to us all that nobody could have anticipated.