Quotessence
Home / Quotes / Quote by Yōko Ogawa

Quote by Yōko Ogawa

“I think he'll be able to live only in the hidden room. His soul is too dense. If he comes out, he'll dissolve into pieces, like a deep-sea fish pulled to the surface too quickly. I suppose my job is to go on holding him here at the bottom of the sea.”

Quote by Yōko Ogawa

Book:The Memory Police
Create image

Work

The Memory Police

Browse quotes and source details for this work. more

Author

Yōko Ogawa

Browse famous quotes and profile details for Yōko Ogawa. more

You May Also Like

“Anyone who dies by their own hand always has my sympathy. It's easy to sit in judgement on another's struggle from the outside without ever living in their suffocating darkness. If there is an explanation left behind, it usually confirms how relentlessly harsh and unfair they were on themselves. Mourn their release with mercy and gratitude for doing what they were capable of in their short lives.”

DepressionAnxietySuicideMental IllnessSuicidalSelf HarmJudging OthersMental Health StigmaRobin WilliamsTaking Your Own Life
Author:Stewart Stafford
Create image

“Physis (Emerging-Abiding Sway), yes that’s the oink thing’s christian name, the café’s semi-official mascot, philosophical provocateur, and occasionally extradimensional notary, chose this exact moment to poke his head, feathered, contemplative, and faintly iridescent, through the bead curtain that separated the main patio from what the proprietor called the “Reflexology Lounge,” but which was, in truth, just where they stored the broken espresso machine and three cursed stools. Physis tilted his head, blinked once, slowly, as if absorbing not light but context, and let out a warbling honk that echoed like a misremembered thesis defense. He was, as ever, the embodiment of that which emerges and then stubbornly, inexplicably abides. And then, as mysteriously as he had arrived, he withdrew.”

BorgesHeideggerImprovRobin Williams
Book:Schlemiel Gaucho: An Improv Comedy Magick Grimoire
Create image