Home / Quotes / Quote by Mieko Kawakami

Quote by Mieko Kawakami

“Now that the light was gone, I closed my eyes softly, knowing it would only be a short time until the light came back in the morning.”

Quote by Mieko Kawakami

Book:All the Lovers in the Night

Work

All the Lovers in the Night

Browse quotes and source details for this work. more

Author

Browse famous quotes and profile details for Mieko Kawakami. more

You May Also Like

“The wind at the window celebrated her dark sensation of having attained a new depth of solitude.”

Book:The Sheltering Sky

Source: The Sheltering Sky

“Il y a ces moments vains où l'on reste des heures en manteau sur le canapé, parce qu'on ne trouve pas la force de descendre acheter du pain. Ces heures massacrées devant la télévision, juste pour que ce fond sonore nous gave l'esprit. Ces moments où il faut se bourrer la tête de sons et d'images pour ne surtout pas être tenté de penser à quoi que ce soit, parce que les seules idées qui viennent sont suicidaires.”

Solitude Fatigue Souffrance Maladie

Book:Hors de moi

Source: Hors de moi

“Les laisser croire que la vie qu'on mène est facile et douce. Elle l'est d'ailleurs, à certains moments. Ceux-là seuls que l'on raconte.”

Solitude Fatigue Souffrance Maladie

Book:Hors de moi

Source: Hors de moi

“Forfeiting solitude, independence, is a much greater sacrifice than most of us realize. Sharing a habitat, a life, is for sure harder than being alone. In fact, coupled living seems virtually impossible, doesn't it? To find another person to spend all your life with? To age and change with? To see every day, to respond to their moods and needs?”

Author:Ian Reid

“But the enthusiast of separations, seeking paths unhaunted by the hordes, withdraws to the extreme margin and follows the rim of the circle, which (s)he cannot cross so long as (s)he is subject to the body.”

Solitude Journey Of The Mind

Book:A short history of decay

Source: A short history of decay

“The hermit’s strength is measured not by how far away he has gone to live, but by the scant distance he requires to detach himself from the city, without ever losing sight of it.”

Solitude Saint Hermit

Book:The Castle Of Crossed Destinies

Source: The Castle Of Crossed Destinies

“People are the reasons I stay indoors.”

Society Solitude Introvert Social Issues Recluse Antisocial

Author:Niedria Dionne Kenny

“I wanted to be alone, to live unwitnessed and without having to think about anyone else.”

Book:My Friends

Source: My Friends

“Solitude is a thing that creeps in under the cover of night. One does not pay enough attention as time strips away people and things. Some part believes that it will all restore itself one day, only a matter of time.”

Regret Solitude

Book:The Doom of Balar

Source: The Doom of Balar

“Suddenly I am a child again and nobody wants to go near me, nobody can cope with how badly I want to be held, or touched, or listened to, and there is nothing I can ever do about it.”

Solitude Loneliess

Book:The Water Cure

Source: The Water Cure