Kazuo Ishiguro Quotes

Sometimes when you're with somebody, and all their stuff is at your house, it's so hard to break up with them.

I just think that sometimes we hang onto people or relationships long after they've ceased to be of any use to either of you.

I have trouble with letting go. That's my problem.

You only get to keep what you refuse to let go of.

Bitterly I wondered if Hardy was going to overshadow every relationship for the rest of my life, haunting me like a ghost. I didn't know how to let him go. I'd never even had him.

There is nothing in this world that never takes a step outside a person's heart.

I don't like to leave anything,' the man said. 'I don't like to leave things behind.

You'll never be able to let him go. You'll always feel wrong about being with me.

Problem is, you can’t accept that his relationship had a real short shelf life. You’re like a dog at the dump, baby – you’re just lickin’ at the empty tin can, trying to get more nutrition out of it. And if you’re not careful, that can’s gonna get stuck on your snout forever and make your life miserable. So drop it.” “But I love him.” “So love him.” “But I miss him.” “So miss him. Send him some love and light every time you think about him, then drop it.

I've never been very good at leaving things behind. I tried, but I have always left fragments of myself there too, like seeds awaiting their chance to grow.

I take his hand, holding on tightly, preparing for the cameras, and dreading the moment when I will finally have to let go.

Everything I’ve ever let go of has claw marks on it.

Some things are hard to let go of.

I'm not afraid of the world. I'm afraid of a world without you.

I won’t kiss you. It might get to be a habit and I can’t get rid of habits.

We lose many things simply out of our fear of losing them.

It's hard to let go anything we love. We live in a world which teaches us to clutch. But when we clutch we're left with a fistful of ashes.

Indifferent souls never part. Impassioned souls part, and return to one another, because they can do no better.

A man cannot free himself from the past more easily than he can from his own body.

Your fear of letting go prevents you from letting go of your fear of letting go.

Guilt lies in the past, worry lies in the future.

I don’t want to lose you. I’m in love with you Blaire. I’ve never wanted anything or anyone the way I want you. I can’t imagine my world now without you in it.

Our fear that communism might someday take over most of the world blinds us to the fact that anti- communism already has.

It is strange how we hold on to the pieces of the past while we wait for our futures.

So many old and lovely things are stored in the world's attic because we don't want them around us and we don't dare throw them out.