Kazuo Ishiguro Quotes

There was another life that I might have had, but I am having this one.

Many of our deepest motives come, not from an adult logic of how things work in the world, but out of something that is frozen from childhood.

Don’t you wonder sometimes, what might have happened if you tried?

All children have to be deceived if they are to grow up without trauma.

Love isn't about when you first meet. It's about the many, many years you spend together, when you're trying to keep that flame burning.

Memories, even your most precious ones, fade surprisingly quickly. But I don’t go along with that. The memories I value most, I don’t ever see them fading.

Memory, I realize, can be an unreliable thing; often it is heavily coloured by the circumstances in which one remembers.

I discovered that my imagination came alive when I moved away from the immediate world around me.

There is certainly a satisfaction and dignity to be gained in coming to terms with the mistakes one has made in the course of one’s life

What is pertinent is the calmness of beauty, its sense of restraint. It is as though the land knows of its own beauty, its own greatness, and feels no need to shout it.