Ten of My Favorite Kazuo Ishiguro Quotes
Quotes, who doesn’t love a good quote? This series of articles we look at Top 10 Famous Quotes by Author Kazuo Ishiguro, author quotes are always a challenge and fun to pick, with Kazuo Ishiguro you will find my Ten favorites of Kazuo Ishiguro’s quotes.
About Kazuo Ishiguro
Kazuo Ishiguro was born in Nagasaki, Japan, in 1954, and moved to Britain when he was five years old. As a result of his eight previous works of fiction, he has been honored with many honors around the world, including the Nobel Prize in Literature and the Booker Prize. His books have been translated into over fifty languages, and both of his films have sold more than 2 million copies. In 2018, he received a knighthood for his contributions to literature. Among his other decorations are the Chevalier of the Order of the Rising Sun, Gold and Silver Star awards from France and the Order of the Rising Sun, Gold Star award from Japan.
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Popular Quotes
“All children have to be deceived if they are to grow up without trauma.”
― Kazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go
“It never occurred to me that our lives, until then so closely interwoven, could unravel and separate over a thing like that. But the fact was, I suppose, there were powerful tides tugging us apart by then, and it only needed something like that to finish the task. If we’d understood that back then-who knows?-maybe we’d have kept a tighter hold of one another.”
― Kazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go
“I half closed my eyes and imagined this was the spot where everything I’d ever lost since my childhood had washed up, and I was now standing here in front of it, and if I waited long enough, a tiny figure would appear on the horizon across the field and gradually get larger until I’d see it was Tommy, and he’d wave, and maybe even call.”
― Kazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go
“It was like when you make a move in chess and just as you take your finger off the piece, you see the mistake you’ve made, and there’s this panic because you don’t know yet the scale of disaster you’ve left yourself open to.”
― Kazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go
“What I’m not sure about, is if our lives have been so different from the lives of the people we save. We all complete. Maybe none of us really understand what we’ve lived through, or feel we’ve had enough time.”
― Kazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go
“You have to accept that sometimes that’s how things happen in this world. People’s opinions, their feelings, they go one way, then the other. It just so happens you grew up at a certain point in this process.”
― Kazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go
“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.”
― Kazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go
“Sometimes I get so immersed in my own company, if I unexpectedly run into someone I know, it’s a bit of a shock and takes me a while to adjust.”
― Kazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go
“We took away your art because we thought it would reveal your souls. Or to put it more finely, we did it to prove you had souls at all.”
― Kazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go
“There was another life that I might have had, but I am having this one.”
― Kazuo Ishiguro
10 Famous Quotes by Author Kazuo Ishiguro
So there you have it my Ten favorite quotes by Kazuo Ishiguro, please comment below and share your favorite quotes by the fantastic author Kazuo Ishiguro. Furthermore, if you find any Authors not covered for there, top 10 quotes let me know and I will review their works and find some of their best quotes as has been done here for Kazuo Ishiguro.
One Final Bonus – Kazuo Ishiguro Quote
“I keep thinking about this river somewhere, with the water moving really fast. And these two people in the water, trying to hold onto each other, holding on as hard as they can, but in the end it’s just too much. The current’s too strong. They’ve got to let go, drift apart. That’s how it is with us. It’s a shame, Kath, because we’ve loved each other all our lives. But in the end, we can’t stay together forever.”
― Kazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go
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