Authors:
  1. Quotes
  2. Authors
  3. B
  4. Banana Yoshimoto
  5. Heart

Banana Yoshimoto Quotes about Heart

All Banana Yoshimoto Quotes Children Feelings Giving Heart quotes Memories Water
The sky was incredibly far away, and beautiful enough to make a person wonder why our hearts are never so free.

The sky was incredibly far away, and beautiful enough to make a person wonder why our hearts are never so free.

Banana Yoshimoto
Beautiful, Heart, Sky
Banana Yoshimoto (2011). “The Lake”, p.81, Melville House

Truly great people emit a light that warms the hearts of those around them. When that light has been put out, a heavy shadow of despair descends.

Banana Yoshimoto
Heart, Light, People
Banana Yoshimoto, Megan Backus (1979). “Three Plays”, p.55, Grove Press

On nights like this when the air is so clear, you end up saying things you ordinarily wouldn’t. Without even noticing what you’re doing, you open up your heart and just start talking to the person next to you—you talk as if you have no audience but the glittering stars, far overhead.

Banana Yoshimoto
Stars, Heart, Night

Each one of us continues to carry the heart of each self we've ever been, at every stage along the way, and a chaos of everything good and rotten. And we have to carry this weight all alone, through each day that we live. We try to be as nice as we can to the people we love, but we alone support the weight of ourselves.

Banana Yoshimoto
Nice, Heart, Self
Banana Yoshimoto, Michael Emmerich (2002). “Goodbye Tsugumi”, p.39, Grove Press

It didn't matter whether he was nearby or far away. His image would drift up into your mind just when you least expected it, shocking you, making your chest pound. Making your heart ache.

Banana Yoshimoto
Heart, Mind, Matter
Banana Yoshimoto, Michael Emmerich (2001). “Asleep”, p.39, Grove Press

From the bottom of my heart, I wanted to give up; I wanted to give up on living. There was no denying that tomorrow would come, and the day after tomorrow, and so next week, too. I never thought it would be this hard, but I would go on living in the midst of a glomy depression, and that made me feel sick to the depths of my soul. In spite of the tempest raging within me, I walked the night path calmly.

Banana Yoshimoto
Giving Up, Heart, Night
Banana Yoshimoto, Megan Backus (1979). “Three Plays”, p.48, Grove Press

Inching one's way along a steep cliff in the dark: on reaching the highway, one breathes a sigh of relief. Just when one can't take any more, one sees the moonlight. Beauty that seems to infuse itself into the heart: I know about that

Banana Yoshimoto
Heart, Dark, Sigh Of Relief
Banana Yoshimoto, Megan Backus (1979). “Three Plays”, p.60, Grove Press

I held the feeling in my heart; the urge to discuss it died out. There was all the time in the world. In the endless repetition of other nights, other mornings, this moment, too, might become a dream.

Banana Yoshimoto
Dream, Morning, Heart
Banana Yoshimoto, Megan Backus (1979). “Three Plays”, p.41, Grove Press

There are many days when all the awful things that happen make you sick at heart, when the path before you is so steep you can’t bear to look. Not even love can rescue a person from that. Still, enveloped in the twilight coming from the west, there she was, watering the plants with her slender, graceful hands, in the midst of a light so sweet it seemed to form a rainbow in the transparent water she poured.

Banana Yoshimoto
Sweet, Twilight, Heart
Banana Yoshimoto, Megan Backus (1979). “Three Plays”, p.42, Grove Press

You May Also Like: