The best Quotes from The Buried Giant

The best Quotes from The Buried Giant

The Buried Giant is a fantasy novel by the Nobel Prize-winning British writer Kazuo Ishiguro, published in March 2015.

But then again I wonder if what we feel in our hearts today isn't like these raindrops still falling on us from the soaked leaves above, even though the sky itself long stopped raining. I'm wondering if without our memories, there's nothing for it but for our love to fade and die.

Kazuo Ishiguro

When it was too late for rescue, it was still early enough for revenge.

Kazuo Ishiguro

How is it possible to hate so deeply for deeds not yet done?

Kazuo Ishiguro

A couple may claim to be bonded by love, but we boatmen may see instead resentment, anger, even hatred. Or a great barrenness. Sometimes a fear of loneliness and nothing more.

Kazuo Ishiguro

What use is a god with boundless mercy, sir? You mock me as a pagan, yet the gods of my ancestors pronounce clearly their ways and punish severely when we break their laws. Your Christian god of mercy gives men licence to pursue their greed, their lust for land and blood, knowing a few prayers and a little penance will bring forgiveness and blessing.

Kazuo Ishiguro

The danger isn't the river's speed, friend, but its slowness.

Kazuo Ishiguro

The giant, once well buried, now stirs. When soon he rises, as surely he will, the friendly bonds between us will prove as knots young girls make with the stems of small flowers.

Kazuo Ishiguro

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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.

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

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Life Satisfaction

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 in 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.

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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 in Never Let Me Go

I want my words to survive translation.

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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 in Never Let Me Go

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

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You say you're sure? Sure that you're in love? How can you know it? You think love is so simple?

Kazuo Ishiguro in Never Let Me Go

The evening's the best part of the day. You've done your day's work. Now you can put your feet up and enjoy it.

Kazuo Ishiguro in The Remains of the Day

Evening After Work

If you are under the impression you have already perfected yourself, you will never rise to the heights you are no doubt capable of.

Kazuo Ishiguro in The Remains of the Day

The problem, as I see it, is that you've been told and not told. You've been told, but none of you really understand, and I dare say, some people are quite happy to leave it that way.

Kazuo Ishiguro in Never Let Me Go

As a writer, I'm more interested in what people tell themselves happened rather than what actually happened.

Kazuo Ishiguro

After all, what can we ever gain in forever looking back and blaming ourselves if our lives have not turned out quite as we might have wished?

Kazuo Ishiguro in The Remains of the Day

Indeed - why should I not admit it? - in that moment, my heart was breaking.

Kazuo Ishiguro in The Remains of the Day

Justice comes from vengeance but justice only breeds more vengeance.

Pain / Nagato in Naruto

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Revenge Justice

That's the best revenge of all: happiness. Nothing drives people crazier than seeing someone have a good f*cking life.

Chuck Palahniuk

14

Happiness Revenge

Christians who pray are like pillars that carry the world.

Martin Luther

1

Christianity Praying Day of Repentance and Prayer

You don't need to go to church to be a Christian. If you go to Taco Bell, that doesn't make you a taco.

Justin Bieber

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Christianity Church

Tyler… you drown not by falling into the river, but by staying submerged in it.

Rivers do not drink their own water. Trees do not eat their own fruit. And clouds do not swallow their own rain. What great ones have is always for the benefit of others.

Rikki in Days Gone

Trees Clouds Rivers

The FBI is now the prime functionary of the Deep State. The politicized leadership at the very top has turned it into a tool of surveillance and suppression of American citizens.

Kash Patel in Government Gangsters

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