451 Quotes by Kazuo Ishiguro

Revolution? Really, Ono! The communists want a revolution. We want nothing of the sort. Quite the opposite, in fact. We wish for a restoration.

Because maybe, in a way, we didn't leave it behind nearly as much as we might once have thought. Because somewhere underneath, a part of us stayed like that: fearful of the world around us, and no matter how much we despised ourselves for it--unable quite to let each other go.

Then he took the sword in both hands and raised it—and Gawain’s posture took on an unmistakable grandeur.

The truth is, Japan is headed for crisis. We are in the hands of greedy businessmen and weak politicians. Such people will see to it poverty grows every day.

You don't see how it is for some parents. Not only must they lose their children, they must lose them to things they don't understand.

Maybe all of us at Hailsam had little secrets like that -- little private nooks created out of thin air where we could go off alone without fears and longing.

We may now understand better, too, why my father was so fond of the story of the butler who failed to panic on discovering a tiger under the dining table; it was because he knew instinctively that somewhere in this story lay the kernel of what true ‘dignity’ is.

Are you still there, Axl?”“Still here, princess.

After all, if a community could reach some sort of an equilibrium without having to be guided by an outsider, then so much the better.