5 Quotes by kyoichi katayama

I wished the dream were real, and this reality a dream. But that wasn't the case. And that was why, whenever I woke up, I'd be crying. It wasn't because I was sad. When you return from a happy dream to sad reality, there's a chasm you have to step across, and you can't cross it without shedding tears. It doesn't matter how many times you do it.

Khi chào từ biệt giấc mơ hạnh phúc để trở về với hiện thực phũ phàng, ở giữa là một vực thẳm khôn cùng, nếu không trào nước mắt thì chẳng có cách nào vượt qua được.

Sống cô độc đương nhiên cảm thấy cuộc đời là những chuỗi ngày dài và buồn tẻ; nhưng nếu được ở bên người mình yêu thương, thì chỉ thoắt cái người ta đã tới ngã ba đường rồi.

It’s not the parting or the absence that’s sad. You love them, and that’s why saying good-bye breaks your heart.

In spite of all the progress we seem to have made, human emotions stay the same. Deep inside our hearts, we don’t change very much. This poem was written two thousand years ago or more. It’s from a time long before the quatrains and other formal styles you’ve learned in school were established. And yet, even today, we can understand the feelings of people from that time. You don’t need education or scholarship for that. These feelings can be understood by anybody, I think.