Edo Quotes

#1. All the rest of the world could only kill or devastate my mind and body. Bones alone held the power to demolish my soul.

Jeaniene Frost

#2. That is a pathetic inquiry among travelers and geographers after the site of ancient Troy. It is not near where they think it is.When a thing is decayed and gone, how indistinct must be the place it occupied!

Henry David Thoreau

#3. I am too far gone to be rehabilitated.

Henry Rollins

#4. In the world of old memories, there's no room for visitors

Nobuhiro Watsuki

#5. Oh, she's still here;
she's just not as pretty ... anymore.

Katlyn Charlesworth

#6. Deem no man happy until he passes the edo fhis life without suffering grief.

Sophocles

#7. I want to see your dreams," he explained. "I want to share them with you, and have you share mine as well. I don't want them hidden in a book. I want them lived together, even - no, especially--when that's hard.

Sybil Shae

#8. Don't be too concerned about the wingnut ears. Anxiety produces the wrong pheromones. Roll with the punches. Make time for life around your deep abiding need to write. Say Yes more, but not always. Say No enough that you have a life.

Nick Earls

#9. Jiro Ono serves Edo-style traditional sushi, the same 20 or 30 pieces he's been making his whole life, and he's still unsatisfied with the quality and every day wakes up and trains to make the best. And that is as close to a religious experience in food as one is likely to get.

Anthony Bourdain

#10. Mothers cry in anguish
and fathers curse in anger,
while others turn away in sadness,
all for the children who are lost.

Katlyn Charlesworth

#11. You'll know if you're a famous composer if 20 years from now your name appears on a pull-down menu in Band in a Box, alongside Hans Zimmer.

Cliff Martinez

#12. Come out, Yamiko,
come out...

Katlyn Charlesworth

#13. Are you telling me that vampires and werewolves are the reason America won the Revolutionary War?," I asked, dumbfounded.

Drew Hayes

#14. It is dark and there are bad creatures in these woods."
"Yes, there are ...

Katlyn Charlesworth

#15. Now you can be a kikei, too.

Katlyn Charlesworth

#16. We worked on 'Fanny and Alexander' for seven months and it was an amusing production. Still, it was very long and heavy and so awfully complicated, .. And when the premiere was over and everything went well, I thought, 'That's that.' .

Ingmar Bergman

#17. Where do you go when you die twice-
lest a thousand deaths?

Katlyn Charlesworth

#18. In Japan, there's a TV series called Jin. It deals with time travel. I like stories about time travel. It's a story about people living in modern day that travel back to the Edo era. Those things really interest me.

Yuji Horii