Takuboku Ishikawa Quotes

#1. What shall I do with this ageing me? Neither floating nor sinking,
I drift, tossed by the waves of years.

Takuboku Ishikawa

#2. When I breathe,
This sound in my chest
Lonelier than the winter wind

Takuboku Ishikawa

#3. I thought you were gone forever, I thought you'd walked away from everything, because I failed, because I destroyed the only thing that ever mattered to me. I waited for you to come, but you didn't.

Alexandra Adornetto

#4. Like a kite Cut from the string, Lightly the soul of my youth Has taken flight.

Takuboku Ishikawa

#5. We the living, should not think of the dead as lonely because if they could speak to us, they would say: "Do not weep for me, earth was not my true country, I was an alien there: I am at Home where everyone comes."

Helen Keller

#6. The God part is in your agency. The trust- the divine trust- is that you have an opportunity to participate in the population of the planet. And you have an opportunity not to participate.

Dr. Willie Parker

#7. Like a stone That rolls down a hill, I have come to this day.

Takuboku Ishikawa

#8. Power corrupts. Knowledge is power. Study hard. Be evil.

Eleanor Roosevelt

#9. There are some lives duller Than dusty glass

Takuboku Ishikawa

#10. The only way to do the human rights thing is to do the right thing medically.

Paul Farmer