Top 40 Genki Kawamura Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Like love, life is beautiful because it has to end.”

— Genki Kawamura

2. “With freedom comes uncertainty, insecurity, and anxiety. Human beings exchanged their freedom for the sense of security that comes from living by set rules and routines – despite knowing that they pay the cost of these rules and regulations with their freedom.”

— Genki Kawamura

3. “Yeah, but just being alive doesn’t mean all that much on its own. How you live is more important.”

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4. “In order to gain something, you have to lose something... If you’ve gained something, it means that someone, somewhere has lost something. Even happiness is built on someone else’s misfortune.”

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5. “Cats and humans have been partners for over ten thousand years. And what you realize when you’ve lived with a cat for a long time is that we may think we own them, but that’s not the way it is. They simply allow us the pleasure of their company.”

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6. “Cats are really something. They’ll just ignore you half the time, but they seem to know when you’re really in need of some comforting.”

— Genki Kawamura

7. “It’s a little magic trick you can play on yourself. Whenever you feel sad and lonely, just smile and close your eyes. Do it as many times as you have to.”

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8. “As you go on with your life, always remember the things that are good in you. They’re your gifts. As long as you have these things, you’ll find happiness, and you’ll make the people around you happy.”

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9. “When you think about it, it’s the future you’ll never get to see that you regret missing the most when you die.”

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10. “I don’t know whether I’m happy or unhappy. But there’s one thing I do know. You can convince yourself to be happy or unhappy. It just depends on how you choose to see things.”

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11. “I scooped the cat up and snuggled him against my chest for comfort. He was warm and soft, a smooth fluffy ball of fur in my arms. I’d cuddled up with the little guy countless times over the years without thinking much about it, but now, for the first time ever, it occurred to me that maybe this little act of comfort was what life was all about.”

— Genki Kawamura

12. “I wonder why people always expect things from others that they themselves can’t or won’t do.”

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13. “In order to gain something, you have to lose something,” she always said. People are always trying to get something for nothing. But that’s just theft. If you’ve gained something, it means that someone, somewhere, has lost something. Even happiness is built on someone else’s misfortune. She often reminded me of this. In fact, she considered it one of the laws of the universe.”

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14. “Sure there will always be regrets and broken dreams, but you have to go easy on yourself... there’s a certain beauty in those regrets. They’re proof of having lived.”

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15. “There is something just as inevitable as death. And that is life.”

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16. “Life has meaning for everything, even a jellyfish or a pebble by the side of the road... I’m beginning to wonder whether I might actually be worthless than a jellyfish.”

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17. “No one knows exactly how long they’re going to live. So there’s really no such thing as too late or too soon.”

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18. “Even happiness is built on someone else’s misfortune.”

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19. “It doesn’t take much to see that all life’s coincidences eventually add up to one big inevitably.”

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20. “Mobile phones have been around for only about twenty years, but in just that short amount of time they’ve managed to take complete control over us. In the span of two decades something that we don’t really need has come to dominate our lives and make us believe that we can’t live without it. When human beings invented the mobile phone, they also invented the anxiety that comes with not having one on you.”

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21. “Love has to end. That’s all. And even though everyone knows it they still fall in love.”

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22. “I still remember the faint smile she gave me when we said goodbye at the station near her house. That smile became a small wound that opened somewhere in the back of my brain. It acted up on rainy days like an old football injury.”

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23. “They say that when a man is dying, the first name that comes to mind is his first love.”

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24. “Love has to end. That’s all. And even though everyone knows it they still fall in love. I guess it’s the same with life. We all know it has to end someday, but even so we act as if we’re going to live forever. Like love, life is beautiful because it has to end.”

— Genki Kawamura

25. “To live means: to cry and shout, to love, to do silly things, to feel sadness and joy, to even experience horrible, frightening things... and to laugh.”

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26. “That’s what the devil is about. I’m what you wanted to become but couldn’t. I’m both the closest and the farthest things from who you are.”

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27. “What is the cruelest thing, as far as people are concerned? Death, naturally. That’s what I always thought. However, there’s something that’s crueler than death. It’s forgetting the person you love while you’re alive.”

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28. “It was embedded in my memory and implanted somewhere deep in my heart. It was like an old football injury that ached on a rainy days. But I guess that’s not that unusual. I must have a whole collection of small injuries, tucked away somewhere in the recess of my memory. I suppose those are what people call regrets.”

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29. “What did I gain by growing up, and what did I lose? I can never resurrect the thoughts and feelings I had in the past. When I think about that, I feel a wave of sadness so strong that the tears won’t stop.”

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30. “If my life were a film, it would have to find a way of depicting my evolving perspective. How I’ve seen my own life has changed over time. I would feel affection for scenes that I’d hated before and laugh during scenes where I’d originally cried. A past love interest is now long forgotten.”

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31. “Countless people who I seemed to have had some kind of a relationship with, but when push came to shove, didn’t really share much with after all. My contacts list was filled with people like that. My life was over and I had no one who mattered enough for me to call.”

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32. “I got so caught up with all the little everyday things that I ended up wasting the time I could have spent on more important things. But the scariest thing is that I never even noticed that I was wasting my precious time.”

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33. “I’d heard somewhere that people forget things in order to build new memories. You have to forget things in order to move on in life.”

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34. “Every day people sleep, wake up, work, and eat according to the established set of rules we call time. In other words, we set our lives by the clock. Human beings went through the trouble of inventing rules that imposed limits on their lives, boxing them up into hours, days, and years. And then they invented clocks to make time’s rule over us even more precise.”

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35. “I realized then that when a person talks about something they really love there’s a kind of thrill to it.”

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36. “I suppose loneliness is another thing that only human beings feel. But looking at my mother’s smiling face in those old photos makes me think that perhaps loneliness is the reason that we can feel other feelings.”

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37. “How would K. react if I suddenly called him to tell him that I’m dying, and that my phone is about to disappear, which is why I thought it would be best to call him now? He’d think I’d lost it. He’d assume it was a joke and the call would be wasted. Not the way to use your last phone call.”

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38. “For all we know, there might be all sorts of things that have already disappeared with our our having noticed it, things that we assumed would always be around.”

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39. “We had made a deal. We promised that we’d admit all the things that we didn’t like about each other if we ever broke up. We thought that way we’d learn something about love, about being in a relationship. The lover is the eternal teacher.”

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40. “He would never do anything other than what felt most important to him – and he had no problem doing it alone, at his own speed, without needing validation from the people around him.”

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41. “There must be something, I didn’t know what, but something on this planet that only I was meant to accomplish.”

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