Top 60 Toshikazu Kawaguchi Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “We must become friends before this coffee cools.”

— Toshikazu Kawaguchi

2. “Things that you put off saying until tomorrow are sometimes never said.”

— Toshikazu Kawaguchi

3. “At the end of the day, whether one returns to the past or travels to the future, the present does not change. So it raises the question: just what is the point of that chair?”

— Toshikazu Kawaguchi

4. “Just remember. Drink the coffee before it goes cold,” she whispered.”

— Toshikazu Kawaguchi

5. “With the coffee in front of her, she closed her eyes, and inhaled deeply. It was her moment of happiness.”

— Toshikazu Kawaguchi

6. “If you could go back, who would you want to meet?”

— Toshikazu Kawaguchi

7. “Sometimes life is stranger than fiction, but sometimes it’s incomparable in other ways. Sometimes it’s heaven that the false fire of imagination could never capture.”

— Toshikazu Kawaguchi

8. “Negativity is food for malady, one might say.”

— Toshikazu Kawaguchi

9. “Remember – drink the coffee before it goes cold.”

— Toshikazu Kawaguchi

10. “It takes courage to say what has to be said.”

— Toshikazu Kawaguchi

11. “Water flows from high places to low places. That is the nature of gravity. Emotions also seem to act according to gravity. When I’m the presence of someone with whom you have a bond, and to whom you have entrusted your feelings, it is hard to lie and get away with it. The truth just wants to come flowing out.”

— Toshikazu Kawaguchi

12. “We can never truly see into the hearts of others. When people get lost in their own worries they can be blind to the feelings of those most important to them.”

— Toshikazu Kawaguchi

13. “The visual and auditory information that enters the mind is distorted by experiences, thoughts, circumstances, wild fancies, prejudices, preferences, knowledge, awareness, and countless other workings of the mind.”

— Toshikazu Kawaguchi

14. “If you try to find happiness after this, then this child will have put those seventy days towards making you happy. In that case, its life has meaning. You are the one who is able to create meaning for why that child was granted life. Therefore, you absolutely must try to be happy. The one person who would want that for you the most is that child.”

— Toshikazu Kawaguchi

15. “At the end of the day, whether one returns to the past or travels to the future, the present doesn’t change.”

— Toshikazu Kawaguchi

16. “But Kazu still goes on believing that, no matter what difficulties people face, they will always have the strength to overcome them. It just takes heart.”

— Toshikazu Kawaguchi

17. “Something I strongly believe is that we mustn’t allow the death of a person to be the cause of unhappiness. The reason for that is simple: if we let everyone who dies be a cause for unhappiness, that would mean people are being born to be unhappy. But the opposite in fact is true. People are always born for the sake of happiness.”

— Toshikazu Kawaguchi

18. “Sometimes people will only confide in someone they trust, but other times they need the listener to be a complete stranger.”

— Toshikazu Kawaguchi

19. “Water flows from high places to low places. That is the nature of gravity.”

— Toshikazu Kawaguchi

20. “The present hadn’t changed – but those two people had. Both Kohtake and Hirai returned to the present with a changed heart.”

— Toshikazu Kawaguchi

21. “You should be proud of yourself for sticking with it and never giving up. You were amazing in your persistence. It didn’t happen by magic! Remember when I called out to you on that day? Your life didn’t suddenly transform by itself, did it? None of your problems suddenly fixed themselves, did they? But you looked to the future and preserved. You have what you have today because you never gave up telling yourself that you had to be happy.”

— Toshikazu Kawaguchi

22. “If I return to the past, I might be able to set things right. I might be able to have a conversation with Goro once more.”

— Toshikazu Kawaguchi

23. “Well, surviving alone is much the same as dying alone, don’t you think?”

— Toshikazu Kawaguchi

24. “People’s true feelings are not in plain sight. The other person might not be thinking anything, but there is a tendency to just assume what the other is feeling without reaching out and asking.”

— Toshikazu Kawaguchi

25. “There is no greater suffering than that of a parent who is unable to save their own child who wants to die.”

— Toshikazu Kawaguchi

26. “The kindness in his smile seemed infinite.”

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27. “People tend to feel happy when spring arrives, especially after a cold winter.”

— Toshikazu Kawaguchi

28. “You know how much your father loved you. Don’t you think it would be painful for him to see the unhappy face of someone he loved? So why don’t you smile every day so that your father can smile his box? Our smiles allow him to smile. Our happiness allows your father to be happy in his box.”

— Toshikazu Kawaguchi

29. “After a long silence of being lost in her feelings, Hirai managed to mutter just two words ‘Thank you’. She didn’t know whether that one phrase could contain all these feelings or whether it conveyed how she felt. But every part of her at that moment was invested in those two words.”

— Toshikazu Kawaguchi

30. “She moved with an impenetrable beauty, as if she was performing a solemn ritual.”

— Toshikazu Kawaguchi

31. “Even if I am dead, I want you to live with a smile on your face.”

— Toshikazu Kawaguchi

32. “Inside every person is an inherent capability to make it through any kind of difficulty. Everyone has that energy. But sometimes when that energy flows via our anxiety valve, the flow can be restricted. The greater that anxiety, the greater the strength needed to open the valve and release the energy. That strength is empowered by hope. You could say that hope is the power to believe in the future.”

— Toshikazu Kawaguchi

33. “Doing things differently from everyone else would normally antagonize those making sure no one went against the grain, but no one ever thought that way with Kei. She was always everyone’s friend; she had that sort of effect on people.”

— Toshikazu Kawaguchi

34. “Inside every person is an inherent capability to make it through any kind of difficulty. Everyone has that energy... That strength is empowered by hope. You could say that hope is the power to believe in the future.”

— Toshikazu Kawaguchi

35. “A parent’s love for their child is bottomless. Their children remain children, no matter how old they grow.”

— Toshikazu Kawaguchi

36. “If this continues, I won’t find myself in the present or past; I’ll simply vanish in a wisp of smoke.”

— Toshikazu Kawaguchi

37. “As long as he felt that there was someone who would find joy in his success, that was enough for him.”

— Toshikazu Kawaguchi

38. “And if she couldn’t change reality, there was no point returning to the past.”

— Toshikazu Kawaguchi

39. “For a parent, a child is a child for ever. Never ever expect ing anything in return, she was simply a mother who wanted her child to be happy, always, to shower him with love.”

— Toshikazu Kawaguchi

40. “She took an instant liking to her. Treat them mean, keep them keen, that was Hirai’s motto.”

— Toshikazu Kawaguchi

41. “She reached for her coffee, from which all heat now had gone. With the sweetest part of the experience lost, her mood plummeted further.”

— Toshikazu Kawaguchi

42. “She felt as if she had just had a dream, but the coffee in front of her was empty. Her mouth still had a sweet taste in it.”

— Toshikazu Kawaguchi

43. “I’ll mourn how I mourn. Everyone’s different.”

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44. “If I had led a sad life as a result of my sister’s death, then it would have been as if her death had caused it. So, I thought I mustn’t allow that to happen. I swore to myself that I would make sure that I was happy. My joy would be the legacy of my sister’s life.”

— Toshikazu Kawaguchi

45. “The names of coffee beans mostly derive from where they are grown. In the case of mocha, the beans are grown in Yemen and Ethiopia and named after Yemen’s port city of Mocha, where they were traditionally shipped from. Kilimanjaro beans are grown in Tanzania.”

— Toshikazu Kawaguchi

46. “I never could have imagined that this, this casual conversation could make me so happy.”

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47. “I cannot stand the idea of us staying together only out of sympathy.”

— Toshikazu Kawaguchi

48. “At that moment, Kei’s heart sang with happiness: she was the mother of this child. She wasn’t just a parent – she was the mother of the girl standing before her. She was unable to stop the tears from gushing.”

— Toshikazu Kawaguchi

49. “She saw his face for only a split second but he was smiling wonderfully, just like the time when he had said, “Perhaps you could buy me a coffee?”

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50. “Kohtake, though, liked her coffee hot, even in summer. She liked the aroma of it when it was freshly brewed. She couldn’t enjoy iced coffee in the same way. Coffee was far more pleasurable when it was hot.”

— Toshikazu Kawaguchi