Nana Quotes

“Being alone and being lonely are two different things.”
― Ai Yazawa

“But even when the moon looks like it's waning...it's actually never changing shape. Don't ever forget that.”
― Ai Yazawa, Nana, Vol. 14

“Don't just give up, Hachiko.
Life is about getting knocked down over and over, but still getting up each time.
If you keep getting up, you win.”
― Ai Yazawa

“People are only what they think of themselves.”
― Ai Yazawa, Nana, Vol. 1

“Hey, Nana...
people's feelings change easily...
what you see is a house of cards...
nothing's sure,
and nothing lasts forever.”
― Ai Yazawa

“The dreams we are chasing and the reality that is chasing us are always parallel; they never meet.”
― Ai Yazawa

“Forgetting about our mistakes and our wounds isn't enough to make them disappear.”
― Ai Yazawa

“I always thought that life was about standing your ground, no matter how strong the current was. But going with the flow isn't so bad after all. As long as it takes you forward.”
― Ai Yazawa

“What people consider precious is different for everybody.”
― Ai Yazawa, Nana, Vol. 1

“The longer we live, the more weight we carry in our hearts.”
― Ai Yazawa

“To love someone, why do you need society's approval and permission?”
― Ai Yazawa

“I am pissed off at your insensitive inability to understand why I'm pissed off in the first place.”
― Ai Yazawa

“If you're that obsessed with someone, why would you kill her?
Humans are full of contradictions.”
― Ai Yazawa

“They say that only very good friends quarrel. But at the end of the day a quarrel is a fight between two people’s egos. Since people cannot understand each other by just being honest. May be its impossible to live your whole life without getting hurt but don’t hurt the people close to you.”
― Ai Yazawa

“The things that stress me out haven't changed.
But I don't wanna lose anything.
So I thought that at least I would change.
I'm lucky...that I'm afraid of losing something.”
― Ai Yazawa

“We are all farsighted, we give importance to those things that are far from us, while neglecting the things that are close to us... only to realize their value later when they are out-of-reach again...”
― Ai Yazawa, Nana, Vol. 1

“People can't be just tied together. They have to connect. Otherwise, they'll find themselves bound hand and foot.”
― Ai Yazawa

“Nana... How come being happy and making your dreams come true are two different things? Even now, I still don't know why...”
― Ai Yazawa

“I might cry tomorrow, but I may be smiling the day after. That's enough. That's the way life is. If I don't lose hope - tomorrow will come.Tomorrow will come if we don't lose hope... I learned that from Nana.But rainy days still make my cheeks wet with tears, even now. It was pouring, on that rainy day.”
― Ai Yazawa

“People can have lovers, they can have friends, they can be together. But when you think about it, you'll see that originally... we're alone.”
― Ai Yazawa

“I don't care if I'm loved back, I still want to love someone.Someone, from the bottom of my heart...Straightforward, unwavering...It seems like such a simple thing, so then why.......Must it be so incredibly hard?”
― Ai Yazawa

“You were a stray cat, strutting so free and full of pride. But I could see your open wound. And without really thinking I just chalked it up to another cool thing about you. I never realized how much you hurt.”
― Ai Yazawa

“I feel the same way about all my friends. To me, the exact relationship between me and someone else doesn't matter much.But people want to label everything...so I guess I seem indifferent in that way.
---Yasu”
― Ai Yazawa, Nana, Vol. 17

“I want to be spoiled like a child. Cry to my heart's content. But I can only suppress my feelings...”
― Ai Yazawa

“So you have to accept facts as fact.”
― Ai Yazawa

“Many things happened in my life, and I thought that they changed me. But in the end, nothing has changed since I was seventeen. If I could keep today’s happiness I wouldn’t worry about tomorrow. ”
― Ai Yazawa, Nana, Vol. 1

“Even if you fulfill your hearts desire, by sacrificing something important, you may not necessarily be happy. Happiness doesn’t come in one form, it determined by your own heart.”
― Ai Yazawa

“The flow of time cleanses the past and heals the wounds in people's hearts. But there are wounds we cant speak of.”
― Ai Yazawa

“Mrs. Darling loved to have everything just so, and Mr. Darling had a passion for being exactly like his neighbours; so, of course, they had a nurse. As they were poor, owing to the amount of milk the children drank, this nurse was a prim Newfoundland dog, called Nana, who had belonged to no one in particular until the Darlings engaged her. She had always thought children important, however, and the Darlings had become acquainted with her in Kensington Gardens, where she spent most of her spare time peeping into perambulators, and was much hated by careless nursemaids, whom she followed to their homes and complained of to their mistresses. She proved to be quite a treasure of a nurse.”
― J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan

“I have the right to be hated.(Takumi)”
― Ai Yazawa