I Was A Kamikaze Quotes

“I settle into the cockpit, get out again and touch the ground; it has supported me for twenty-one years, I murmur my thanks to it. Never again will I be able to put my feet upon the earth. Each gesture is the last.”
― Ryuji Nagatsuka, I Was A Kamikaze

“There are two kinds of life: the life of the beasts, which is governed entirely by instinct, and the life of man, who lives consciously and serves some purpose... call it the community, if you like. If man existed merely for the sake of existing, what a burden life would be! A sense of life and death is not taught to us by reason. Besides, reason is not always the ally of the heart...”
― Ryuji Nagatsuka, I Was A Kamikaze

“What was certain is that we missed our families and our student life. The leaders of each squad told us on every possible occasion to forget our memories, our longings and regrets, but they could not forbid us to recall our family life with joy, for no matter what people say, the family is still the basic unit of human life. It nourishes us, not only with bread, but with ideas, beliefs, sentiments and sensibilities. And it is the privilege of the past to be gilded and embellished as we look back on it.”
― Ryuji Nagatsuka, I Was A Kamikaze