Set My Heart on Fire Quotes

“When your world breaks, your self also breaks. But for me, the world’s always been broken. It’s all chaotic, out of my control. I’m sure that’s why I try to sort and organise it so much. I want to have it all contained in the palm of my hand.”
― Izumi Suzuki, Set My Heart on Fire

“But the same night will continue on. Today is just yesterday, continued. Tomorrow is just today, continued. Day breaks, night falls, day breaks. Night probably falls again. The little details differ, sure. But for the most part, everything is pretty much the same, and I feel neither more nor less sluggish today than I did last Thursday. I am sluggish. But still compelled to dance. Provided there’s some variety to the music.

I’m trapped inside an invisible cage, you see. I can’t leave it. I feel so hollow and futile it makes me sick. It’s easy, though.”
― Izumi Suzuki, Set My Heart on Fire

“Feeling distant was both lonely and comfortable.”
― Izumi Suzuki, Set My Heart on Fire

“I couldn’t tell what pleasure was anymore. At first you get high to feel good or check out. Then, once you’re using it regularly, it stops feeling good. Your brain can’t check out, it doesn’t get you there. But you don’t learn, you keep taking it just to escape the withdrawal. To forget the chilling despair you feel when you sober up.”
― Izumi Suzuki, Set My Heart on Fire

“I’m chasing after vanished fantasies. The beautiful, the flashy, the suave, the curious, the feel-good, anything. Be it fake or counterfeit or whatever.”
― Izumi Suzuki, Set My Heart on Fire

“There's nothing certain in my life. It's all just like a dream.”
― Izumi Suzuki, Set My Heart on Fire

“In an incoherent, inconsistent world, some exorbitant happiness could always come along. I trembled at the premonition. I was in a world of man-made magic.”
― Izumi Suzuki, Set My Heart on Fire

“Summer suits me because whatever will happen won’t linger. Once the creaking light and humid air clears, it all seems like a lie.”
― Izumi Suzuki, Set My Heart on Fire

“The night had thickened outside.
Scatterings of neon lights softly stained the rich dark.
It was the same night. The same night several times, all overlapping at once. A thousand nights in the same place at the same time, all distinct from one another. Each delineated, no relation whatsoever to any other. But also, unaware, resonating among themselves. That single, particular night.”
― Izumi Suzuki, Set My Heart on Fire

“Passion is something that occurs naturally. Yet when the time comes, I make it occur artificially. That seems different to ordinary enthusiasm. Distorted. There’s something forced and unnatural about it. I can cool it down at will. For me there’s little distance between loving and hating someone.”
― Izumi Suzuki, Set My Heart on Fire