The Tatami Galaxy Quotes

“Terayama Shuuji once said “Throw away your books, rally in the streets”.
But back then, I thought — rally in the streets, and then what?”
― Tomihiko Morimi, 四畳半神話大系

“Most of our distress begins when we imagine how different life should have been. Entrusting your hopes to something as flimsy as your possibilities is the root of all evil.”
― Tomihiko Morimi, The Tatami Galaxy

“When your chance comes, don’t miss it. When it comes, you can’t go idly doing the same things you’ve always done. Be bold, and try seizing your chance by doing sometimes completely different. If you do that, your dissatisfaction will disappear, and you be able to walk down a new path.”
― Tomihiko Morimi, The Tatami Galaxy

“He didn't take any sort of action but boldly specialized in simply living his life. That was either a gentlemanly manner maintained by formidable self-control or the height of idiocy.”
― Tomihiko Morimi, The Tatami Galaxy

“There's nothing so worthless to speak of as a love mature.”
― Tomihiko Morimi, The Tatami Galaxy

“Most of our distress begins when we imagine how different life should have been. Entrusting your hopes to something as flimsy as your possibilities is the root of all evil. You must accept this you of here and now; you are incapable of becoming anyone else.”
― Tomihiko Morimi, The Tatami Galaxy

“... this four-and-a-half-mat tatami room might as well be my brain.”
― Tomihiko Morimi, The Tatami Galaxy

“I must shoulder the burden of my current self for the rest of my life, I mustn't avert my eyes from that reality.
I can't look away, but it's just so hard to watch.”
― Tomihiko Morimi, The Tatami Galaxy