Bakeneko’s most recent Quotables

Slept, woke, slept, woke, miserable life.

There are better things ahead than any we leave behind.

Though my soul may set in darkness, it will rise in perfect light;
I have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.

Every passing minute is another chance to turn it all around.

We don’t need a list of rights and wrongs, tables of dos and don’ts: we need books, time, and silence. Thou shalt not is soon forgotten, but Once upon a time lasts forever.

I have a new plan: to go mad.

The sad truth is that man’s real life consists of a complex of inexorable opposites—day and night, birth and death, happiness and misery, good and evil. We are not even sure that one will prevail against the other, that good will overcome evil, or joy defeat pain. Life is a battleground. It always has been and always will be; and if it were not so, existence would come to an end.

I have love in me the likes of which you can scarcely imagine and rage the likes of which you would not believe. If I cannot satisfy the one, I will indulge the other.

Of all the things I am not very good at, living in the real world is perhaps the most outstanding.

Religion has run out of justifications. Thanks to the telescope and the microscope, it no longer offers an explanation of anything important. Where once it used to be able, by its total command of a worldview, to prevent the emergence of rivals, it can now only impede and retard — or try to turn back — the measurable advances that we have made.

Everywhere I have searched for peace and nowhere found it, except in a corner with a book.

The bravest thing I ever did was continuing my life when I wanted to die.

Or is it that I think too much?

Here I am trying to live, or rather, I am trying to teach the death within me how to live.

Life is too short to be all daylight. Night is not less; it’s more.

It's so hard to forget pain, but it's even harder to remember sweetness. We have no scar to show for happiness. We learn so little from peace.

I like things like cuts and bruises - they’re like little flowers.

I can't believe what you say, because I see what you do.

When you don’t have many friends and you don’t have a social life you’re kind of left looking at things, not doing things. There’s a weird freedom in not having people treat you like you’re part of society or where you have to fulfill social relationships.

What matters is not what you photograph, but why and how you photograph it. Even the most controversial subject, if depicted by a sensitive photographer with honesty, symphathy, and understanding, can be transformed into an emotionally rewarding experience.