Best 20 ‘İkiru’ (1952) Quotes is about a man who learns he has cancer questions the meaning of his life
1- “Drinking this expensive sake is like paying myself back with poison for the way I lived all these years.” -Kanji, ‘İkiru’.
2- “Dying is very difficult.” -Kanji, ‘İkiru’.
3- ” …I did it all for my son’s sake. But as it turned out, my son doesn’t seem to give a whit.
Toyo: But you can’t blame it all on your son… Not unless he asked you to make a mummy of yourself. My mom gives me the same kind of line sometimes. “The things I’ve suffered for you.” And I’m grateful she had me. But it’s not my fault I was born.” -Kanji, ‘İkiru’.
4- “I can’t afford to hate people. I don’t have that kind of time.” -Kanji, ‘İkiru’.
5- “How beautiful! Truly beautiful. A sunset. I don’t think I’ve really looked at one in 30 years.” -Kanji, ‘İkiru’.
6- “I don’t know what I’ve been doing with my life all these years.” -Kanji, ‘İkiru’.
7- “Misfortune teaches us the truth. Your cancer has opened your eyes to your own life. People are fickle and shallow. We only realise how beautiful life is when we face death. And even then, few of us realise it. The worst among us know nothing of life until they die.” -Novelist, ‘İkiru’.
8- “We have to be greedy for life. They say greed is a vice, but that’s outdated. Greed is a virtue, especially greed for enjoying life.” -Novelist, ‘İkiru’.
9- “You’re amazing! Rebelling against your past self at this age! That rebellious spirit moves me. You were a slave to your own life. Now you’ll become its master. It’s our human duty to enjoy life. Wasting it is desecrating God’s great gift.” -Novelist, ‘İkiru’.
10- “What would you do if you only had six months left to live?” -Doctor, ‘İkiru’.
11- “The best way to protect your place in this world is to do nothing at all. But is this enough? Is this really enough?” –Narrator, ‘İkiru’.
12- “With a young mistress, the hormonal effect can temporarily rejuvenate an old man. Happens all the time.” – Kiichi Watanabe, Kanji’s Brother, ‘İkiru’.
13- “After 30 years without an absence, you deserve at least six months off.” – Toyo,’İkiru’.
14- “What have I been living for all these years?” -Kanji, ‘İkiru’.
15- “Stop making that face. Enough about your dad. He has his life. We have ours.” – Kazue Watanabe, Mitsuo’s wife, ‘İkiru’.
16- “That’s Dad’s mentality. Typical petty bureaucrat.” – Mitsuo Watanabe, Kanji’s son, ‘İkiru’.
17- “How tragic that man can never realize how beautiful life is until he is face to face with death.” – Novelist, ‘İkiru’.
18- “Before I die, I want to live just one day like you do” -Watanabe To Toyo, ‘İkiru’.
19- “Busy, always so very busy…Is this really what life is all about?” -At His Job in Tokyo City Hall, ‘İkiru’.
20- “– Kanji : Now I remember: I nearly drowned in a pond once when I was a child. I felt exactly the same way then. Everything’s going black. I writhe and thrash around, but there’s nothing to hold on to – except you.
– Toyo : What about your son?
– Kanji :Don’t talk to me about him! I have no son. I’m all alone.
– Toyo :But…
– Kanji : No, you don’t understand! My son is somewhere far away. Just as my mom and pop were when I was drowning in that pond. Remembering it now, it’s even more painful than it was then.” –‘İkiru’.
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