Hiroo Onoda quotes

“Some dreams are best not to wake up from.”
-- Hiroo Onoda

Source : "Words to Live By: Hiroo Onoda". Judit Kawaguchi, The Japan Times, January 16, 2007.

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“Men should never give up. I never do. I would hate to lose.”
-- Hiroo Onoda

Source : "Words to Live by: Hiroo Onoda". Interview with Judit Kawaguchi, www.japantimes.co.jp. January 16, 2007.

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“Never complain. When I did, my mother said that if I didn’t like my life, I could just give up and die. She reminded me that when I was inside her, I told her that I wanted to be born, so she delivered me, breastfed me and changed my diapers. She said that I had to be brave.”
-- Hiroo Onoda

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“People cannot live completely by themselves.”
-- Hiroo Onoda

Source : "Words to Live by Hiroo Onoda" by Judit Kawaguchi, archive.is. January 16, 2007.

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“One must always be civic-minded.”
-- Hiroo Onoda

Source : "Words to Live by Hiroo Onoda" by Judit Kawaguchi, archive.is. January 16, 2007.

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“Without a huge shock, the sleepy-head, ignorant Japanese will never wake up.”
-- Hiroo Onoda

Source : "Words to Live By: Hiroo Onoda". Judit Kawaguchi, The Japan Times, January 16, 2007.

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“Life is not fair and people are not equal.”
-- Hiroo Onoda

Source : "No Surrender: My Thirty-year War". Book by Hiroo Onoda, www.japantimes.co.jp. 1974.

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“All play aspires to the condition of paradise...through play in all its forms...we hope to achieve a state that our larger Greco-Roman, Judeo- Christian culture has always known was lost. Where it exists, we do not know, although we always have envisioned it as a garden...always as removed, as an enclosed green place...Paradise is an ancient dream...It is a dream of ourselves as better than we are, back to what we were.”

“Be fanatics. When it comes to being and doing and dreaming the best, be maniacs.”

“The love she left behind will be the reason dreams are reached. She was the rock in a world that was crumbling. Her strength will remain. It’s in our hearts.”

“But dreams change. Fate has a way showing you paths you want more.”

“Sleeping on it didn't make accepting it any easier. It seemed like a really bad dream.”

“I've got heaps of dreams.”

“I feel so thankful that I'm able to be a part of something that I love to wake up and run to work every day.”

“Give them pleasure - the same pleasure they have when they wake up from a nightmare.”

“I'm going to wake up tomorrow and start with not caring how I feel.”

“Writing can be a pretty desperate endeavor, because it is about some of our deepest needs: our need to be visible, to be heard, our need to make sense of our lives, to wake up and grow and belong. It is no wonder if we sometimes tend to take ourselves perhaps a bit too seriously.”