Confessions Quotes

“I think we regular people may have forgotten a basic truth—we don’t really have the right to judge anyone else.”
― Kanae Minato, Confessions

“The world you live in is much bigger than that. If the place in which you find yourself is too painful, I say you should be free to seek another, less painful place of refuge. There is no shame in seeking a safe place. I want you to believe that somewhere in this wide world there is a place for you, a safe haven.”
― Kanae Minato, Confessions

“If you’re always worrying about what other people think, you’ll never get any tougher.”
― Kanae Minato, Confessions

“You can't blame your crimes on someone else; they're your own responsibility.”
― Kanae Minato, Confessions

“Our values are determined by the environment we grow up in; and we learn to judge other people based on a standard that’s set for us by the first person we come in contact with—which in most cases is our mother.”
― Kanae Minato, Confessions

“On the other hand, it’s easy to join in condemning someone once someone else has gotten the ball rolling. You don’t even have to put yourself out there; all you have to do is say, “Me, too!”
― Kanae Minato, Confessions

“Weak people find even weaker people to be their victims. And the victimized often feel that they have only two choices: put up with the pain or end their suffering in death. But they're wrong. The world you lives in is much bigger than that. If the place in which you find yourself is too painful, I say you should be free to seek another, less painful place of refuge. There is no shame in seeking a safe place. I want you to believe that somewhere in this wide world there is a place for you, a safe haven.”
― Kanae Minato, Confessions

“It's amazing how much the human brain is able to remember, how much you hold onto in life, but when you write something down, you can forget about it—you no longer have to hold it inside. Remember the good things; write the bad ones down in here and forget about them.”
― Kanae Minato, Confessions

“But doing something good or remarkable isn't easy. It's much easier to condemn people who do the wrong thing than it is to do the right thing yourself.”
― Kanae Minato, Confessions

“happiness is as fragile and fleeting as a bubble of soap.”
― Kanae Minato, Confessions

“Dysfunctional love, dysfunctional discipline, dysfunctional education, dysfunctional human relations. At first, everybody wonders how something like that could happen to such a nice family; but when you poke around a bit the dysfunction comes out, and then you see that it was bound to happen, that it was only a matter of time.”
― Kanae Minato, Confessions

“That's all I really wanted," he said. "Just somebody to notice me.”
― Kanae Minato, Confessions

“A cornered rat will bite the cat,”
― Kanae Minato, Confessions

“Human beings have a fundamental need for physical and emotional space, and the desire to extinguish another life can arise when the boundaries of that space are violated.”
― Kanae Minato, Confessions

“Lots of people fritter away their lives complaining that they were never able to find their true calling. But the truth is that most of us probably don’t even have one. So what’s wrong, then, with deciding on the thing that’s right in front of you and doing it wholeheartedly? That’s what I did, and I have no regrets.”
― Kanae Minato, Confessions

“Whenever you’re worried or sad about something, I want you to know you can talk to me. But when you can’t or don’t want to, you should try writing in here. Just imagine you’re talking to the person you trust most in the whole world. It’s amazing how much the human brain is able to remember, how much you hold onto in life, but when you write something down, you can forget about it—you no longer have to hold it inside. Remember the good things; write the bad ones down in here and forget about them.”
― Kanae Minato, Confessions

“I suppose everybody wants to be recognized for what they’ve done; everybody wants to be praised. But doing something good or remarkable isn’t easy. It’s much easier to condemn people who do the wrong thing than it is to do the right thing yourself. But even then, it takes a certain amount of courage to be the first one to come out and blame someone else. What if no one else joins you? No one else stands up to condemn the wrongdoer? On the other hand, it’s easy to join in condemning someone once someone else has gotten the ball rolling. You don’t even have to put yourself out there; all you have to do is say, “Me, too!”
― Kanae Minato, Confessions

“I wanted to climb out of the swamp and run away somewhere. Somewhere where nobody knows me. Somewhere where I could start all over from the beginning.”
― Kanae Minato, Confessions

“But doing something good or remarkable isn’t easy. It’s much easier to condemn people who do the wrong thing than it is to do the right thing yourself.”
― Kanae Minato, Confessions

“I think we regular people may have forgotten a basic truth―we don't really have the right to judge anyone else.”
― Kanae Minato, Confessions

“Extraordinary people have the right to violate conventional morals in order to bring something new into the world.”
― Kanae Minato, Confessions

“In the end, it was the very fact of my existence that she couldn’t stand.”
― Kanae Minato, Confessions

“No form of revenge could have made me hate you any less. If I had cut the two of you to shreds with a knife, I think I would have hated the little pieces of you just the same. I realized that revenge was never going to wash away what had happened, never going to make me stop hating you with every ounce of my being.”
― Kanae Minato, Confessions

“You also get the benefit of feeling that you’re doing good by picking on someone evil—it can even be a kind of stress release. Once you’ve done it, though, you may find that you want that feeling again—that you need someone else to accuse just to get the rush back.”
― Kanae Minato, Confessions

“when you tell a young person something with all the authority of a teacher, you actually risk amplifying the trouble.”
― Kanae Minato, Confessions

“It’s much easier to condemn people who do the wrong thing than it is to do the right thing yourself.”
― Kanae Minato, Confessions

“I had a vague feeling that someone was still holding my arms behind my back, and the sound of laughter rang in my ears. I couldn’t stop shaking. I wanted the night to last forever, or for a nuclear missile to come and annihilate everything―and I couldn’t even sleep because the whole horrible scene came back to me the minute I closed my eyes.”
― Kanae Minato, Confessions

“It was a shock to realize I was the reason she had to refuse. I was holding her back. It wasn’t just that I was a worthless kid; I was actually denying worth to the person I loved most.”
― Kanae Minato, Confessions

“Funny, I think I’ve finally had my fill of revenge now. And with luck, I’ve at last started you out on the road to your own recovery.”
― Kanae Minato, Confessions

“Our values are determined by the environment we grow up in; and we learn to judge other people based on a standard that's set for us by the first person we come in contact with- which in most cases is our mother.”
― Kanae Minato, Confessions