Kazuo Ishiguro Quotes About Dignity

Quotes about: Dignity

• I can't even say I made my own mistakes. Really - one has to ask oneself - what dignity is there in that?

  Kazuo Ishiguro

  Mistake, Dignity, Made

  Remains of the Day (1989)

• What do you think dignity's all about?' The directness of the inquiry did, I admit, take me rather by surprise. 'It's rather a hard thing to explain in a few words, sir,' I said. 'But I suspect it comes down to not removing one's clothing in public.

  Kazuo Ishiguro

  Thinking, Few Words, Inquiry

  Kazuo Ishiguro (2010). “The Remains of the Day”, p.210, Vintage

• He chose a certain path in life, it proved to be a misguided one, but there, he chose it, he can say that at least. As for myself, I cannot even claim that. You see, I trusted. I trusted in his lorship's wisdom. All those years I served him, I trusted I was doing something worthwhile. I can't even say I made my own mistakes. Really - one has to ask oneself - what dignity is there in that?

  Kazuo Ishiguro

  Mistake, Years, Path

  Remains of the Day (1989)

• There is certainly a satisfaction and dignity to be gained in coming to terms with the mistakes one has made in the course of one’s life

  Kazuo Ishiguro

  Mistake, Satisfaction, Dignity

  Kazuo Ishiguro (2009). “An Artist of the Floating World”, p.88, Faber & Faber

• What interests me is the surprising enormous extent to which most people accept the fate that's been given to them, and find some dignity.

  Kazuo Ishiguro

  Fate, People, Dignity

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