Ring
Kōji Suzuki
Top 10 Best Quotes
“Don't worry. There's nothing down there. Your biggest enemy is your imagination.”
“You know, a lot of strange things happen in this world.”
“I'm used to it. Try slamming your fist into a brick wall every day. Eventually you won't even feel the pain anymore.”
“Of course, a story always begins with such a coincidence.”
“But darkness, too, really existed, as light's opposite pole.”
“A fundamental sense of terror is built into us humans, on the instinctual level.”
“Think! There's nothing certain in our future! All we can hope for is a vague continuation. But in spite of that, you're going to keep on living. You can't give up on life just because it's vague. It's a question of possibilities.”
“There are three conditions that have to be met in order for a malevolent will to remain in the world after death. An enclosed space, water, and a slow death. One, two, three. In other words, if someone dies slowly, in an enclosed space, with water present, then usually that person’s angry spirit will haunt the place. Now, look at this well. It’s a small, enclosed space. There’s water.”
“See, we don’t know the beginning and we don’t know the end; all we can know about is the in-between stuff. And that, my friend, is what life is like.”
“It’s all about differential equations. Most phenomena in the universe can be expressed with differential equations, you know. Using them, you can figure out what the universe looked like a hundred million years ago, ten billion years ago, even a second or a tenth of a second after that initial explosion. But. But. No matter how far we go back, no matter how we try to express it, we just can’t know what it looked like at zero, at the very moment of the explosion. And there’s another thing. How is our universe going to end? Is the universe expanding or contracting? See, we don’t know the beginning and we don’t know the end; all we can know about is the in-between stuff. And that, my friend, is what life is like.”
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terror, story, future, living, imagination, strange, beginning, coincidence, darkness-rising, light, sense-of-terror, light-and-dark, think, fear, pain
