“Sometimes I feel I can't go on like this forever. Often I wonder...” – Noriko Hirayama, Tokyo Story ... Movie Quotes Database

Noriko Hirayama

Sometimes I feel I can't go on like this forever. Often I wonder, when I can't sleep, what will become of me if I stay this way. Day passes and night comes, yet nothing happens, and I feel a kind of loneliness. My heart seems to be waiting for something.

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