Does pain go away and leave no trace, then?’ ‘You sometimes even feel sentimental for it. - Yasunari Kawabata

They live in such noise and confusion that their feelings are broken to little bits.

He was conscious of an emptiness that made him see Komako’s life as beautiful but wasted, even though he himself was the object of her love; and yet the woman’s existence, her straining to live, came touching him like naked skin. He pitied her, and he pitied himself.

"Oh, to be laughed at when I have the courage to speak my heart. I don't want to live in a world like this."

-from "Diary of My Sixteenth Year"