Haruki Murakami Quotes

This is no honky-tonk parade. 1Q84 is the real world, where a cut draws real blood, where pain is real pain and fear is real fear. The moon in the sky is no paper moon.

Haruki Murakami

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• Real World
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• I chose to present myself as one who comes from among the people, and I can be touched by their pain because I have my own.

  

  T. D. Jakes
  • People
  • Pain
  • Myself

• It's odd that you can get so anesthetized by your own pain or your own problem that you don't quite fully share the hell of someone close to you.

  

  Lady Bird Johnson
  • Problem
  • Pain
  • Hell

• Sometimes writing a novel is not unlike having a baby. You'd have to ask a female novelist to compare the pain.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Writing
  • Pain
  • Baby

• I remember as a kid watching one of the Olympic games, and I was cheering for a big track athlete. He was the favorite to win, and he lost. I realized in that moment the pain he felt was so much greater than the pain that those who never thought they were going to win would have felt had they lost.

  

  Malcolm Gladwell
  • Remember
  • Lost
  • Pain

• It is high time that the Palestinian people restore their freedom and independence. It is high time that the decades, the long decades of suffering and pain would stop.

  

  Mahmoud Abbas
  • People
  • Time
  • Long

• Our pain is a part of who we authentically are.

  

  Dani Shapiro
  • Pain
  • Part
  • Who

• I don't need power at the cost of spilled blood.

  

  Viktor Yanukovych
  • Power
  • Blood
  • Cost

• On 'Oz' one day, I got a chunk of a camera embedded in my head, and I was passed out on the floor geysering blood while the set medic stood over me, freaking out. No help whatsoever. I ended up going to the ER and getting nine stitches in my head – real Frankenstein stitches.

  

  J. K. Simmons
  • Help
  • Me
  • Day

• I have a very high tolerance for gore and blood. I am, like, the perfect horror movie viewer because I do not get scared very easily. I can really stomach anything so, as a result, I have watched a lot of really disgusting stuff that I should probably never have seen.

  

  Tania Raymonde
  • Movie
  • Blood
  • Tolerance

• I have this soft spot for have-nots. So, I was really inclined to portray their pain and pathos in 'Highway.'

  

  Randeep Hooda
  • Pain
  • Really
  • Highway

• The greatest evil is physical pain.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Pain
  • Evil
  • Medical

• We are created for precisely this sort of suffering. In the end, it is all we are, those limpid tide pools of self-consciousness between crashing waves of pain.

  

  Dan Simmons
  • Pain
  • Suffering
  • Waves

• So young when the pain had begun Now forever afraid of being loved.

  

  Demi Lovato
  • Pain
  • Forever

• I'm separated by other performers with whom I might be lumped, since what I say is so intensely personal. I'm anti-art and anti-poetry. As much as possible, I want to inflict my personal pain on the rest of society.

  

  Lydia Lunch
  • Art
  • Society
  • Pain

• Pain is the doorway to wisdom and to truth.

  

  Keith Miller
  • Truth
  • Pain
  • Wisdom

• The thing that enchants me the most is the ability women have to feel other people's pain. The total empathy that women have is extraordinary.

  

  Ashton Kutcher
  • People
  • Women
  • Pain

• A lot of the characters I've played before are heroic or invincible in some ways and not tuned into fear and anxiety and pain.

  

  Jason Statham
  • Fear
  • Pain
  • Anxiety

• The thought of my children growing up in an America with less freedom, less opportunity, and a lower standard of living is a long-term pain I cannot and will not bear.

  

  Jeb Hensarling
  • Up
  • Long
  • Children

• What a silly thing love is! It is not half as useful as logic, for it does not prove anything and it is always telling one things that are not going to happen, and making one believe things that are not true.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Believe
  • Love
  • True

• You try to stay in the moment and act like you're singing the song for the first time. You try to have a good time yourself. That's the most important thing. If you're having a good time, people will join you.

  

  Cynthia Leigh Wilson The B-52s
  • People
  • Song
  • Good Time

• Nobody who has not been up in the sky on a glorious morning can possibly imagine the way a pilot feels in free heaven.

  

  William T. Piper
  • Morning
  • Heaven
  • Feels

• Of course, in our country, developing in a region with somewhat conservative traditions, women were desperately needed to be more engaged - socially, economically, politically.

  

  Queen Noor of Jordan
  • Women
  • Country

• It's a really fulfilling life if you can make your job what you love doing.

  

  Sam Palladio
  • Life
  • Job
  • Fulfilling

• This is no honky-tonk parade. 1Q84 is the real world, where a cut draws real blood, where pain is real pain and fear is real fear. The moon in the sky is no paper moon.

  

  Haruki Murakami
  • Pain
  • Blood
  • Real World