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

Quotes to Explore

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
Endure and persist; this pain will turn to good by and by.

Ovid
- Good
- Pain
- Strength
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