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

• 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

• 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 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

• 'Every creature has fear,' Jared said. 'Even the non-conscious ones.''No,' Boutin said. 'Every creature has a survival instinct. It looks like fear but it’s not the same thing. Fear isn’t the desire to avoid death or pain. Fear is rooted in the knowledge that what you recognize as yourself can cease to exist. Fear is existential.

  

  John Scalzi
  • Death
  • Fear
  • Knowledge

• I wish I was dead,And lay deep in the grave.I've a pain in my head,I wish I was dead.In a coffin of lead-With the Wise and the Brave-I wish I was dead,And lay deep in the grave.

  

  Maurice Baring
  • Wish
  • Pain
  • Deep

• I hadn't even released my first proper single when I started to feel the strain of attention. But I don't believe that it was the attention that was giving me panic attacks. I think it was everything in my life colliding at the same time. It really did get to a serious point where I couldn't even walk down the street without getting the pain.

  

  Ellie Goulding
  • Life
  • Time
  • Believe

• As I said before, stones to me is meant things that hurt people, things that cause pain and thats what this song is about.

  

  Neil Diamond
  • People
  • Song
  • Pain

• The pain was so deep and so raw. There were days I would have died just to forget. The problem was, I couldn't figure out how to get her out of my mind. How do you kill that kind of pain?

  

  Ted Dekker
  • Mind
  • Kind
  • Problem

• . . . your history is no less important to your survival than your ability to breathe. In the end, you can only determine whether to saturate your memories with pain or with perspective. Forgetting is not an option. I tell you the truth now: Pain was not God's plan for this life. It is a reality, but it is not a part of the plan.

  

  Ted Dekker
  • Life
  • God
  • Important

• Pain is a treasure, for it contains mercies.

  

  Rumi
  • Pain
  • Treasure
  • Mercies

• The soul has no assignments, neither cooks Nor referees: it wastes its time. It wastes its time.Here in this enclave there are centuries For you to waste: the short and narrow stream Of life meanders into a thousand valleys Of all that was, or might have been, or is to be. The books, just leafed through, whisper endlessly.

  

  Randall Jarrell
  • Life
  • Time
  • Soul

• I was so worried when I left 'GH:' so scared I'd never work again.

  

  Nathan Parsons
  • Work
  • Never
  • Scared

• It's funny; Luther and I have written many songs together, but we've never written songs in the same room.

  

  Richard Marx
  • Together
  • Funny

• 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