Haruki Murakami Quotes

The pillow smells like the sunlight, a precious smell.

Haruki Murakami

• Sunlight
• Pillow
• Smells

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• Sunlight is painting.

  

  Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • Nature
  • Painting
  • Sunlight

• The trees were full of silver-white sunlight and the meanest of them sparkled.

  

  Flannery O'Connor
  • Trees
  • Sunlight
  • Sparkle

• No matter what is happening now, events will ultimately bend toward love the way a flower bends toward sunlight.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Love
  • Way
  • Flower

• When you start to crack open, don't waste a moment gathering your old self up into something like you knew before. Let your new self splash like sunlight into every dark place and laugh and cry and make sounds you never made & thank all that is holy for the gift.

  

  Brian Andreas
  • Laugh
  • Sunlight
  • Dark Place

• The innocent seldom find an uncomfortable pillow.

  

  William Cowper
  • Innocent
  • Innocence
  • Uncomfortable

• Never did anybody look so sad. Bitter and black, halfway down, in the darkness, in the shaft which ran from the sunlight to the depths, perhaps a tear formed; a tear fell; the waves swayed this way and that, received it, and were at rest. Never did anybody look so sad.

  

  Virginia Woolf
  • Black
  • Tears
  • Darkness

• I project myself out through the glasses and across the street, a ghost in the morning sunlight, torn with disembodied lust.

  

  William S. Burroughs
  • Morning
  • Lust
  • Ghost

• That nation is great which rests its head upon death as its pillow.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Death
  • Nation
  • Pillow

• What if I bade you leave The cavern of the mind? There's better exercise In the sunlight and wind.

  

  William Butler Yeats
  • Mind
  • Exercise
  • Sunlight

• When you're a failure in Hollywood, that's like starving to death outside a banquet hall, with smells of filet mignon driving you crazy.

  

  Marilyn Monroe
  • Death
  • Failure
  • Smells

• I'm really interested in smells. I think I'd like to own a perfumery someday.

  

  Kurt Cobain Nirvana
  • Interested
  • Smells
  • Perfumery

• It is a blessing to have pretty people around me. I like people who are sparky, positive. Evil, dark people are repelled by me: Oooh no! Too much sunlight.

  

  Geri Halliwell Spice Girls
  • People
  • Blessing
  • Sunlight

• Smells are surer than sounds or sights To make your heartstrings crack.

  

  Rudyard Kipling
  • Sounds
  • Crack
  • Smells

• Smells definitely do have a crazy impact on me.

  

  Sarah Silverman
  • Impact
  • Smells

• After a scary movie about the world almost ending, we can walk into the sunlight and say, "Wow, everything's still here. I'm OK!" We like to tease ourselves. Human beings have a need to get close to the edge, and when filmmakers or writers can take them to the edge, it feels like a dream where you're falling, but you wake up just before you hit the ground.

  

  Steven Spielberg
  • World
  • Movie
  • Walk

• In New York, the impact of these concentrated superskyscrapers on street scale and sunlight, on the city's aniquated support systems, circulation, and infrastructure, on its already tenuous livability, overrides any aesthetic. ... Art becomes worthless in a city brutalized by overdevelopment.

  

  Ada Louise Huxtable
  • New York
  • Sunlight
  • Everdevelopment

• There's a reason cats were near deity in ancient Egypt. Dogs may be loyal, but cats are smart. This one must recognize our bond. You can take the cat ouf of Egypt, but you can't take Egypt out of the cat. Wow, I should have that embroidered on a pillow or something.

  

  Kiersten White
  • Reason
  • Dog
  • Smart

• In the absence of touching and being touched, people of all ages can sicken and grow touched starved. Touch seems to be as essential as sunlight.

  

  Diane Ackerman
  • People
  • Age
  • Absence

• The trails of the world be countless, and most of the trails be tried; You tread on the heels of the many, till you come where the ways divide;And one lies safe in the sunlight, and the other is dreary and wan,But you look aslant at the Lone Trail, and the Lone Trail lures you on.

  

  Robert W. Service
  • World
  • Lying
  • Heels

• And maybe leprechauns will poop rainbows on your pillow.

  

  Chloe Neill
  • Pillow
  • Rainbows
  • Leprechauns

• It is impossible to conceive of many without one.

  

  Plato
  • Impossible
  • One
  • Conceive

• No matter what anybody tells you, words and ideas can change the world.

  

  Robin Williams
  • Words
  • Change
  • Ideas

• Everybody burns out in this world; amateur, pro, it doesn't matter, they all burn out, they all get hurt, the OK guys and the not-OK guys both. That's why everybody takes out a little insurance. I've got some too, here at the bottom of the heap. That way, you manage to survive if you burn out. If you're all by yourself and don't belong anywhere, you go down once, and you're out. Finished.

  

  Haruki Murakami
  • Hurt
  • Insurance
  • Survive

• The pillow smells like the sunlight, a precious smell.

  

  Haruki Murakami
  • Sunlight
  • Pillow
  • Smells