Haruki Murakami Quotes

The pillow smells like the sunlight, a precious smell.

Haruki Murakami

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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

• She loved to stand in the middle of a market square, or a park, or a beach and take in the smells and the sounds of a world that was completely new to her. she loved being an anonymous extra in a crowd scene, like some real-life where's waldo - a tiny face, wide-eyed with wonder, in a vast, ever-changing picture.

  

  Elizabeth Noble
  • Wonder
  • Picture
  • Scene

• Trying to help an oppressed person is like trying to put your arm around somebody with a sunburn.

  

  Florynce Kennedy
  • Help
  • Person
  • Oppressed

• Besides this earth, and besides the race of men, there is an invisible world and a kingdom of spirits: that world is round us, for it is everywhere.

  

  Charlotte Bronte
  • World
  • Men
  • Earth

• I am a commercial artist because I paint to earn a living. We who earn money from what we produce are all commercial artists.

  

  Jack White The White Stripes
  • Money
  • Artist
  • Paint

• Love. It's so close to hate, it's almost indistinguishable. But this is how it was for the two of them. Love and hate. Life and death. Joy and anguish.

  

  Melissa de la Cruz
  • Life
  • Love
  • Hate

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

  

  Haruki Murakami
  • Sunlight
  • Pillow
  • Smells