Haruki Murakami Quotes
I said nothing for a time, just ran my fingertips along the edge of the human-shaped emptiness that had been left inside me.
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Of course there is nothing the matter with the stars It is my emptiness among them While they drift farther away in the invisible morning
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But you know who you are when you're on your own out there in all that emptiness. There's no past, no holding on to the scraps that are all you've got left. Everything is that minute, or maybe tomorrow, not yesterday.
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I get lost, sometimes. Days pass and this emptiness fills my heart.
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By then I knew that everything good and bad left an emptiness when it stopped. But if it was bad, the emptiness filled up by itself. If it was good you could only fill it by finding something better.
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I am unable to describe exactly what is the matter with me; now and then there are horrible fits of anxiety, apparently without cause, or otherwise a feeling of emptiness and fatigue in the head.
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The usefulness of a pot comes from its emptiness.
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The emptiness was intense, like the stillness in a great factory when the machinery stops running.
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I may find peace with in the emptiness, how pitiful.
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As for me, the silence and the emptiness is so great, that I look and do not see, — Listen and do not hear — the tongue moves but does not speak … I want you to pray for me — that I let Him have free hand.
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The secret of our success on planet Earth is space. Lots of it. Our solar system is a tiny island of activity in an ocean of emptiness.
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It is to our lack of proper content ("notre manque de contenu propre:;», Fr.), of our inner emptiness that we need occupations and distractions, otherwise ("faute de quoi", Fr.) we experience boredom, which is nothing elses than the feeling of unease that take hold of us when our spirit is not absorbed by the mirages of life.
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Nothingness not being nothing, nothingness being emptiness.
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An ellipse of pale rose sand lines the inside of a river bend of such beauty, you could set yourself on fire with the rapture of that curve. In it lies a kind of music in stone that might cure all emptiness.
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Emptiness is the `knowing of one that frees all.’ Emptiness is the supreme king of medicines. Emptiness is the nectar of immortality. Emptiness is spontaneous accomplishment beyond effort. Emptiness is enlightenment without exertion.
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All silence is. All emptiness. And now: The dawn.
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Right after 'Raymond' I had a world-is-my-oyster attitude, but I found out I don't like oysters. I had this existential emptiness. 'What is my purpose? Who am I?' I had a big identity crisis.
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Your superhuman power was to be able not to feel. Is it there inside everybody, this self that comes out while you are in captivity? You become the closest approximation of yourself that can tolerate living there.
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The important thing is to know why we want to dance. We dance a solitude that we have inside us and cannot occupy with anything. This gap, that emptiness to which we put movement is the TANGO.
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Nature creates unity even in the parts of a whole.
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Awake, arise or be for ever fall in.
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Software will get to be somewhat more mature, ah, but it will never be as predictable as most areas of engineering.
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I believe you should pray as hard on those up days as you do on the down days.
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I said nothing for a time, just ran my fingertips along the edge of the human-shaped emptiness that had been left inside me.
