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.

Haruki Murakami

• Emptiness

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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

  

  W. S. Merwin
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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.

  

  Alexandra Ripley
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• I get lost, sometimes. Days pass and this emptiness fills my heart.

  

  Peter Gabriel Genesis
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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.

  

  Ernest Hemingway
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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.

  

  Vincent Van Gogh
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• The usefulness of a pot comes from its emptiness.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Comes
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• The emptiness was intense, like the stillness in a great factory when the machinery stops running.

  

  Willa Cather
  • Running
  • Silence
  • Intense

• I may find peace with in the emptiness, how pitiful.

  

  James Herbert Keenan Children of the Anachronistic Dynasty
  • Peace
  • Emptiness

• 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.

  

  Mother Teresa
  • Moving
  • Silence
  • Speak

• 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.

  

  Paul Davies
  • Earth
  • Secret
  • Ocean

• 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.

  

  African Spir
  • Boredom
  • Emptiness
  • Occupations

• Nothingness not being nothing, nothingness being emptiness.

  

  Isabelle Adjani
  • Emptiness
  • Nothingness

• 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.

  

  Ellen Meloy
  • Music
  • River
  • Emptiness

• 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.

  

  Nyoshul Khenpo Rinpoche
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• All silence is. All emptiness. And now: The dawn.

  

  Ray Bradbury
  • Silence
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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.

  

  Ray Romano
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  • Identity
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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.

  

  Heather O'Neill
  • Feels
  • Able
  • Tolerate

• 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.

  

  Carlos Gavito
  • Important
  • Solitude
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• So that's how we live our lives. No matter how deep and fatal the loss, no matter how important the thing that's stolen from us--that's snatched right out of our hands--even if we are left completely changed, with only the outer layer of skin from before, we continue to play out our lives this way, in silence. We draw ever nearer to the end of our allotted span of time, bidding it farewell as it trails off behind. Repeating, often adroitly, the endless deeds of the everyday. Leaving behind a feeling of immeasurable emptiness.

  

  Haruki Murakami
  • Silence
  • Changed
  • Emptiness

• I have certain physical features that I favor over others. We all have our areas.

  

  Christina Aguilera
  • Certain
  • Areas
  • Favors

• Every song is completely different. Sometimes they come like a lump of clay and it's your job to chip away and find out what's in the center. Sometimes it comes like swimming fish, and you have to follow it and see where it leads. Sometimes it comes totally fragmented.

  

  Brett Dennen
  • Job
  • Song
  • Fish

• If I could read any person's mind, it would be my cat's.

  

  Kristen Stewart
  • Mind
  • Persons
  • Cat

• If we want children to flourish, to become truly empowered, let us allow them to love the earth before we ask them to save it.

  

  David Sobel
  • Children
  • Before
  • Empowered

• I said nothing for a time, just ran my fingertips along the edge of the human-shaped emptiness that had been left inside me.

  

  Haruki Murakami
  • Emptiness