Haruki Murakami Quotes

Beyond the window, some kind of small, black thing shot across the sky. A bird, possibly. Or it might have been someone's soul being blown to the far side of the world.

Haruki Murakami

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• I must've been a bird in some previous lifetime. I feel like I'm called to flying - the convenience and the beauty of it. That feeling of soaring would be empowering.

  

  Rachel Keller
  • Feeling
  • Beauty
  • Bird

• We think too small, like the frog at the bottom of the well. He thinks the sky is only as big as the top of the well. If he surfaced, he would have an entirely different view.

  

  Mao Zedong
  • Different
  • Small
  • Sky

• I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself. A small bird will drop frozen dead from a bough without ever having felt sorry for itself.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Small
  • Sorry
  • Bird

• My favorite show tune has got to be Stephen Sondheim's 'I Remember Sky.' It's probably the saddest song of all time; I sing it to myself in the mirror. No, I am kidding. That's the joke.

  

  Laura Benanti
  • Time
  • Remember
  • Song

• I do feel like I have a direct connection with God for some reason; always have since I was a little kid - I would talk to God, talk to the sky.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • God
  • Sky
  • Connection

• Hey sky, take off your hat, I'm on my way!

  

  Valentina Tereshkova
  • Space
  • Sky
  • Hat

• 'The bird that would soar above the plane of tradition and prejudice must have strong wings. It is a sad spectacle to see the weaklings bruised, exhausted, fluttering back to earth.'

  

  Kate Chopin
  • Earth
  • Strong
  • Sad

• Islam was like a mental cage. At first, when you open the door, the caged bird stays inside: it is frightened. It has internalized its imprisonment. It takes time for the bird to escape, even after someone has opened the doors to its cage.

  

  Ayaan Hirsi Ali
  • Time
  • Door
  • Bird

• I'm flat on the floor, with my head down low, where the sky can't rain on me anymore.

  

  Carrie Underwood
  • Sky
  • Rain

• Say, what is the spell, when her fledgelings are cheeping, That lures the bird home to her nest? Or wakes the tired mother, whose infant is weeping, To cuddle and croon it to rest?

  

  Lewis Carroll
  • Home
  • Mother
  • Rest

• We shall find peace. We shall hear the angels, we shall see the sky sparkling with diamonds.

  

  Anton Chekhov
  • Peace
  • Sky

• MoveOn loves government. It remains enamored of government spending as fuel for its liberal agenda; and anything that threatens to close that spigot in any degree is perceived as a dire threat - worthy of Chicken-Little warnings that the sky is going to fall.

  

  Bob Barr
  • Fall
  • Sky

• Today they're praising you sky high, place you on a pedestal and tomorrow they don't want to know you.

  

  Mark McGrath Sugar Ray
  • High
  • Today
  • Sky

• A bird in hand is a certainty. But a bird in the bush may sing.

  

  Bret Harte
  • May
  • Hand
  • Bird

• I've got to give Larry Bird his due; he was a great player. He knew the game and he was smart.

  

  Dennis Rodman
  • Great
  • Game
  • Player

• I think there's an awful lot of me in Big Bird, but Oscar is pretty much - I think I know how he thinks because he thinks exactly the opposite of what I think is a good way to be.

  

  Caroll Spinney
  • Good
  • Pretty
  • Bird

• In Finland in the winter, when the sky is totally choked with clouds, the country becomes one big sensory deprivation tank.

  

  Charles Platt
  • Country
  • Sky
  • Winter

• The good thing about having chemistry is, when you get to the improv section of a scene, you've got somebody to feed off. It can go on and on and on, and the sky's the limit.

  

  Kevin Hart
  • Good
  • Sky

• Well, I didn't want to have the reminder sort of in the sky, so that people would forever look at it. I wanted to have - really to create a city from the bottom up. From that foundation, which held, from the democratic power of what the site really is.

  

  Daniel Libeskind
  • People
  • Up
  • Power

• We think we receive all that we perceive, but in fact, we actually give the sky its colour.

  

  James Turrell
  • Sky

• I play a bad boy on television, but in real life I have a passion for nature and nature conservancy, specifically bird rehabilitation.

  

  Mark Salling
  • Life
  • Real
  • Bad

• I am interested in struggle - between our hearts and our head, between principle and desire - and one of those struggles is with mortality; and no one at all is immune to it, which makes it even more interesting to me. Some people fall in love, some don't. Some sky dive, some don't. Everyone who lives, ages.

  

  Amy Bloom
  • People
  • Interesting
  • Desire

• Beyond the window, some kind of small, black thing shot across the sky. A bird, possibly. Or it might have been someone's soul being blown to the far side of the world.

  

  Haruki Murakami
  • Sky
  • Bird
  • Blown