Haruki Murakami Quotes

I feel like I've swallowed a cloudy sky.

Haruki Murakami

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• My dad and I would watch Ray Lewis a lot. His tenacity, and he was everywhere. I wanted that mindset, too.

  

  Malik Jackson
  • Dad
  • Watch
  • Mindset

• Of course, my interests and my focus change and become more diverse, more worldly. At the same time, I am interested in the simple basics, which is I love to dance and I love to make people dance.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • People
  • Dance
  • Interests

• I'm always writing. I'm an obsessive. It's not because I'm a disciplined person. It's because I'm crazy about it.

  

  Hanif Kureishi
  • Writing
  • Crazy
  • Always

• When I was younger in the theater, I didn't really feel like I got much recognition from the powers that be. I got a lot of small roles - I never got the standout roles.

  

  Samira Wiley
  • Small
  • Feel
  • Recognition

• Don't gamble the future of your children and Malaysia; think and contemplate because your vote will determine not only the future of the country but also your grandchildren.

  

  Najib Razak
  • Country
  • Children
  • Future

• I was starstruck and completely confused; making a film of this story hadn't even occurred to me, and I hadn't written a single line of the book yet. I had no idea how this man knew anything about my book proposal.

  

  Laura Hillenbrand
  • Book
  • Man
  • Single

• Cut off the head of the snake

  

  Abdullah of Saudi Arabia
  • Snake

• We are sufficiently at the mercy of machines, Roger; if our music must necessarily be mechanical, then it is time for us to throw in the sponge, and abandon all hope for the future of humanity.

  

  Jack Vance
  • Time
  • Music
  • Hope

• When I write 'paradise' I mean not only apple trees and golden women but also scorpions and tarantulas and flies, rattlesnakes and Gila monsters, sandstorms, volcanoes and earthquakes, bacteria and bear, cactus, yucca, bladderweed, ocotillo and mesquite, flash floods and quicksand, and yes - disease and death and the rotting of flesh.

  

  Edward Abbey
  • Women
  • Death
  • Paradise

• Poet: 'Straton wanders among the Scythian nomads, but has no linen garment. He is sad at only wearing an animal's pelt and no tunic.' Do you get what I mean? Pisthetaerus: I understand that you want me to offer you a tunic. Hi! you (To the acolyte.) take off yours; we must help the poet. (tr. O'Neill 1938, Perseus)

  

  Aristophanes
  • Help
  • Animal
  • Sad

• The less somebody knows and understand himself the less great he is, however great may be his talent. For this reason our scientists are not great.

  

  Ludwig Wittgenstein
  • Great
  • May

• I'm doing good. I've had a slight nervous breakdown in the '60s. I got through that. And I got through the '70s. And I was in a doctor's program during the '80s and then I met Melinda and we've been together ever since. I've got a happy life.

  

  Brian Wilson
  • Life
  • Good
  • Together

• For myself it would be most irksome to be ruled by a bevy of Platonic Guardians, even if I knew how to choose them, which I assuredly do not.

  

  Learned Hand

• A punishment that penalizes without forestalling is indeed called revenge.

  

  Albert Camus
  • Revenge

• Hail to the man who went through life always helping others, knowing no fear, and to whom aggressiveness and resentment are alien. Such is the stuff of which the great moral leaders are made.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Man
  • Fear
  • Leaders

• Nothing that has happened has made me feel gloomy or remain depressed. I love my life.

  

  Luciano Pavarotti
  • Life

• Conscience that isn't hitched up to common sense is a mighty dangerous thing.

  

  Margaret Deland
  • Up

• Those emotions that are really strong, the ones that inspire a song, you can hold onto that. You can let it marinate for years and keep writing about it even better than you did then.

  

  Frankie Cosmos
  • Writing
  • Song
  • Strong

• The great difficulty is that you cannot be nice. If you want to take back the power, you have to behave in ways that are not conforming and will not be about pleasing other people.

  

  Rachel Holmes
  • People
  • Great
  • Power

• Paraphrased variants:

  

  Max Planck

• wir vermeinen, daß Härte, Gewaltsamkeit, Sklaverie, Gefahr auf der Gasse und im Herzen, Verborgenheit, Stoicismus, Versucherkunst und Teufelei jeder Art, daß alles Böse, Furchtbare, Tyrannische, Raubthier- und Schlangenhafte am Menschen so gut zur Erhöhung der Species »Mensch« dient, als sein Gegensatz...

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Art

• I was a smoker for years. Occasionally I slip and have a cigarette. Remarkably, my voice has held up. I'm grateful, obviously. But I don't gargle with honey and ground-up bird eggs. I have no secrets.

  

  Loudon Wainwright III
  • Up
  • Years
  • Bird

• The Supreme Court has made God unconstitutional.

  

  Sam Ervin
  • God
  • Supreme Court
  • Unconstitutional

• I feel like I've swallowed a cloudy sky.

  

  Haruki Murakami
  • Sky
  • I Feel Like
  • Swallowed