Haruki Murakami Quotes
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I'm not afraid to die. What I'm afraid of is having reality get the better of me, of having reality leave me behind.
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Open your eyes, train your ears, use your head. If a mind you have, then use it while you can.
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You can hide memories, but you can’t erase the history that produced them.
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Being alive, if you had to define it, meant emitting a variety of smells.
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There's a special feeling you get on a veranda that you just can't get anywhere else.
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I realize full well how hard it must be to go on living alone in a place from which someone has left you, but there is nothing so cruel in this world as the desolation of having nothing to hope for.
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Passion can’t sustain itself forever.
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Some things in life are too complicated to explain in any language.
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...most people in the world don't really use their brains to think. And people who don't think are the ones who don't listen to others.
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I just gave them a little scare. A touch of psychological terror. As Joseph Conrad once wrote, true terror is the kind that men feel towards their imagination. (from Super-frog Saves Tokyo)
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Some things, you know, if you say them, it makes them not true?
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Most young people were getting jobs in big companies, becoming company men. I wanted to be individual.
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The power to concentrate was the most important thing. Living without this power would be like opening one’s eyes without seeing anything.
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I didn't have much to say to anybody but kept to myself and my books. With my eyes closed, I would touch a familiar book and draw it's fragrance deep inside me. This was enough to make me happy.
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You end up exhausted and spent, but later, in retrospect, you realize what it all was for. The parts fall into place, and you can see the whole picture and finally understand the role each individual part plays. The dawn comes, the sky grows light, and the colors and shapes of the roofs of houses, which you could only glimpse vaguely before, come into focus.
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Curiosity can bring guts out of hiding at times, maybe even get them going. But curiosity usually evaporates. Gust have to go for the long haul. Curiosity's like a fun friend you can't really trust. It turns you on and then it leaves you to make it on your own - with whatever guts you can muster.
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Is this what it means to go back to square one? Most likely. He had nothing left to lose, other than his life.
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Mountains, according to the angle of view, the season, the time of day, the beholder's frame of mind, or any one thing, can effectively change their appearance. Thus, it is essential to recognize that we can never know more than one side, one small aspect of a mountain.
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One last word of advice, though, Mr. Okada, though you may not want to hear this. There are things in this world it is better not to know about. Of course, those are the very things that people most want to know about. It's strange.
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When I start to write, I don't have any plan at all. I just wait for the story to come.
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I think of rivers, of tides. Forests and water gushing out. Rain and lightning. Rocks and shadows. All of these are in me.
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Silence. How long it lasted, I couldn't tell. It might have been five seconds, it might have been a minute. Time wasn't fixed. It wavered, stretched, shrank. Or was it me that wavered, stretched, and shrank in the silence? I was warped in the folds of time, like a reflection in a fun house mirror.
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I feel like I've swallowed a cloudy sky.
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She was beautiful and seemingly quite intelligent, what with her pentameter search system. There wasn't a reason in the world not to find her appealing.