Haruki Murakami Quotes
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Is it possible to become friends with a butterfly?
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Knowledge and ability were tools, not things to show off.
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Any explanation or logic that explains everything so easily has a hidden trap in it. I'm speaking from experience. Somebody once said if it's something a single book can explain, it's not worth having explained. What I mean is don't leap to any conclusions.
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It's not right for one friend to do all the giving and the other to do all the taking: that's not real friendship.
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In the end, like so many beautiful promises in our lives, that dinner date never came to be.
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My grandpa always said asking a question is embarrassing for a moment, but not asking is embarrassing for a lifetime.
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You know what I'd really like to do the most right now? Climb up to the top of some high place like the pyramids. The highest place I can find. Where you can see forever. Stand on the very top, look all around the world, see all the scenery, and see with my own eyes what's been lost from the world.
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I'll write to you. A super-long letter, like in an old-fashioned novel.
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You’re really cute, Midori,” I corrected myself. “What do you mean really cute?” “So cute the mountains crumble and the oceans dry up.
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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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Whenever I get into something, I shut out everything else.
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Everybody has some one thing they do not want to lose," began the man. "You included. And we are professionals at finding out that very thing. Humans by necessity must have a midway point between their desires and their pride. Just as all objects must have a center of gravity. This is something we can pinpoint. Only when it is gone do people realize it even existed.
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As with marathon runs and lengths of toilet paper, there had to be standards to measure up to.
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I find myself thinking about my ongoing existence as a human being and the path that lies ahead of me. Though of course these thoughts lead to but one place - death.
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Wasn't he the one who said you shouldn't trust anybody who calls himself an ordinar man?
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I didn't want to be a writer, but I became one. And now I have many readers, in many countries. I think that's a miracle. So I think I have to be humble regarding this ability. I'm proud of it and I enjoy it, and it is strange to say it this way, but I respect it.
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Death is not the opposite of life, but a part of it.
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Everyone may be ordinary, but they're not normal.
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It's easy to forget things you don't need anymore.
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At the entrance to the original tower, there is a stone into which Jung carved some words with his own hand: 'Cold or not, God is present.
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I could have been a cult writer if I'd kept writing surrealistic novels. But I wanted to break into the mainstream, so I had to prove that I could write a realistic book.
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What we seek is some kind of compensation for what we put up with.
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The worst thoughts usually strike in the dead of the night.
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I'm all alone, but I'm not lonely.