Haruki Murakami Quotes
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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'm the kind of person who has to totally commit to whatever I do.
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All of us are imperfect human beings living in an imperfect world.
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It's all matter of attitude. You could let a lot of things bother you if you wanted to But it's pretty much the same anywhere you go, you can manage.
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The things she most wanted to tell him would lose their meaning the moment she put them into words.
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What I feel for her is a wholly different emotion. It stands and walks on its own, living and breathing and throbbing and shaking me to the roots of my being.
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A girl doesn't always want to go out, you know, Mr. Wind-Up Bird. Sometimes she feels like being nasty--like, if the guy's gonna wait, let him really wait.
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If you're young and talented, it's like you have wings.
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You said that the mind is like the wind but perhaps it is we who are like the wind Knowing nothing, simply blowing through. Never aging, never dying.
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Closing your eyes isn't going to change anything. Nothing's going to disappear just because you can't see what's going on. In fact, things will even be worse the next time you open your eyes. That's the kind of world we live in. Keep your eyes wide open. Only a coward closes his eyes. Closing your eyes and plugging up your ears won't make time stand still.
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You can see a person's whole life in the cancer they get.
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No matter how much suffering you went through, you never wanted to let go of those memories.
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That's evolution. Evolution's always hard. Hard and bleak. No such thing as happy evolution.
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A certain type of perfection can only be realized through a limitless accumulation of the imperfect.
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You mean machines are like humans?" I shook my head. "No, not like humans. With machines the feeling is, well, more finite. It doesn't go any further. With humans it's different. The feeling is always changing. Like if you love somebody, the love is always shifting or wavering. It's always questioning or inflating or disappearing or denying or hurting. And the thing is, you can't do anything about it, you can't control it. With my Subaru, it's not so complicated.
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The better you were able to imagine what you wanted to imagine, the farther you could flee from reality.
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What we seek is some kind of compensation for what we put up with.
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We never choose anything at all. Things happen. Or not.
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Life doesn't require ideals. It requires standards of action.
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Now all you can do is wait. It must be hard for you, but there is a right time for everything. Like the ebb and flow of tides. No one can do anything to change them. When it is time to wait, you must wait.
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He appeared before me and departed. We were not able to speak to or touch each other. But in that short interval, he transformed many things inside me. He literally stirred my mind and body the way a spoon stirs a cup of cocoa, down to the depths of my internal organs and my womb.
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He was silent for thirty seconds, maybe a minute. I uncrossed my legs under the table and wondered if this was the right moment to leave. It was as if my whole life revolved around trying to judge the right point in a conversation to say goodbye.
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Shimamoto had her own little world within her. A world that was for her alone, one I could not enter.
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It seems to me, though, that you always understand very well what I can't say very well. Trouble is I end up being even worse at saying things well.