Haruki Murakami Quotes
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People lose fifty million skin cells every day. The cells get scraped off and turn into invisible dust, and disappear into the air. Maybe we are nothing but skin cells as far as the world is concerned.
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Her smile steps offstage for a moment, then does an encore, all while I'm dealing with my blushing face.
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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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If you remember me, then I don't care if everyone else forgets.
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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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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 can see a person's whole life in the cancer they get.
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If you listen to the radio for a whole hour there's maybe one decent song. The rest is mass-produced garbage.
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My biggest fault is that the faults I was born with grow bigger each year.
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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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All of us are imperfect human beings living in an imperfect world.
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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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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.
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If you think about it, an unfair society is a society that makes it possible for you to exploit your abilities to the limit.
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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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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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A certain type of perfection can only be realized through a limitless accumulation of the imperfect.
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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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When I write about a 15-year old, I jump, I return to the days when I was that age. It's like a time machine. I can remember everything. I can feel the wind. I can smell the air. Very actually. Very vividly.
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That's evolution. Evolution's always hard. Hard and bleak. No such thing as happy evolution.
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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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Shimamoto had her own little world within her. A world that was for her alone, one I could not enter.
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I’ve built a wall around me, never letting anybody inside and trying not to venture outside myself.