Haruki Murakami
"Don't forget - you're the one who swam across the freezing sea at night."
150 Quotes
"I was much younger, much hungrier, much more alone. But I was myself, pared down to the essentials."
Haruki Murakami
"People think of all kinds of things at three in the morning. We all do. That's why we each have to figure out our own way of fighting it off."
Haruki Murakami
"There are all kinds of things we have to deal with in life,' Eri finally said. 'And one thing always seems to connect with another. You try to solve one problem, only to find that another one you hadn't anticipated arises instead. It's not that easy to get free of them. That's true for you - and for me, too."
Haruki Murakami
"Robbing people of their actual history is the same as robbing them of part of themselves. It’s a crime."Fuka-Eri thought about that for a moment. Tengo went on, “Our memory is made up of our individual memories and our collective memories. The two are intimately linked. And history is our collective memory. If our collective memory is taken from us - is rewritten - we lose the ability to sustain our true selves."
Haruki Murakami
"You can hide memories, but you can't erase the history that produced them. Sara looked directly into his eyes I nothing else, you need to remember that. you can't erase history, or change it. it would be like destroying yourself."
Haruki Murakami
"I think memory is the most important asset of human beings. It’s a kind of fuel; it burns and it warms you. My memory is like a chest: There are so many drawers in that chest, and when I want to be a fifteen-year-old boy, I open up a certain drawer and I find the scenery I saw when I was a boy in Kobe. I can smell the air, and I can touch the ground, and I can see the green of the trees. That’s why I want to write a book."
Haruki Murakami
"And you came to Finland to build a station"No I came here on vacation to visit a friend."That's good," the driver said. "Vacations and friends are the two best things in life."
Haruki Murakami
"“Unfortunately, the clock is ticking, the hours are going by. The past increases, the future recedes. Possibilities decreasing, regrets mounting.”"
Haruki Murakami
Dance Dance Dance
"He stopped complaining, but now I was annoyed. I went to the roof and drank alone."
Haruki Murakami
"April and May were painful, lonely months for me because I couldn't talk to you. I never knew that spring could be so painful and lonely. Better to have three Februaries than a spring like this."
Haruki Murakami
"April ended and May came along, but May was even worse than April. In the deepening spring of May, I had not choice but to recognize the trembling of my heart. It usually happened as the sun was going down. In the pale evening gloom, when the soft fragrance of magnolias hung in air, my heart would swell without warning, and tremble, and and lurch with a stab of pain. I would try clamping my eyes shut and gritting my teeth, and wait for it to pass. And it would pass - but slowly, taking its own time, and leaving a dull ache behind."
Haruki Murakami
"I might have been afraid that if I really loved someone and needed her, one day she might suddenly disappear without a word, and I'd be left all alone."
Haruki Murakami
"Maybe you didn't want to get married, or get tied down'Tsukuru shook his head. 'No, I don't think that was it. I'm the sort of person who craves stability."
Haruki Murakami
"“And once the storm is over, you won’t remember how you made it through, how you managed to survive. You won’t even be sure, whether the storm is really over. But one thing is certain. When you come out of the storm, you won’t be the same person who walked in. That’s what this storm’s all about.”"
Haruki Murakami
Kafka on the Shore
"“No matter how much suffering you went through, you never wanted to let go of those memories.”"
Haruki Murakami
"Something will work out tomorrow, I thought. And if not, then tomorrow I'll do some thinking. Ob—la-di, ob-la-da, life goes on."
Haruki Murakami
"I think most readers would say the same. Most would choose Midori. And the protagonist, of course, chooses her in the end. But some part of him is always in the other world and he cannot abandon it. It’s a part of him, an essential part. All human beings have a sickness in their minds. That space is a part of them."
Haruki Murakami
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