Haruki Murakami: Trending quotes (page 18)

“An unhealthy soul requires a healthy body.”

“Memory is like fiction; or else it's fiction that's like memory.”

“Either I'm funny or the world's funny. I don't know which. The bottle and lid don't fit. It could be the bottle's fault or the lid's fault. In either case, there's no denying that the fit is bad.”

“Sometimes I feel like a caretaker of a museum -- a huge, empty museum where no one ever comes, and I'm watching over it for no one but myself.”

“What the hell kind of revolution have you got just tossing out big words that working-class people can't understand?”

“The whole terrible fight occured in the area of imagination. That is the precise location of our battlefield. It is there, that we experience our victories and defeats.”

“If she did experience sex--or something close to it--in high school, I'm sure it would have been less out of sexual desire or love than literary curiosity.”

“Artists are those who can evade the verbose.”

“What was lost was lost. There was no retrieving it, however you schemed, no returning to how things were, no going back.”

“But didn't you say you were satisfied with your life?"

"Word games," I dismissed. "Every army needs a flag.”

“In terms of evolutionary history, it was only yesterday that men learned to walk around on two legs and get in trouble thinking complicated thoughts. So don't worry, you'll burn out.”

“People leave traces of themselves where they feel most comfortable, most worthwhile.”

“Does G get angry because it follows F in the alphabet? Does page 68 in a book start a revolution because it follows 67?”

“So once you're dead there's just nothing?
Mari: Basically…
Korogi: I get so scared when I start thinking about this stuff. I can hardly breathe, and my whole body wants to shrink into a corner. It's so much easier to just believe in reincarnation.”

“No matter how long you stand there examining yourself naked before a mirror, you'll never see reflected what's inside.”

“Don't you think it would be wonderful to get rid of everything and everybody and just go someplace where you don't know a soul? Sometimes I feel like doing that. I really really want to do it sometimes.”

“A friend to kill time is a friend sublime.”

“Time really is one big continuous cloth, no? We habitually cut out pieces of time to fit us, so we tend to fool ourselves into thinking that time is our size, but it really goes on and on.”

“I don't go out of my way to make friends, that's all.”