Haruki Murakami: Trending quotes (page 24)

“All right, then, I thought: here I am in the bottom of a well.”

“Things may look different to you than they did before. I've had that experience myself. But don't let appearances fool you. There's only one reality.”

“The little things are important, Mr. Wind-Up Bird”

“Looking at the ocean makes me miss people, and hanging out with people makes me miss the ocean.”

“You can hide memories, but you can’t erase the history that produced them.” Sara looked directly into his eyes. “If nothing else, you need to remember that. You can’t erase history, or change it. It would be like destroying yourself.”

“Can'ttrustpeople. Won'tdoanygood. They'llkillyoueverytime. They'llkilleachother. They'llkilleveryone.”

“There’s nothing wrong with not looking like something. It just means you don’t fit the stereotype yet.”

“Things that have form will all disappear. But certain feelings stay with us forever.”

“That's gotta be one of the principles behind reality. Accepting things that are hard to comprehend, and leaving them that way.”

“Colors shone with exceptional clarity in the rain. The ground was a deep black, the pine branches a brilliant green, the people wrapped in yellow looking like special spirits that were allowed to wander over the earth on rainy mornings only.”

“Writers have to keep on writing if they want to mature, like caterpillars endlessly chewing on leaves.”

“So many dreams, so many disappointments, so many promises. And in the end, they all just vanish.”

“Imagineminus 'Mack the Knife.' That's what my life would be like without you.”

“There had to be something wrong with my life. I should have been born a Yugoslavian shepherd who looked up at the Big Dipper every night.”

“Our responsibility begins with our imagination.”

“I don't give a damn about what people say. They can be reptile food for all I care.”

“But if you knew you might not be able to see it again tomorrow, everything would suddenly become special and precious, wouldn’t it?”

“The tricky thing about mazes is that you don't know if you've chosen the right path until the very end. If it turns out you were wrong, it's usually too late to go back and start again. That's the problem with mazes.”

“When I first met you, I felt a kind of contradiction in you. You’re seeking something, but at the same time, you are running away for all you’re worth.”