Haruki Murakami: Trending quotes (page 28)

“Learning another language is like becoming another person.”

“As long as I kept my body moving I could forget about the emptiness inside.”

“The years nineteen and twenty are a crucial stage in the maturation of character, and if you allow yourself to become warped when you're that age, it will cause you pain when you're older.”

“Still, in the end, we all die just the same.”

“I don’t know, I don’t feel right unless I’ve got the sea and mountains nearby. People are mostly a product of where they were born and raised. How you think and feel’s always linked to the lay of the land, the temperature. The prevailing winds, even.”

“You make do with what you have. As you age you learn even to be happy with what you have.”

“It’s pretty thin, the wall separating healthy confidence and unhealthy Pride.”

“This is what it means to live on. When granted hope, a person uses it as fuel, as a guidepost to life. It is impossible to live without hope.”

“But falling in love is always a pretty crazy thing. It might appear out of the blue and just grab you. Who knows—maybe even tomorrow.”

“You are entering a phase of your life in which many different things will occur… bad things that seem good at first and good things that seem bad at first.”

“My point is: in this whole wide world the only person you can depend on is you.”

“The silence grew deeper, so deep that if you listened carefully you might very well catch the sound of the earth revolving on its axis.”

“Things pass us by. Nobody can catch them. That's the way we live our lives.”

“It was a strange feeling, like touching a void.”

“I'm the kind of person who has to totally commit to whatever I do.”

“I never could stand being forced to do something I didn't want to do at a time I didn't want to do it. Whenever I was able to do something I liked to do, though, when I wanted to do it, and the way I wanted to do it, I'd give it everything I had.”

“This is the extent of his knowledge of the sea: it was very big, it was salty, and fish lived there.”

“You have to make an effort to always look at the good side, always think about the good things. Then you've got nothing to be afraid of. If something bad comes up, you do more thinking at that point.”

“‎Everything passes. Nobody gets anything for keeps. And that's how we've got to live.”