Haruki Murakami Quotes
“It's like a kid standing at the window watching the rain.”
Source: Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World
Variant: This may be the most important proposition revealed by history: At the time, no one knew what was coming.
Source: 1Q84
“Forgive me for stating the obvious, but the world is made up of all kinds of people.”
Source: What I Talk About When I Talk About Running
Source: Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World
“The right words always seemed to come too late.”
Source: Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage
Source: Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World
Source: Kafka on the Shore
Source: Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage
“Cell phones are so convenient that they're an inconvenience.”
Source: Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage
Source: The Elephant Vanishes
“You can see a person's whole life in the cancer they get.”
Source: Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman
Source: Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman
“An unhealthy soul requires a healthy body.”
Source: What I Talk About When I Talk About Running
“Memory is like fiction; or else it's fiction that's like memory.”
Source: The Elephant Vanishes
Source: Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World
Source: Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World
Source: The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
“People leave traces of themselves where they feel most comfortable, most worthwhile.”
Source: Dance Dance Dance
Source: After Dark
Source: What I Talk About When I Talk About Running
“A friend to kill time is a friend sublime.”
Source: A Wild Sheep Chase: A Novel (1982), Chapter 40, The Rat Who Wound the Clock
“I don't go out of my way to make friends, that's all.”
Source: Norwegian Wood
Variant: It takes years to build up, it takes moments to destroy.
Source: Hardboiled Wonderland and the End of the World (1985), Chapter 19: Hamburgers,Skyline and Deadline
Source: Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World
Context: Once again, life had a lesson to teach me: It takes years to build up, it takes moments to destroy. Sure, I'd gotten tired of this tiny space, but I'd had a good home here. In the time it takes to swill two cans of beer, all had had sublimed like morning mist. My job, my whiskey, my peace and quiet, my solitude, my Sormerset Maugham, and John Ford collections-all of it trashed and worthless.
“Remove everything pointless from an imperfect life and it’d lose even its imperfection.”
Source: Sputnik Sweetheart
“Once she was out of the car and gone, my world was suddenly hollow and meaningless.”
Source: South of the Border, West of the Sun
Source: Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman
“When your feelings build up and harden and die inside, then you're in big trouble.”
Source: Norwegian Wood
“This place is too calm, too natural--too complete. I don't deserve it. At least not yet.”
Source: Kafka on the Shore
Source: Dance Dance Dance
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