“two people can sleep in the same bed and still be alone when they close their eyes”
Source: Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World
Haruki Murakami: Quotes about people
Haruki Murakami is Japanese author, novelist. Explore interesting quotes on people.
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“What happens when people open their hearts?"
"They get better.”
Source: Norwegian Wood
“People fall in love without reason, without even wanting to. You can't predict it. That's love.”
Source: Dance Dance Dance
Source: Sputnik Sweetheart
“Despite your best efforts, people are going to be hurt when it's time for them to be hurt.”
Source: Norwegian Wood
Source: Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman: 24 Stories
Source: Hear the Wind Sing
Variant: I sometimes think that people's hearts are like deep wells. Nobody knows what's at the bottom. All you can do is guess from what comes floating to the surface every once in a while.
Source: Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman
Source: The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
“People's memories are maybe the fuel they burn to stay alive.”
After Dark
Context: People's memories are maybe the fuel they burn to stay alive. Whether those memories have any actual importance or not, it doesn't matter as far the maintenance of life is concerned. They are all just fuel. Advertising filler in the news paper, philosophy books, dirty pictures in a magazine, a bundle of ten-thousand-yen bills; when you feed them to fire, they are just paper. The fire isn't thinking 'oh This is Kant' or 'Oh This is Yomuri evening edition' or 'Nice tits', while it burns. To the fire, they are nothing but scraps of paper. It is the exact same thing. Important memories, not-so-important memories, totally useless memories : there is no distinction — they are all just fuel
“People leave strange little memories of themselves behind when they die.”
Source: Norwegian Wood
Source: What I Talk About When I Talk About Running
Source: What I Talk About When I Talk About Running
Source: South of the Border, West of the Sun
“I never trust people with no appetite. It's like they're always holding something back on you.”
Source: Hardboiled Wonderland and the End of the World (1985), Chapter 35, Nail Clippers, Butter Sauce, Iron Vase
Source: Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World
“People whose freedom is taken away always end up hating somebody.”
Source: Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage
“People soon get tired of things that aren't boring, but not of what is boring.”
Source: Kafka on the Shore (2002), Chapter 13