Haruki Murakami: Quotes about the world

Haruki Murakami is Japanese author, novelist. Explore interesting quotes on world.
Haruki Murakami: 1310 quotes136 likes

“It's not me but the world that's deranged.”

Haruki Murakami book 1Q84

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“I dream. Sometimes I think that’s the only right thing to do. To dream, to live in the world of dreams. But it doesn’t last forever. Wakefulness always comes to take me back.”

Haruki Murakami book Sputnik Sweetheart

Source: Sputnik Sweetheart

“The world is an inherently unfair place.”

Haruki Murakami book Norwegian Wood

Source: Norwegian Wood

“You don't have to judge the whole world by your own standards. Not everybody is like you, you know.”

Haruki Murakami book The Elephant Vanishes

Source: The Elephant Vanishes

“The world is full of ways and means to waste time.”

Haruki Murakami book Dance Dance Dance

Source: Dance Dance Dance

“The world in books seemed so much more alive to me than anything outside. I could see things I'd never seen before. Books and music were my best friends. I had a couple of good friends at school, but never met anyone I could really speak my heart to.”

Haruki Murakami book Sputnik Sweetheart

Source: Sputnik Sweetheart

“Probably."
"Again with the probablys."
"A world full of probablys," she said.”

Haruki Murakami book South of the Border, West of the Sun

Source: South of the Border, West of the Sun

“Time is too conceptual. Not that it stops us from filling it in. So much so, we can't even tell whether our experiences belong to time or to the world of physical things.”

Haruki Murakami book Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World

Source: Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World

“People want to be bowled over by something special. Nine times out of ten you might strike out, but that tenth time, that peak experience, is what people want. That's what can move the world. That's art.”

Haruki Murakami book South of the Border, West of the Sun

Variant: People want to be bowled over by something special. Nine times out of ten you can forget, but that tenth time, that peak experience, is what people want. That's what can move the world. That's art.
Source: South of the Border, West of the Sun

“When I was little, I had this science book. There was a section on 'What would happen to the world if there was no friction?' Answer: 'Everything on earth would fly into space from the centrifugal force of revolution.' That was my mood.”

Haruki Murakami book Dance Dance Dance

Source: Dance Dance Dance

“I guess I don't really understand you yet,' I said. 'I'm not all that smart. It takes me a while to understand things. But if I do have time, I will come to understand you -- better than anyone else in the world ever can.”

Haruki Murakami book Norwegian Wood

Source: Norwegian Wood

“But still," Ayumi said, "it seems to me that this world has a serious shortage of both logic and kindness."
"You may be right," Aomame said, "But it's too late to trade it in for another one.”

Haruki Murakami book 1Q84

Source: 1Q84

“It's the real world, full of gaps and inconsistencies and anticlimaxes.”

Haruki Murakami book 1Q84

Variant: Where I'm living is not a storybook world. It's the real world, full of gaps and inconsistencies and anticlimaxes.
Source: 1Q84

“I am here, alone, at the end of the world. I reach out and touch nothing.”.”

Haruki Murakami book Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World

Source: Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World

“ice contains no future, just the past, sealed away. As if they're alive, everything in the world is sealed up inside, clear and distinct. Ice can preserve all kinds of things that way- cleanly, clearly. That's the essence of ice, the role it plays.”

Haruki Murakami book Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman

Source: Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman

“Constipation was one of the things she hated most in the world, on par with despicable men who commit domestic violence and narrow-minded religious fundamentalists.”

Haruki Murakami book 1Q84

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“She curled up and pressed her cheek against his chest. Her ear was right above his heart. She was listening to his thoughts. "I need to know this," Aomame said. "That we're in the same world, seeing the same things.”

Haruki Murakami book 1Q84

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“I've been clinging to this world like a discarded shell of an insect stuck to a branch, about to be blown off forever by a gust of wind.”

Haruki Murakami book Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage

Source: Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage

“No, I don't want your money. The world moves less by money than by what you owe people and what they owe you. I don't like to owe anybody anything, so I keep to myself as much on the lending side as I can.”

Haruki Murakami book 1Q84

Source: 1Q84