Murakami Haruki idézet

oldal 10

“… most people in the world don't really use their brains to think. And people who don't think are the ones who don't listen to others.”

“Our faces were no more than ten inches apart but she was lightyears away from me.”

“The thing I’m most afraid of is me. Of not knowing what I’m going to do. Of not knowing what I’m doing right now”

“It doesn’t matter how old I get, but as long as I continue to live I’ll always discover something new about myself.”

“To keep on going, you have to keep up the rhythm.”

“I'm going to take you out of here… I'm going to take you home, to the world where you belong, where cats with bent tails live, and there are little backyards, and alarm clocks ring in the morning.”

“Precipitate as weather, she appeared from somewhere, then evaporated, leaving only memory.”

“But metaphors help eliminate what separates you and me.”

“My biggest fault is that the faults I was born with grow bigger each year.”

“I'll be happy if running and I can grow old together.”

“What I think is this: You should give up looking for lost cats and start searching for the other half of your shadow.”

“I used to think the years would go by in order, that you get older one year at a time. But it's not like that. It happens overnight.”

“It's good when food tastes good, it's kind of like proof you're alive.”

“Once thing goes wrong, then the whole house of cards collapses. And there's no way you can extricate yourself. Until someone comes along to drag you out.”

“Life's no piece of cake, mind you, but the recipe's my own to fool with.”

“You have to wait until tomorrow to find out what tomorrow will bring.”

“Life is long, and sometimes cruel. Sometimes victims are needed. Someone has to take on that role. And human bodies are fragile, easily damaged. Cut them, and they bleed.”

“It seemed to me that this world has a serious shortage of both logic and kindness.”

“We're all kind of weird and twisted and drowning.”

“I feel like I've swallowed a cloudy sky”

“Whenever I look at the ocean, I always want to talk to people, but when I'm talking to people, I always want to look at the ocean.”

“I want to write about people who dream and wait for the night to end, who long for the light so they can hold the ones they love.”

“You’re really cute, Midori,” I corrected myself.
“What do you mean really cute?”
“So cute the mountains crumble and the oceans dry up.”

“He was silent for thirty seconds, maybe a minute. I uncrossed my legs under the table and wondered if this was the right moment to leave. It was as if my whole life revolved around trying to judge the right point in a conversation to say goodbye.”

“The human heart is like a night bird. Silently waiting for something, and when the time comes, it flies straight toward it.”

“Some things, you know, if you say them, it makes them not true?”

“What I was chasing in circles must have been the tail of the darkness inside me.”

“I don’t know what it means to live.”

“In the spring of her twenty-second year, Sumire fell in love for the first time in her life.”