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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| d3b8355 | Most of the psychological differences between men and women seem to come from differences in their reproductive system | reproduction psychology | Haruki Murakami | |
| 8eef185 | It's all a question of imagination. Our responsibility begins with the power to imagine. | imagination responsibilities | Haruki Murakami | |
| 40e709d | It was as if - this something I thought of only later, of course - she was gently peeling back one layer after another that covered a person's heart, a very sensual feeling. | japan | Haruki Murakami | |
| cc51126 | To deal with something unhealthy, a person needs to be as healthy as possible. That's my motto. In other words, an unhealthy soul requires a healthy body. | Haruki Murakami | ||
| df8a8d0 | A regular wind-up toy world this is, I think. Once a day the wind-up bird has to come and wind the springs of this world. Alone in this fun house, only I grow old, a pale softball of death swelling inside me. Yet even as I sleep somewhere between Saturn and Uranus, wind-up birds everywhere are busy at work fulfilling their appointed rounds. | Haruki Murakami | ||
| bc24c40 | It's a waste of time to think about things you can't know, and things you can't confirm even if you know them. | Haruki Murakami | ||
| d6de6d2 | People are by and large a product of where they were born and raised. How you think and feel's always linked to the lie of the land, the temperature. The prevailing winds, even. | Haruki Murakami | ||
| 9d5b558 | And, well, mine are kind of on the heavy side anyway. The first day or two, I don't want to do ANYTHING. Make sure you keep away from me then.' I'd like to, but how can I tell?' I asked. O.K., I'll wear a hat for a couple of days after my period starts. A red one. That should work,' she said with a laugh. 'If you see me on the street and I'm wearing a red hat, don't talk to me, just run away. | japanese | Haruki Murakami | |
| 705443f | Not that running away's going to solve everything. I don't want to rain on your parade or anything, but I wouldn't count on escaping this place if I were you. No matter how far you run. Distance might not solve anything. | Haruki Murakami | ||
| 4e66ce8 | You can't go anywhere if you just resign yourself to being attacked. A state of chronic powerlessness eats away at a person. | aomame haruki-murakami powerlessness self-defense | Haruki Murakami | |
| 4c2e2b4 | One last word of advice, though, Mr. Okada, though you may not want to hear this. There are things in this world it is better not to know about. Of course, those are the very things that people most want to know about. It's strange. | Haruki Murakami | ||
| 7bd57de | When it's all over, it'll seem like a dream. | Haruki Murakami | ||
| f9fe455 | I'd like to have a good long talk with you once you've calmed down. Please call me soon. Happy Birthday. | love-story lovers sadness tears | Haruki Murakami | |
| a5bdafd | And it was the kind of thing that loses the most important nuances when reduced to words. He had never told anyone about it, and he probably never would. | Haruki Murakami | ||
| 10e1115 | I got to know her well, and we talked about all sorts of things. We understood each other. You could even say I loved her. | Haruki Murakami | ||
| 896f27a | I know I'm a little different from everyone else, but I'm still human being. That's what I'd like you to realize. I'm just a regular person, not some monster. I feel the same things everyone else does, act the same way. Sometimes, though, that small difference feels like an abyss. But I guess there's not much I can do about it. | Haruki Murakami | ||
| cd6637b | You have to overcome the fear and anger inside you," the boy named Crow says. "Let a bright light shine in and melt the coldness in your heart. That's what being tough is all about. Do that and you really will be the toughest fifteen-year-old on the planet. You following me? There's still time. You can still get your self back. Use your head. Think about what you've got to do. You're no dunce. You should be able to figure it out." | Haruki Murakami | ||
| 97d0b43 | I like the sky. You can look at it forever and never get tired of it, and when you don't want to look at it anymore, you stop. | Haruki Murakami | ||
| 9fd29e0 | The world of the grotesque is the darkness within us. | Haruki Murakami | ||
| 99a55be | Eyes mark the shape of the city. | Haruki Murakami | ||
| 95cfb23 | It's a terrible thing when a person dies, whatever the circumstances. A hole opens up in the world, and we need to pay the proper respects. If we don't, the hole will never be filled in again. | Haruki Murakami | ||
| b05519e | Sometimes I feel as if I'm racing with my own shadow | loneliness shadow | Haruki Murakami | |
| 8fcb38d | You can't keep counting forever | Haruki Murakami | ||
| 5c0bed9 | I learned there were lots of realities in the world. | short-story | Haruki Murakami | |
| 22642b7 | Es una lastima, pero hay cosas que no pueden volver atras. Una vez has dado un paso hacia delante, por mas que lo intentes, ya no puedes retroceder. Si se estropean, asi se quedan para siempre. | Haruki Murakami | ||
| 42a5468 | I basically have nothing to offer to others. If you think about it, I don't even have anything to offer myself. | Haruki Murakami | ||
| 0f68a7d | Once she called to invite me to a concert of Liszt piano concertos. The soloist was a famous South American pianist. I cleared my schedule and went with her to the concert hall at Ueno Park. The performance was brilliant. The soloist's technique was outstanding, the music both delicate and deep, and the pianist's heated emotions were there for all to feel. Still, even with my eyes closed, the music didn't sweep me away. A thin curtain stood.. | romance music love surrealism | Haruki Murakami | |
| c5c1935 | If you listen carefully, you can hear these things. If you look carefully, you'll see what you're after | hear things listen look | Haruki Murakami | |
| c097287 | So this was how secrets got started, I thought to myself. People constructed them little by little. I had not intended to keep May Kasahara a secret from Kumiko. My relationship with her was not that big a deal, finally: whether I mentioned it or not was of no consequence. Once it had flown down a certain delicate channel, however, it had become cloaked in the opacity of secretiveness, whatever my original "intention" had have been." | Haruki Murakami | ||
| 8a637d3 | There were times he thought it would have been far better to never have known. Yet he continued to return to his core principle: that, in every situation, knowledge was better than ignorance. However agonizing, it was necessary to confront the facts. Only through knowing could a person become strong. | men women innocence ignorance knowledge | Haruki Murakami | |
| d1cfbac | You know something?" she said. "What?" "I'm completely empty." "Yeah?" "Yeah." | Haruki Murakami | ||
| 1229621 | If you're looking for fine art or literature, you might want to read some stuff written by the Greeks. Because to create true fine art, slaves are a necessity. That's how the ancient Greeks felt, with slaves working the fields, cooking their meals, rowing their ships, all the while their citizens, under the Mediterranean Sun, indulged in poetry writing and grappled with mathematics. That was their idea of fine art. | Haruki Murakami | ||
| 382aea0 | dwydn mtyzt zydy drd, mhtr z hmh bh khsy Htyj ndryd khh yn khr r njm bdhyd. | Haruki Murakami | ||
| 55f56d2 | I've got people I want to understand and people I want to be understood by. | Haruki Murakami | ||
| 936a058 | The total amount of time available is especially limited. The clock is ticking as we speak. Time rushes past. Opportunities are lost right and left. If you have money, you can buy time. You can even buy freedom if you want. Time and freedom: those are the most important things that people can buy with money. | Haruki Murakami | ||
| f44a22a | People are strange when you're a stranger. | Haruki Murakami | ||
| 96b6eba | A bunch of different people appear, and they've got their own situations and reasons and excuses, and each one is pursuing his or her own brand of justice or happiness. As a result, nobody can do anything. Obviously. I mean, it's basically impossible for everybody's justice to prevail or everybody's happiness to triumph, so chaos takes over. And then what do you think happens? Simple - a god appears in the end and starts directing traffic. .. | Haruki Murakami | ||
| 4a2b7b5 | Here's what hurst the most," Kafuku said. "I didn't truly understand her--or at least some crucial part of her. And it may well end that way now that she's dead and gone. Like a small, locked safe lying at the bottom of the ocean. It hurts a lot." | men-without-women haruki-murakami | Haruki Murakami | |
| 90574bf | When people photograph an object, they often put a pack of cigarettes next to it to give the viewer a sense of the object's actual size, but the pack of cigarettes next to the images in my memory expanded and contracted, depending on my mood at the time. Like the objects and events in constant flux, or perhaps in opposition to them, what should have been a fixed yardstick inside the framework of my memory seemed instead to be in perpetual m.. | photography | Haruki Murakami | |
| 47e7f9e | Whenever I wake up in a strange house I always feel as if the wrong soul got stuffed into the wrong body. | Haruki Murakami | ||
| 15c24a9 | Humans are immortal in their thought. Though strictly speakin', not immortal, but endlessly, asymptotically close to immortal. That's eternal life. | Haruki Murakami | ||
| 0209568 | Alienation and loneliness became a cable that stretched hundreds of miles long, pulled to the breaking point by a gigantic winch. And through that taut line, day and night, he received indecipherable messages. | Haruki Murakami | ||
| 3525446 | Slowly like a movie fade out, the real world evaporates. I'm alone, inside the world of the story. My favorite feeling in the world. | reading feeling | Haruki Murakami | |
| 9bae52d | I'm not asking for sympathy, but it would be nice if you could give me a bit more in the way of a response. Other than those cold interjections of yours--ohs and ums. How about a conjunction? A conjunction would be nice. A yet or a but. | Haruki Murakami |