Haruki Murakami quotes - page 17

So many dreams, so many disappointments, so many promises. And in the end, they all just vanish. (Haruki Murakami)
My grandpa always said asking a question is embarrassing for a moment, but not asking is embarrassing for a lifetime. View quote
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It seemed to me that this world has a serious shortage of both logic and kindness. View quote
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You know what it's like when you're trying to fall asleep and it only makes you more wide awake? View quote
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The ones with no imagination are always the quickest to justify themselves. View quote
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The world is full of ways and means to waste time. View quote
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I'm just kinda tired. Like a monkey in the rain. View quote
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It's the real world, full of gaps and inconsistencies and anticlimaxes. View quote
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He sometimes wondered if she had become involved with him just so that she could cry in someone's arms. Maybe she can't cry alone, and that's why she needs me. View quote
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There's nothing wrong with not looking like something. It just means you don't fit the stereotype yet. View quote
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Cell phones are so convenient that they're an inconvenience. (Haruki Murakami)
This person, this self, this me, finally, was made somewhere else. Everything had come from somewhere else, and it would all go somewhere else. I was nothing but a pathway for the person known as me. View quote
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Time passes slowly. Nobody says a word, everyone lost in quiet reading. One person sits at a desk jotting down notes, but the rest are sitting there silently, not moving, totally absorbed. Just like me. View quote
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Life is like a box of cookies. View quote
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What I was chasing in circles must have been the tail of the darkness inside me. View quote
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I stare at this ceaseless, rushing crowd and imagine a time a hundred years from now. In a hundred years everybody here-me included-will have disappeared from the face of the earth and turned into ashes or dust. A weird thought, but everything in front of me starts to seem unreal, like a gust of wind could blow it all away. View quote
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Sometimes, however, this sense of isolation, like acid spilling out of a bottle, can unconsciously eat away at a person's heart and dissolve it. View quote
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All of us are imperfect human beings living in an imperfect world. View quote
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Things may look different to you than they did before. I've had that experience myself. But don't let appearances fool you. There's only one reality. View quote
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Our faces were no more than ten inches apart but she was lightyears away from me. View quote
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I've never once thought about how I was going to die,” she said. "I can't think about it. I don't even know how I'm going to live. (Haruki Murakami)
If there's something I can't do but want to, I won't relax until I'm able to do it. View quote
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I'm me, and at the same time not me. That's what it felt like. A very still, quiet feeling. View quote
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I may be the type who manages to grab all the pointless things in life but lets the really important things slip away. View quote
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The faintest gleam of their lost memories glimmered for the briefest moment in their hearts. View quote
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