Haruki Murakami quotes - page 4

I didn't feel like I was in my own body; my body was just a lonely, temporary container I happened to be borrowing. (Haruki Murakami)
Memory is so crazy! It's like we've got these drawers crammed with tons of useless stuff. Meanwhile, all the really important things we just keep forgetting, one after the other. View quote
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When it's raining like this," said Naoko, "it feels as if we're the only ones in the world. I wish it would just keep raining so the three of us could stay together. View quote
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What I saw wasn't a ghost. It was simply--myself. I can never forget how terrified I was that night, and whenever I remember it, this thought always springs to mind: that the most frightening thing in the world is our own self. What do you think? View quote
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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. View quote
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It's good when food tastes good, it's kind of like proof you're alive. View quote
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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. View quote
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We're all kind of weird and twisted and drowning. View quote
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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. View quote
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Inside that darkness, i saw rain falling on the sea. Rain softly falling on a vast sea, with no one there to see it. The rain strikes the surface of the sea, yet even the fish don't know it is raining. View quote
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Friends don't need the intervention of a third party. Friendship's a voluntary thing. (Haruki Murakami)
Beyond the window, some kind of small, black thing shot across the sky. A bird, possibly. Or it might have been someone's soul being blown to the far side of the world. View quote
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If you try to use your head to think about things, people don't want to have anything to do with you. View quote
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When there's nothing to do, you do nothing slowly and intently. View quote
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There is nothing in this world that never takes a step outside a person's heart. View quote
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Even if you managed to escape from one cage, weren't you just in another, larger one? View quote
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I don't want our relationship to end like this. You're one of the very few friends I have, and it hurts not being able to see you. When am I going to be able to talk to you? I want you to tell me that much, at least. View quote
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It's like a kid standing at the window watching the rain. View quote
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Why do I act like this, agreeing when I really disagree, letting people force me to do things I don't want to do? View quote
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Everyone who has something is afraid of losing it, and people with nothing are worried they'll forever have nothing. Everyone is the same. View quote
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I'm all alone, but I'm not lonely. (Haruki Murakami)
Memory is like fiction; or else it's fiction that's like memory. View quote
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Either I'm funny or the world's funny. I don't know which. The bottle and lid don't fit. It could be the bottle's fault or the lid's fault. In either case, there's no denying that the fit is bad. View quote
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So once you're dead there's just nothing? Mari: Basically... Korogi: I get so scared when I start thinking about this stuff. I can hardly breathe, and my whole body wants to shrink into a corner. It's so much easier to just believe in reincarnation. View quote
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It's just a feeling I have. What you see with your eyes is not necessarily real. My enemy is, among other things, the me inside me. View quote
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