Phrases by Haruki Murakami, aphorisms and quotes related to this Japanese writer, translator and teacher, author of famous works and a great music lover.
Haruki Murakami aphorisms
- Human beings need a balance halfway between their desires and their pride.
- The city is small and rather poor, there is no place for people who waste time hanging out. Everyone must carry out the task assigned to him. His is to read old dreams at the library. I don't think he came here with the idea of having a good time and lounging around all day, right?
- In this imperfect life we also need a certain amount of useless things. If all the useless things disappear, it would also be the end of our imperfect existence.
- Looking closely at them, Naoko's eyes were so deep and transparent that they gave chills. I had never noticed until then, but on the other hand I had never had the opportunity to stare at them for so long. Not only was it the first time we walked alone, but it was also the first time we had talked for so long.
- There is no one who likes solitude. It's just that I hate disappointments.
- If you concentrate and watch carefully, everything is self-explanatory. In this great world there is no one who treats me with such kindness, apart from mathematics.
- When I run, I just run. In theory in a vacuum. Or vice versa, it is also possible that I run to reach the void. In that space-time suspension, each time different thoughts naturally creep into my brain.
- Butterflies have an enchanting grace, but they are also the most ephemeral creatures that exist. Born who knows where, they only gently search for a few limited things, and then silently disappear somewhere.
- As desperate as a situation may seem, there is always a possibility of a solution. When everything is dark around there is nothing to do but wait quietly for your eyes to get used to the darkness.
- In life, there are times when you really need to eat something good. And in those moments, depending on whether one enters a good restaurant or not, existence can take a completely different course. It is like falling from this or that part of a wall.
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- There is this kind of money in the world. Having it irritates us, using it mortifies us, and once spent, it inspires us hatred for ourselves. A hatred that leads us to spend more. Until there is none left. And at that point there is no remedy.
- Just like when one does not recognize one's voice engraved on a tape recorder, I always wondered if the image I perceived of myself was not a distorted image that I had made to measure.
- It is not only the harmony of feelings that unites people's hearts. People's hearts are united even more intimately by wounds. Suffering with suffering. Fragility with fragility.
Quotes Haruki Murakami
- We have in our minds a healthy part and a sick part. We negotiate between these two sides.
- It is not enough to admit your mistakes to solve everything. Whether one admits them or not, mistakes remain errors, you can't escape from there.
- I'll be eighteen until I die.
- Knowing the truth gives man the right strength. Whatever the truth.
- You go in, sit down a little, have a tea, look at the landscape outside the window, and when the time comes you thank and leave.
- The future means to lose what you have now, and to see something born that you don't have yet.
- The uncertain and fugitive glow of many falling stars mixes with the light of some fixed stars, this is the fascinating scenario that emerges from the world of jazz.
- Most people don't look for truths that can be proven. The truth, in many cases, as you said, involves suffering. And almost nobody wants to suffer. What people need is a beautiful and pleasant story, which makes their existence at least a little more meaningful. This is exactly why ...
- Fatigue should not be allowed to enter the heart. Fatigue may control your body, but make your heart your own.
- Pain cannot be avoided, but suffering is optional.
- Everything in the room seemed dried, it had lost the color and scent of the past.
- The most fearful thing, however, is to turn your back on fear, to close your eyes so as not to see it.Because in doing so we deliver the most precious thing we have in us to something else.
- Stealing the real story is like stealing a part of everyone's personality. It is a crime. Our memory is made up of a combination of individual memory and collective memory. The two are closely intertwined. And history is collective memory. When this is stolen, or rewritten, we are no longer able to know who we are.
Haruki Murakami phrases
- Relations between men and women cannot be explained by logic.
- If you don't believe in the world, if you don't have a love, everything is nothing but fiction.
- Just in the enormous and courageous effort to overcome fatigue we are able to experience, at least for a moment, the authentic feeling of living. We reach the awareness that the quality of life is not found in measurable values in grades, numbers and degrees, but is inherent in the action itself, it flows within it.
- A glass of whiskey must be looked at first, and when you get tired of looking at it, start drinking. As with a beautiful girl.
- Philosophy captures the dynamism of the times.
- School is a place like this, the most important thing it can teach us is this profound truth: that really important things are not learned in school.
- Once out of early youth, it is necessary to establish priorities in life. A sort of ranking that allows you to better distribute time and energy. If within a certain age this scale of values is not clearly defined, existence ends up losing its focal point, and consequently also the nuances.
- Who can distinguish the sea from what is reflected in it? Or say where the rain ends and melancholy begins?
- The truly sublime music is ultimately an embodiment of death.
- You cannot choose how to be born, but you can choose how to die.
- Whenever I try to say something, I always get the least suitable words, if not actually the opposite of what I would like to say. And if I try to correct myself, I get confused even more and make the situation worse to the point that in the end I don't even know what I wanted to say anymore. It's like my body divides into two parts playing ...
- Running an hour a day, and thus guaranteeing my own silence, is essential for my mental health.
- Now that I walk tightly attached to you, I'm not even a little afraid. Darkness and evil cannot drag me away.
