2,618 Quotes by Haruki Murakami

As long as I stared at the clock, at least the world remained in motion. Not a very consequential world, but in motion nonetheless. And as long as I knew the world was still in motion, I knew I existed. Not a very consequential existence, but an existence nonetheless. It struck me as wanting that someone should confirm his own existence only by the hands of an electric wall clock. There had to be a more cognitive means of confirmation. But try as I might, nothing less facile came to mind.

I learned that realism can come in all shapes and sizes. The world is bigenough for different values to coexist.

Onde há luz tem de haver sombra, e onde há sombra é forçoso que haja luz. Não existe sombra sem luz, nem luz sem sombra.

Y si parezco un pájaro de mal agüero es porque soy una persona muy realista, con mucho sentido común. Parto de teorías generales, sigo un método deductivo para sacar mis conclusiones. Y pueden sonar a predicciones funestas, pero esto es así porque la realidad no es más que un cúmulo de profecías desfavorables que se han cumplido.

You need to come face-to-face with the past, not as some naive, easily wounded boy, but as a grown-up, independent professional. Not to see what you want to see, but what you must see. Otherwise you'll carry around that baggage for the rest of your life.

Farsi vedere nel proprio aspetto migliore non è esattamente lo scopo principale della vita.

One other thing I learned from working in a company was that the majority of people in the world have no problem following orders. They're actually happy to be told what to do. They might complain, but that's not how they really feel. They just grumble out of habit. If you told them to think for themselves, and make their own decisions and take responsibility for them, they'd be clueless.

And in the movement of the sun, I felt something I hardly know how to name: some huge, cosmic love. 

I sometimes wonder: IF you and I had met under absolutely ordinary circumstances, and IF we had liked each other, what would have happened? IF I had been normal and you had been normal (which, of course, you are) and there had been no Kizuki, what would havehappened? Of course, this "IF is way too big. I'm trying hard at least to be fair and honest. It's all I can do this point. I hope to convey some small part of my feelings to you this way.