2,618 Quotes by Haruki Murakami

Pero para nosotros, que estamos en el mundo actual, las cosas son distintas. Las tinieblas del mundo exterior han desaparecido, pero las tinieblas de nuestra alma continúan inalteradas. Una gran parte de lo que llamamos yo o consciencia permanece oculta en el reino de las tinieblas, como un iceberg. Esta disociación, en algunos casos, crea en nosotros confusión y grandes contradicciones.

Vientulība cilvēku saēd.

How can the mind be so imperfect?" she says with a smile. I look at my hands. Bathed in the moonlight, they seem like statues, proportioned to no purpose. "It may well be imperfect," I say, "but it leaves traces. And we can follow those traces, like footsteps in the snow." "Where do the lead?" "To oneself," I answer. "That's where the mind is. Without the mind, nothing leads anywhere." I look up. The winter moon is brilliant, over the Town, above the Wall. "Not one thing is your fault," I comfort her.

A girl doesn't always want to go out, you know, Mr. Wind-Up Bird. Sometimes she feels like being nasty--like, if the guy's gonna wait, let him really wait.

My imagination is a kind of animal. So what I do is keep it alive

Unclose your mind. You are not a prisoner. You are a bird in fight, searching the skies for dreams.

As long as I was alive, I was something. That was just how it was. But somewhere along the way it all changed. Living turned me into nothing.

What's nurtured slowly grows well.

Sometimes when I look at you, I feel I'm gazing at a distant star. It's dazzling, but the light is from tens of thousands of years ago. Maybe the star doesn't even exist any more. Yet sometimes that light seems more real to me than anything.