63 Quotes by Ryū Murakami

Just before I fell asleep, I had a moment of panic ...

Nations that are down on their luck and bitter about it are generally disliked and shunned by their neighbors, just as individual people in that position are. Those that are both impoverished and embittered tend to lose the ability to control themselves.

True decadence wasn’t anything carnal; it was about sacrificing the powerless minority for the sake of the majority.

Дело в том, что обладение любой настоящей вещью - даже не обязательно фирменной, а просто достойной вещью - дарит человеку частицу счастья, уменьшает его печаль. Но поиск настоящей вещи, которая не была бы брэндом, требует много сил и времени, а также определенной изысканности вкуса. Поэтому фирменные товары так и остаются самыми доступными из настоящих вещей.

When you're a kid, getting lost isn't just an event or a situation, it's like a career move. You get this thrill of anxiety and fear and a feeling that you've done something that can never be undone.

He invited me to his apartment in the wee hours one morning and pulled out a set of children's building blocks. It seems he used to ride around and around on the Yamanote Line with them, building castles on the floor of the train.

Lady #1, Maki, had never once given any thought to what was really right for her in her life, simply believing that if she surrounded herself with super-exclusive things, she'd become a super-exclusive person.

I don't need to eat the stuff now because now I'm here-right in the middle of it!The soup I ordered in Colorado had all these little slices of vegetables and things, which at the time just looked like kitchen scrapings to me. But now I'm in the miso soup myself,just like those bits of vegetable. I'm floating around in this giant bowl of it, and that's good enough for me.

I never liked to just absorb something somebody else created. I’m too self-conscious, and too critical, I guess, and it always felt like I was wasting time. But after you went away... well, it started to feel like time was wasting me. Every tick of the second hand was like a needle in my skin. Tick, tick, tick...