142 Quotes About Haruki-murakami

Where I went in my travels, it's impossible for me to recall. I remember the sights and sounds and smells clearly enough, but the names of the towns are gone, as well as any sense of the order in which I traveled from place to place.

It's a quiet place, so people talk quietly," said Naoko. She made a neat pile of fish bones at the edge of her plate and dabbed at her mouth with a handkerchief. "There's no need to raise your voice here. You don't have to convince anybody of anything, and you don't have to attract anyone's attention.

Everything is there but there are no parts. Since there are no parts there's no need to replace one thing with another. No need to remove anything or add anything. You don't have to think about difficult things just let yourself soak it all in. For Nakata nothing could be better.

Closing your eyes isn’t going to change anything. Nothing’s going to disappear just because you can’t see what’s going on…. Keep your eyes wide open. Only a coward closes his eyes.

Here," he said, "get yourself some healthy food. You look awful." I said he had done more than enough for me and that I couldn't accept money on top of everything else, but he refused to take it back. "It's not money," he said, "it's my feelings. Don't think about it too much, just take it." All I could do was thank him and accept the money.

Intelligent teenage girls were often instinctively theatrical, purposely eccentric, mouthing highly suggestive words to confuse people.

Knjiga je puna života i slobode, koju zdrav razum ne može sputati. Kao džin koji mora izaći van iz boce. To mi se dopada i ne mogu se odvojiti od knjige. U tim neobičnim pričama, napisanim prije hiljadu godina, ima više života nego u svom onom mnoštvu ljudi koji vrve na stanici. Zašto je tako, ne znam. Veoma je neobično.

Até à data, concebia a morte como uma realidade independente, separada da vida. É certo que, um dia, no futuro, a morte estenderá os seus braços para nos envolver. Até lá, porém, estamos livres dela. Para mim, era a verdade absoluta e lógica. A vida está deste lado, a morte do outro. Eu estou deste lado, e não do outro.

Envoltos por uma agradável sensação de intimidade, conversámos acerca de tudo e mais alguma coisa. Quem me dera, também a mim, que a chuva continuasse eternamente a cair.