Haruki Murakami Quotes

“We had no sense of the oppressiveness of sex or the anguish that comes with the sudden swelling of the ego that ordinary kids experience when they reach puberty.”

Book:Norwegian Wood

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“I was always hungry for love. Just once, I wanted to know what it was like to get my fill of it - to be fed so much love I couldn't take any more. Just once. But they never gave that to me. Never, not once. If I tried to cuddle up and beg for something, they'd just shove me away and yell at me. 'No! That costs too much!' It's all I ever heard. So I made up my mind I was going to find someone who would love me unconditionally 365 days a year.”

Book:Norwegian Wood

Source: Norwegian Wood

“The moon was so bright, I turned the lights off and stretched out on the sofa to listen to Bill Evans' piano. Streaming through the window, the moonlight cast long shadows and splashed the walls with a touch of diluted Indian ink.”

Author:Haruki Murakami

“He could charge forward, the optimistic leader, even as his heart writhed in a swamp of loneliness. I saw these paradoxical qualities of his from the start, and I could never understand why they weren’t just as obvious to everyone else. He lived in his own special hell.”

Book:Norwegian Wood

Source: Norwegian Wood

“You are a weird one. Making jokes with a perfectly straight face.”

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Norwegian Wood Midori

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“And every night I would think of you. Now that I can no longer see you, I realized how much I needed you. School is incredibly boring, but as a matter of self-discipline I am going to all my classes and doing all the assignments. Everything seems pointless since you left.”

Norwegian Wood Toru Watanabe

Book:Norwegian Wood

Source: Norwegian Wood

“I find myself clinging instead to other standards - like , whether or not something is fair or honest or universally true.”

“This man says he has read The Great Gatsby three times," he said as if to himself. "Well, any friend of Gatsby is a friend of mine.”

Author:Haruki Murakami

Norwegian Wood Nagasawa

Author:Haruki Murakami

“Clutching these faded, fading imperfect memories to my breast, I go on writing this book with all the desperate intensity of a starving man sucking on bones.”

“At last, Midori's quiet voice broke the silence: "Where are you now?" Where was I now? Gripping the receiver, I raised my head and turned to see what lay beyond the phone box. Where was I now? I had no idea. No idea at all. Where was this place? All that flashed into my eyes were the countless shapes of people walking by to nowhere. Again and again I called out for Midori from the dead centre of this place that was no place.”

Author:Haruki Murakami

“I have a million things to talk to you about. A million things we have to talk about. All I want in this world is you. I want to see you and talk. I want the two of us to begin everything from the beginning.”

Author:Haruki Murakami

“It's not that I don't believe in contemporary literature, but I don't want to waste valuable time reading any book that has not had the baptism of time. Life is too short. (...) If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking. That's the world of hicks and slobs. Real people would be ashamed of themselves doing that.”

Book:Norwegian Wood

Source: Norwegian Wood

Reading Literature Books Norwegian Wood Haruki Murakami Nagasawa

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“Too many memories of her were crammed inside of me, and as soon as one of them found the slightest opening, the rest would force their way out in an endless stream, an unstoppable flood.”

“People leave strange little memories behind when they die.”

Book:Norwegian Wood

Source: Norwegian Wood

Norwegian Wood Toru Watanabe

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“You don't get it, do you? Person A understands Person B because the time is right for that to happen, not because Person B wants to be understood by Person A. (...) it's not a mistake, most people would call that love, if you think you want to understand me.”

Love Quotes Understanding Books Norwegian Wood Haruki Murakami Nagasawa

Book:Norwegian Wood

Source: Norwegian Wood

“I miss you terribly sometimes, but in general I go on living with all the energy I can muster. Just as you take care of the birds and the fields every morning, every morning I wind my own spring.”

“I wrote letters in the classroom, I wrote letters at my desk at home with Seagull in my lap, I wrote letters at empty tables during my breaks at the Italian restaurant. It was as if I were writing letters to hold together the pieces of my crumbling life.”

Book:Norwegian Wood

Source: Norwegian Wood

Broken Heart Norwegian Wood Haruki Murakami

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“I still loved Naoko. Bent and twisted as that love might be, I did love her. Somewhere inside me, there was still preserved a broad, open space, untouched, for Naoko and no one else.”

“But who can say what's best? That's why you need to grab whatever chance you have for happiness where you find it, and not worry too much about other people. My experience tells me that we get no more than two or three such chances in a lifetime, and if we let them go, we regret it for the rest of our lives.”

Book:Norwegian Wood

Source: Norwegian Wood

“I'd swallow some whiskey and listen to the waves while I thought about Naoko. It was too strange to think that she was dead and no longer part of this world. I couldn't absorb the truth of it. I couldn't believe it. I had heard the nails being driven into the lid of her coffin, but I still couldn't adjust to the fact that she had returned to nothingness.”

Book:Norwegian Wood

Source: Norwegian Wood

“Once upon a time, you dragged a part of me into the world of the dead, and now Naoko has dragged another pat of me into that world.”

Book:Norwegian Wood

Source: Norwegian Wood

“Era a típica paisagem universitária durante o intervalo do almoço. E, no entanto, ao observar aquela cena familiar, dei-me conta de uma coisa. Todas as pessoas, cada uma à sua maneira, pareciam felizes. Não saberia dizer se estavam realmente felizes da vida ou se não passava de uma encenação. Em todo o caso, naquele agradável início de tarde em finais de setembro, toda a gente parecia satisfeita, e isso fez com que me sentisse ainda mais solitário. Como se fosse eu o único a destoar na paisagem.”

Book:Norwegian Wood

Source: Norwegian Wood

“I thought about Kizuki. "So you finally made Naoko yours," I heard myself telling him. Oh, well, she was yours to begin with. Now maybe, she's where she belongs. But in this world, in this imperfect world of the living, I did the best I could for Naoko.”

Book:Norwegian Wood

Source: Norwegian Wood

“Mendoj që do të vijë një ditë që edhe hijet do t'i përpijë errësira.”

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Norwegian Wood Murakami Shqip

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“Njerëzit në botën e vërtetë kështu janë, e detyrojnë njëri-tjetrin të bëjnë gjëra që s'kanë dëshirë t'i bëjnë.”

Norwegian Wood Shqip Pylli Norvegjez

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Source: Norwegian Wood

“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.”

Book:Norwegian Wood

Source: Norwegian Wood

“Todos nós (e refiro-me a todas as pessoas, tanto as normais como as que não o são) somos seres imperfeitos vivendo num mundo imperfeito. Não devemos encarar a vida de maneira tão rígida, medindo as nossas ações com uma régua e o ângulo das questões com um transferidor, não te parece?”

Book:Norwegian Wood

Source: Norwegian Wood

“Causava-me uma grande estranheza pensar que ela morrera e que já não estava entre nós. Decididamente, não conseguia aceitar essa realidade. Mesmo depois de ter ouvido o som dos pregos a serem cravados na tampa do seu caixão, não havia maneira de me habituar ao facto de ela ter regressado ao nada.”

Book:Norwegian Wood

Source: Norwegian Wood

Norwegian Wood Haruki Murakami Solidão Romance Japonês Doença Mental

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“I loved Midori. And I had probably known as much for a while. I had just been avoiding the conclusion for a very long time.”

“I have always loved Naoko, and I still loved her. But there is a decisive finality to what exists between Midori and me.”

Book:Norwegian Wood

Source: Norwegian Wood

“I suddenly thought about my old girlfriend, the one I had first slept with in my third year of high school. Chills ran through me as I realized how badly I had treated her. I had hardly ever thought about her thoughts or feelings or the pain I had caused her. She was such a sweet and gentle thing, but at the time I had taken her sweetness for granted and later hardly gave her a second thought. What was she doing now? I wondered. And had she forgiven me?”

Book:Norwegian Wood

Source: Norwegian Wood

“I'm working class. But it's the working class that keeps the world running, and it's the working class that gets exploited. What the hell kind of revolution have you got just tossing out big words that working-class people can't understand? What the hell kind of social revolution is that?”

Book:Norwegian Wood

Source: Norwegian Wood

“What marks his plays is the way things get so mixed up the characters are trapped. Do you see what I mean? A bunch of different people appear, and they've got all their own situations and reasons and excuses, and each one is pursuing his or her own brand of justice or happiness. As a result, nobody can do anything. Obviously. I mean, it's basically impossible for everybody's justice to prevail or everybody's happiness to triumph, so chaos takes over.”

Book:Norwegian Wood

Source: Norwegian Wood

Norwegian Wood Toru Watanabe

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Source: Norwegian Wood

“But think about it - what if there were a deus ex machina in real life? Everything would be so easy! If you felt stuck or trapped, some god would swing down from up here and solve all your problems. What could be easier than that?”

“Mas a bordo daquele avião da Lufthansa, no aeroporto de Hamburgo, a sacudidela foi mais forte, mais prolongada do que nunca. «Acorda! Vê se atinas!» É por isso que escrevo este livro. Sou uma daquelas pessoas que só conseguem compreender seja o que for depois de pôr tudo no papel.”

Book:Norwegian Wood

Source: Norwegian Wood

“Ia hidup sambil menenteng-nenteng "neraka"-nya sendiri dengan caranya sendiri.”

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Source: Norwegian Wood

Norwegian Wood Haruki Murakami

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Source: Norwegian Wood

“And while you're living with these feelings, you youngsters get old just like me," said Reiko with a smile. "You're thinking about how it's morning now or night now and then the next thing you know, you're old.”

“Yeah. The more languages you know the better. And I've got a knack for them. I taught myself French and it's practically perfect. Languages are like games. You learn the rules for one, and they all work the same way. Like women.”

Book:Norwegian Wood

Source: Norwegian Wood

“Waiting for your answer is one of the most painful things I have ever been through. At least let me know whether or not I hurt you”

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Source: Norwegian Wood

“If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking. That's the world of hicks and slobs. Real people would be ashamed of themselves doing that. Haven't you noticed, Watanabe? You and I are the only real ones in the dorm. The other guys are crap.”

Book:Norwegian Wood

Source: Norwegian Wood

“I had thought about it so often - too often, to the point where it had distorted my sense of time.”

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Source: Norwegian Wood

“I think of you now mare than ever. It's raining today.”

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Source: Norwegian Wood

“Everybody thinks I'm this delicate little girl.”

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“It was that kind of kiss. But as with all kisses, it was not without a certain element of danger”

“They're old enough to know how the world really works, so why are they so stupid? It's easy to talk big, but the important thing is whether or not you can clean up the shit.”

Book:Norwegian Wood

Source: Norwegian Wood

“Look, the world is an inherently unfair place. I didn't write the rules. It's always been that way. I have never once deceived Hatsumi. She knows I'm a shit and that she can leave me anytime she decides she can't take it. I told her that straight out.”

Book:Norwegian Wood

Source: Norwegian Wood

“Not everybody is looking for a boyfriend with a sports car.”

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“I could never tell what was going on inside the pretty heads of the girls that Naoko brought along, and they probably couldn't understand me, either.”

Book:Norwegian Wood

Source: Norwegian Wood