Haruki Murakami > Quotes

“Por profunda y fatal que sea la pérdida, por importante que sea lo que nos han arrancado de las manos, aunque nos hayamos convertido en alguien completamente distinto y sólo conservemos, de lo que antes éramos, una fina capa de piel, a pesar de todo, podemos continuar viviendo, así, en silencio.”
― Haruki Murakami, Sputnik Sweetheart

“I’ve heard it said that the happiest time in our lives is the period when pop songs really mean something to us, really get to us. It may be true. Or maybe not. Pop songs may, after all, be nothing but pop songs. And perhaps our lives are merely decorative, expendable items, a burst of fleeting color and nothing more.”
― Haruki Murakami, With The Beatles

“Ask whatever questions you want, but remember, I may not answer.”
― Haruki Murakami, Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World

“If there had been a door within reach that led straight to death, he wouldn’t have hesitated to push it open, without a second thought, as if it were just a part of ordinary life.”
― Haruki Murakami, Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage

“Así pensaba cuando tenía tu edad, y sigo pensando lo mismo. Tal vez porque no he madurado, o tal vez porque siempre he tenido razón.”
― Haruki Murakami

“Affirmative. A hard-and-fast rule in business is to never accept the first offer. Remember that, and you will never go wrong.”
― Haruki Murakami, Killing Commendatore

“But then again, chance has nothing to do with it. Your two fates did not cross through mere happenstance. The two of you set foot in this world because you were meant to enter it. And now that you have entered it, like it or not, each of you will be assigned your proper role here.”
― Haruki Murakami, 1Q84

“What did it mean for a person to be free? she would often ask herself. Even if you managed to escape from one cage, weren’t you just in another, larger one?”
― Haruki Murakami, 1Q84

“Kind of a major paradox, wouldn’t you say? As we go through life we gradually discover who we are, but the more we discover, the more we lose ourselves.”
― Haruki Murakami, Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage

“I had no idea what to say. A silence descended on us as sudden as the instant fresh oil is poured into a large frying pan.”
― Haruki Murakami, Sputnik Sweetheart

“I find writing novels a challenge, writing stories a joy. If writing novels is like planting a forest, then writing short stories is more like planting a garden.”
― Haruki Murakami

“The true enemy of this bunch was not State Power but Lack of Imagination.”
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

“There must be something in him, something fundamental, that disenchanted people. “Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki,” he said aloud. I basically have nothing to offer to others. If you think about it, I don’t even have anything to offer myself.”
― Haruki Murakami, Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage

“He'd only seen photos of her, but felt a wave of nostalgia like he was meeting a long-​lost friend.”
― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

“He was the type of man who had his own sense of logic and reached his own conclusions without regard to the opinions of others.”
― Haruki Murakami, 1Q84

“I know, too, why she asked me not to forget her. Naoko herself knew, of course. She knew that my memories of her would fade. Which is precisely why she begged me never to forget her, to remember that she had existed.
The thought fills me with an almost unbearable sorrow. Because Naoko never loved me.”
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

“ما يُرعى ببطء، ينمو جيدا”
― Haruki Murakami, Sputnik Sweetheart

“Once again, she asked me what I meant. And again, my heart was in my words, but the explanation made no sense. Typical me.”
― Haruki Murakami, Dance Dance Dance

“Odsutno zagledan u mesec u zoru, sam, zapitao sam se dokle ce ovo da traje. Verovatno cu opet negde sresti neku dugu zenu. Privuci cemo se prirodno kao planete. I uzalud ocekujuci cudo, glodacemo dane, istrosicemo duse i rastacemo se.”
― Haruki Murakami, Dance Dance Dance

“Precipitate as weather, she appeared from somewhere then evaporated, leaving only memory.”
― Haruki Murakami, Dance Dance Dance

“Until Edison invented the electric light, most of the world was totally covered in darkness. The physical darkness outside and the inner darkness of the soul were mixed together, with no boundary separating the two. They were directly linked.

But today things are different. The darkness in the outside world has vanished, but the darkness in our heart remains, virtually unchanged.” ― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore”
― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

“Someday you'll find the right person, Mari, and you'll learn to have a lot more confidence in yourself. That's what I think. So don't settle for anything less.”
― Haruki Murakami, After Dark

“In long-distance running the only opponent you have to beat is yourself, the way you used to be.”
― Haruki Murakami, What I Talk About When I Talk About Running

“أنا أيضا لا أفضل ألا أكون حرا، إلى حد ما، عرف جان جاك روسو الحضارة بأنها عندما يبني الناس الأسوار. ملحوظة ثاقبة جدا . وحقيقية - كل الحضارة نتاج لنقص الحرية داخل الأسوار. سكان أستراليا الأصليون هم الاستثناء الوحيد، إذ أنشأوا حضارة بلا أسوار , ظلوا متمسكين بحريتهم بأيديهم وأسنانهم حتى القرن ال��ابع عشر. كان يمكنهم الذهاب أينما شاؤوا، ومتى شاؤوا، وأن يفعلوا ما يريدونه. كانت حياتهم ترحالا بكل معنى الكلمة. المشي هو الاستعارة الصائبة لوصف حياتهم، وعندما جاء البريطانيون وبنوا الأسوأ لكي يضعوا مواشيهم في حظائر، لم يستطع سكان أستراليا الأصليون أن يفهموا، ولجهلهم بالهدف من ذلك من حيث المبدأ , تم تصنيفهم كأشخاص خطرين وغير اجتماعيين وسيقوا بعيدا إلى البراري.”
― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

“It’s like when you’re in the forest, you become a seamless part of it. When you’re in the rain, you’re a part of the rain. When you’re in the morning, you’re a seamless part of the morning. When you’re with me, you become a part of me.”
― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

“We can’t undo what has already happened. Once something’s ruined, it can’t go back to the way it was.”
― Haruki Murakami, 1Q84

“It was far too hot to think about complicated matters.”
― Haruki Murakami, Sputnik Sweetheart

“No place has everything you need.”
― Haruki Murakami, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

“Quiero llegar hasta donde pueda empleando todas mis fuerzas. Tomando lo que quiero, dejando lo que no quiero. Así es como vivo. Si meto la pata, me detengo y lo reconsidero. Si uno le da la vuelta a esta sociedad injusta, entiende que en el mundo puede explotar sus posibilidades. -Nagasawa”
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

“All I wanted was to put myself to sleep in towns I didn’t know.”
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood