Hear the Wind Sing Quotes

“There's no such thing as perfect writing, just like there's no such thing as perfect despair.”
― Haruki Murakami, Hear the Wind Sing

“Whenever I look at the ocean, I always want to talk to people, but when I'm talking to people, I always want to look at the ocean.”
― Haruki Murakami, Hear the Wind Sing

“For example, the wind has its reasons. We just don't notice as we go about our lives. But then, at some point, we are made to notice. The wind envelops you with a certain purpose in mind, and it rocks you. The wind knows everything that's inside you. And not just the wind. Everything, including a stone. They all know us very well. From top to bottom. It only occurs to us at certain times. And all we can do is go with those things. As we take them in, we survive, and deepen.”
― Haruki Murakami, Hear the Wind Sing

“Everyone who has something is afraid of losing it, and people with nothing are worried they'll forever have nothing. Everyone is the same.”
― Haruki Murakami, Hear the Wind Sing

“People with dark souls have nothing but dark dreams. People with really dark souls do nothing but dream.”
― Haruki Murakami, Hear the Wind Sing

“Things pass us by. Nobody can catch them. That's the way we live our lives.”
― Haruki Murakami, Hear the Wind Sing

“If writers only wrote about things everybody knew, what the hell would be the point of writing?”
― Haruki Murakami, Hear the Wind Sing

“Still, in the end, we all die just the same.”
― Haruki Murakami, Hear the Wind Sing

“I like the sky. You can look at it forever and never get tired of it, and when you don’t want to look at it anymore, you stop.”
― Haruki Murakami, Hear the Wind Sing

“Whatever can't be expressed might as well not exist.”
― Haruki Murakami, Hear the Wind Sing

“That's how it is with art. Mere humans who root through their refrigerators at three o'clock in the morning are incapable of such writing.”
― Haruki Murakami, Hear the Wind Sing

“The more honest I try to be, the more the right words recede into the distance.”
― Haruki Murakami, Hear the Wind Sing

“Expression and communication are essential; without these, civilization ends.”
― Haruki Murakami, Hear the Wind Sing

“I tell lies sometimes. The last time I lied was a year ago. I absolutely detest lying. You could say that lying and silence are the two greatest sins of present day society. Actually, I lie a lot, and I'm always clamming up.”
― Haruki Murakami, Hear the Wind Sing

“When the time comes, everybody’s got to end up where they belong. Only me, I didn’t have a place to call my own. It’s like musical chairs.”
― Haruki Murakami, Hear the Wind Sing

“All of us are laboring under the same conditions. It's like we're all flying in the same busted airplane. Sure, some of us are luckier than others. Some are tough and some are weak. Some are rich and some are poor. But no one's superman - in that way, we're all weak. If we own things, we're terrified we'll lose them; if we've got nothing we worry it'll be that way forever. We're all the same. If you catch on to that early enough, you can try to make yourself stronger, even if only a little. It's okay to fake it. Right? There are no truly strong people. Only people who pretend to be strong.”
― Haruki Murakami, Hear the Wind Sing

“Even if you don't acknowledge it, people die, and guys sleep with girls. That's just how it is.”
― Haruki Murakami, Hear the Wind Sing

“Of course you keep telling yourself there's something to be learned from everything, and growing old shouldn't be that hard. That's the general drift.”
― Haruki Murakami, Hear the Wind Sing

“If you're looking for fine art or literature, you might want to read some stuff written by the Greeks. Because to create true fine art, slaves are a necessity. That's how the ancient Greeks felt, with slaves working the fields, cooking their meals, rowing their ships, all the while their citizens, under the Mediterranean Sun, indulged in poetry writing and grappled with mathematics. That was their idea of fine art.”
― Haruki Murakami, Hear the Wind Sing

“I find the act of writing very painful. I can go a whole month without managing a single line, or write three days and nights straight, only to find the whole thing has missed the mark.
At the same time, though, I love writing. Ascribing meaning to life is a piece of cake compared to actually living it.”
― Haruki Murakami, Hear the Wind Sing

“The worst thoughts usually strike in the dead of the night.”
― Haruki Murakami, Hear the Wind Sing

“The things we try our hardest not to lose, we really just put deep abysses in the spaces between them.”
― Haruki Murakami, Hear the Wind Sing

“Even so, everything was ever so slightly off, as if little by little the tracing paper had slipped irretrievably from the lines of summers past.”
― Haruki Murakami, Hear the Wind Sing

“You keep looking at the sea and you start to miss being with people; you stay around people all the time and you just want to go look at the sea.”
― Haruki Murakami, Hear the Wind Sing

“Whenever I wake up in a strange house I always feel as if the wrong soul got stuffed into the wrong body.”
― Haruki Murakami, Hear the Wind Sing

“The scent of the sea and the burning asphalt being carried on the southerly wind made me think of summers past. The warmth of a girl's skin, old rock n' roll, button-down shirts right out of the wash, the smell of cigarettes smoked in the pool locker room, faint premonitions, everyone's sweet, limitless summer dreams. And then one year(when was it?), those dreams didn't come back.”
― Haruki Murakami, Hear the Wind Sing

“Compared to the complexity of the universe, this world of ours is like the brain of a worm.”
― Haruki Murakami, Hear the Wind Sing

“When people are dead, you can forgive them 'most anything.”
― Haruki Murakami, Hear the Wind Sing

“Everybody's gotta die sometime. But until then we've still got fifty-some odd years to go, and a lot to think about while we're living those fifty years, and I'll just come right out and say it: that's even more tiring than living five thousand years thinking about nothing. Don't you think?”
― Haruki Murakami, Hear the Wind Sing

“It’s really difficult to talk about dead people, but it’s even harder to talk about dead young women. It’s because from the time they die, they’ll be young forever. On the other hand, for us, the survivors, every year, every month, every day, we get older.
Sometimes, I feel like I can feel myself aging from one hour to the next. It’s a terrible thing, but that’s reality.”
― Haruki Murakami, Hear the Wind Sing