Haruki Murakami, After The Quake Quotes
I want to write about people who dream and wait for the night to end, who long for the light so they can hold the ones they love.
Don't tell me anymore. You should have your dream, as the old woman told you to. I understand how you feel, but if you put those feelings into words they will turn into lies. (from Thailand)
It's just a feeling I have. What you see with your eyes is not necessarily real. My enemy is, among other things, the me inside me.
The whole terrible fight occured in the area of imagination. That is the precise location of our battlefield. It is there, that we experience our victories and defeats.
Have your dream...What you need now more than anything is discipline. Cast off mere words. Words turn into stone. (from Thailand)
What I was chasing in circles must have been the tail of the darkness inside me.
I just gave them a little scare. A touch of psychological terror. As Joseph Conrad once wrote, true terror is the kind that men feel towards their imagination. (from Super-frog Saves Tokyo)
A gust of wind set the leaves of grass to dancing and celebrated the grass's song before it died.
He would eventually have to pass through the forest, but he felt no fear. Of course - the forest was inside him, he knew, and it made him who he was.
There was a time when my soul was wandering through the deepest darkness…
No matter how far you travel, you can never get away from yourself. It’s like your shadow. It follows you everywhere. -Komura
That’s my dream. It’s always the same. Always. Every little detail. And every time I have it, it’s just as scary as the last.(…)It’s so real, I feel as if I’ve already died hundreds of times.
It's not right for one friend to do all the giving and the other to do all the taking: that's not read friendship.