Haruki Murakami, Hard-Boiled Wonderland And The End Of The World Quotes
Music brings a warm glow to my vision, thawing mind and muscle from their endless wintering.
There had to be something wrong with my life. I should have been born a Yugoslavian shepherd who looked up at the Big Dipper every night.
Life's no piece of cake, mind you, but the recipe's my own to fool with.
Death leaves cans of shaving cream half-used.
Losing you is most difficult for me, but the nature of my love for you is what matters. If it distorts into half-truth, then perhaps it is better not to love you. I must keep my mind but loose you.
Open your eyes, train your ears, use your head. If a mind you have, then use it while you can.
That's evolution. Evolution's always hard. Hard and bleak. No such thing as happy evolution
I never trust people with no appetite. It's like they're always holding something back on you.
When you say you believe, you allow the possibility of disappointment. And from disappointment or betrayal, there may come despair. Such is the way of the mind.
IT's not death. It's eternal life. And you get't'be yourself. Compared to that, this world isn't but a momentary fantasy. Please don't forget that.
The early autumn sun glinted on the water, an enormous mirror ground to powder and scattered.
Grandfather always said school's a place where they take sixteen years to wear down your brain. Grandfather hardly went to school either.
Nobody chooses to evolve. It's like floods and avalanches and earthquakes. You never know what's happening until they hit, then it's too late.
I shouted into the phone, but there was no reply. Silence floated up from the receiver like smoke from the mouth of a gun.
Wasn't much of a life anyway. Wasn't much of a brain.""But didn't you say you were satisfied with your life?""Word games, " I dismissed. "Every army needs a flag.
I thought about the screws and their happiness. Maybe they were glad to be free of the eggbeater, to be independent screws, to luxuriate on white trays. It did feel good to see them happy.
That's the way it is with the mind. Nothing is ever equal. Like a river, as it flows, the course changes with the terrain.
The mind is strong. It survives, even without thought. Even with everything taken away, it holds a seed—your self.
the mind is strong. It survives, even without thought. Even with everything taken away, it holds a seed--your self. You must believe in your own powers.
Let your body work until it is spent, but keep your mind for yourself.
Don't blame me. That's evolution. Evolution's always hard. Hard and bleak. No such thing as happy evolution.
Losing you is most difficult for me, but the nature of my love for you is what matters. If it distorts into half-truth, then perhaps it is better not to love you. I must keep my mind but lose you.
Let your body work until it is spent, but keep your mind to yourself.