Alla Lee > Alla's Quotes

“I'm the kind of person who has to totally commit to whatever I do.”
― Haruki Murakami, What I Talk About When I Talk About Running

“Some people can work their butts off and never get what they're aiming for while others can get it without any effort at all.”
― Haruki Murakami, What I Talk About When I Talk About Running

“An old cat is a good friend to talk to.”
― Haruki Murakami, Pinball, 1973

“Death was not the opposite of life. It was already here, within my being, it had always been here, and no struggle would permit me to forget that.”
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

“Being alive, if you had to define it, meant emitting a variety of smells”
― Haruki Murakami, 1Q84

“I have these realistic dreams and snap wide awake in the middle of the night. And for a while I can't work out what's real and what isn't... That kind of feeling. Do you have any idea what I'm saying?”
― Haruki Murakami, Sputnik Sweetheart

“There's that kind of money in the world. It aggravates you to have it, makes you miserable to spend it, and you hate yourself when it's gone. And when you hate yourself, you feel like spending money. Except there's no money left. And no hope.”
― Haruki Murakami, A Wild Sheep Chase

“To be able to grasp something of value, sometimes you have to perform seemingly inefficient acts.”
― Haruki Murakami, What I Talk About When I Talk About Running

“It depends on which reality you take and which reality I take.” (p. 318).”
― Haruki Murakami, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

“All my books are weird love stories. I love weird love stories.”
― Haruki Murakami

“Good question, but no answer. Good questions never have answers.”
― Haruki Murakami, Pinball, 1973

“You know what I should do?" Hoshino asked excited. "Of course," the cat said. "What'd I tell you? Cats know everything. Not like dogs.”
― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

“For a certain kind of person, love begins from something tiny or silly.
From something like that or it doesn't begin at all.”
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

“The world of the grotesque is the darkness within us.”
― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

“When all around is dark, there is nothing to do but to wait until the eye accustomed to the dark”
― Murakami Haruki

“As long as an individual's alive, he will undergo experience in some form or other, and those experiences are stored up instant by instant. To stop experiencin' is to die.”
― Haruki Murakami, Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World

“Nobody likes being alone that much. I don't go out of my way to make friends, that's all. It just leads to disappointment. ”
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

“Only the dead stay 17 forever.”
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

“I love pop culture -- the Rolling Stones, the Doors, David Lynch, things like that.
That's why I said I don't like elitism.”
― Haruki Murakami

“Death leaves cans of shaving cream half-used.”
― Haruki Murakami, Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World