Haruki Quotes

“Once again, life had a lesson to teach me: It takes years to build up, it takes moments to destroy.”
― Haruki Murakami, Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World

“You don't get it" she said
''Don't get what?"
''We are one"
''We are one?" Tengo asked with a shock.
''We wrote the book together"
Tengo felt the pressure of Fuka-Eri's fingers against his palm.
...
''That's true. We wrote Air Crysalis together. And when we are eaten by the tiger, we'll be eaten together.”
― Haruki Murakami, 1Q84 Book 1

“I never had what it takes to make a first-rate anything.'
'That's wrong,' she declared. 'Everyone must have one thing that they can excel at. It's just a matter of drawing it out, isn't it?' But school doesn't know how to draw it out. It crushes the gift. It's no wonder most people never get to be what they want to be. They just get ground down.”
― Haruki Murakami, Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World

“Şefkat ve yürek tamamen farklı şeylerdir. Şefkat bağımsız bir işlevdir. Daha net söylemek gerekirse, yüzeysel bir işlevdir. Bu yalnızca bir alışkanlıktır, yürekten farklıdır. Yürek dediğimiz daha derin, daha güçlü bir şeydir. Üstelik her şeyle de çelişir.”
― Haruki Murakami, Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World

“Herkes sıradandır, karanlığın içinde el yordamıyla yaşamaya çalışırlar.”
― Haruki Murakami, Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World

“Life's funny like that."
"A laugh a minute."
She put on Danny Boy so I could sing it again.

But if you fall as all flowers'er dying,
And you are, as dead you well may be,
I'll come and find the place where you are lying,
And kneel and say an ave there for thee.
but come ye back when summer's in―

The second time through made me terribly sad.
"send me letters from wherever it is you're going," she said, touching me.”
― Haruki Murakami, Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World