Marukami Quotes

“Sometimes I feel so—I don’t know—lonely. The kind of helpless feeling when everything you’re used to has been ripped away. Like there’s
no more gravity, and I’m left to drift in outer space with no idea where I’m going”
― Haruki Murakami, Sputnik Sweetheart

“Somebody once said if it’s something a single book can explain, it’s not worth having explained”
― Haruki Murakami, Sputnik Sweetheart

“And it came to me then. That we were wonderful travelling companions, but in the end no more than lonely lumps of metal
on their own separate orbits. From far off they look like beautiful shooting stars, but in reality they’re nothing more
than prisons, where each of us is locked up alone, going nowhere. When the orbits of these two satellites of ours
happened to cross paths, we could be together. Maybe even open our hearts to each other. But that was only for the briefest
moment. In the next instant we’d be in absolute solitude. Until we burned up and became nothing”
― Haruki Murakami, Sputnik Sweetheart

“Being all alone is like the feeling you get when you stand at the mouth of a large river on a rainy evening and watch the water flow into the sea.
Have you ever done that? Stand at the mouth of a large river and watch the water flow into the sea?”
― Haruki Marukami

“The Earth, after all, doesn’t creak and groan its way around the sun just so human beings can have a good time and a bit of a laugh.”
― Haruki Murakami, Sputnik Sweetheart

“Any explanation or logic that explains everything so easily has a hidden trap in it”
― Haruki Murakami, Sputnik Sweetheart

“When I was younger all kinds of people talked to me,” she said. “Told me all sorts of things. Fascinating stories, beautiful, strange stories. But past a certain point nobody talked to me any more. No one. Not my husband, my child, my friends …no one. Like there was nothing left in the world to talk about. Sometimes I feel like my body’s turning invisible, like you can see right through me”
― Haruki Marukami

“We each have a special something we can get only at a special time of our life. Like a small flame. A careful, fortunate few cherish that flame, nurture it, hold it as a torch to light their way. But once that flame goes out, it’s gone for ever”
― Haruki Marukami

“So that’s how we live our lives. No matter how deep and fatal the loss, no matter how important the thing that’s stolen from us—that’s snatched right out of our hands—even if we are left completely changed people with only the outer layer of skin from before, we continue to play out our lives this way, in silence. We draw ever nearer to our allotted span of time, bidding it farewell as it trails off behind. Repeating, often adroitly, the endless deeds of the everyday. Leaving behind a feeling of immeasurable emptiness.”
― Haruki Marukami