Haruki Murakami Kafka On The Shore Quotes & Sayings

Does G get angry because it follows F in the alphabet? Does page 68 in a book start a revolution because it follows 67? — Haruki Murakami

I shot a lot of close-ups on this movie 'cause there's like a dual mystery, she's searching through her haunted past to find some truth and she's also following an external mystery where she comes to think she might be the killer. — Philip Kaufman

A dense, artistic kind of imperfection stimulates your consciousness, keeps you alert. If I listen to some utterly perfect performance of an utterly perfect piece while I'm driving, I might want to close my eyes and die right then and there. But listening to the D major, I can feel the limits of what humans are capable of-- that a certain type of perfection can only be realised through a limitless accumulation of imperfect. — Haruki Murakami

To think is to confine yourself to a single thought that one day stands still like a star in the world's sky. — Martin Heidegger

It has been pointed out already that no knowledge of probabilities, less in degree than certainty, helps us to know what conclusions are true, and that there is no direct relation between the truth of a proposition and its probability. Probability begins and ends with probability. — John Maynard Keynes

I'm delighted about the track's success in the sports world, but the frustrating thing is, I don't think I got rich on it. The labels and publishers did very cheap deals on our songs. — Alan Parsons

Rose pictured him standing at the boundary of the Ogletree house in that enormous fur cape, with a giant sword sticking over his shoulder, roaring at the top of his lungs and then being upset that nobody came out, and laughed. — Ilona Andrews

This is no time to let down our guard on youth violence. Research demonstrates that appropriate interventions made during or prior to adolescence can direct young people away from violence toward healthy and constructive lives. — David Satcher

I know. It's easy to forget things you don't need anymore."

Excerpt From: Haruki Murakami. "Kafka on the Shore." iBooks. — Haruki Murakami

Things change every day, Mr Nakata. With each new dawn it's not the same world as the day before. And you're not the same person you were, either. — Haruki Murakami

A question wells up inside me, a question so big it blocks my throat and makes it hard to breathe. Somehow I swallow it back, finally choosing another.
"Are memories such an important thing?"
"It depends," she replies, and closes her eyes. "In some cases, they're the most important thing there is. — Haruki Murakami

But thing in the past are like plate that's shattered to pieces. You can never put it back together like it was, right? — Haruki Murakami

We come. We go. And in between we try to understand. — Rod Steiger

When digital culture first came along, it was supposed to create more time, by allowing us to shift time around. Somehow instead we've strapped devices to ourselves that ping us all the time. — Douglas Rushkoff

What you eat is not the goal. What you are is the goal. — Rajneesh

The Russian loves recalling life, but he does not love living. — Anton Chekhov

He felt as if his heart had dried up. I needed her he thought. I needed someone like her to fill the void inside me. But I wasn't able to fill the void inside her. Until the bitter end, the emptiness inside her was hers alone. — Haruki Murakami

You sit at the edge of the world,
I am in a crater that's no more.
Words without letters
Standing in the shadow of the door.
The moon shines down on a sleeping lizard,
Little fish rain from the sky.
Outside the window there are soldiers,
steeling themselves to die.
(Refrain)
Kafka sits in a chair by the shore,
Thinking for the pendulum that moves the world, it seems.
When your heart is closed,
The shadow of the unmoving Sphinx,
Becomes a knife that pierces your dreams.
The drowning girl's fingers
Search for the entrance stone, and more.
Lifting the hem of her azure dress,
She gazes
at Kafka on the shore — Haruki Murakami

Every single day, each time I see her face, see her, it's utterly precious. — Haruki Murakami

Pointless thinking is worse than no thinking at all. — Haruki Murakami

It's not just that I'm dumb. Nakata's empty inside. I finally understand that. Nakata's like a library without a single book. It wasn't always like that. I used to have books inside me. For a long time I couldn't remember, but now I can. I used to be normal, just like everybody else. But something happened and I ended up like a container with nothing inside. — Haruki Murakami

You're you, you see, and nobody else. You are you, right? — Haruki Murakami

Green fields are the real green dollars! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

My skepticism is strong, but my curiosity is stronger. — Veronica Roth

What I think is this: You should give up looking for lost cats and start searching for the other half of your shadow. — Haruki Murakami

I have this complex. I don't like too much exposure. I don't know why it is. Maybe it's bred in me, because my dad always told me to be humble and don't think you're too good. — Mark Viduka

But metaphors can reduce the distance." "We're not metaphors." "I know, but metaphors eliminates what separates you and me. — Haruki Murakami

Fashion and riches will mask much annoyance ... — Christopher Pearse Cranch

like anyone bringing up the past." "What's the name of the song?" "'Kafka on the Shore.'" Oshima says. "'Kafka on the Shore'?" "That's correct, Kafka Tamura. — Haruki Murakami

Why does loving somebody mean you have to hurt them just as much? I mean if that's the way it goes, what's the point of loving someone? Why the hell does it have to be like that? — Haruki Murakami

No matter how far you run. Distance might not solve anything."

Haruki Murakami. "Kafka on the Shore.". — Haruki Murakami