Murakami Hard Boiled Wonderland Quotes & Sayings

Flaws in oneself open you up to others with flaws. — Haruki Murakami

Once again, life had a lesson to teach me: It takes years to build up, it takes moments to destroy. — Haruki Murakami

Grandfather always said school's a place where they take sixteen years to wear down your brain. Grandfather hardly went to school either. — Haruki Murakami

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. — Haruki Murakami

I also happened to identify with Julien Sorel. Sorel's basic character flaws had all cemented by the age of fifteen, a fact which further elicited my sympathy. To have all the building blocks of your life in place by that age was, by any standard, a tragedy. — Haruki Murakami

Kindness and a caring mind are two separate qualities. Kindness is manners. It is superficial custom, an acquired practice. Not so the mind. The mind is deeper, stronger, and, I believe, it is far more inconstant. — Haruki Murakami

It was as good as sealing yourself into a dungeon. Walled in, with nowhere to go but your own doom. — Haruki Murakami