Haruki Murakami 1q84 Quotes

#1. I love books that create worlds for me that I don't want to leave. I recently lost my entire life to Haruki Murakami - 1Q84. I tell people that book ruined my life in the best possible way. I couldn't think of anything else for weeks after I read it.

Sarah Kay

#2. There's no longer any place for a Big Brother in this real world of ours. Instead, these so-called Little People have come on the scene. Interesting verbal contrast, don't you think?

Haruki Murakami

#3. His father said nothing. Instead, he looked straight at Tengo as if he were reading a bulletin written in a foreign language.
1Q84, Murakami

Haruki Murakami

#4. Life is a shit sandwich and every day you take another bite.

Joe Schmidt

#5. I am living in hell from one day to the next. But there is nothing I can do to escape. I don't know where I would go if I did. I feel utterly powerless, and that feeling is my prision. I entered of my own free will, I locked the door, and I threw away the key.

Haruki Murakami

#6. Never complain, pray for strength to overcome the difficulty.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#7. In the middle of my third Hollywood picture The Magician, the earthquake hit Hollywood. Not the real earthquake. Just the talkies.

Conrad Veidt

#8. If you ask me, any religion that takes the end of the world as one of its central tenets is more or less bogus. In my view, the only thing that ever 'ends' is the individual.

Haruki Murakami

#9. Like it or not, I'm here now, in the year 1Q84. The 1984 that I knew no longer exists. It's 1Q84 now. The air has changed, the scene has changed.

Haruki Murakami

#10. The origin of sorrow is this: to wish for something that does not come to pass.

Epictetus

#11. But pure, unadulterated feelings are dangerous in their own way. It is no easy feat for a flesh-and-blood human being to go on living with such feelings. That is why it is necessary for you to fasten your feelings to the earth - firmly, like attaching an anchor to a balloon.

Haruki Murakami

#12. Like all social theories, internationalism must seek its basis in the economic and technical fields; here are to be found the most profound and the most decisive factors in the development of society.

Christian Lous Lange

#13. I realized that equipment really had little to do with why I sound like the way I sound.

Pat Metheny

#14. When I think of your kisses my mind see-saws.

Joni Mitchell

#15. I'll say this: Google is the best 9-5 anyone could ever get. Awesome environment, I loved my time there, but I grew up with my dream to pursue music full time.

Hoodie Allen

#16. There's a need, too, for a special name in order to distinguish between this present world and the former world in which the police carried old-fashioned revolvers ... 1Q84 - that's what I'll call this new world. Q is for 'question mark'. A world that bears a question.

Haruki Murakami

#17. I think that what we were doing with the live musical version of 'Shrek' was taking the ideas and the structure of the movie and not necessarily reinventing it but reimagining it. It is a very different medium to perform.

Daniel Breaker

#18. But for the poor of a country where corruption thieved a great deal of opportunity, corruption was one of the genuine opportunities that remained. As

Katherine Boo

#19. If the house were on fire, what would you save? The cat? The computer? The only existing picture of your dead sister? Rather, the question should be: What would you be willing to lose? For Zoe Rutherford the answer was: everything.

Tanya Anne Crosby

#20. My films require that the spectator ask the big existential questions. If you're not interested of turning inwards for answers, my films won't fulfill their whole purpose.

Lisa Langseth

#21. This is no honky-tonk parade. 1Q84 is the real world, where a cut draws real blood, where pain is real pain and fear is real fear. The moon in the sky is no paper moon.

Haruki Murakami

#22. You can't go anywhere if you just resign yourself to being attacked. A state of chronic powerlessness eats away at a person.

Haruki Murakami

#23. To wish to be well is a part of becoming well.

Seneca.

#24. We don't lump people by groups or special interests. And let me add, in the party of Lincoln there is no room for intolerance and not even a small corner for anti-Semitism or bigotry of any kind. Many people are welcome in our house, but not the bigots.

Ronald Reagan

#25. To Tengo, sexual desire was fundamentally an extension of a means of communication. And so, to look for sexual desire in a place where there was no possibility of communication seemed inappropriate to him.

Haruki Murakami

#26. Next she turned the gun upward and thrust the muzzle into her mouth. Now it was aimed directly at her cerebrum-- the gray labyrinth where consciousness resided.

Haruki Murakami

#27. We all live off his generous bounty, gift after gift after gift. [ John 1:16 MSG ]

Max Lucado

#28. The world is moving ahead on its own without my being aware of it, as if we're playing a game in which everybody else can move only when I have my eyes closed.

Haruki Murakami

#29. Somehow the world survived the Nazis, the atomic bomb, and modern music

Haruki Murakami