Haruki Murakami Wind Up Bird Chronicle Quotes

#1. I'd be smiling and chatting away, and my mind would be floating around somewhere else, like a balloon with a broken string.

Haruki Murakami

#2. I was enveloped in numbness, and absence of feeling so deep the bottom was lost from view.

Haruki Murakami

#3. I hate guns, I think they're the worst thing ever invented.

Rutger Hauer

#4. The better you were able to imagine what you wanted to imagine, the farther you could flee from reality.

Haruki Murakami

#5. As an actor, I know immediately if I'm saying a word that doesn't feel right coming out of my mouth, and I know how to change it. But as a director watching something, or even as a writer reading a script, sometimes it's not always clear what needs to be fixed.

Scott Foley

#6. The chief pang of most trials is not so much the actual suffering itself as our own spirit of resistance to it.

Jean Grou

#7. So how was it?" she asked. "Kissing Curran?"
"I can't let him kiss me again, because if he does, I'll sleep with him."
Andrea blinked. "Well," she said finally, "At least you know where you stand.

Ilona Andrews

#8. That's all I think about these days. Must be because I have so much time to kill every day. When you don't have anything to do, your thoughts get really, really far out-so far out
you can't follow them all the way to the end.

Haruki Murakami

#9. I have to learn more in order to preserve my body.

Colin Kaepernick

#10. I plant my elbows on the kitchen table, prop up my chin and think: When the hell did the compass needle get out of whack and lead my life astray?

Haruki Murakami

#11. I could do just about anything if somebody made me. But I don't have an image of the one thing I really want to do. That's my problem now. I can't find the image ... I'm standing still, and I can't find the image.
- Toru

Haruki Murakami

#12. Guys like you make life easy for some women.

Saul Bellow

#13. Strange as it may seem - or perhaps it does not seem so strange - they all had the same thought: it was so much easier to kill humans on the battlefield than animals in cages, even if, on the battlefield, one might end up being killed oneself.

Haruki Murakami

#14. I was living for one thing only, and that was to confirm my own lack of feeling.

Haruki Murakami

#15. Maybe it's been like that for you till now. But you're not a kid anymore. You have the right to choose your own life. You can start again. If you want a cat, all you have to do is choose a life in which you can have a cat. It's simple. It's your right ... right?

Haruki Murakami

#16. Do you mean am I worried about people seeing me with my jeans off? Sure. Sometimes people are overcome. They fall down. They hit their heads. It's worrying.

Sarah Rees Brennan

#17. So be encouraged and dedicate yourself to your dream and if your dream should come my way one day then we will dance upon the boards of life.

Ben Vereen

#18. From the moment of my birth, I lived with pain at the center of my life. My only purpose in life was to find a way to coexist with intense pain.

Haruki Murakami

#19. I have always felt a connection between daily life and art ... my reality has been my key.

Mirella Freni