Kafka On The Shore Quotes

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

Haruki Murakami. "Kafka on the Shore.".

Haruki Murakami

#2. 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

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

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

Haruki Murakami

#4. If only one could clear out one's mind and heart as ruthlessly as one did one's wardrobe.

Barbara Pym

#5. I, measuring his affections by my own,
Which then most sought where most might not be found,
Being one too many by my weary self,
Pursued my humor not pursuing his,
And gladly shunned who gladly fled from me.

William Shakespeare

#6. A Devil, a born Devil on whose nature, nurture can never stick, on whom my pain, humanly taken, all lost, quite lost ...

William Shakespeare

#7. You're you, you see, and nobody else. You are you, right?

Haruki Murakami

#8. Prayer is an exchange. We leave our burdens, worries and sin in the hands of God. We come away with oil of joy and the garment of praise.

F.B. Meyer

#9. 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

#10. I deal with two types of students. Those who have a very deep-seated knowledge of love, which are few, or those in all their lives have ignored love.

Frederick Lenz

#11. 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

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

Haruki Murakami

#13. The general rule in nature is that live things are soft within and rigid without.

Annie Dillard

#14. 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

#15. Nay, the guest who has escaped from the roof, will think twice before he comes back in by the door.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#16. Well, our concern has to do with the period prior to 9/11, up to and including the catastrophe that occurred. And thank goodness, we're not obliged to make assessments of what's going on now and deal with these current events.

Richard Ben-Veniste

#17. It is vital to avoid mediocrity - living a life of deadness in someone else's threadbare world.

Miriam A. Walker

#18. 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

#19. When I was a producer, the fun of the show was waking up with a hit and enjoying the period after the show opens. The fun of a director stops the day it opens. No matter if it's a success or a failure, it's not a whole lot of fun anymore.

Harold Prince

#20. If humanity is annihilated because we were too busy squabbling with one another to manage a proper stand, we probably deserve the annihilation.

G.S. Jennsen

#21. Pointless thinking is worse than no thinking at all.

Haruki Murakami

#22. Selfishness must always be forgiven you know, because there is no hope of a cure.

Jane Austen

#23. Memento Mori' means 'Remember you will die.

Lemony Snicket

#24. He claims he has never known fatigue while obeying the law, but when he does break it he feels a sense of guilt in discovering the slightest evidence of fatigue which tells him that he has broken it.

Walter Russell

#25. Human beings act very much like storms when there's something to say. Very rarely in nature does a deluge catch you by complete surprise. There are the signs before
the sky darkening, the wind picking up, the air smelling like rain even before a drop has hit.

David Levithan

#26. 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

#27. 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

#28. Every single day, each time I see her face, see her, it's utterly precious.

Haruki Murakami