Haruki Murakami Quotes About Cats

Quotes about: Cats

• Holding this soft, small living creature in my lap this way, though, and seeing how it slept with complete trust in me, I felt a warm rush in my chest. I put my hand on the cat's chest and felt his heart beating. The pulse was faint and fast, but his heart, like mine, was ticking off the time allotted to his small body with all the restless earnestness of my own.

  Haruki Murakami

  Heart, Cat, Hands

  FaceBook post by Haruki Murakami from Oct 29, 2015

• I'm going to take you out of here ... I'm going to take you home, to the world where you belong, where cats with bent tails live, and there are little backyards, and alarm clocks ring in the morning.

  Haruki Murakami

  Morning, Home, Cat

  FaceBook post by Haruki Murakami from Jul 18, 2014

• I collect records. And cats. I don't have any cats right now. But if I'm taking a walk and I see a cat, I'm happy.

  Haruki Murakami

  Cat, Records, Walks

  "Haruki Murakami: 'I took a gamble and survived'". Interview with Emma Brockes, www.theguardian.com. October 14, 2011.

• Confidence; as a teenager? Because I knew what I loved. I loved to read; I loved to listen to music; and I love cats. Those three things. So, even though I was an only kid, I could be happy because I knew what I loved.

  Haruki Murakami

  Love, Teenager, Cat

  "Haruki Murakami: 'I took a gamble and survived'". Interview with Emma Brockes, www.theguardian.com. October 14, 2011.

• 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

  Giving Up, Cat, Thinking

  FaceBook post by Haruki Murakami from Jun 16, 2011

• You know what I should do?" Hoshino asked excited. "Of course," the cat said. "What'd I tell you? Cats know everything. Not like dogs.

  Haruki Murakami

  Dog, Cat, Excited

  FaceBook post by Haruki Murakami from Dec 26, 2012

• You're not a kid any more. 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.

  Haruki Murakami

  Life, Cat, Kids

  "The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle: A Novel". Book by Haruki Murakami translated by Jay Rubin, 1997.

• The young man knows that he is irretrievably lost. This is no town of cats, he finally realizes. It is the place where he is meant to be lost. It is another world, which has been prepared especially for him. And never again, for all eternity, will the train stop at this station to take him back to the world he came from.

  Haruki Murakami

  Cat, Men, World

  FaceBook post by Haruki Murakami from Apr 30, 2015

• Far away, I could hear them lapping up my brains. Like Macbeth's witches, the three lithe cats surrounded my broken head, slurping up that thick soup inside. The tips of their rough tongues licked the soft folds of my mind. And with each lick my consciousness flickered like a flame and faded away.

  Haruki Murakami

  Cat, Flames, Broken

• I don't really know if it's the right thing to do, making new life. Kids grow up, generations take their place. What does it all come to? More hills bulldozed and more ocean fronts filled in? Faster cars and more cats run over? Who needs it?

  Haruki Murakami

  Running, Growing Up, Ocean

  "A Wild Sheep Chase". Book by Haruki Murakami, 1982.

• Someone who can search for something is happy. Searching gives a meaning to life. Nowadays it’s not so easy to find something you might be looking for. The most important thing, however, is the search itself, the way you take. It’s not so important where it leads. that’s why my characters are always looking for something, maybe only a cat, a sheep or a wife, but that is at least the beginning of a story.

  Haruki Murakami

  Character, Cat, Sheep

• Whenever I write a novel, music just sort of naturally slips in (much like cats do, I suppose).

  Haruki Murakami

  Writing, Cat, Novel

  "Questions for Murakami about Kafka on the Shore". www.harukimurakami.com.

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