Haruki Murakami Quotes About Sleep

Quotes about: Sleep

• A short story I have written long ago would barge into my house in the middle of the night, shake me awake and shout, 'Hey,this is no time for sleeping! You can't forget me, there's still more to write!' Impelled by that voice, I would find myself writing a novel. In this sense, too, my short stories and novels connect inside me in a very natural, organic way.

  Haruki Murakami

  Writing, Sleep, Night

• To sleep with a woman: it can seem of the utmost importance in your mind, or then again it can seem like nothing much at all. Which only goes to say that there's sex as therapy (self-therapy, that is) and there's sex as pastime.

  Haruki Murakami

  Sex, Sleep, Self

  "A Wild Sheep Chase: A Novel". Book by Haruki Murakami, October 13, 1982.

• Sometimes I get real lonely sleeping with you.

  Haruki Murakami

  Lonely, Sex, Real

  Haruki Murakami (2011). “A Wild Sheep Chase”, p.11, Random House

• Certain kinds of knowledge rob people of their sleep.

  Haruki Murakami

  Sleep, Insomnia, People

  Haruki Murakami (2011). “1Q84: Books 1 and 2”, p.410, Random House

• A regular wind-up toy world this is, I think. Once a day the wind-up bird has to come and wind the springs of this world. Alone in this fun house, only I grow old, a pale softball of death swelling inside me. Yet even as I sleep somewhere between Saturn and Uranus, wind-up birds everywhere are busy at work fulfilling their appointed rounds.

  Haruki Murakami

  Softball, Fun, Spring

  Haruki Murakami (1994). “The Elephant Vanishes”, Vintage

• two people can sleep in the same bed and still be alone when they close their eyes

  Haruki Murakami

  Life, Sleep, Eye

  Haruki Murakami (1993). “Hard-boiled Wonderland and the End of the World: A Novel”, Vintage

• Time weighs down on you like an old, ambiguous dream. You keep on moving, trying to sleep through it. But even if you go to the ends of the earth, you won't be able to escape it. Still, you have to go there- to the edge of the world. There's something you can't do unless you get there.

  Haruki Murakami

  Life, Dream, Moving

  FaceBook post by Haruki Murakami from May 23, 2015

• And her sleep was too long and deep for that:so deep that she left her normal reality behind.

  Haruki Murakami

  Sleep, Reality, Long

• You're afraid of imagination and even more afraid of dreams. Afraid of the resposibility that begins in dreams. But you have to sleep and dreams are a part of sleep. When you're awake you can suppress imagination but you can't supress dreams.

  Haruki Murakami

  Dream, Sleep, Imagination

• I closed my eyes and tried to sleep. But it was not until much later that I was able to get any real sleep. In a place far away from anyone or anywhere, I drifted off for a moment.

  Haruki Murakami

  Real, Sleep, Eye

• Hatsumi had a pretty good idea that Nagasawa was sleeping around, but she never complained to him. She was seriously in love with him, but she never made demands. 'I don't deserve a girl like Hatsumi,' Nagasawa once said to me. I had to agree with him.

  Haruki Murakami

  Girl, Sleep, Ideas

• Okay, let’s put it this way. I would like to sleep with you. But it’s alright if I don’t sleep with you. What I’m saying is I’d like to be as fair as possible. I don’t want to force anything on anybody, any more than I’d want anything forced on me. It’s enough that I feel your presence or see your commas swirling around me.

  Haruki Murakami

  Sleep, Want, Way

• Now for a good twelve-hour sleep, I told myself. Twelve solid hours. Let birds sing, let people go to work. Somewhere out there, a volcano might blow, Israeli commandos might decimate a Palestinian village. I couldn't stop it. I was going to sleep.

  Haruki Murakami

  Sleep, Blow, Volcanoes

  Haruki Murakami (1993). “Hard-boiled Wonderland and the End of the World: A Novel”, Vintage

• Even if you don't acknowledge it, people die, and guys sleep with girls. That's just how it is.

  Haruki Murakami

  Girl, Sleep, People

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