Norwegian Wood Quotes - Page 2

• So I'm not crazy after all! I thought it looked good myself once I cut it all off. Not one guy likes it, though. They all tell me I look like a first grader or a concentration camp survivor. What's this thing that guys have for girls with long hair? Fascists, the whole bunch of them! Why do guys all think girls with long hair are the classiest, the sweetest, the most feminine? I mean, I myself know at least two hundred and fifty unclassy girls with long hair. Really.

  Haruki Murakami

  Girl, Crazy, Mean

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• But who can say what's best? That's why you need to grab whatever chance you have of happiness where you find it, and not worry about other people too much. My experience tells me that we get no more than two or three such chances in a life time, and if we let them go, we regret it for the rest of our lives.

  Haruki Murakami

  Regret, Two, People

  FaceBook post by Haruki Murakami from Jan 30, 2015

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• What happens when people open their hearts?"... "They get better.

  Haruki Murakami

  Broken Heart, Healing, People

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• Don't feel sorry for yourself. Only arseholes do that.

  Haruki Murakami

  Inspirational, Life, Sorry

  "Norwegian Wood". Boook by Haruki Murakami, 1987.

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• Was the earth put here just to nourish human loneliness?

  Haruki Murakami

  Lonely, Loneliness, Sputnik

  "Sputnik Sweetheart". Book by Haruki Murakami, 1999.

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• So what’s wrong if there happens to be one guy in the world who enjoys trying to understand you?

  Haruki Murakami

  Guy, Trying, World

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• I dream. Sometimes I think that's the only right thing to do.

  Haruki Murakami

  Inspiring, Dream, Thinking

  "The Power of Powerball: Why Dreaming Is Priceless" by Angie Sarhan, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 18, 2016.

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• People are strange when you're a stranger.

  Jim Morrison

  People, Strange, Stranger

  "Song: "People are strange" ("Strange Days")". 1967.

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• I have this strange feeling that I'm not myself anymore. It's hard to put into words, but I guess it's like I was fast asleep, and someone came, disassembled me, and hurriedly put me back together again. That sort of feeling.

  Haruki Murakami

  Numbness, Together Again, Feelings

  FaceBook post by Haruki Murakami from Sep 16, 2014

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• Only the dead stay seventeen forever.

  Haruki Murakami

  Forever, Seventeen, Toru Watanabe

  "Norwegian Wood". Book by Haruki Murakami, 1987.

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• What a terrible thing it is to wound someone you really care for and to do it so unconsciously.

  Haruki Murakami

  Care, Terrible, Toru Watanabe

  FaceBook post by Haruki Murakami from Sep 05, 2014

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• She waited for the train to pass. Then she said, "I sometimes think that people’s hearts are like deep wells. Nobody knows what’s at the bottom. All you can do is imagine by what comes floating to the surface every once in a while.

  Haruki Murakami

  Heart, Thinking, People

  FaceBook post by Haruki Murakami from Jun 13, 2011

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• Lost opportunities, lost possibilities, feelings we can never get back. That's part of what it means to be alive. But inside our heads - at least that's where I imagine it - there's a little room where we store those memories. A room like the stacks in this library. And to understand the workings of our own heart we have to keep on making new reference cards. We have to dust things off every once in awhile, let in fresh air, change the water in the flower vases. In other words, you'll live forever in your own private library.

  Haruki Murakami

  Memories, Flower, Heart

  FaceBook post by Haruki Murakami from Jun 16, 2012

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• No matter how much suffering you went through, you never wanted to let go of those memories.

  Haruki Murakami

  Life, Letting Go, Memories

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• There's no war that will end all wars.

  Haruki Murakami

  Life, War, Ends

  "Kafka on the Shore". Book by Haruki Murakami, 2002.

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  Why do people have to be this lonely? What's the point of it all? Millions of people in this world, all of them yearning, looking to others to satisfy them, yet isolating themselves. Why? Was the earth put here just to nourish human loneliness?

  Haruki Murakami

  Life, Sad, Lonely

  FaceBook post by Haruki Murakami from Aug 05, 2011

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• Death is not the opposite of life, but the opposite of choice.

  Robin Hobb

  Death, Opposites, Choices

  Robin Hobb (2002). “Fool's Errand: The Tawny Man Trilogy”, p.183, Spectra

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• Anyone who falls in love is searching for the missing pieces of themselves. So anyone who's in love gets sad when they think of their lover. It's like stepping back inside a room you have fond memories of, one you haven't seen in a long time.

  Haruki Murakami

  Love, Life, Memories

  "Kafka on the Shore". Book by Haruki Murakami, January, 2005.

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• Writing is the only way I know how to pray.

  Helena Maria Viramontes

  Writing, Way, Praying

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• Don't you think it would be wonderful to get rid of everything and everybody and just go some place where you don't know a soul?

  Haruki Murakami

  Thinking, Soul, Would Be

  Haruki Murakami (2011). “Norwegian Wood”, p.223, Random House

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• So I made up my mind I was going to find someone who would love me unconditionally three hundred and sixty-five days a year. Watanabe: Wow, and did your search pay off? M: That's the hard part. I guess I've been waiting so long I'm looking for perfection. That makes it tough.

  Haruki Murakami

  Years, Long, Perfection

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• When you come out of the storm, you won’t be the same person who walked in. That’s what this storm’s all about.

  Haruki Murakami

  Change, Encouraging, Uplifting

  FaceBook post by Haruki Murakami from May 21, 2014

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• Which is why I am writing this book. To think. To understand. It just happens to be the way I'm made. I have to write things down to feel I fully comprehend them.

  Haruki Murakami

  Book, Writing, Thinking

  FaceBook post by Haruki Murakami from Apr 02, 2015

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• Love with complications. Scenery was the last thing on my mind.

  Haruki Murakami

  Mind, Lasts, Scenery

  Haruki Murakami (2007). “Vintage Murakami”, p.5, Vintage

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• People leave strange little memories of themselves behind when they die.

  Haruki Murakami

  Memories, People, Littles

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