Time expands, then contracts, all in tune with the stirrings of the heart. Haruki Murakami More Quotes by Haruki Murakami More Quotes From Haruki Murakami I stare at her chest. As she breathes, the rounded peaks move up and down like the swell of waves, somehow reminding me of rain falling softly on a broad stretch of sea. I'm the lonely voyager standing on deck, and she's the sea. The sky is a blanket of gray, merging with the gray sea off on the horizon. It's hard to tell the difference between sea and sky. Between voyager and sea. Between reality and the workings of the heart. Haruki Murakami lonely rain moving These days I just can't seem to say what I mean [...]. I just can't. Every time I try to say something, it misses the point. Either that or I end up saying the opposite of what I mean. The more I try to get it right the more mixed up it gets. Sometimes I can't even remember what I was trying to say in the first place. It's like my body's split in two and one of me is chasing the other me around a big pillar. We're running circles around it. The other me has the right words, but I can never catch her. Haruki Murakami opposites running mean You're wrong. The mind is not like raindrops. It does not fall from the skies, it does not lose itself among other things. If you believe in me at all, then believe this: I promise you I will find it. Everything depends on this." "I believe you," she whispers after a moment. "Please find my mind. Haruki Murakami sky believe fall In certain areas of my life, I actively seek out solitude. Especially for someone in my line of work, solitude is, more or less, an inevitable circumstance. Sometimes, however, this sense of isolation, like acid spilling out of a bottle, can unconsciously eat away at a person's heart and dissolve it. You could see it, too, as a kind of double-edged sword. It protects me, but at the same time steadily cuts away at me from the inside. Haruki Murakami cutting solitude heart If you're going to while away the years, it's far better to live them with clear goals and fully alive then in a fog, and I believe # running helps you to do that. Exerting yourself to the fullest within your individual limits: that's the essence of running, and a metaphor for life. Haruki Murakami clear-goals running believe Writing is fun - at least mostly. I write for four hours every day. After that I go running. As a rule, 10 kilometers (6.2 miles). That's easy to manage. Haruki Murakami writing running fun There's a special feeling you get on a veranda that you just can't get anywhere else. Haruki Murakami special feelings It feels good to think about you when I'm warm in bed. I feel as if you're curled up there beside me, fast asleep. And I think how great it would be if it were true. Haruki Murakami distance relationship thinking 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 void able heart You make do with what you have. As you age you learn even to be happy with what you have. Haruki Murakami age Become like a sheet of blotting paper and soak it all in. Later on you can figure out what to keep and what to unload. Haruki Murakami sheets figures paper That's gotta be one of the principles behind reality. Accepting things that are hard to comprehend, and leaving them that way. Haruki Murakami leaving principles reality I dream. Sometimes I think that's the only right thing to do. Haruki Murakami dream inspiring thinking 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 writing book thinking Most young people were getting jobs in big companies, becoming company men. I wanted to be individual. Haruki Murakami jobs men people Judging the mistakes of strangers is an easy thing to do - and it feels pretty good. Haruki Murakami stranger judging mistake Each day the sun would rise and set, the flag would be raised and lowered. Each Sunday I would have a date with my dead friend’s girl. I had no idea what I was doing or what I was going to do. Haruki Murakami sunday girl ideas "They tell us that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself, but I don't believe that." he said. Then, a moment later, he added: "Oh, the fear is there, all right. It comes to us in many different forms, at different times, and overwhelms us. But the most frightening thing we can do at such times is to turn our backs on it, to close our eyes. For then we take the most precious thing inside us and surrender it to something else. In my case, that something was the wave." Haruki Murakami different eye believe People are drawn deeper into tragedy not by their defects but by their virtues. Haruki Murakami virtue tragedy people A strange, terrific force unlike anything I've ever experienced is sprouting in my heart, taking root there, growing. Shut up behind my rib cage, my warm heart expands and contracts independent of my will--over and over. Haruki Murakami independent roots heart
