“He wakes! The steel giant wakes! Long, long ago he rose from the sea, with the blood of life streaming from his… — Ryū Murakami Copy Share Image
“This was a factory, a sorting house. We were no different from dogs and pigs and cows: all of us were allowed… — Ryū Murakami Copy Share Image
“Anyone who’s had a visit from them has discovered an important fact about life: namely, that misery grows up all by itself,… — Ryū Murakami Copy Share Image
“These young men, in other words, represented a variety of types, but one thing they had in common was that they'd all… — Ryū Murakami Copy Share Image
“After listening to a lot of these stories, I began to think that American loneliness is a completely different creature from anything… — Ryū Murakami Copy Share Image
“It was a face that instantly robbed those who gazed upon it of a good thirty percent of the energy they needed… — Ryū Murakami Copy Share Image
“Lady #1, Maki, had never once given any thought to what was really right for her in her life, simply believing that… — Ryū Murakami Copy Share Image
“Parents, teachers, government - they all teach you how to live the dreary, deadening life of a slave, but nobody teaches you… — Ryū Murakami Copy Share Image
“To distort our faces with joy, or wail and weep with sorrow, or collapse in agony, or wallow in sentimentality – wasn’t… — Ryū Murakami Copy Share Image
“I wasn't sure I knew any longer what was right and what was wrong. It was a very precarious feeling, but it… — Ryū Murakami Copy Share Image
“But why is it that if you imagine a baby who smells of milk, for example, you can't help smiling? Why is… — Ryū Murakami Copy Share Image
“But sometimes things happen that no one hopes for. Events that cause everything you've worked towards, the life you've carefully constructed piece… — Ryū Murakami Copy Share Image
“People who love horror films are people with boring lives... when a really scary movie is over, you're reassured to see that you're still… — Ryu Murakami Copy Share Image
“Even when you're talking to them face to face you have this feeling of not connecting, as if the words just pass through them.… — Ryū Murakami Copy Share Image
“Of course, I'm not sure there is such a thing as a real self. You could ransack your innards looking for the real you… — Ryū Murakami Copy Share Image
“The feeling that the world was at my feet and the feeling that I alone was cut off from the world, the sense of… — Ryū Murakami Copy Share Image
“Everybody wants to talk about themselves, and everybody wants to hear everybody else's story, so we take turns playing reporter and celebrity.” — Ryu Murakami Copy Share Image
“Only time can heal wounds as deep as that—a lot of time—and all you can really do is place yourself in its hands and… — Ryū Murakami Copy Share Image
“What these young men feared and hated more than anything else was being spoken to by people they hadn't met, or having to explain… — Ryū Murakami Copy Share Image
“There in that pool stained with green blood, he had learned two things: one was that all the pain stopped when you stopped fighting… — Ryū Murakami Copy Share Image
“The song was the late Ishihara Yujiro’s “Rusty Knife,” and Sakaguchi’s singing was so bad that it gave the lyric a strange new pathos… — Ryū Murakami Copy Share Image
“But for all we’ve lost, hope is in fact one thing we Japanese have regained. The great earthquake and tsunami have robbed us of… — Ryū Murakami Copy Share Image
“Yeah, he'd said, maybe it's just my idea, but really it always hurts, the times it don't hurt is when we just forget, we… — Ryū Murakami Copy Share Image
“A person without self-confidence is incapable of being independent, and people who are dependent on their partners always create unhappiness. Always.” — Ryū Murakami Copy Share Image
