Memories Quotes by Haruki Murakami

Memories are what warm you up from the inside. But they're also what tear you apart.

— Haruki Murakami

“Memories feign through scarcely perceived doors of my being.”

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The faintest gleam of their lost memories glimmered for the briefest moment in their hearts.

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I think history is collective memories. In writing, I'm using my own memory, and I'm using my collective memory.

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“The world [...] an endless battle of contrasting memories.”

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Most everything you think you know about me is nothing more than memories.

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“People leave traces of themselves where they feel most comfortable, most worthwhile.”

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That's what the world is , after all: an endless battle of contrasting memories.

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Here, too, a brand-new day is beginning. It could be a day like all the others, or it could be a day…

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People's memories are maybe the fuel they burn to stay alive. Whether those memories have any actual importance or not, it doesn't…

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“Body cells replace themselves every month. Even at this very moment. Most everything you think you know about me is nothing more…

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“Body cells replace themselves every month. Even at this very moment,” she said, thrusting a skinny back of her hand before my…

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“Memories warm you up from the inside. But they also tear you apart." Nakata shook his head. “That’s a tough one. Nakata…

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No matter how much time passes, no matter what takes place in the interim, there are some things we can never assign…

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What if I’ve forgotten the most important thing? What if somewhere inside me there is a dark limbo where all the truly…

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Memory is so crazy! It's like we've got these drawers crammed with tons of useless stuff. Meanwhile, all the really important things…

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“They had stolen my memories from me! Nobody had that right. Nobody! My memories belonged to me. Stealing memories was stealing time.…

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“Writing from memory like this, I often feel a pang of dread. What if I've forgotten the most important thing? What if…

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My father belongs to the generation that fought the war in the 1940s. When I was a kid my father told me…

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Our memory is made up of our individual memories and our collective memories. The two are intimately linked. And history is our…

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“You know what I think?” she says. “That people’s memories are maybe the fuel they burn to stay alive. Whether those memories…

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“Still, though, I can't be sure if the zoo as I recall it was really like that. How can I put it?…

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You know what I think?" she says. "That people's memories are maybe the fuel they burn to stay alive. Whether those memories…

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“Everyone of us is losing something precious to us. Lost opportunities, lost possibilities, feelings we can never get back again. That's part…

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Most things are forgotten over time. Even the war itself, the life-and-death struggle people went through is now like something from the…

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“Memories warm you up from the inside. But they also tear you apart.' ... 'Nakata's lived a long time, but as I…

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“Every one of us is losing something precious to us... Lost opportunities, lost possibilities, feelings we can never get back again. That's…

— Haruki Murakami

“The majority of people dismiss those things that lie beyond the bounds of their own understanding as absurd and not worth thinking…

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“We're so caught up in our everyday lives that events of the past, like ancient stars that have burned out, are no…

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“Every one of us is losing something precious to us,” he says after the phone stops ringing. “Lost opportunities, lost possibilities, feelings…

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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…

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Most things are forgotten over time. Even the war itself, the life-and-death struggle people went through, is now like something from the…

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Memories and thoughts age, just as people do. But certain thoughts can never age, and certain memories can never fade.

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“You know what I think?" she says. "That people's memories are maybe the fuel they burn to stay alive.”

— Haruki Murakami

You can hide memories, but you can’t erase the history that produced them

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“People leave strange little memories behind when they die.”

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“Music has that power to revive memories, sometimes so intensely that they hurt.”

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

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“Commonplace they might be, but the accumulation of these memories has led to one result: me.”

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Precipitate as weather, she appeared from somewhere, then evaporated, leaving only memory.

— Haruki Murakami