Reality Quotes by Haruki Murakami

“Reality recedes until you can't tell who's sane and who's not.”

— Haruki Murakami

Don't let appearances fool you. There's always only one reality!

— Haruki Murakami

“Reality is endlessly cold and lonely.”

— Haruki Murakami

“To conserve energy, her little planet stopped spinning.”

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It depends on which reality you take and which reality I take.” (p. 318).

— Haruki Murakami

I dont think Im lonely.Im all alone, but Im not lonely.

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If only I could fall sound asleep and wake up in my old reality!

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Reality was utterly coolheaded and utterly lonely.

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“A physical object could only be in one place at one time. Einstein proved that. Reality was utterly coolheaded and utterly lonely.”

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

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It's hard to tell the difference between sea and sky, between voyager and sea. Between reality and the workings of the heart.

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“Our life here was just a momentary illusion, and someday reality would yank us back to the world we came from.”

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The better you were able to imagine what you wanted to imagine, the farther you could flee from reality.

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I realize now that the reality of things is not something you convey to people but something you make.

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Things may look different to you than they did before. I've had that experience myself. But don't let appearances fool you. There's…

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We're both looking at the same moon, in the same world. We're connected to reality by the same line. All I have…

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“Up till a minute ago it felt so real, but now it seems imaginary. Just a few steps is all it takes…

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“And after you do something like that, the everyday look of things might seem to change a little. Things may look different…

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Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional. Say you’re running and you think, ‘Man, this hurts, I can’t take it anymore. The ‘hurt’…

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It's just that you're about to do something out of the ordinary. And after you do something like that, the everyday look…

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“As soon as I sat down across from her, she ordered me to put the entire contents of my pants pockets on…

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In dreams you don't need to make any distinctions between things. Not at all. Boundaries don't exist. So in dreams there are…

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Look at the rain long enough, with no thoughts in your head, and you gradually feel your body falling loose, shaking free…

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Narrow minds devoid of imagination. Intolerance, theories cut off from reality, empty terminology, usurped ideals, inflexible systems. Those are the things that…

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There are symbolic dreams-- dreams that symbolize some reality. Then there are symbolic realities -- realities that symbolize a dream. Symbols are…

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I stare at her chest. As she breathes, the rounded peaks move up and down like the swell of waves, somehow reminding…

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When getting old, things that are important to your life begin to slip out of your grasp, one after another, like a…

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“But like a boat with a twisted rudder, I kept coming back to the same place. I wasn't going anywhere. I was…

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And it came to me then. That we were wonderful traveling companions but in the end no more than lonely lumps of…

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“Ushikawa always saw himself as a realist, and he actually was. Metaphysical speculation wasn't his thing. If something really existed you, had…

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Wasn't it better if they kept this desire to see each other hidden within them, and never actually got together? That way,…

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“I am not religious. I only believe in the power of imagination. And the fact that there isn't only one reality. The…

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“A question. So what are people supposed to do if they want to avoid a collision (thud!) but still lie in the…

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“Because memory and sensations are so uncertain, so biased, we always rely on a certain reality-call it an alternate reality-to prove the…

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I'm not afraid to die. What I'm afraid of is having reality get the better of me, of having reality leave me…

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“Strong and independent? I'm neither one. I'm just being pushed along by reality, whether I like it or not.”

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What we needed were not words and promises but a steady accumulation of small realities.

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“When you prick a person with a needle, red blood comes out- that's the real world.”

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The best way to think about reality, I had decided, was to get as far away from it as possible.

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“But that reality was like nothing I'd ever seen before: a reality that didn't seem to fit.”

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