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Earth Quotes by Haruki Murakami
- Colours shone with exceptional clarity in the rain. The ground was a deep black, the pine branches a brilliant green, the people wrapped in yellow…
- All over the world people have developed their own ideas about what's right and wrong in life, but so long as you aren't harming others…
- Do you know what ‘Sputnik’ means in Russian? ‘Travelling companion’. I looked it up in a dictionary not long ago. Kind of a strange coincidence…
- Time weighs down on you like an old, ambiguous dream. You keep on moving, trying to sleep through it. But even if you go to…
- Strange and mysterious things, though, aren't they - earthquakes? We take it for granted that the earth beneath our feet is solid and stationary. We…
- 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…
- I closed my eyes and listened carefully for the descendants of Sputnik, even now circling the earth, gravity their only tie to the planet. Lonely…
- When I was little, I had this science book. There was a section on 'What would happen to the world if there was no friction?'…
- Was the earth put here just to nourish human loneliness?
- If writing novels is like planting a forest, then writing short stories is more like planting a garden. The two processes complement each other, creating…
- Thanks to the long days of rain, the blades of grass glowed with a deep-green luster, and they gave off the smell of wildness unique…
- The Earth, time, concepts, love, life, faith justice, evil - they're all fluid and in transition. They don't stay in one form or in one…
- I stare at this ceaseless, rushing crowd and imagine a time a hundred years from now. In a hundred years everybody here-me included-will have disappeared…
- There was just one moon. That familiar, yellow, solitary moon. The same moon that silently floated over fields of pampas grass, the moon that rose--a…
- I want to write stories that are different from the ones I've written so far, Junpei thought: I want to write about people who dream…
- The silence grew deeper, so deep that if you listened carefully you might very well catch the sound of the earth revolving on its axis.
- The moon had been observing the earth close-up longer than anyone. It must have witnessed all of the phenomena occurring - and all of the…
- I could disappear from the face of the earth, and the world would go on moving without the slightest twinge. Things were tremendously complicated, to…
- My very existence, my life in the world, seemed like a hallucination. A strong wind would make me think my body was about to be…
More Earth Quotes
- The earth is the very quintessence of the human condition. — Hannah Arendt
- It suddenly struck me that that tiny pea, pretty and blue, was the Earth. I put up my thumb and shut one… — Neil Armstrong
- Here men from the planet Earth first set foot upon the Moon. July 1969 AD. We came in peace for all mankind. — Neil Armstrong
- I put up my thumb and it blotted out the planet Earth. — Neil Armstrong
- It's a brilliant surface in that sunlight. The horizon seems quite close to you because the curvature is so much more pronounced… — Neil Armstrong
- I'd never heard of the 'Lord of the Rings', actually. So I went to the bookstore and there it was, three shelves… — Sean Astin
- Science and fiction both begin with similar questions: What if? Why? How does it all work? But they focus on different areas… — Margaret Atwood
- We are all here on earth to help others; what on earth the others are here for I don't know. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- God had one son on earth without sin, but never one without suffering. — Saint Augustine
- What springs from earth dissolves to earth again, and heaven-born things fly to their native seat. — Marcus Aurelius
- Here is the test to find whether your mission on Earth is finished: if you're alive, it isn't. — Richard Bach
- Carbon dioxide is natural. It is not harmful. It is part of Earth's life cycle. — Michele Bachmann