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Hands Quotes by Haruki Murakami
- My face, my self, what would they mean to anybody? Just another stiff. So this self of mine passes some other's self on the street…
- But even so, every now and then I would feel a violent stab of loneliness. The very water I drink, the very air I breathe,…
- Those five fingers and that palm were like a display case crammed full of everything I wanted to know--and everything I had to know. By…
- Oshima's silent for a time as he gazes at the forest, eyes narrowed. Birds are flitting from one branch to the next. His hands are…
- So that's how we live our lives. No matter how deep and fatal the loss, no matter how important the thing that's stolen from us--that's…
- How can the mind be so imperfect?" she says with a smile. I look at my hands. Bathed in the moonlight, they seem like statues,…
- I'm in no position to hand down any advice," he said, "but there's a rule I follow when I don't know what to do." "A…
- Everybody's born with some different thing at the core of their existence. And that thing, whatever it is, becomes like a heat source that runs…
- Like most novelists, I like to do exactly the opposite of what I'm told. It's in my nature as a novelist. Novelists can't trust anything…
- I have come to think that life is a far more limited thing than those in the midst of its maelstorm realize. That light shines…
- Then she took my hand and touched it to the wound beside her eye. I caressed the half-inch scar. As I did so, the waves…
- Where the road sloped upward beyond the trees, I sat and looked toward the building where Naoko lived. It was easy to tell which room…
- I wasn't in love with her. And she didn't love me. For me the question of love was irrelevant. What I sought was the sense…
- Holding this soft, small living creature in my lap this way, though, and seeing how it slept with complete trust in me, I felt a…
- And everywhere, infinite options, infinite possibilities. An infinity, and at the same time, zero. We try to scoop it all up in our hands, and…
- sometimes i'd wake up at two or three in the morning and not be able to fall asleep again. i'd get out of bed, go…
- They sat on a park bench, held hands, and told each other their stories hour after hour. They were not lonely anymore. They had found…
- Where are you now?’ Where was I now? Gripping the receiver, I raised my hand and turned to see what lay beyond the telephone booth.…
- No matter how clear things might become in the forest of story, there was never a clear-cut solution, as there was in math. The role…
- As long as I stared at the clock, at least the world remained in motion. Not a very consequential world, but in motion nonetheless. And…
- My father always told me: 'Give somebody a hand and he'll take an arm.
- Wasn't it better if they kept this desire to see each other hidden within them, and never actually got together? That way, there would always…
- At the entrance to the original tower, there is a stone into which Jung carved some words with his own hand: 'Cold or not, God…
- What would tomorrow bring? I wondered. Both hands on the wheel, I closed my eyes. I didn’t feel like I was in my own body;…
- You’re here,” I continued. “At least you look as if you’re here. But maybe you aren’t. Maybe it’s just your shadow. The real you may…
More Hands Quotes
- A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler… — Aristotle
- We always expect tremendous criticism. It is my role to be the lightning rod ... to attract the attacks against the organization… — Julian Assange
- Reading and writing, like everything else, improve with practice. And, of course, if there are no young readers and writers, there will… — Margaret Atwood
- The ear tends to be lazy, craves the familiar and is shocked by the unexpected; the eye, on the other hand, tends… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- I wish I had eight pairs of hands, and another body to shoot the specimens. — John James Audubon
- What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and… — Saint Augustine
- If two friends ask you to judge a dispute, don't accept, because you will lose one friend; on the other hand, if… — Saint Augustine
- Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story. Education has been theirs in so much higher a degree;… — Jane Austen
- The glory of gardening: hands in the dirt, head in the sun, heart with nature. To nurture a garden is to feed… — Alfred Austin
- I had many friends to help me to fall; but as to rising again, I was so much left to myself, that… — Teresa of Avila
- I was living an extremely burdensome life, because every time I prayed, I became more clearly aware of my faults. On the… — Teresa of Avila
- God will roast their stomachs in hell at the hands of Iraqis. — Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf