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Things Quotes by Haruki Murakami
- Maybe working on the little things as dutifully and honestly as we can is how we stay sane when the world is falling apart.
- Why do I act like this, agreeing when I really disagree, letting people force me to do things I don't want to do?
- Everything. Things you lost. Things you’re gonna lose. Everything. Here’s where it all ties together.
- Some things in life are too complicated to explain in any language.
- Confidence, as a teenager? Because I knew what I loved. I loved to read; I loved to listen to music; and I loved cats. Those…
- Every writer has his writing technique - what he can and can't do to describe something like war or history. I'm not good at writing…
- Concentration is one of the happiest things in my life.
- On any given day, something claims our attention. Anything at all, inconsequential things. A rosebud, a misplaced hat, that sweater we liked as a child,…
- 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…
- Narrow minds devoid of imagination. Intolerance, theories cut off from reality, empty terminology, usurped ideals, inflexible systems. Those are the things that really frighten me.…
- Taking crazy things seriously is a serious waste of time.
- Things outside you are projections of what's inside you, and what's inside you is a projection of what's outside. So when you step into the…
- Me, I've seen 45 years, and I've only figured out one thing. That's this: if a person would just make the effort, there's something to…
- Although I didn't think so at the time, things were a lot simpler in 1969. All you had to do to express yourself was throw…
- In this world, there are things you can only do alone, and things you can only do with somebody else. It's important to combine the…
- Instead of things I'm good at, it might be faster to list the things I can't do. I can't cook or clean the house. My…
- For example, the wind has its reasons. We just don't notice as we go about our lives. But then, at some point, we are made…
- 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…
- I may be the type who manages to grab all the pointless things in life but lets the really important things slip away.
- What we see before us is just one tiny part of the world. We get in the habit of thinking, this is the world, but…
- Things like that happen all the time in this great big world of ours. It's like taking a boat out on a beautiful lake on…
- Don't pointless things have a place, too, in this far-from-perfect world?
- Well, finally, the events I've been through have been tremendously complicated. All kinds of characters have come on the scene, and strange things have happened…
- I realize now that the reality of things is not something you convey to people but something you make.
- In dreams you don't need to make any distinctions between things. Not at all. Boundaries don't exist. So in dreams there are hardly ever collisions.…
More Things Quotes
- It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded… — Hannah Arendt
- I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or… — Pietro Aretino
- The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance. — Aristotle
- The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal. — Aristotle
- Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes… — Aristotle
- Change in all things is sweet. — Aristotle
- In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous. — Aristotle
- No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world. — Aristotle
- For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to the things… — Aristotle
- The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he… — Aristotle
- A sense is what has the power of receiving into itself the sensible forms of things without the matter, in the way… — Aristotle
- Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason… — Aristotle