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Us Quotes by Haruki Murakami
- Each of us possesses a tangible living soul. The system has no such thing. We must not allow the system to exploit us.
- Dreaming is the day job of novelists, but sharing our dreams is a still more important task for us. We cannot be novelists without this…
- I often recall these words when I am writing, and I think to myself, “It’s true. There aren’t any new words. Our job is to…
- With luck, it might even snow for us.
- And it came to me then. That we were wonderful traveling companions but in the end no more than lonely lumps of metal in their…
- 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…
- Chance encounters are what keep us going.
- 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…
- I don't think jealousy has much of a connection with real, objective conditions. Like if you're fortunate you're not jealous, but if life hasn't blessed…
- 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…
- They tell us that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself,but I don't believe that." he said. Then, a moment later, he…
- Time, of course, topples everyone in its path equally- the way that driver beats his old horse until it dies. But the thrashing we receive…
- 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…
- Time is too conceptual. Not that it stops us from filling it in. So much so, we can't even tell whether our experiences belong to…
- What makes us the most normal," said Reiko, "is knowing that we're not normal.
- When it's raining like this," said Naoko, "it feels as if we're the only ones in the world. I wish it would just keep raining…
- But why should you be interested in me?" Good question. I can’t explain it myself right this moment. But maybe – just maybe – if…
- Every one of us is losing something precious to us. Lost opportunities, lost possibilities, feelings we can never get back again. That’s part of what…
- Most things are forgotten over time. Even the war itself, the life-and-death struggle people went through is now like something from the distant past. We’re…
- Sometimes we don't need words. Rather, it's words that need us. If we were no longer here, words would lose their whole function. They would…
- In traveling, a companion, in life, compassion,'" she repeats, making sure of it. If she had paper and pencil, it wouldn't surprise me if she…
- I have a million things to talk to you about. All I want in this world is you. I want to see you and talk.…
- No truth can cure the sorrow we feel from losing a loved one. No truth, no sincerity, no strength, no kindness can cure that sorrow.…
- We were, the two of us, still fragmentary beings, just beginning to sense the presence of an unexpected, to be-aquired reality that would fill us…
- Time really is one big continuous cloth, no? We habitually cut out pieces of time to fit us, so we tend to fool ourselves into…
More Us Quotes
- Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite is really… — 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
- Let us love winter, for it is the spring of genius. — Pietro Aretino
- The spirit of Ubuntu, that once led Haiti to emerge as the first independent black nation in 1804, helped Venezuela, Colombia and… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first. — Aristotle
- It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those… — Aristotle
- Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in… — Aristotle
- The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for… — Aristotle
- Our efforts are not aimed at isolating Israel or de-legitimizing it; rather we want to gain legitimacy for the cause of the… — Mahmoud Abbas
- We want the Israelis to leave. They want to leave - so let us let them leave. — Mahmoud Abbas
- Bad things are not the worst things that can happen to us. Nothing is the worst thing that can happen to us! — Richard Bach
- All religions are designed to teach us how to live, joyfully, serenely, and kindly, in the midst of suffering. — Karen Armstrong