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Wind Quotes by Haruki Murakami
- When I write about a 15-year old, I jump, I return to the days when I was that age. It's like a time machine. I…
- The grounds of the place were dominated by several large, old willow trees that towered over the surrounding stone wall and swayed soundlessly in the…
- 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…
- There were plenty of women around who dressed smartly, and plenty more who dressed to impress, but this girl was different. Totally different. She wore…
- 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…
- A regular wind-up toy world this is, I think. Once a day the wind-up bird has to come and wind the springs of this world.…
- I read Naoko's letter again and again, and each time I read it I would be filled with the same unbearable sadness I used to…
- The morning air of the pasture turned steadily cooler. Day by day, the bright golden leaves of the birches turned more spotted as the first…
- 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…
- 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…
- I do feel that I’ve managed to make something I could maybe call my world…over time…little by little. And when I’m inside it, to some…
- It's because of you when I'm in bed in the morning that I can wind my spring and tell myself I have to live another…
- A girl doesn't always want to go out, you know, Mr. Wind-Up Bird. Sometimes she feels like being nasty--like, if the guy's gonna wait, let…
- I don’t know, I don’t feel right unless I’ve got the sea and mountains nearby. People are mostly a product of where they were born…
- How many Sundays – how many hundreds of Sundays like this – lay ahead of me? “Quiet, peaceful and lonely,” I said aloud to myself.…
- The little things are important, Mr. Wind-Up Bird,
- let the wind change direction a little bit, and their cries turned to whispers.
- I miss you terribly sometimes, but in general I go on living with all the energy I can muster. Just as you take care of…
- Then I noticed that my shadow was crying too, shedding clear, sharp shadow tears. Have you ever seen the shadows of tears, Mr. Wind-Up Bird?…
- 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…
- 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…
- Sometimes when I'm with you, I remember things I lost when I was your age. Like I remember the sound of the rain and the…
- You said that the mind is like the wind but perhaps it is we who are like the wind Knowing nothing, simply blowing through. Never…
- 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…
- Gays, lesbians, straights, feminists, fascist pigs, communists, Hare Krishnas - none of them bother me. I don't care what banner they raise. But what I…
More Wind Quotes
- I keep sailing on in this middle passage. I am sailing into the wind and the dark. But I am doing my… — Arthur Ashe
- Sailing a boat calls for quick action, a blending of feeling with the wind and water as well as with the very… — George Matthew Adams
- It always rains on tents. Rainstorms will travel thousands of miles, against prevailing winds for the opportunity to rain on a tent. — Dave Barry
- Wind is God's way of balancing heat. Wind is the way you shift heat from areas where it's hotter to areas where… — Joe Barton
- Having a clear faith, based on the creed of the church is often labeled today as fundamentalism. Whereas relativism, which is letting… — Pope Benedict XVI
- Little things seem nothing, but they give peace, like those meadow flowers which individually seem odorless but all together perfume the air. — Georges Bernanos
- If you don't know where you are going, you might wind up someplace else. — Yogi Berra
- The three great elemental sounds in nature are the sound of rain, the sound of wind in a primeval wood, and the… — Henry Beston
- I don't think it's too hippie to want to clean up the planet so you don't wind up dying of some kind… — Jello Biafra
- Our Constitution was not written in the sands to be washed away by each wave of new judges blown in by each… — Hugo Black
- Actresses can get outrageously precious about the way they look. That's not what life's about. If you starve yourself to the point… — Cate Blanchett
- The little reed, bending to the force of the wind, soon stood upright again when the storm had passed over. — Aesop