1q84 Quote by Haruki Murakami Download Open image ““Somehow the world survived the Nazis, the atomic bomb, and modern music”” — Haruki Murakami ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.1 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare 1q84 Atomic bomb Modern music Music
“although we universally celebrate imagination, it is in fact a power that can uplift us and save us --- or as easily demean and… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“Like the atomic bomb, it’s there; like the bomb, the temptation will always exist to use it.There can no longer be a world without… — D.K. Holm Copy Share Image
“The atomic bomb brings the men home from every quarter of the earth because the war is not so much over as stunned back… — Sebastian Barry Copy Share Image
“We've survived the Black Plague, the Titanic, and Pearl Harbor just to name a few. Not to mention the Disco Period.” — Linda Wisdom Copy Share Image
“had life always been this detailed before? This vibrant? Every molecule singing its own peculiar song so loudly I could almost hear the walls… — Sierra Simone Copy Share Image
“In 1945 music had a serious purpose; to defy post war depression & revitalize the romantic & hopeful aspirations of an exhausted ppl.” — Pete Townshend Copy Share Image
“And, as the tiny lights drift into the blackness, the people pray that others around the world will remember Hiroshima and work for world… — Laurence Yep Copy Share Image
I always feel like I'm struggling to become someone else. Like I'm trying to find a new place, grab hold of a new life,… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
If writing novels is like planting a forest, then writing short stories is more like planting a garden. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“The sad truth is that what I could recall in five seconds all too soon needed ten, then thirty, thena full minute...” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Intelligent teenage girls were often instinctively theatrical, purposely eccentric, mouthing highly suggestive words to confuse people.” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Memory is like fiction; or else it's fiction that's like memory. This really came home to me once I started writing fiction, that memory seemd a kind of fiction, or vice versa. Either way, no matter how hard you try to put everything neatly into shape, the context wanders this way and that, until finally the context isn't even there… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share
The most dangerous creature here would have to be me. So maybe I'm just scared of my own shadow. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
If you listen to the radio for a whole hour there's maybe one decent song. The rest is mass-produced garbage — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“that one of our problems was our inability to recognize and accept our own deformities” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“When I look back at myself at age twenty, what I remember most is being alone and lonely. I had no girlfriend to warm my body or my soul, no friends I could open up to. No clue what I should do every day, no vision for the future. For the most part, I remained hidden away, deep within myself.… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share
“There's not a branch of publishing or broadcasting that doesn't depend in some way on advertising. It'd be like an aquarium without water. Why,… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“One by one, I'll face the tasks before me and complete them as best I can. Focusing on each stride forward, but at the same time taking a long-range view, scanning the scenery as far ahead as I can. I am, after all, a long distance runner. My time, the rank I attain, my outward appearance - all of these… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share
“Eleven o'clock had come and gone. I had to find a way to bring this conversation to a successful conclusion and get out of there. But before I could say anything, she suddenly asked me to hold her. 'Why?' I asked, caught off guard. 'To charge my batteries,' she said. 'Charge your batteries?' 'My body has run out of electricity.… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share
“Tengo wasn´t certain that he was doing the right thing. Maybe the time he was spending here, in this room in a sanatorium far… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“I am living in hell from one day to the next. But there is nothing I can do to escape. I don't know where… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“You don't get it" she said ''Don't get what?" ''We are one" ''We are one?" Tengo asked with a shock. ''We wrote the book together" Tengo felt the pressure of Fuka-Eri's fingers against his palm. ... ''That's true. We wrote Air Crysalis together. And when we are eaten by the tiger, we'll be eaten together.” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share
“There's no longer any place for a Big Brother in this real world of ours. Instead, these so-called Little People have come on the… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Of course, reading novels was just another form of escape. As soon as he closed their pages he had to come back to the real world. But at some point Tengo noticed that returning to reality from the world of a novel was not as devastating a blow as returning from the world of mathematics. Why should that have been?… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share
“His father said nothing. Instead, he looked straight at Tengo as if he were reading a bulletin written in a foreign language." 1Q84, Murakami” — Murakami Haruki Copy Share Image
“But pure, unadulterated feelings are dangerous in their own way. It is no easy feat for a flesh-and-blood human being to go on living… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“If you ask me, any religion that takes the end of the world as one of its central tenets is more or less bogus.… — Huraki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Because you are neither an angel nor a god. I am quite aware that your actions have been prompted by your pure feelings, and… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“You can't go anywhere if you just resign yourself to being attacked. A state of chronic powerlessness eats away at a person.” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image