Haruki Murakami: Frases em inglês

“It's easy to forget things you don't need anymore.”

Haruki Murakami livro Kafka on the Shore

“I'm a coward when it comes to matters of the heart. That is my fatal flaw.”

Haruki Murakami livro 1Q84

“Music brings a warm glow to my vision, thawing mind and muscle from their endless wintering.”

Haruki Murakami livro Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World

“Life doesn't require ideals. It requires standards of action.”

Haruki Murakami livro Norwegian Wood

“I'd be smiling and chatting away, and my mind would be floating around somewhere else, like a balloon with a broken string.”

Haruki Murakami livro The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

“Still, being able to feel pain was good, he thought. It's when you can't even feel pain anymore that you're in real trouble.”

Haruki Murakami livro Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage

“If I have left a wound inside you, it is not just your wound but mine as well.”

Haruki Murakami livro Norwegian Wood

“No matter how honestly you open up to someone, there are still things you cannot reveal.”

Haruki Murakami livro Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage

“A person learns how to love himself through the simple acts of loving and being loved by someone else.”

Haruki Murakami livro 1Q84

“I'm often asked what I think about as I run. Usually the people who ask this have never run long distances themselves. I always ponder the question. What exactly do I think about when I'm running? I don't have a clue.”

Haruki Murakami livro Auto-Retrato do Escritor enquanto Corredor de Fundo

“Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional. Say you’re running and you think, ‘Man, this hurts, I can’t take it anymore. The ‘hurt’ part is an unavoidable reality, but whether or not you can stand anymore is up to the runner himself.”

Haruki Murakami livro Auto-Retrato do Escritor enquanto Corredor de Fundo

“Knowledge and ability were tools, not things to show off.”

Haruki Murakami livro 1Q84

“With my eyes closed, I would touch a familiar book and draw its fragrance deep inside me. This was enough to make me happy.”

Haruki Murakami livro Norwegian Wood

“If I stayed here, something inside me would be lost forever—something I couldn't afford to lose. It was like a vague dream, a burning, unfulfilled desire. The kind of dream people have only when they're seventeen.”

Haruki Murakami livro South of the Border, West of the Sun

“Unclose your mind. You are not a prisoner. You are a bird in fight, searching the skies for dreams.”

Haruki Murakami livro Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World

“When I'm running I don't have to talk to anybody and don't have to listen to anybody. This is a part of my day I can't do without.”

Haruki Murakami livro Auto-Retrato do Escritor enquanto Corredor de Fundo

“Time moves in it special way in the middle of the night.”

Haruki Murakami livro After Dark

“Hey, Mr. Nakata. Gramps. Fire! Flood! Earthquake! Revolution! Godzilla's on the loose! Get!”

Haruki Murakami livro Kafka on the Shore

“I'll never see them again. I know that. And they know that. And knowing this, we say farewell.”

Haruki Murakami livro Kafka on the Shore