Харуки Мураками цитаты

„Я очень люблю деньги! На них можно купить свободное время, чтобы писать.“

„Идеальный способ проводить летний отпуск. Жара, одиночество, свобода. Никому не мешаешь, и никто не мешает тебе.“

„Тебе не кажется, что было бы замечательно избавиться от всего и от всех и просто пойти туда, где ты не знаешь ни души?“

„…мне нравится вставлять в книги то, что не имеет никакого отношения. Если в произведении будет лишь то, что «относится к делу», там станет тесно и душно. А если вводишь одно за другим то, что вроде бы и постороннее, создается впечатление дуновения свежего ветра.“

„Зайдя в спальню, я принялся открывать, один за другим, ящики ее шкафа; все оказались пусты — хоть шаром покати. Старый изъеденный молью шарфик, пакетик с порошком от моли да три пустых вешалки — вот и все, что я там обнаружил. Она выгребла все подчистую.“

„С моей точки зрения, писать прозу – это тяжелый физический труд. Да, сочинительство – ментальный процесс, но чтобы написать роман или книгу, необходимо поработать физически.“

„Когда я пишу роман, у меня всегда в душе живёт образ яйца, которое разбивается о высокую прочную стену. «Стеной» могут быть танки, ракеты, фосфорные бомбы. А «яйцо» — это всегда невооружённые люди, их подавляют, их расстреливают. Я в этой схватке всегда на стороне яйца. Есть ли прок в писателях, которые стоят на стороне стены?“

„К югу от границы, на запад от солнца“

„…мои персонажи относятся ко мне лишь косвенно. Они появляются в повествовании и потом уже живут сами. Что я хочу сказать: к повествованию, к миру надо относиться нейтрально. Если же станут присутствовать личные мотивы — будь то жена или дети — ход изложения застопорится. Поэтому следует быть нейтральным, глядеть на все с беспристрастной позиции, чтобы по возможности не было никакого привкуса собственной жизни. Такую позицию я для себя выбираю, когда пишу.“

„…мои персонажи относятся ко мне лишь косвенно. Они появляются в повествовании и потом уже живут сами. Что я хочу сказать: к повествованию, к миру надо относиться нейтрально. Если же станут присутствовать личные мотивы - будь то жена или дети - ход изложения застопорится. Поэтому следует быть нейтральным, глядеть на все с беспристрастной позиции, чтобы по возможности не было никакого привкуса собственной жизни. Такую позицию я для себя выбираю, когда пишу.“

„…мне нравится вставлять в книги то, что не имеет никакого отношения. Если в произведении будет лишь то, что "относится к делу", там станет тесно и душно. А если вводишь одно за другим то, что вроде бы и постороннее, создается впечатление дуновения свежего ветра.“

“When you are used to the kind of life -of never getting anything you want- you stop knowing what it is you want.”

“Sometimes fate is like a small sandstorm that keeps changing directions. You change direction but the sandstorm chases you. You turn again, but the storm adjusts. Over and over you play this out, like some ominous dance with death just before dawn. Why? Because this storm isn't something that blew in from far away, something that has nothing to do with you. This storm is you. Something inside of you. So all you can do is give in to it, step right inside the storm, closing your eyes and plugging up your ears so the sand doesn't get in, and walk through it, step by step. There's no sun there, no moon, no direction, no sense of time. Just fine white sand swirling up into the sky like pulverized bones. That's the kind of sandstorm you need to imagine.”

“What happens when people open their hearts?"
"They get better.”

“Once the storm is over you won't remember how you made it through, how you managed to survive. You won't even be sure, in fact, whether the storm is really over. But one thing is certain. When you come out of the storm you won't be the same person who walked in. That's what this storm's all about.”

“People fall in love without reason, without even wanting to. You can't predict it. That's love.”

“Why do people have to be this lonely? What's the point of it all? Millions of people in this world, all of them yearning, looking to others to satisfy them, yet isolating themselves. Why? Was the earth put here just to nourish human loneliness?”

“Spend your money on the things money can buy. Spend your time on the things money can’t buy.”

“I really like you, Midori. A lot.”
“How much is a lot?”
“Like a spring bear,” I said.
“A spring bear?” Midori looked up again. “What’s that all about? A spring bear.”
“You’re walking through a field all by yourself one day in spring, and this sweet little bear cub with velvet fur and shiny little eyes comes walking along. And he says to you, “Hi, there, little lady. Want to tumble with me?’ So you and the bear cub spend the whole day in each other’s arms, tumbling down this clover-covered hill. Nice, huh?”
“Yeah. Really nice.”
“That’s how much I like you.”

“I'm tired of living unable to love anyone. I don't have a single friend - not one. And, worst of all, I can't even love myself. Why is that? Why can't I love myself? It's because I can't love anyone else. A person learns how to love himself through the simple acts of loving and being loved by someone else. Do you understand what I am saying? A person who is incapable of loving another cannot properly love himself.”

“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 labyrinth outside you, at the same time you're stepping into the labyrinth inside.”

“If you're young and talented, it's like you have wings.”

“Numbers aren’t the important thing … what matters is deciding in your heart to accept another person completely. When you do that, it is always the first time and the last.”

“Every once in a while she'll get worked up and cry like that. But that's ok. She's letting her feelings out. The scary thing is not being able to do that. Then your feelings build up and harden and die inside. That's when you're in big trouble.”

“I get irritated, I get upset. Especially when I'm in a hurry. But I see it all as part of our training. To get irritated is to lose our way in life.”

“Everyone who has something is afraid of losing it, and people with nothing are worried they'll forever have nothing. Everyone is the same.”

“But knowing what I don’t want to do doesn’t help me figure out what I do want to do. I could do just about anything if somebody made me. But I don’t have an image of the one thing I really want to do. That’s my problem now. I can’t find the image.”

“If you can love someone with your whole heart, even one person, then there's salvation in life. Even if you can't get together with that person.”

“A certain type of perfection can only be realized through a limitless accumulation of the imperfect.”

“Being with her I feel a pain, like a frozen knife stuck in my chest. An awful pain, but the funny thing is I'm thankful for it. It's like that frozen pain and my very existence are one.
The pain is an anchor, mooring me”

“I don't care what you do to me, but I don't want you to hurt me. I've had enough hurt already in my life. More than enough. Now I want to be happy.”

“You can hide memories, but you can't erase the history that produced them.”

“Not that we were incompatible: we just had nothing to talk about.”

“So what’s wrong if there happens to be one guy in the world who enjoys trying to understand you?”

“For a long time, she held a special place in my heart. I kept this special place just for her, like a "Reserved" sign on a quiet corner table in a restaurant. Despite the fact that I was sure I'd never see her again.”

“Life is a lot more fragile than we think. So you should treat others in a way that leaves no regrets. Fairly, and if possible, sincerely.”

“Maybe it's just hiding somewhere. Or gone on a trip to come home. But falling in love is always a pretty crazy thing. It might appear out of the blue and just grab you. Who knows — maybe even tomorrow.”

“When you fall in love, the natural thing to do is give yourself to it. That's what I think. It's just a form of sincerity.”

“A gentleman is someone who does not what he wants to do, but what he should do.”

“Don't pointless things have a place, too, in this far-from-perfect world? Remove everything pointless from an imperfect life, and it'd lose even its imperfection.”