Haruki Murakami Quotes About Desire

Quotes about: Desire

• 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 be hope in their hearts. That hope would be a small, yet vital flame that warmed them to their core-- a tiny flame to cup one's hands around and protect from the wind, a flame that the violent winds of reality might easily extinguish.

  Haruki Murakami

  Heart, Reality, Flames

  FaceBook post by Haruki Murakami from Sep 22, 2015

• Reading was like an addiction; I read while I ate, on the train, in bed until late at night, in school, where I'd keep the book hidden so I could read during class. Before long I bought a small stereo and spent all my time in my room, listening to jazz records. But I had almost no desire to talk to anyone about the experience I gained through books and music. I felt happy just being me and no one else. In that sense I could be called a stack-up loner.

  Haruki Murakami

  Book, Reading, School

  FaceBook post by Haruki Murakami from Oct 09, 2015

• 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

  Dream, People, Forever

  FaceBook post by Haruki Murakami from Feb 05, 2016

• I’ve had that kind of experience myself: I’m looking at a map and I see someplace that makes me think, ‘I absolutely have to go to this place, no matter what’. And most of the time, for some reason, the place is far away and hard to get to. I feel this overwhelming desire to know what kind of scenery the place has, or what people are doing there. It’s like measles - you can’t show other people exactly where the passion comes from. It’s curiosity in the purest sense. An inexplicable inspiration.

  Haruki Murakami

  Inspiration, Passion, Thinking

  Haruki Murakami (2011). “1Q84: Books 1 and 2”, p.276, Random House

• Everybody has some one thing they do not want to lose," began the man. "You included. And we are professionals at finding out that very thing. Humans by necessity must have a midway point between their desires and their pride. Just as all objects must have a center of gravity. This is something we can pinpoint. Only when it is gone do people realize it even existed.

  Haruki Murakami

  Pride, Men, People

  FaceBook post by Haruki Murakami from Nov 24, 2015

• There's not much you can do about time - it just keeps on passing. But experience? Don't tell me that. I'm not proud of it, but I don't have any sexual desire. And what sort of experience can a writer have if she doesn't feel passion? It'd be like a chef without an appetite.

  Haruki Murakami

  Passion, Desire, Proud

• Was it Aristotle who said the human soul is composed of reason, will, and desire?” “No, that was Plato. Aristotle and Plato were as different as Mel Tormé and Bing Crosby. In any case, things were a lot simpler in the old days,” Komatsu said. “Wouldn’t it be fun to imagine reason, will, and desire engaged in a fierce debate around a table?

  Haruki Murakami

  Fun, Plato, Soul

• If she did experience sex-or something close to it-in high school, I'm sure it would have been less out of sexual desire or love than literary curiosity.

  Haruki Murakami

  Sex, School, Curiosity

  "Sputnik Sweetheart by Haruki Murakami", www.theguardian.com. May 25, 2001.

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