Haruki Murakami Quotes About Reality

Quotes about: Reality

• Narrow minds devoid of imagination. Intolerance, theories cut off from reality, empty terminology, usurped ideals, inflexible systems. Those are the things that really frighten me. What I absolutely fear and loathe.

  Haruki Murakami

  Cutting, Reality, Imagination

  FaceBook post by Haruki Murakami from Jul 07, 2011

• It's hard to tell the difference between sea and sky, between voyager and sea. Between reality and the workings of the heart.

  Haruki Murakami

  Heart, Reality, Sea

  Haruki Murakami (2011). “Kafka On The Shore”, p.24, Random House

• The better you were able to imagine what you wanted to imagine, the farther you could flee from reality.

  Haruki Murakami

  Reality, Able, Imagine

• Reality was utterly coolheaded and utterly lonely.

  Haruki Murakami

  Lonely, Reality

  Haruki Murakami (2011). “1Q84 Sampler”, p.4, Random House

• Strong and independent? I’m neither. I’m just being pushed along by reality, whether I like it or not.

  Haruki Murakami

  Strong, Independent, Reality

• 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

  Running, Hurt, Pain

  FaceBook post by Haruki Murakami from Sep 10, 2014

• 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

• How many times have you said, 'This is it. I've finally found my one true love'? And how many times has the reality turned out differently? Paperback romances and fairy tales promote an ideal of a first and only love, but few of us can claim to have had such uncomplicated good fortune. For most people, the process of finding the perfect partner is one trial and error: breakups, makeups, missed opportunities and misunderstandings. Human love is a fragile creation, and sometimes the smallest thing - the wrong choice of words or a single clumsy gesture - can make love shatter, stall or fade away.

  Haruki Murakami

  Breakup, Reality, Love Is

• I was reduced to pure concept. My flesh had dissolved; my form had dissipated. I floated in space. Liberated of my corporeal being, but without dispensation to go anywhere else.I was adrift in the void. Somewhere across the fine line separating nightmare from reality.

  Haruki Murakami

  Reality, Space, Adrift

  FaceBook post by Haruki Murakami from Sep 15, 2014

• Don't let appearances fool you. There's always only one reality!

  Haruki Murakami

  Reality, Fool, Appearance

  Haruki Murakami (2011). “1Q84: Books 1 and 2”, p.18, Random House

• We're both looking at the same moon, in the same world. We're connected to reality by the same line. All I have to do is quietly draw it towards me.

  Haruki Murakami

  Moon, Reality, World

  FaceBook post by Haruki Murakami from May 24, 2014

• The best way to think about reality, I had decided, was to get as far away from it as possible.

  Haruki Murakami

  Reality, Thinking, Way

  Haruki Murakami (2011). “The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle”, p.231, Random House

• Reality's just the accumulation of ominous prophecies come to life. All you have to do is open a newspaper on any given day to weigh the good news versus the bad news, and you'll see what I mean.

  Haruki Murakami

  Mean, Reality, News

• And it came to me then. That we were wonderful traveling companions but in the end no more than lonely lumps of metal in their own separate orbits. From far off they look like beautiful shooting stars, but in reality they're nothing more than prisons, where each of us is locked up alone, going nowhere. When the orbits of these two satellites of ours happened to cross paths, we could be together. Maybe even open our hearts to each other. But that was only for the briefest moment. In the next instant we'd be in absolute solitude. Until we burned up and became nothing.

  Haruki Murakami

  Beautiful, Lonely, Stars

  FaceBook post by Haruki Murakami from Aug 06, 2014

• In dreams you don't need to make any distinctions between things. Not at all. Boundaries don't exist. So in dreams there are hardly ever collisions. Even if there are, they don't hurt. Reality is different. Reality bites. Reality, reality.

  Haruki Murakami

  Dream, Hurt, Reality

  FaceBook post by Haruki Murakami from Jan 05, 2017

• It's just that you're about to do something out of the ordinary. And after you do something like that, the everyday look of things might seem to change a little. Things may look different to you than they did before. But don't let appearances fool you. There's always only one reality.

  Haruki Murakami

  Reality, Everyday, Ordinary

  FaceBook post by Haruki Murakami from Jan 31, 2016

• I realize now that the reality of things is not something you convey to people but something you make.

  Haruki Murakami

  Reality, People, Realizing

  Haruki Murakami (1994). “The Elephant Vanishes”, Vintage

• What we needed were not words and promises but a steady accumulation of small realities.

  Haruki Murakami

  Life, Reality, Promise

• We were, the two of us, still fragmentary beings, just beginning to sense the presence of an unexpected, to be-aquired reality that would fill us and make us whole.

  Haruki Murakami

  Reality, Two, Unexpected

  FaceBook post by Haruki Murakami from Sep 08, 2016

• it occurred to me what a simple thing reality is, how easy it is to make it work. It's just reality. Just housework. Just a home. Like running a simple machine. Once you learn to run it, it's just a matter of repetition. You push this button and pull that lever. You adjust a gauge, put on the lid, set the timer. The same thing, over and over.

  Haruki Murakami

  Running, Home, Simple

• And her sleep was too long and deep for that:so deep that she left her normal reality behind.

  Haruki Murakami

  Sleep, Reality, Long

• There are symbolic dreams-- dreams that symbolize some reality. Then there are symbolic realities -- realities that symbolize a dream. Symbols are what you might call the honorary town councillors of the worm universe. In the worm universe, there is nothing unusual about a dairy cow seeking a pair of pliers. A cow is bound to get her pliers sometime. It has nothing to do with me.

  Haruki Murakami

  Dream, Reality, Pliers

  FaceBook post by Haruki Murakami from Jul 25, 2014

• Things may look different to you than they did before. I've had that experience myself. But don't let appearances fool you. There's only one reality.

  Haruki Murakami

  Reality, Different, Looks

  "1Q84: Books 1 and 2". Book by Haruki Murakami, 2011.

• If only I could fall sound asleep and wake up in my old reality!

  Haruki Murakami

  Fall, Reality, Sound

• That's gotta be one of the principles behind reality. Accepting things that are hard to comprehend, and leaving them that way.

  Haruki Murakami

  Reality, Leaving, Principles

  Haruki Murakami (2011). “Sputnik Sweetheart”, p.149, Random House

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