Haruki Murakami Quotes About Soul

Quotes about: Soul

• There was just one moon. That familiar, yellow, solitary moon. The same moon that silently floated over fields of pampas grass, the moon that rose--a gleaming, round saucer--over the calm surface of lakes, that tranquilly beamed down on the rooftops of fast-asleep houses. The same moon that brought the high tide to shore, that softly shone on the fur of animals and enveloped and protected travelers at night. The moon that, as a crescent, shaved slivers from the soul--or, as a new moon, silently bathed the earth in its own loneliness. THAT moon.

  Haruki Murakami

  Loneliness, Animal, Moon

• People with dark souls have nothing but dark dreams. People with really dark souls do nothing but dream.

  Haruki Murakami

  Dream, Dark, People

• It's a dark, cool, quiet place. A basement in your soul. And that place can sometimes be dangerous to the human mind. I can open the door and enter that darkness, but I have to be very careful. I can find my story there. Then I bring that thing to the surface, into the real world.

  Haruki Murakami

  Real, Dark, Doors

• Beyond the window, some kind of small, black thing shot across the sky. A bird, possibly. Or it might have been someone's soul being blown to the far side of the world.

  Haruki Murakami

  Sky, Bird, Soul

• Don't you think it would be wonderful to get rid of everything and everybody and just go some place where you don't know a soul?

  Haruki Murakami

  Thinking, Soul, Would Be

  Haruki Murakami (2011). “Norwegian Wood”, p.223, Random House

• The grounds of the place were dominated by several large, old willow trees that towered over the surrounding stone wall and swayed soundlessly in the wind like lost souls.

  Haruki Murakami

  Wall, Wind, Tree

• I closed my eyes and listened carefully for the descendants of Sputnik, even now circling the earth, gravity their only tie to the planet. Lonely metal souls in the unimpeded darkness of space, they meet, pass each other, and part, never to meet again. No words passing between them. No promises to keep.

  Haruki Murakami

  Lonely, Eye, Space

  Haruki Murakami (2011). “Sputnik Sweetheart”, p.196, Random House

• An unhealthy soul requires a healthy body.

  Haruki Murakami

  Healthy, Soul, Body

  Haruki Murakami (2011). “What I Talk About When I Talk About Running”, p.98, Random House

• Where the road sloped upward beyond the trees, I sat and looked toward the building where Naoko lived. It was easy to tell which room was hers. All I had to do was find the one window toward the back where a faint light trembled. I focused on that point of light for a long, long time. It made me think of something like the final throb of a soul's dying embers. I wanted to cup my hands over what was left and keep it alive. I went on watching the way Jay Gatsby watched that tiny light on the opposite shore night after night.

  Haruki Murakami

  Night, Thinking, Light

• 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

• Each of us possesses a tangible living soul. The system has no such thing. We must not allow the system to exploit us.

  Haruki Murakami

  Soul, Tangible, Exploits

  Haruki Murakami’s Acceptance Speech for the Jerusalem Award, atticusinjapan.wordpress.com. February 28, 2009.

• Stories lie deep in our souls. Stories lie so deep at the bottom of our hearts that they can bring people together on the deepest level. When I write a novel, I go into such depths.

  Haruki Murakami

  Lying, Writing, Heart

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