Haruki Murakami Quotes About Understanding

Quotes about: Understanding

• Where there is light, there must be shadow, where there is shadow there must be light. There is no shadow without light and no light without shadow.... We do not know if the so-called Little People are good or evil. This is, in a sense, something that surpasses our understanding and our definitions. We have lived with them since long, long ago-- from a time before good and evil even existed, when people's minds were still benighted.

  Haruki Murakami

  Light, Long Ago, People

• Is it possible, in the final analysis, for one human being to achieve perfect understanding of another? We can invest enormous time and energy in serious efforts to know another person, but in the end, how close can we come to that person's essence? We convince ourselves that we know the other person well, but do we really know anything important about anyone?

  Haruki Murakami

  Love, Friendship, Philosophy

  FaceBook post by Haruki Murakami from Nov 10, 2015

• I have been told I've got a darkish personality. A few times." Takahashi swings his trombone case from his right shoulder to his left. Then he says, "It's not as if our lives are divided simply into light and dark. There's shadowy middle ground. Recognizing and understanding the shadows is what a healthy intelligence does. And to acquire a healthy intelligence takes a certain amount of time and effort. I don't think you have a particularly dark character.

  Haruki Murakami

  Character, Dark, Thinking

• Understanding is but the sum of misunderstandings.

  Haruki Murakami

  Understanding, Misunderstanding

• Understanding' is merely the sum total of our misunderstandings.

  Haruki Murakami

  Understanding, Misunderstanding

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