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1Q84 (1Q84, #1-3) QUOTES

1Q84 (1Q84, #1-3) QUOTES

1 " 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. "

― Haruki Murakami , 1Q84 (1Q84, #1-3)

2 " 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. "

― Haruki Murakami , 1Q84 (1Q84, #1-3)

3 " A person learns how to love himself through the simple acts of loving and being loved by someone else. "

― Haruki Murakami , 1Q84 (1Q84, #1-3)

4 " Life is not like water. Things in life don't necessarily flow over the shortest possible route. "

― Haruki Murakami , 1Q84 (1Q84, #1-3)

5 " In the name of God, they stole her time and her freedom, putting shackles on her heart. They preached about God's kindness, but preached twice as much about his wrath and intolerance. "

― Haruki Murakami , 1Q84 (1Q84, #1-3)

6 " But hell, you've gotta work with what you've got. "

― Haruki Murakami , 1Q84 (1Q84, #1-3)

7 " 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 , 1Q84 (1Q84, #1-3)

8 " This is what it means to live on. When granted hope, a person uses it as fuel, as a guidepost to life. It is impossible to live without hope. "

― Haruki Murakami , 1Q84 (1Q84, #1-3)

9 " Wherever there's hope there's a trial. "

― Haruki Murakami , 1Q84 (1Q84, #1-3)

10 " I'm not afraid to die. What I'm afraid of is having reality get the better of me, of having reality leave me behind. "

― Haruki Murakami , 1Q84 (1Q84, #1-3)

11 " Hundreds of butterflies flitted in and out of sight like short-lived punctuation marks in a stream of consciousness without beginning or end. "

― Haruki Murakami , 1Q84 (1Q84, #1-3)

12 " You like to write. It's the single most important quality for someone who wants to be a writer. But not in itself enough. "

― Haruki Murakami , 1Q84 (1Q84, #1-3)

13 " Or maybe that’s what it’s all about: this religion’s substance is its lack of substance.

In McLuhanesque terms, the medium is the message. Some people might find that cool.”

“McLuhanesque?”

“Hey, look, even I read a book now and then,” Ayumi protested. “McLuhan was ahead of his time. He was so popular for a while that people tend not to take him seriously, but what he had to say was right.”

“In other words, the package itself is the contents. Is that it?”

“Exactly. The characteristics of the package determine the nature of the contents, not the other way around. "

― Haruki Murakami , 1Q84 (1Q84, #1-3)

14 " Time flows in strange ways on Sundays, and sights become mysteriously distorted. "

― Haruki Murakami , 1Q84 (1Q84, #1-3)

15 " Human beings are ultimately nothing but carriers-passageways- for genes. They ride us into the ground like racehorses from generation to generation. Genes don't think about what constitutes good or evil. They don't care whether we are happy or unhappy. We're just means to an end for them. The only thing they think about is what is most efficient for them. "

― Haruki Murakami , 1Q84 (1Q84, #1-3)

16 " People lose fifty million skin cells every day. The cells get scraped off and turn into invisible dust, and disappear into the air. Maybe we are nothing but skin cells as far as the world is concerned. "

― Haruki Murakami , 1Q84 (1Q84, #1-3)

17 " Don’t you see? You and he might never cross paths again. Of course, a chance meeting could occur, and I hope it happens. I really do, for your sake. But realistically speaking, you have to see there’s a huge possibility you’ll never be able to meet him again. And even if you do meet, he might already be married to somebody else. He might have two kids. Isn’t that so? And in that case, you may have to live the rest of your life alone, never being joined with the one person you love in all the world. Don’t you find that scary? "

― Haruki Murakami , 1Q84 (1Q84, #1-3)

18 " For some reason all the middle-aged women he knew were very efficient. "

― Haruki Murakami , 1Q84 (1Q84, #1-3)

19 " This may be the most important proposition revealed by history: 'At the time, no one knew what was coming. "

― Haruki Murakami , 1Q84 (1Q84, #1-3)

20 " I can bear any pain as long as it has meaning. "

― Haruki Murakami , 1Q84 (1Q84, #1-3)