Haruki Murakami, Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage

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Quotes by Haruki Murakami, Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage

"Life is long, and sometimes cruel. Sometimes victims are needed. Someone has to take on that role. And human bodies are fragile, easily damaged. Cut them, and they bleed."

Haruki Murakami, Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage

"Aren't you afraid of dying?Not really. I've watched lots of good-for-nothing, worthless people die, and if people like that can do it, then I should be able to handle it."

Haruki Murakami, Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage

"Strictly speaking, it might not be a dream. It was reality, but a reality imbued with all the qualities of a dream. A different sphere of reality, where - at a special time and place - imagination had been set free."

Haruki Murakami, Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage

"One other thing I learned from working in a company was that the majority of people in the world have no problem following orders. They're actually happy to be told what to do. They might complain, but that's not how they really feel. They just grumble out of habit. If you told them to think for themselves, and make their own decisions and take responsibility for them, they'd be clueless."

Haruki Murakami, Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage

"The heart apparently doesn’t stop that easily."

Haruki Murakami, Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage

"Every person should decide for himself how happy, or unhappy, our society might be."

Haruki Murakami, Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage

"I've been clinging to this world like a discarded shell of an insect stuck to a branch, about to be blown off forever by a gust of wind."

Haruki Murakami, Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage

"The feeling of the wind, the sound of rushing water, the sense of sunlight breaking through the clouds, the colors of flowers as the seasons changed - everything around him felt changed, as if they had all been recast."

Haruki Murakami, Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage

"It was a different sense of isolation from what he normally felt in Japan. And not such a bad feeling, he decided. Being alone in two senses of the word was maybe like a double negation of isolation. In other words, it made perfect sense for him, a foreigner, to feel isolated here. The thought calmed him. He was in exactly the right place."

Haruki Murakami, Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage

"People do change. And no matter how close we once were, and how much we opened up to each other, maybe neither of us know anything substantial about the other."

Haruki Murakami, Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage

"People do change. And no matter how close we once were, and how much we opened up to each other, maybe neither if us know anything substantial about the other."

Haruki Murakami, Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage

"He calmed himself, shut his eyes, and fell asleep. The rear light of consciousness, like the last express train of the night, began to fade into the distance, gradually speeding up, growing smaller until it was, finally, sucked into the depths of night, where it disappeared. All that remained was the sound of the wind slipping through a stand of white birch trees."

Haruki Murakami, Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage