Kafka on the Shore Quotes

“I'm free, I think. I shut my eyes and think hard and deep about how free I am, but I can't really understand what it means. All I know is I'm totally alone. All alone in an unfamiliar place, like some solitary explorer who's lost his compass and...”

― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

topic:freedom loneliness

“Perhaps most people in the world aren't trying to be free, Kafka. They just think they are. It's all an illusion. If they really were set free, most people would be in a real bind. You'd better remember that. People actually prefer not being free.”

― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

topic:freedom

“The journey I'm taking is inside me. Just like blood travels down veins, what I'm seeing is my inner self, and what seems threatening is just the echo of the fear in my own heart.”

― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

topic:self fear heart

“Your heart is like a great river after a long spell of rain, spilling over its banks.”

― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

topic:heart

“Kids' hearts are malleable, but once they gel it's hard to get them back the way they were.”

― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

topic:heart change children

“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, Kafka on the Shore

topic:heart reality

“I go back to the reading room, where I sink down in the sofa and into the world of The Arabian Nights. Slowly, like a movie fadeout, the real world evaporates. I'm alone, inside the world of the story. My favorite feeling in the world.”

― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

topic:reality reading

“Each person feels the pain in his own way, each has his own scars.”

― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

topic:pain personality

“the stars are like the trees in the forest, alive and breathing. And they're watching me.”

― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

topic:nature stars

“When you come out of the storm you won't be the same person who walked in. That's what this storm's all about.”

― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

topic:change

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