The Wind Up Bird Chronicle Quotes

“When you get used to that kind of life—of never having anything you want—then you stop knowing what it is you want.”

― Haruki Murakami, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

topic:lifedesirewant

“A life without pain: it was the very thing I had dreamed of for years, but now that I had it, I couldn’t find a place for myself within it.”

― Haruki Murakami, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

topic:lifepain

“You might think you made a new world or a new self, but your old self is always gonna be there, just below the surface”

― Haruki Murakami, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

topic:selfchange

“Have you ever had that feeling—that you’d like to go to a whole different place and become a whole different self?”

― Haruki Murakami, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

topic:selfchange

“We convince ourselves that we know the other person well, but do we really know anything important about anyone?”

― Haruki Murakami, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

topic:understandingrelationship

“But even so, every now and then I would feel a violent stab of loneliness. The very water I drank, the very air I breathed, would feel like long, sharp needles. The pages of a book in my hands would take on the threatening metallic gleam of razor...”

― Haruki Murakami, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

topic:worldloneliness

“there is nothing so cruel in this world as the desolation of having nothing to hope for.”

― Haruki Murakami, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

topic:hopecruelty

“The point is, not to resist the flow. You go up when you’re supposed to go up and down when you’re supposed to go down. When you’re supposed to go up, find the highest tower and climb to the top. When you’re supposed to go down, find the...”

― Haruki Murakami, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

topic:darkness

“Memories and thoughts age, just as people do. But certain thoughts can never age, and certain memories can never fade.”

― Haruki Murakami, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

topic:age

“Nothing so consumes a person as meaningless exertion.”

― Haruki Murakami, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

topic:meaning