Haruki Murakami Quotes {with ghibli aestheticism}

Kafka on the shore | Quotes

"In everybody's life there's a point of no return. And in a very few cases, a point where you can't go forward anymore. And when we reach that point, all we can do is quietly accept the fact. That's how we survive."

"It's like Tolstoy said. Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story."

"Not just beautiful, though--the stars are like the trees in the forest, alive and breathing. And they're watching me."

"The sense of tragedy - according to Aristotle - comes, ironically enough, not from the protagonist's weak points but from his good qualities. Do you know what I'm getting at? People are drawn deeper into tragedy not by their defects but by their virtues.
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[But] we accept irony through a device called metaphor. And through that we grow and become deeper human beings."

"No matter how much time passes, no matter what takes place in the interim, there are some things we can never assign to oblivion, memories we can never rub away."

"It's hard to tell the difference between sea and sky, between voyager and sea. Between reality and the workings of the heart."

"And once the storm is over, you won't remember how you made it through, how you managed to survive. You won't even be sure, whether the storm is really over. But one thing is certain. 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."

"Memories warm you up from the inside. But they also tear you apart."