1q84 Quotes

“I am living in hell from one day to the next. But there is nothing I can do to escape. I don't know where I would go if I did. I feel utterly powerless, and that feeling is my prision. I entered of my own free will, I locked the door, and I threw away the key.”
― Haruki Murakami

“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

“ليس سهلا أن يكون الإنسان امرأة”
― هاروكي موراكامي

“You don't get it" she said
''Don't get what?"
''We are one"
''We are one?" Tengo asked with a shock.
''We wrote the book together"
Tengo felt the pressure of Fuka-Eri's fingers against his palm.
...
''That's true. We wrote Air Crysalis together. And when we are eaten by the tiger, we'll be eaten together.”
― Haruki Murakami, 1Q84 Book 1

“Most people are not looking for provable truths. As you said, truth is often accompanied by intense pain, and almost no one is looking for painful truths. What people need is beautiful, comforting stories that make them feel as if their lives have some meaning. Which is where religion comes from."

(...)

"If a certain belief--call it 'Belief A'--makes the life of that man or this woman appear to be something of deep meaning, then for them belief A is the truth. If Belief B makes their lives appear to be powerless & puny, then Belief b turns out to be a falsehood. The distinction is quite clear. If someone insists that Belief B is the truth, people will probably hate him ignore him, or, in some cases, attack him. It means nothing to them that Belief B might be logical or provable.”
― Haruki Murakami, 1Q84

“In this world, there is no absolute good, no absolute evil," the man said. "Good and evil are not fixed, stable entities but are continually trading places. A good may be transformed into an evil in the next second. And vice versa. Such was the way of the world that Dostoevksy depicted in The Brothers Karamazov. The most important thing is to maintain the balance between the constantly moving good and evil. If you lean too much in either direction, it becomes difficult to maintain actual morals. Indeed, balance itself is the good.”
― Haruki Murakami, 1Q84

“Insane" es un problema mental congénito, y se considera conveniente tratarlo con una terapia especializada. En cambio, "Lunatic" se refiere a una pérdida temporal del juivio debido al efecto de la luna.”
― Haruki Murakami, 1Q84

“صداقتنا هي من الصداقات التي لا تتحقق سوى مرة واحدة في العمر”
― هاروكي موراكامي

“لا أرى شبها في الملامح ، ولكن روحا مشتركة تجمعكما”
― هاروكي موراكامي

“The body is not the only target of rape. Violence does not always take visible form, and not all wounds gush blood.”
― Haruki Murakami, 1Q84

“Robbing people of their actual history is the same as robbing them of part of themselves. It’s a crime."
Fuka-Eri thought about that for a moment.
Tengo went on, “Our memory is made up of our individual memories and our collective memories. The two are intimately linked. And history is our collective memory. If our collective memory is taken from us - is rewritten - we lose the ability to sustain our true selves.”
― Haruki Murakami

“A person learns to love himself through the simple acts of loving and being loved by someone else.... A person who is incapable of loving another cannot properly love himself.”
― Haruki Murakami

“In this world, there is no absolute good, no absolute evil," the man said. "Good and evil are not fixed, stable entities but are continually trading places. A good may be transformed into an evil in the next second. And vice versa. Such was teh way of the world that Dostoevksy depicted in The Brothers Karamazov. The most important thing is to maintain the balance between the constantly moving good and evil. If you lean too much in either direction, it becomes difficult to maintain actual morals. Indeed, balance itself is the good.”
― Haruki Murakami, 1Q84

“A smile played around Aomame's straight lips. People were focused on her actions. No one was surprised to see her pull a gun out of her bag-- or at least they did not show surprise on their faces. Maybe they didn't believe it was a real gun. 'It is, though,' Aomame told them mentally. Next she turned the gun upward and thrust the muzzle into her mouth. Now it was aimed directly at her cerebrum-- the gray labyrinth where consciousness resided.”
― Haruki Murakami, 1Q84

“Before human beings possessed fire or tools or language, the moon had been their ally. It would calm people’s fears now and then by illuminating the dark world like a heavenly lantern. Its waxing and waning gave people an understanding of the concept of time. Even now, when darkness had been banished from most parts of the world, there remained a sense of human gratitude toward the moon and its unconditional compassion. It was imprinted upon human genes like a warm collective memory.”
― Haruki Marakami

“There's a need, too, for a special name in order to distinguish between this present world and the former world in which the police carried old-fashioned revolvers. ... 1Q84 - that's what I'll call this new world. Q is for 'question mark'. A world that bears a question.”
― Haruki Murakami, 1Q84

“To Tengo, sexual desire was fundamentally an extension of a means of communication. And so, to look for sexual desire in a place where there was no possibility of communication seemed inappropriate to him.”
― Haruki Murakami

“The world is moving ahead on its own without my being aware of it, as if we're playing a game in which everybody else can move only when I have my eyes closed.”
― Haruki Murakami, 1Q84

“Tengo went out and aimlessly sauntered down the twilight streets. With Fuka-Eri gone, his apartment was too quiet and he couldn’t settle down. When they had been living together he didn’t really sense her presence all that much. He followed his daily routine, and she followed hers. But without her there, Tengo noticed a human-shaped void she had left behind.”
― Haruki Murakami, 1Q84

“In this world, there is not absolute good, no absolute evil. Good and evil are not fixed, stable entities but are continually trading places. A good maybe transformed into an evil in the next second. And vice versa.”
― Haruki Murakami, 1Q84

“But it has finally hit me: she is neither a concept nor a symbol nor a metaphor. She actually exists: she has warm flesh and a spirit that moves. I never should have lost sight of that warmth and that movement. It took me twenty years to understand something so obvious. It may already be too late. But one way or another, I want to find her.”
― Haruki Murakami, 1Q84

“On the other hand, we have shared something, something important, something we could not have shared with anyone else, something we could not have any other way.”
“Yes, you are right,” the dowager said.
“Sharing it was something that I needed, too.”
“Thank you for saying that. It gives me a measure of salvation.”
― Haruki Murakami, 1Q84

“There was a certain practical wisdom at work in him that enabled him to survive, but Tengo could discover no hint of a willingness in his father to raise himself up, to deepen himself, to view a wider, larger world.”
― Haruki Murakami, 1Q84

“There were lights on in a few of the windows in the apartment building across the way, hinting at people other than themselves alive in this world. This struck the two of them as exceedingly strange, even as somehow illogical -- that other people could also exist, and be living their lives, in the same world.”
― Haruki Murakami, 1Q84

“Humans cannot think about what is good and what is evil. What controls the base of our lives are genes. of course, there are contradictions.”
― Haruki Murakami, 1Q84 Book 1

“Quem praticou o massacre procura se justificar, criando razões para se explicar, e com isso consegue esquecer. Consegue desviar os olhos do que não quer ver. Mas a vítima jamais esquece. Como não consegue desviar os olhos, a lembrança do massacre passa de pai para filho. O mundo, Aomame, é uma incessante luta entre a memória de quem está de um lado e a memória de quem está do outro.”
― Haruki Murakami, 1Q84 Book 1

“As I see it, you are living with something that you keep hidden deep inside. Something heavy. I felt it from the first time I met you. You have a strong graze, as if you have made up your mind about something. To tell you the truth, I myself carry such things around inside. Heavy things. That is how I can see it in you.”
― Haraki Murakami

“Perché si nasconde"
"Si nasconde?"
"Come un gatto ferito”
― Haruki Murakami

“Most people are not looking for provable truths. As you said, truth is often accompanied by intense pain, & almost no one is looking for painful truths. What people need is beautiful, comforting stories that make them feel as if their lives have some meaning. Which is where religion comes from." The man turned his neck several times before continuing.
"If a certain belief--call it 'Belief A'--makes the life of that man or this woman appear to be something of deep meaning, then for them belief A is the truth. If Belief B makes their lives appear to be powerless & puny, then Belief b turns out to be a falsehood. The distinction is quite clear. If someone insists that Belief B is the truth, people will probably hate him ignore him, or, in some cases, attack him. It means nothing to them that Belief B might be logical or provable.”
― Haruki Murakami

“Next she turned the gun upward and thrust the muzzle into her mouth. Now it was aimed directly at her cerebrum-- the gray labyrinth where consciousness resided.”
― Haruki Murakami