Sometimes I talk to people. A lot of the time, though, it’s just a letdown. There aren’t many people out there worth knowing.
Just as a great poet can use one scene to bring another new, unknown vista into view. It should be obvious, but the best metaphors make the best poems.
I had heard the nails being driven into the nails of her coffin, but I couldn’t adjust to the fact that she had returned to nothingness.
Creative people have to be fundamentally egoistic. This may sound pompous, but it happens to be the truth. People who live their lives watching what goes on around them, trying not to make waves, and looking for the easy compromise are not going to be able to do creative work, whatever their field.
She reads with great concentration. Her eyes rarely move from the pages of the book.
Your true heart lives in your memory. It is nourished by the images it contains – that’s how it lives,” a woman said.
Perhaps he didn’t commit suicide then because he couldn’t conceive of a method that fit the pure and intense feelings he had toward death. But method was beside the point. If there had been a door within reach that led straight to death, he wouldn’t have hesitated to push it open, without a second thought, as if it were just a part of ordinary life. For better or for worse, though, there was no such door nearby.
Los deseos no deben contarse a nadie.
You shouldn’t fear boundaries, but you also should not be afraid of destroying them. That’s what is most important if you want to be free: respect for and exasperation with boundaries.
The laugh left a bitter taste in our mouths, but we laughed out all the same.
Wouldn’t this be tantamount to giving a butterfly a skeleton?
Tsukuru decided not to pursue it further. He could think about it all he wanted and never find an answer. He placed this doubt inside a drawer in his mind labeled “Pending” and postponed any further consideration. He had many such drawers inside him, with numerous doubts and questions tucked away.
Affirmative. A hard-and-fast rule in business is to never accept the first offer. Remember that, and you will never go wrong.
Why do people wage war? Why do hundreds of thousands, even millions of people group together and try to annihilate each other? Do people start wars out of anger? Or fear? Or are anger and fear just two aspects of the same spirit?
Solitude is an inevitable circumstance.
Everything seems pointless since you left.
Every time I get new shoes, it takes me a while to get used to their noise.
What would be the meaning of a world that did not change when an Idea was extinguished? Can an Idea be so insignificant?
I’m not going to believe in any damned revolution. Love is all I’m going to believe in.
There was nothing I could say, so I said nothing.