1Q84 Quotes

“It is sometimes necessary for each person. Fill up with delicious food, get drunk, sing loudly and chat frivolously.”
― Haruki Murakami, 1Q84

“Writers have to keep on writing if they want to mature, like caterpillars endlessly chewing on leaves.”
― Haruki Murakami, 1Q84

“Wherever there's hope there's a trial. You're exactly right. Absolutely. Hope, however, is limited, and generally abstract, while there are countless trials, and they tend to be concrete. That is also something I had to learn on my own.”
― Haruki Murakami, 1Q84

“It's a terrible thing when a person dies, whatever the circumstances. A hole opens up in the world, and we need to pay the proper respects. If we don't, the hole will never be filled in again.”
― Haruki Murakami, 1Q84

“كنّا بحاجة إلى كل هذا الوقت، كي يدرك كل منا كم هو وحيدٌ فعلًا”
― هاروكي موراكامي, 1Q84

“Nobody is easier to fool than the person who is convinced that he is right”
― Haruki Murakami, 1Q84

“في الداخل ، داخل الأجزاء الداخلية لتلك الجمجمة العنيدة ، التي تشبه سندانا قديما ، ما نوع الوعي الذي يقبع مختبئا فيها ؟ أم تراها لم يعد بها أي شئ على الاطلاق ؟ هل يشبه منزلا مهجورا تم تجريده من كل الأمتعة والأجهزة حتى لم يعد هناك أي أثر لهؤلاء الذين كانوا يسكنونه ؟ حتى لو كان ذلك ، ينبغي أن توجد ذكرى عابرة أو مشهد محفور في الجدران والأسقف . الأشياء التي يتم غرسها خلال هذه المدة الطويلة لا تتلاشى في العدم هكذا وحسب .”
― هاروكي موراكامي, 1Q84

“What has gone forward can't go back to where it came from.”
― Haruki Murakami, 1Q84

“Time had the power to cancel all changes wrought by human artifice, overwriting all new revisions with further revisions, returning the flow to its original course”
― Murakami Haruki, 1Q84 Libro 3: Ottobre - Dicembre

“When granted hope, a person uses it as fuel, as a guidepost to life. It is impossible to live without hope.”
― Haruki Murakami, 1Q84: Book 3

“Não é fácil fazer generalizações sobre a dor. Cada dor tem as suas características próprias. Reformulando a famosa frase de Tolstói: "Todas as felicidades se parecem umas com as outras; cada dor dói à sua maneira.”
― Haruki Murakami, 1Q84

“I don't like ringing the bell at the door. Its' tingaling just sounds beautiful. It makes one equal innocent sound, and it doesn't matter who is ringing. But knocking is distinctive. Human beats something physically - you can hear the reflected feeling. Of course, the hand always gets slightly painful.”
― Haruki Murakami, 1Q84

“But Aomame could never smile easily, or casually, in front of people. When she forced it, she ended up with a tight sneer, which made others even more tense and uncomfortable. Tamaki was different: she had a natural, cheerful smile. People meeting her for the first time immediately felt friendly toward her. In the end, though, disappointment and despair drove Tamaki to take her own life, leaving Aomame – who couldn’t manage a decent smile – behind.”
― Haruki Murakami, 1Q84

“He kept his ears open and listened closely to what anyone else had to say, aiming to learn something from everything he heard. This habit eventually became a useful tool. Through this, he discovered a number of important realities, including this one: most people in the world don’t really use their brains to think. And people who don’t think are the ones who don’t listen to others.”
― Murakami Haruki, 1Q84 - Libro 3

“ضحكات من ذلك النوع الذي يمكن أن تظل تضحكها الى الأبد و لكنها لا تجعلك سعيداً”
― Haruki Murakami, 1Q84

“It was just the same old familiar moon. The one and only satellite that has faithfully circled the earth, at the same speed, from before human memory.”
― Haruki Murakami, 1Q84: Book 3

“What Tengo would have to do, it seemed, was take a hard, honest look at the past while standing at the crossroads of the present. Then he could create a future, as thought he were rewriting the past.It was the only way”
― Murakami Haruki, 1Q84 Libro 3: Ottobre - Dicembre

“Kitapus pievelės juodavo vėją užstojanti pušų giraitė, iš už kurios atsklisdavo bangų mūša. Nuožmių Ramiojo vandenyno bangų. Jos ošė sodriais ir niūriais balsais it daugybė susispietusių sielų, šnabždančių kiekviena savo istorijas. Ir atrodė, kad prisidėti prie šio choro ir papasakoti kitų istorijų trokšta dar daugiau sielų.”
― Haruki Murakami, 1Q84

“Puede que la vida no sea más que la consecuencia de una mera cadena de acontecimientos ilógicos y, en ciertos casos, extremadamente chapuceros”
― Haruki Murakami, 1Q84

“Los encuentros marcados por el destino tienen consecuencias selladas también por el destino,”
― Haruki Murakami, 1Q84

“Los seres humanos, en su mayoría, eran incapaces de pensar por sí mismos: ésa era una de las «verdades preciadas» que había aprendido. Y quien no pensaba, no sabía escuchar a los demás.”
― Haruki Murakami, 1Q84

“Still, he was convinced that he was a clear, eloquent, logical thinker, and he patiently honed these abilities all by himself. For instance, he would propose an idea for discussion and debate it, taking both sides. He would passionately argue in support of the proposition, then argue – just as vigorously – against it. He could identify equally with either of the two positions and was completely and sincerely absorbed by whatever position he happened to be supporting at the moment. Before he had realized it, these exercises had given him the talent to be skeptical about his own self, and he had come to the recognition that most of what is generally considered the truth is entirely relative. Subject and object are not as distinct as most people think. If the boundary separating the two isn’t clear-cut to begin with, it is not such a difficult task to intentionally shift back and forth from one to the other.”
― Haruki Murakami, 1Q84: Book 3

“الناس يواجهون الموت و هم على قيد الحياة”
― Haruki Murakami, 1Q84

“From here on out, I’m the one in charge. I’m the one who decides what’s good and what’s bad – and which way we’re headed. And people had better remember that.”
― Haruki Murakami, 1Q84: Book 3

“Svět zažil nacismus, atomovou bombu i moderní hudbu, a všechno to dokázal jakž takž přežít.”
― Haruki Murakami, 1Q84

“Pero éste no es su Dios. Es mi Dios. Lo he aprendido porque he sacrificado mi vida, porque me han lacerado la carne y desgarrado la piel, chupado la sangra, arrancado las uñas y despojado de mi tiempo, mis ilusiones, y recuerdos. No es un Dios con forma. No viste de blanco ni luce largas barbas. No tiene doctrina, libro sagrado o preceptos. No recompensa ni castiga. No concede ni arrebata. No ha dispuesto un Cielo al que subir ni un Infierno al que caer. Dios, simplemente, está ahí, haga frío o no.”
― Haruki Murakami, 1Q84

“La diferencia entre vivir en soledad y sentirse solo.”
― Haruki Murakami, 1Q84

“Vientulība cilvēku saēd.”
― Haruki Murakami, 1Q84

“El que muere hoy, no habrá de morir mañana. Así que intentemos ver el lado bueno de cada uno.”
― Haruki Murakami, 1Q84

“Los conocimientos importantes conllevan importantes responsabilidades.”
― Haruki Murakami, 1Q84