Only people who have been discriminated against can really know how much it hurts. Each person feels the pain in his own way, each has his own scars. So I think I'm as concerned about fairness and jus...
Once you pass a certain age, life becomes nothing more than a process of continual loss. Things that are important to your life begin to slip out of your grasp, one after another, like a come losing t...
Not prejudging things, listening to what's going on, keeping your ears, heart, and mind open.
My arm was not the one she needed, but the arm of someone else. My warmth was not what she needed, but the warmth of someone else. I felt almost guilty being me.
Memory is so crazy! It's like we've got these drawers crammed with tons of useless stuff. Meanwhile, all the really important things we just keep forgetting, one after the other.
Memory is like fiction; or else it's fiction that's like memory. This really came home to me once I started writing fiction, that memory seemed a kind of fiction, or vice versa. Either way, no matter...
Maybe I am fated to always be alone, Tsukuru found himself thinking. People came to him, but in the end they always left. They came, seeking something, but either they couldn’t find it, or were unhapp...
Lo que sea que estés buscando no va a llegar en la forma que lo esperas
Listen--God only exists in people's minds. Especially in Japan, God's always been kind of a flexible concept. Look at what happened after the war. Douglas MacArthur ordered the divine emperor to quit...
Like flowers scattered in a storm, a man's life is a long farewell.
Let’s say you are an empty vessel. So what? What’s wrong with that? Eri said. You’re still a wonderful, attractive vessel. And really, does anybody know who they are? So why not be a completely beauti...
Kafka, 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. Th...
Judging from the spiderwebs clinging to it, the emergency stairway was hardly ever used. To each web clung a small black spider, patiently waiting for its small prey to come along. Not that the spider...
I’ve had that kind of experience myself: I’m looking at a map and I see someplace that makes me think, ‘I absolutely have to go to this place, no matter what’. And most of the time, for some reason, t...
It’s pretty thin, the wall separating healthy confidence and unhealthy Pride.
It's the same with menus and men and just about anything else: we think we're choosing things for ourselves, but in fact we may not be choosing anything. It could be that everthing's being decided in...
It's just that you're about to do something out of the ordinary. And after you do something like that, the everyday look of things might seem to change a little. Things may look different to you than...
It was spring break, so the theater was always packed with high schools students. It was an animal house. I wanted to burn the place down.
It just happens to be the way that I'm made. I have to write things down to feel I fully comprehend them.
It is not that the meaning cannot be explained. But there are certain meanings that are lost forever the moment they are explained in words.