Here are some best quotes from “Men Without Women” by Haruki Murakami
No matter how empty it may be, this is still my heart.
I’ve been out with lots of woman who are much prettier than her, better built, with better taste, and more intelligent. But those comparisons are meaningless.
Whether you want to or not. But the place you return to is always slightly different from the place you left. That’s the rule. It can never be exactly the same.
I have to somehow get connected to reality again, he thought, or else I won’t be me anymore. I’ll become a man who doesn’t exist.
Some people are polite, and some are quick. Each one’s a good quality to have, but most of the time quickness trumps politeness.
I’ve finally experienced what the poet felt. The deep sense of loss after you’ve met the woman you love, have made love, then said goodbye. Like you’re suffocating. The same emotion hasn’t changed at all in a thousand years.
Music has that power to revive memories, sometimes so intensely that they hurt.
Here are some more from “Men without Women”
“So in the end maybe that’s the challenge: to look inside your own heart as perceptively and seriously as you can, and to make peace with what you find there. If we hope to truly see another person, we have to start by looking within ourselves.”
“Whether you want to or not. But the place you return to is always slightly different from the place you left. That’s the rule. It can never be exactly the same.”
“Music has that power to revive memories, sometimes so intensely that they hurt”
“I wish there was a machine that could accurately measure sadness, and display it in numbers that you could record. And it would be great if that machine could fit in the palm of your hand. I think of this every time I measure the air in my tires.”
“There were times he thought it would have been far better to never have known. Yet he continued to return to his core principle: that, in every situation, knowledge was better than ignorance. However agonizing, it was necessary to confront the facts. Only through knowing could a person become strong.”
“I’ve finally experienced what the poet felt. The deep sense of loss after you’ve met the woman you love, have made love, then said goodbye. Like you’re suffocating. The same emotion hasn’t changed at all in a thousand years.”
“Dreams are the kind of things you can—when you need to—borrow and lend out,”
“Some people are polite, and some are quick. Each one’s a good quality to have, but most of the time quickness trumps politeness.”
