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life - Bilingual quotes that celebrate the beauty of language, showcasing meaningful expressions in two unique perspectives.
Haruki Murakami
Don't you see? You and he might never cross paths again. Of course, a chance meeting could occur, and I hope it happens. I really do, for your sake. But realistically speaking, you have to see there's a huge possibility you'll never be able to meet him again. And even if you do meet, he might already be married to somebody else. He might have two kids. Isn't that so? And in that case, you may have to live the rest of your life alone, never being joined with the one person you love in all the world. Don't you find that scary?
Haruki Murakami
It's a question of attitude. If you really work at something you can do it up to a point. If you really work at being happy you can do it up to a point. But anything more than that you can't. Anything more than that is luck.
Haruki Murakami
Life is here, death is over there. I am here, not over there.
Murakami Haruki
Me, I've seen 45 years, and I've only figured out one thing. That's this: if a person would just make the effort, there's something to be learned from everything. From even the most ordinary, commonplace things, there's always something you can learn. I read somewhere that they said there's even different philosophies in razors. Fact is, if it weren't for that, nobody'd survive.
Haruki Murakami
It's easy to talk big, but the important thing is whether or not you clean up the shit.
Haruki Murakami
Those were strange days, now that I look back at them. In the midst of life, everything revolved around death.
Haruki Murakami
I've never once thought about how I was going to die," she said. "I can't think about it. I don't even know how I'm going to live.
Haruki Murakami
My biggest fault is that the faults I was born with grow bigger each year.
Haruki Murakami
People soon get tired of things that aren't boring, but not of what is boring.
Haruki Murakami
Deep rivers run quiet.
Haruki Murakami
That's how stories happen - with a turning point, an unexpected twist. There's only one kind of happiness, but misfortune comes in all shapes and sizes. It's like Tolstoy said. Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story.
Haruki Murakami
As we go through life we gradually discover who we are, but the more we discover, the more we lose ourselves.
Haruki Murakami
The sense of tragedy - according to Aristotle - comes, ironically enough, not from the protagonist's weak points but from his good qualities. Do you know what I'm getting at? People are drawn deeper into tragedy not by their defects but by their virtues....{But} we accept irony through a device called metaphor. And through that we grow and become deeper human beings.
Haruki Murakami
Life is not like water. Things in life don't necessarily flow over the shortest possible route.
Haruki Murakami
When you come out of the storm, you won't be the same person who walked in. That's what this storm's all about.
Haruki Murakami
Despite your best efforts, people are going to be hurt when it's time for them to be hurt.
Haruki Murakami
Death is not the opposite of life, but a part of it.
Haruki Murakami
Lost opportunities, lost possibilities, feelings we can never get back. That's part of what it means to be alive. But inside our heads - at least that's where I imagine it - there's a little room where we store those memories. A room like the stacks in this library. And to understand the workings of our own heart we have to keep on making new reference cards. We have to dust things off every once in awhile, let in fresh air, change the water in the flower vases. In other words, you'll live forever in your own private library.
Jean Plaidy
But our lives were not as they seemed, were they, Sophia? No one's life ever is.
Philip Pullman
He sat down and collected his thoughts. They were quite easy to collect, because there weren't very many of them, and they all concerned the same subject--what a burden his life was.
Nick Hornby (Author)
You don't ask people with knives in their stomachs what would make them happy; happiness is no longer the point. It's all about survival; it's all about whether you pull the knife out and bleed to death or keep it in, in the hope that you might be lucky, and the knife has actually been staunching the blood. You want to know the conventional medical wisdom? The conventional medical wisdom is that you keep the knife in. Really.
Nick Hornby
Will wrestled with his conscience, grappled it to the ground and sat on it until he couldn't hear a squeak out of it.
Nick Hornby
There isn't so much to be afraid of, out there. I can remember thinking it was funny to find that out, on the last night of my life; I'd spent the rest of it being afraid of everything.
Nick Hornby
...So please, be tolerant of those who describe a sporting moment as their best ever. We do not lack imagination, nor have we had sad and barren lives; it is just that real life is paler, duller, and contains less potential for unexpected delirium.
Nick Hornby
my friends don't seem to be friends at all but people whose phone numbers I haven't lost.
Nick Hornby
You don't ask people with knives in their stomachs what would make them happy; happiness is no longer the point. It's all about survival; it's all about whether you pull the knife out and bleed to death or keep it in...
Nick Hornby
Hard is trying to rebuild yourself, piece by piece, with no instruction book, and no clue as to where all the important bits are supposed to go.
Max Frisch
The real life, he says, is so different ... In any case, he thinks that he thinks: you don't recognize a clear process and no common thread, it just drives up, without a section and without deed, the passion rushes into a mood, and the decisions are like sand that runs softly through your fingers , again and again you take a new handful, and if you open it, nothing has remained in it again, you are desperate, and that also melted, like hope and cheers and pain and pain Everything like the whole life.
Douglas Coupland
In some ways, it is even pleasant to remain ignorant of what is happening to us before birth or after death. Or what will happen in a nervous, unpredictable time between the instant, which means our readiness for changes in life, and the moment when these changes occur.
Douglas Coupland
He'd probably no more view his life as a story than he would view his life that of a sea cucumber.
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