Quotes From Kafka On The Shore By Haruki Murakam

Top 21 Quotes From Kafka On The Shore By Haruki Murakami

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Kafka on the shore by haruki Murakami is the story of a tour de force of metaphysical reality, is powered by two remarkable characters: a teenage boy, Kafka Tamura, who runs away from home either to escape a gruesome oedipal prophecy or to search for his long-missing mother and sister; and an aging simpleton called Nakata, who never recovered from a wartime affliction and now is drawn toward Kafka for reasons that, like the most basic activities of daily life, he cannot fathom.

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Their odyssey, as mysterious to them as it is to us, is enriched throughout by vivid accomplices and mesmerizing events.

Cats and people carry on conversations, a ghostlike pimp employs a Hegel-quoting prostitute, a forest harbors soldiers apparently unaged since World War II, and rainstorms of fish (and worse) fall from the sky.

There is a brutal murder, with the identity of both victim and perpetrator a riddle—yet this, along with everything else, is eventually answered, just as the entwined destinies of Kafka and Nakata are gradually revealed, with one escaping his fate entirely and the other given a fresh start on his own. (Source)

Kafka On The Shore Quotes By Haruki Murakami

1. If you remember me, then I don’t care if everyone else forgets.

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Quotes From Kafka On The Shore By Haruki Murakami

2. Memories are what warm you up from the inside. But they’re also what tear you apart.

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Quotes From Kafka On The Shore By Haruki Murakami

3. Asking a question is embarrassing for a moment, but not asking is embarrassing for a lifetime.

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4. No matter how much suffering you went through, you never wanted to let go of those memories.

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5. Sometime fate is like a small sandstrom that keeps changing direction.

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7. Taking crazy things seriously is a serious waste of time.

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Quotes From Kafka On The Shore By Haruki Murakami

6. But the longer I’ve lived, the more I’ve lost what’s inside me – and ended up empty.

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8. And once the storm is over you won’t remember how you made it through, how you managed to survive. You won’t even be sure, in fact, whether the storm is really over. But one thing is certain. 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.”

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9. But thing in the past are like plate that’s shattered to pieces. You can never put it back together like it was, right?

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10. But this is something you have to figure out on your own. Nobody can help you. That’s what love is all about. You’re the one having those wonderful feelings but you have to go it alone as you wander through the dark. Your mind and body have to bear it all. All by yourself.

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11. what disgusts me even more are people who have no imagination. People who fill up that lack of imagination with heartless bits of straw, not even aware of what they’re doing, trying to force you to do what you don’t want to.

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12. You’re you, you see, and nobody else. You are you, right?

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13. Anyone who falls in love is searching for the missing pieces of themselves. So anyone who’s in love gets sad when they think of their lover. It’s like stepping back inside a room you have fond memories of, one you haven’t seen in a long time.

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14. Everyone of us is losing something precious to us. Lost opportunities, lost possibilities, feelings we can never get back. That’s part what it means to be alive. But inside our heads, there’s a room where we store those memories. 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 a while, let in fresh air, change the water in flower bases. In other words, you’ll live life in your own private library.

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15. Whatever it is you’re seeking won’t come in the form you’re expecting.

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16. Closing your eyes isn’t going to change anything. Nothing’s gonna disappear just because you can’t see what’s going on and closing your ears won’t make time stand still.

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17. I know. It’s easy to forget things you don’t need anymore.

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18. It’s like my identity’s an orbit that I’ve strayed far away from.

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19. 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. That’s how we survive.

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20. No matter how much money you accumulate, you can’t buy time.

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21. “Anyway, my point is that it’s really hard for people to live their lives alone.”

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