—Salvador Dalí (via quotemadness)
" A true artist is not one who is inspired, but one who inspires others."
" What is it that really makes us, us? It’s our collective intelligence. It’s our ability to write things down, our language and our consciousness."
—Louise Leakey (via quotemadness)
" From now on, forget happiness. Now it’s just about saving the remains, the wreckage, the appearance."
—Henrik Ibsen (via quotemadness)
" If I stayed here, something inside me would be lost forever–something I couldn’t afford to lose. It was like a vague dream, a burning, unfulfilled desire. The kind of dream people have only when they’re seventeen."
—Haruki Murakami, South of the Border, West of the Sun
(via dieworten)
(via dieworten)
" The most important thing we learn at school is the fact that the most important things can’t be learned at school."
—Haruki Murakami, What I Talk About When I Talk About Running (via bookmania)
" It’s just a feeling I have. What you see with your eyes is not necessarily real. My enemy is, among other things, the me inside me."
—Haruki Murakami, After the Quake
(via significantquotes)
(via significantquotes)
" I find it hard to talk about myself. I am always tripped up by the eternal ‘who am I?’ paradox"
—Haruki Murakami, Sputnik Sweetheart (via stasoumugdala)
" All things pass. None of us can manage to hold on to anything. In that way, we live our lives."
—Haruki Murakami (Hear the Wind Sing)
" If you remember me, then I don’t care if everyone else forgets."
—Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore (via man-of-prose)
" What I want is for the two of us to meet somewhere by chance one day, like, passing on the street, or getting on the same bus."
—Haruki Murakami, 1Q84 (via bookmania)
" I always feel like I’m struggling to become someone else. Like I’m trying to find a new place, grab hold of a new life, a new personality. I guess it’s part of growing up, yet it’s also an attempt to reinvent myself. By becoming a different me, I could free myself of everything. I seriously believed I could escape myself–as long as I made the effort. But I always hit a dead end. No matter where I go, I still end up me. What’s missing never changes. The scenery may change, but I’m still the same old incomplete person. The same missing elements torture me with a hunger that I can never satisfy. I guess that lack itself is as close as I’ll ever come to defining myself."
—Haruki Murakami, South of the Border, West of the Sun
(via dieworten)
(via dieworten)
" I was always hungry for love. Just once, I wanted to know what it was like to get my fill of it – to be fed so much love I couldn’t take any more. Just once."
—Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood
(via ughpoems)
(via ughpoems)
" The world’s crawling with stupid, innocent girls, and I’m just one of them, self-consciously chasing after dreams that’ll never come true."