I'm not afraid to die. What I'm afraid of is having reality get the better of me, of having reality leave me behind.
Weitere Zitate von Haruki Murakami
Zum Autor"IT's not death. It's eternal life. And you get't'be yourself. Compared to that, this world isn't but a momentary fantasy. Please don't forget that."
"I'm going to live to be twenty-five,' she said, 'then die."
"I don't think it's a question of liking or disliking it,' Tengo said...'It was the one thing he was best at.' 'Hmm. I see,' Kumi said. She pondered this. 'But that might very well be the best way to live your life."
"Life is long, and sometimes cruel. Sometimes victims are needed. Someone has to take on that role. And human bodies are fragile, easily damaged. Cut them, and they bleed."
"I don't deserve a girl like Hatsumi,' Nagasawa once said to me. I had to agree with him."
"Time really is one big continuous cloth, no? We habitually cut out pieces of time to fit us, so we tend to fool ourselves into thinking that time is our size, but it really goes on and on."