Haruki Murakami’s famous novel ‘Kafka on the Shore’ is a story about a fifteen-year-old boy called ‘Kafka Tamura’ who runs away from home to avoid a horrible oedipal prophesy and to locate his lost mother.
I have selected the best quotes from the novel ‘Kafka on the Shore’.
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Kafka on the Shore Quotes by Haruki Murakami
“A certain type of perfection can only be realized through a limitless accumulation of the imperfect.” ~ Haruki Murakami (Kafka on the Shore).
“In dreams begins responsibilities.” ~ Haruki Murakami (Kafka on the Shore).
“Love can rebuild the world, they say, so everything’s possible when it comes to love.” ~ Haruki Murakami (Kafka on the Shore).
“Chance encounters are what keep us going.” ~ Haruki Murakami (Kafka on the Shore).
“I’ll never see them again. I know that. And they know that. And knowing this, we say farewell.” ~ Haruki Murakami (Kafka on the Shore).
“When I wake up, my pillow’s cold and damp with tears. But tears for what? I have no idea.” ~ Haruki Murakami (Kafka on the Shore).
“What do you think? I’m not a starfish or a pepper tree. I’m a living, breathing human being. Of course I’ve been in love.” ~ Haruki Murakami (Kafka on the Shore).
“If you think God’s there, He is. If you don’t, He isn’t. And if that’s what God’s like, I wouldn’t worry about it.” ~ Haruki Murakami (Kafka on the Shore).
Related Book Quotes: Sexus Quotes by Henry Miller and The Black Cat Quotes by Edgar Allan Poe
Best Kafka on the Shore Quotes
“The journey I’m taking is inside me. Just like blood travels down veins, what I’m seeing is my inner self and what seems threatening is just the echo of the fear in my heart.” ~ Haruki Murakami (Kafka on the Shore).
“When someone is trying very hard to get something, they don’t. And when they’re running away from something as hard as they can, it usually catches up with them.” ~ Haruki Murakami (Kafka on the Shore).
“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, 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.” ~ Haruki Murakami (Kafka on the Shore).
“Narrow minds devoid of imagination. Intolerance, theories cut off from reality, empty terminology, usurped ideals, inflexible systems. Those are the things that really frighten me. What I absolutely fear and loathe.” ~ Haruki Murakami (Kafka on the Shore).
“Beyond the edge of the world there’s a space where emptiness and substance neatly overlap, where past and future form a continuous, endless loop. And, hovering about, there are signs no one has ever read, chords no one has ever heard.” ~ Haruki Murakami (Kafka on the Shore).
Quotes from Kafka on the Shore
“Memories warm you up from the inside. But they also tear you apart.” ~ Haruki Murakami (Kafka on the Shore).
“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.” ~ Haruki Murakami (Kafka on the Shore).
“Each person feels pain in his own way, each has his own scars.” ~ Haruki Murakami (Kafka on the Shore).
“As long as there’s such a thing as time, everybody’s damaged in the end, changed into something else. It always happens, sooner or later.” ~ Haruki Murakami (Kafka on the Shore).
“If you remember me, then I don’t care if everyone else forgets.” ~ Haruki Murakami (Kafka on the Shore).
“But if something did happen, it happened. Whether it’s right or wrong. I accept everything that happens, and that’s how I became the person I am now.” ~ Haruki Murakami (Kafka on the Shore).
“Every one of us is losing something precious to us. Lost opportunities, lost possibilities, feelings we can never get back again. That’s part of what it means to be alive.” ~ Haruki Murakami (Kafka on the Shore).
“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 (Kafka on the Shore).
“Distance might not solve anything, no matter how far you run.” ~ Haruki Murakami (Kafka on the Shore).
Popular Kafka on the Shore Quotes
“People soon get tired of things that aren’t boring, but not of what is boring.” ~ Haruki Murakami (Kafka on the Shore).
“A strange, terrific force unlike anything I’ve ever experienced is sprouting in my heart, taking root there, growing. Shut up behind my rib cage, my warm heart expands and contracts independent of my will – over and over.” ~ Haruki Murakami (Kafka on the Shore).
“Silence, I discover, is something you can actually hear.” ~ Haruki Murakami (Kafka on the Shore).
“Time weighs down on you like an old, ambiguous dream. You keep on moving, trying to sleep through it. But even if you go to the ends of the earth, you won’t be able to escape it. Still, you have to go there – to the edge of the world. There’s something you can’t do unless you get there.” ~ Haruki Murakami (Kafka on the Shore).
“Taking crazy things seriously is a serious waste of time.” ~ Haruki Murakami (Kafka on the Shore).
“No matter how much time passes, no matter what takes place in the interim, there are some things we can never assign to oblivion, memories we can never rub away.” ~ Haruki Murakami (Kafka on the Shore).
Interesting Kafka on the Shore Quotes
“It’s like Tolstoy said. Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story.” ~ Haruki Murakami (Kafka on the Shore).
“Even chance meetings are the result of karma… Things in life are fated by our previous lives. That even in the smallest events there’s no such thing as coincidence.” ~ Haruki Murakami (Kafka on the Shore).
“I go back to the reading room, where I sink down in the sofa and into the world of The Arabian Nights. Slowly, like a movie fadeout, the real world evaporates. I’m alone, inside the world of the story. My favorite feeling in the world.” ~ Haruki Murakami (Kafka on the Shore).
“Listen up – there’s no war that will end all wars.” ~ Haruki Murakami (Kafka on the Shore).
“Time expands, then contracts, all in tune with the stirrings of the heart.” ~ Haruki Murakami (Kafka on the Shore).
“It’s easy to forget things you don’t need anymore.” ~ Haruki Murakami (Kafka on the Shore).
“Not just beautiful, though – the stars are like the trees in the forest, alive and breathing. And they’re watching me.” ~ Haruki Murakami (Kafka on the Shore).
“It’s hard to tell the difference between sea and sky, between voyager and sea. Between reality and the workings of the heart.” ~ Haruki Murakami (Kafka on the Shore).
“Hey, Mr. Nakata. Gramps. Fire! Flood! Earthquake! Revolution! Godzilla’s on the loose! Get up!” ~ Haruki Murakami (Kafka on the Shore).
“I’ve built a wall around me, never letting anybody inside and trying not to venture outside myself.” ~ Haruki Murakami (Kafka on the Shore).
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