"Es decir..., lo que yo creo es que el hombre piensa en el significado de la vida porque sabe con certeza que va morir algún día. (...) Nadie sabe lo q...












People leave strange little memories of themselves behind when they die.

More Haruki Murakami quotes
"Tell me, Doctor, are you afraid of death?""I guess it depends on how you die.
"Still, though, I can't be sure if the zoo as I recall it was really like that. How can I put it? I sometimes feel that it's too vivid, if you know wha...
"The majority of people dismiss those things that lie beyond the bounds of their own understanding as absurd and not worth thinking about. I myself can...
"There are some things we can never assign to oblivion, memories we can never rub away. They remain with us forever, like a touchstone.
"A question wells up inside me, a question so big it blocks my throat and makes it hard to breathe. Somehow I swallow it back, finally choosing another...
"You can hide memories, suppress them, but you can’t erase the history that produced them
"No matter how much suffering you went through, you never wanted to let go of those memories.
"If there's any guy crazy enough to attack me, I'm going to show him the end of the world -- close up. I'm going to let him see the kingdom come with h...
"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.
"Living and dying are, in a sense, of equal value.
"She tried to think about what lay ahead, but soon gave up. 'Words turn into stone,' Nimit had told her. She settled deep into her seat and closed her ...
"A poet might die at twenty-one, a revolutionary or a rock star at twenty four. But after that you assume everything’s going to be all right. you’ve ma...
"Death is not the opposite of life, but a part of it.
"Aren't you afraid of dying?Not really. I've watched lots of good-for-nothing, worthless people die, and if people like that can do it, then I should b...