All HARUKI MURAKAMI Quotes about “Feelings”

“Lost opportunities, lost possibilities, feelings we can never get back. That's part of what it means to be alive. But inside our heads - at least that's where I imagine it - there's a little room where we store those memories. A room like the stacks in this library. 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 awhile, let in fresh air, change the water in the flower vases. In other words, you'll live forever in your own private library.”
“Have you ever had that feelingâ€”that youâ€™d like to go to a whole different place and become a whole different self?”
“Sometimes I feel so- I donâ€™t know - lonely. The kind of helpless feeling when everything youâ€™re used to has been ripped away. Like thereâ€™s no more gravity, and Iâ€™m left to drift in outer space with no idea where Iâ€™m goingâ€™ Like a little lost Sputnik?â€™ I guess so.”
“There's a special feeling you get on a veranda that you just can't get anywhere else.”
“Say it before you run out of time. Say it before it's too late. Say what you're feeling. Waiting is a mistake.”
“Every one of us is losing something precious to us. Lost opportunities, lost possibilities, feelings we can never get back again. Thatâ€™s part of what it means to be alive.”
“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 favourite feeling in the world.”
“Thatâ€™s what loveâ€™s all about. Youâ€™re the only 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.”
“When the fire goes out, you'll start feeling the cold. You'll wake up whether you want to or not.”
“Everybody's born with some different thing at the core of their existence. And that thing, whatever it is, becomes like a heat source that runs each person from the inside. I have one too, of course. Like everybody else. But sometimes it gets out of hand. It swells or shrinks inside me, and it shakes me up. What I'd really like to do is find a way to communicate that feeling to another person.”
“you mean machines are like humans?" I shook my head. "No, not like humans. With machines the feeling is, well, more finite. It doesn't go any further. With humans it's different. The feeling is always changing. Like if you love somebody, the love is always shifting or wavering. It's always questioning or inflating or disappearing or denying or hurting. And the thing is, you can't do anything about it, you can't control it. With my Subaru, it's not so complicated.”
“Iâ€™m me, and at the same time not me. Thatâ€™s what it felt like. A very still, quiet feeling.”
“It was a strange feeling, like touching a void.”
“Whatâ€™s most important is what you canâ€™t see but can feel in your heart. To be able to grasp something of value, sometimes you have to perform seemingly inefficient acts. But even activities that appear fruitless donâ€™t necessarily end up so. Thatâ€™s the feeling I have, as someone whoâ€™s felt this, whoâ€™s experienced it.”
“Itâ€™s precisely because of the pain, the we can get the feeling, through this process, of really being aliveâ€”or at least a partial sense of it.”
“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.”

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