Kafka on the Shore Quotes: Unfolding Murakami’s Puzzling Wisdom

By AllThingsAwe

June 21, 2024

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“Every time you see a flood like that on the news you tell yourself: That's it. That's my heart.” 

Kafka 

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“Kafka, in everybody's life there's a point of no return. And in very few cases, a point where you can't go forward anymore.” 

Oshima 

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“Sometimes I don't understand it myself. I ask myself. I ask myself, what the hell am I, anyway? Really, what am I?” 

Oshima 

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“Asking questions is embarrassing for a moment, but not asking is embarrassing for a lifetime.” 

Hoshino’s Grandpa 

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“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.” 

Colonel Sanders 

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“But metaphors can reduce the distance.” “But metaphors help eliminate what separates you and me.”

Kafka 

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"Anyone who falls in love is searching for the missing pieces of themselves. So anyone who's in love gets sad when they think of their lover.” 

Oshima 

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"I want you to remember me. If you remember me, then I don't care if everybody else forgets.” 

Miss Saeki 

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“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.” 

Oshima 

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“A certain type of perfection can only be realized through a limitless accumulation of the imperfect.” 

Oshima 

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“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.” 

Oshima