Haruki Murakami: Frasi in inglese (pagina 18)

Haruki Murakami è scrittore, traduttore e saggista giapponese. Frasi in inglese.
Haruki Murakami: 908   frasi 1142   Mi piace

“An unhealthy soul requires a healthy body.”

Help us translate this quote
Haruki Murakami libro L'arte di correre

Origine: What I Talk About When I Talk About Running

“Memory is like fiction; or else it's fiction that's like memory.”

Help us translate this quote
Haruki Murakami libro The Elephant Vanishes

Origine: The Elephant Vanishes

“Either I'm funny or the world's funny. I don't know which. The bottle and lid don't fit. It could be the bottle's fault or the lid's fault. In either case, there's no denying that the fit is bad.”

Help us translate this quote
Haruki Murakami libro 1Q84

Origine: 1Q84

“Sometimes I feel like a caretaker of a museum -- a huge, empty museum where no one ever comes, and I'm watching over it for no one but myself.”

Help us translate this quote
Haruki Murakami libro Pinball, 1973

Origine: Pinball, 1973

“What the hell kind of revolution have you got just tossing out big words that working-class people can't understand?”

Help us translate this quote
Haruki Murakami libro Norwegian Wood

Origine: Norwegian Wood

“The whole terrible fight occured in the area of imagination. That is the precise location of our battlefield. It is there, that we experience our victories and defeats.”

Help us translate this quote
Haruki Murakami

Origine: After the Quake

“If she did experience sex--or something close to it--in high school, I'm sure it would have been less out of sexual desire or love than literary curiosity.”

Help us translate this quote
Haruki Murakami libro La ragazza dello Sputnik

Origine: Sputnik Sweetheart

“Artists are those who can evade the verbose.”

Help us translate this quote
Haruki Murakami libro Kafka sulla spiaggia

Origine: Kafka on the Shore

“What was lost was lost. There was no retrieving it, however you schemed, no returning to how things were, no going back.”

Help us translate this quote
Haruki Murakami libro La fine del mondo e il paese delle meraviglie

Origine: Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World

“But didn't you say you were satisfied with your life?"

"Word games," I dismissed. "Every army needs a flag.”

Help us translate this quote
Haruki Murakami libro La fine del mondo e il paese delle meraviglie

Origine: Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World

“In terms of evolutionary history, it was only yesterday that men learned to walk around on two legs and get in trouble thinking complicated thoughts. So don't worry, you'll burn out.”

Help us translate this quote
Haruki Murakami libro L'uccello che girava le Viti del Mondo

Origine: The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

“People leave traces of themselves where they feel most comfortable, most worthwhile.”

Help us translate this quote
Haruki Murakami libro Dance Dance Dance

Origine: Dance Dance Dance

“Does G get angry because it follows F in the alphabet? Does page 68 in a book start a revolution because it follows 67?”

Help us translate this quote
Haruki Murakami libro Kafka sulla spiaggia

Origine: Kafka on the Shore

“So once you're dead there's just nothing?
Mari: Basically…
Korogi: I get so scared when I start thinking about this stuff. I can hardly breathe, and my whole body wants to shrink into a corner. It's so much easier to just believe in reincarnation.”

Help us translate this quote
Haruki Murakami libro After Dark

Origine: After Dark

“No matter how long you stand there examining yourself naked before a mirror, you'll never see reflected what's inside.”

Help us translate this quote
Haruki Murakami libro L'arte di correre

Origine: What I Talk About When I Talk About Running

“Don't you think it would be wonderful to get rid of everything and everybody and just go someplace where you don't know a soul? Sometimes I feel like doing that. I really really want to do it sometimes.”

Help us translate this quote
Haruki Murakami libro Norwegian Wood

Origine: Norwegian Wood

“A friend to kill time is a friend sublime.”

Help us translate this quote
Haruki Murakami libro Nel segno della pecora

Origine: A Wild Sheep Chase: A Novel (1982), Chapter 40, The Rat Who Wound the Clock

“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.”

Help us translate this quote
Haruki Murakami libro Nel segno della pecora

Origine: A Wild Sheep Chase

“Once again, life had a lesson to teach me: It takes years to build up, it takes moments to destroy.”

Help us translate this quote
Haruki Murakami libro La fine del mondo e il paese delle meraviglie

Variante: It takes years to build up, it takes moments to destroy.
Origine: Hardboiled Wonderland and the End of the World (1985), Chapter 19: Hamburgers,Skyline and Deadline
Origine: Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World
Contesto: Once again, life had a lesson to teach me: It takes years to build up, it takes moments to destroy. Sure, I'd gotten tired of this tiny space, but I'd had a good home here. In the time it takes to swill two cans of beer, all had had sublimed like morning mist. My job, my whiskey, my peace and quiet, my solitude, my Sormerset Maugham, and John Ford collections-all of it trashed and worthless.