Haruki Murakami Quotes

Some people are walking around with full use of their bodies and they're more paralyzed than I am.

If we see someone in a wheelchair, we assume they cannot walk. It may be that they can walk three, four, five steps. That, to them, means they can walk.

It finally became clear to me that they had no hopes of my ever walking again.

I grew up a swimmer. I didn't think I could swim without the use of my legs.

I do not want medical men to discuss whether or not my work is valuable, because I know what it will do. I want them to tell me how best this new knowledge of rapidly restoring paralysed people to health and strength can be applied where it is needed.

My mother has rheumatoid arthritis. I don't want to lose the ability to jump up and walk across the room or move around with the energy I'm used to having. That's far more important to me than a wrinkle or two.

I'm just happy to have my legs back, cause at one point in time, I wasn't even walking.

There are plenty of people who have legs who are way more disabled than me.

You take for granted that you can walk. You do it every day, and then suddenly you can't walk, and you have to remember, 'How did I get out of this chair and start walking in the first place?'

Nothing is bigger than life. There's nothing noble in death. What's noble about never seeing the sunshine again? What's noble about having your legs and arms blown off? What's noble about being an idiot? What's noble about being blind and deaf and dumb? What's noble about being dead?

I'm dying, but otherwise I'm in very good health.

in California I began to think that, except on the beaches, no-one had the use of their legs.

Some people can’t figure out what I’m doing. It’s not a walk-hop, it’s not a trot, it’s running, or as close as I can get to running, and it’s harder than doing it on two legs. It makes me mad when people call this a walk. If I was walking it wouldn’t be anything.

When you lose your hands, you can't play baseball.

You're always going to be struggling if you haven't got a left foot.

You think you're so cool just because you can walk!

Being confined to a wheelchair doesn't bother me as my mind is free to roam the universe, but it felt wonderful to be weightless.

Dear Mr Skully, I have caught my neck in a mangle and will be indisposed for eternity. Yours in death S.D.

Cancer is enough to get my attention.

I can't walk very well, but I'm not onstage to do walking. I'm on the stage to play.

It is not death to have the body called back to the earth, and dissolved into its kindred elements, and mouldered to dust, and, it may be, turn to daisies, in the grave. But it is death to have the soul paralyzed, its inner life quenched, its faculties dissipated; that is death.

Everybody dies. There's nothing you can do about it. Whether you eat six almonds a day. Whether or not you believe in God.

I can get around pretty easily. People don't expect to see me walking around.