Haruki Murakami Quotes

But my silence is real. If I hid it from you, you would find it again a little farther on.

Sutton's dead. Tell no one. Keep playing along... or you're next.

As for you, Private, if you mention a word of this to anyone, I'll feed you to the cat thing here. Understand?" "Yum," said Mogget. "Yes, sir!" mumbled the telephone operator, his hands shaking as he tried to smother the burning wreckage of his switchboard with a fire blanket.

I wish we could be 100% shielded from danger, but nothing is in life.

I spent much of my life hiding.

If anybody ever finds out where your district is, they'll beat you.

As soon as there is life there is danger.

Life is dangerous. There are no guarantees.

I cannot tell you who will be accompanying me and why, because that would only make myself more vulnerable. So I will not talk about that.

Little mouse," a voice said through the keyhole. "Don't you know the more you wriggle, the greater the cat's delight?

The truth can't be hidden for long.

She knew too much. -A

I HIDE myself within my flower That wearing on your breast, You, unsuspecting, wear me too - And angels know the rest. I hide myself within my flower, That, fading from your vase, You, unsuspecting, feel for me Almost a loneliness.

Shame cannot survive being spoken. It cannot tolerate having words wrapped around it. What it craves is secrecy, silence, and judgment. If you stay quiet, you stay in a lot of self-judgment.

Interested in some ‘undercover’ work? And to think, I was actually having a tender thought about you. Do yourself a favor, Steele…Become mute.

In a world full of danger, to be a potentially seeable object is to be constantly exposed to danger. Self-consciousness, then, may be the apprehensive awareness of oneself as potentially exposed to danger by the simple fact of being visible to others. The obvious defence against such a danger is to make oneself invisible in one way or another.

You're safe only when you can't see anybody.

The best way of keeping a secret is to pretend there isn't one.

...available people are the ones who are dangerous, because they confront us with the possibility of real intimacy.

And it was as if fate had betrayed the soldier. In death it exposed to his enemies that poverty which in life he had perhaps concealed from his friends.

Hiding out with the enemy brings only temporary relief.

So long as the mother, Ignorance, lives, it is not safe for Science the offspring, to divulge the hidden causes of things.

In every cradle decked with rosy wreath Lurk germs of death.

When you're a kid, it's hard to tell the innocuous secrets from the ones that will kill you if you keep them.

I will sit down now, but the time will come when you will hear me.