These are favorite quotes from the novel 1Q84 written by Haruki Murakami. You don't need to have read the book to enjoy the quotes. There are quotes on hope, ageing, pragmatism, reciprocity , resistance to change, importance of instincts etc.

1. 1Q84 , Haruki Murakami
Some memorable Quotes

2. On Talent v/s Instincts

3. “You can have tons of
talent, but it won’t
necessarily keep you fed. If
you have sharp instincts,
though, you will never go
hungry” – Haruki Murakami, 1Q84

4. Illusion of Freedom
I clearly remember how I wanted to earn at an early age so that I could truly be free!! Here’s
what Murakami thinks of that Idea.

5. What did it mean for a person to
be free? She would often ask
herself. Even if you managed to
escape from one cage, weren’t
you just in another, larger one ?
- Haruki Murakami, 1q84

6. On Being an Outlier

7. “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.”
- Haruki Murakami,1Q84

8. Pragmatism

9. “It seems to me that this world has a
serious shortage of both logic and
kindness” Ayumi said
“You may be right” Aomame said. “But
it’s too late to trade it in for another one”
- Haruki Murakami, 1Q84

10. The God Father Principle
The next quote reminds me of this powerful scene from Godfather
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XPTAjNVvrYg

11. “No, I don’t want your
money. The world moves
less by Money than by
what you owe people
and they owe you”
- Haruki Murakami, 1Q84

12. Can’t Explain… Don’t Explain

13. “If you can’t understand it
without an explanation,
you can’t understand with
an explanation”
- Haruki Murakami, 1Q84

14. “It is not that the meaning
cannot be explained. But
there are certain meanings
that are lost forever the
moment they are explained
in words.”
- Haruki Murakami,1Q84

15. Ignorance is Bliss

16. Most people are not looking for provable truths. As you said,
truth is often accompanied by intense pain, and almost no
one is looking for painful truths. What people need is
beautiful, comforting stories that make them feel as if their
lives have some meaning. Which is where religion comes
from.
- Haruki Murakami, 1Q84

17. Resistance to Change

18. You are afraid, just as the people of the Vatican
were afraid to accept the Copernican theory.
Not even they believed in the infallibility of the
Ptolemaic theory. They were afraid of the new
situation that would prevail if they accepted
the Copernican theory. They were afraid of
having to reorder their minds to accept it.
Strictly speaking, the Catholic Church has still
not publically accepted the Copernican
theory.
- Haruki Murakami, 1Q84

19. The Difficulty with Hope

20. Hope, is limited and generally
abstract, while there are
countless trials, and they tend to
be concrete.
- Haruki Murakami, 1Q84

21. Ageing and the Associated Loss

22. Once you pass a certain age, life becomes nothing more than a
process of continual loss. Things that are important to your life begin to
slip out of your grasp, one after another, like a come losing teeth. And
the only things that come to take their place are worthless imitations.
Your physical strength, your hopes, your dreams, your ideals, your
convictions, all meaning, or then again, the people you love: one by
one, they fade away. Some announce their departure before they
leave, while others just disappear all of a sudden without warning one
day. And once you lose them you can never get them back. Your
search for replacements never goes well. It’s all very painful – as painful
as actually being cut with a knife. – Haruki Murakami, 1Q84

23. About 1Q84
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