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“As we go through life we gradually discover who we are, but the more we discover, the more we lose ourselves.”
― Haruki Murakami, Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage

“Everything has boundaries. The same holds true with thought. You shouldn¡¯t fear boundaries, but you also should not be afraid of destroying them. That¡¯s what is most important if you want to be free: respect for and exasperation with boundaries. What¡¯s really important in life is always the things that are secondary.”
― Haruki Murakami, Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage

“The world isn¡¯t that easily turned upside down, Haida replied. It¡¯s people who are turned upside down.”
― Haruki Murakami, Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage

“Tsukuru decided not to pursue it further. He could think about it all he wanted and never find an answer. He placed this doubt inside a drawer in his mind labeled ¡°Pending¡± and postponed any further consideration. He had many such drawers inside him, with numerous doubts and questions tucked away.”
― Haruki Murakami, Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage

“But it's strange, isn't it?" Eri said.
"What is?"
"That amazing time in our lives is gone, and will never return. All the beautiful possibilities we had then have been swallowed up in the flow of time.”
― Haruki Murakami, Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage

“Her warm breath, her cheeks wet with tears. All the lost possibilities, all the time that was never to return.”
― Haruki Murakami, Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage

“You can hide memories, but you can't erase the history that produced them.”
― Haruki Murakami, Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage

“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 Book 1

“Genius is childhood recovered at will.”
― Charles Baudelaire

“It has always seemed absurd to suppose that a god would choose for his companions, during all eternity, the dear souls whose highest and only ambition is to obey.”
― Robert Green Ingersoll, Individuality From 'The Gods and Other Lectures'

“With their backs to the sunrise they worship the night.”
― Robert G. Ingersoll, Individuality From 'The Gods and Other Lectures'

“With heart at rest I climbed the citadel's
Steep height, and saw the city as from a tower,
Hospital, brothel, prison, and such hells,

Where evil comes up softly like a flower.
Thou knowest, O Satan, patron of my pain,
Not for vain tears I went up at that hour;

But like an old sad faithful lecher, fain
To drink delight of that enormous trull
Whose hellish beauty makes me young again.

Whether thou sleep, with heavy vapors full,
Sodden with day, or, new appareled, stand
In gold-laced veils of evening beautiful,

I love thee, infamous city! Harlots and
Hunted have pleasures of their own to give,
The vulgar herd can never understand.”
― Charles Baudelaire

“Elaine: Ugh, I hate people.
Jerry: Yeah, they're the worst. ”
― Jerry Seinfeld

“Let me be, was all I wanted. Be what I am, no matter how I am.”
― Henry Miller, Stand Still Like the Hummingbird

“A book lying idle on a shelf is wasted ammunition.”
― Henry Miller, The Books in My Life

“Every day we slaughter our finest impulses. That is why we get a heartache when we read those lines written by the hand of a master and recognize them as our own, as the tender shoots which we stifled because we lacked the faith to believe in our own powers, our own criterion of truth and beauty. Every man, when he gets quiet, when he becomes desperately honest with himself, is capable of uttering profound truths. We all derive from the same source. there is no mystery about the origin of things. We are all part of creation, all kings, all poets, all musicians; we have only to open up, only to discover what is already there.”
― Henry Miller

“Life moves on, whether we act as cowards or heroes. Life has no other discipline to impose, if we would but realize it, than to accept life unquestioningly. Everything we shut our eyes to, everything we run away from, everything we deny, denigrate or despise, serves to defeat us in the end. What seems nasty, painful, evil, can become a source of beauty, joy, and strength, if faced with an open mind. Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such”
― Henry Miller

“I need to be alone. I need to ponder my shame and my despair in seclusion; I need the sunshine and the paving stones of the streets without companions, without conversation, face to face with myself, with only the music of my heart for company.”
― Henry Miller, Tropic of Cancer

“Everything we shut our eyes to, everything we run away from, everything we deny, denigrate, or despise, serves to defeat us in the end.”
― Henry Miller

“Serenity is when you get above all this, when it doesn't matter what they think, say or want, but when you do as you are, and see God and Devil as one.”
― Henry Miller

“Destiny is what you are supposed to do in life. Fate is what kicks you in the ass to make you do it.”
― Henry Miller

“Murray said, 'I don't trust anybody's nostalgia but my own. Nostalgia is a product of dissatisfaction and rage. It?s a settling of grievances between the present and the past. The more powerful the nostalgia, the closer you come to violence. War is the form nostalgia takes when men are hard-pressed to say something good about their country.”
― Don DeLillo

“These are the days after. Everything now is measured by after.”
― Don DeLillo, Falling Man

“It is all falling indelibly into the past.”
― Don DeLillo, Underworld

“For most people, there are only two places in the world. Where they live and their TV set. If a thing happens on television, we have every right to find it fascinating, whatever it is.”
― Don DeLillo, White Noise

“It is possible to be homesick for a place even when you are there.”
― Don DeLillo, White Noise

“That's why people take vacations. No to relax or find excitement or see new places. To escape the death that exists in routine things.”
― Don DeLillo, White Noise

“The true life is not reducible to words spoken or written, not by anyone, ever.”
― Don DeLillo, Point Omega

“I was always younger than anyone around me. One day it began to change.”
― Don DeLillo, Cosmopolis

“I sat on the front steps alone, waiting for a sense of ease and peace to settle in the air around me.

A woman passing on the street said, ?A decongestant, an antihistamine, a cough suppressant, a pain reliever.?”
― Don DeLillo, White Noise