It's not me but the world that's deranged.
Haruki Murakami, 1Q84.
“If you can love someone with your whole heart, even one person, then there's salvation in life. Even if you can't get together with that person.”
“I'm tired of living unable to love anyone. I don't have a single friend - not one. And, worst of all, I can't even love myself. Why is that? Why can't I love myself? It's because I can't love anyon...”
“A person learns how to love himself through the simple acts of loving and being loved by someone else.”
“Life is not like water. Things in life don't necessarily flow over the shortest possible route.”
“It seemed to me that this world has a serious shortage of both logic and kindness.”
“I can bear any pain as long as it has meaning.”
“Whoever is planning a nuclear war or seriously thinking about using nuclear weapons must directly be taken to a mental hospital! Mad people are mentally sick and they only need a medical treatment!...”
“It's not me but the world that's deranged.”
“It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.”
“If I am going to be drownedif I am going to be drownedif I am going to be drowned, why, in the name of the seven mad gods who rule the sea, was I allowed to come thus far and contemplate sand and t...”
“I'm an Earth ecstatic, and my creed is simple: All life is sacred, life loves life, and we are capable of improving our behavior toward one another. As basic as that is, for me it's also tonic and ...”
“War is society's dirty work, usually done by kids cleaning up some failure on the part of the adults.”
“War is the echo that never dies. No society strives for war, they are always tricked into it.”
“How can our words ever truly be our own? Since we started growing all we've been taught is to care how we represent our persona and how we should communicate appropriately and how we portrait ourse...”