My grandpa always said asking a question is embarrassing for a moment, but not asking is embarrassing for a lifetime.
(Kafka on the Shore )
More Quotes from Haruki Murakami:
Time came slowly and passed slowly, so leisurely that at times he could swear it had stealthily doubled back on itself.Haruki Murakami
The dead will always be dead, but we have to go on living.
Haruki Murakami
I've built a wall around me, never letting anybody inside and trying not to venture outside myself
Haruki Murakami
Have you ever had that feeling-that you'd like to go to a whole different place and become a whole different self?
Haruki Murakami
A regular wind-up toy world this is, I think. Once a day the wind-up bird has to come and wind the springs of this world. Alone in this fun house, only I grow old, a pale softball of death swelling inside me. Yet even as I sleep somewhere between Saturn and Uranus, wind-up birds everywhere are busy at work fulfilling their appointed rounds.
Haruki Murakami
Her smile steps offstage for a moment, then does an encore, all while I'm dealing with my blushing face.
Haruki Murakami
Readers Who Like This Quotation Also Like:
Justice is not to be taken by storm. She is to be wooed by slow advances.Benjamin Cardozo
I was paid to read Western economic texts. In a way, the regime paid for their own undermining.
Vaclav Klaus
We're in a giant car heading towards a brick wall and everyone's arguing over where they're going to sit.
David Suzuki