One will never again look at a birch tree, after the Robert Frost poem, in exactly the same way. — Paul Muldoon
To dwellers in a wood, almost every species of tree has its voice as well as its feature. — Thomas Hardy
The woods are lovely, dark, and deep but I have promises to keep... — Robert Frost
Not one would mind, neither bird nor tree
If mankind perished utterly; And Spring herself, when she woke at dawn,
Would scarcely know that we were gone. — Sara Teasdale
A terrace nine stories high begins with a pile of earth. — Lao Tzu
Between every two pines is a doorway to a new world. — John Muir
Whose woods these are I think I know.
His house is in the village though;
He will not see me stopping here
To watch his woods fill up with snow. — Robert Frost
The oak tree:
not interested
in cherry blossoms. — Matsuo Basho
The brassy wood-pigeons Bubble their colourful voices, and the sun Rises upon a world well-tried and old. — Ted Hughes
Short Norwegian Wood Quotes
Trees are poems that the earth writes upon the sky. — Kahlil Gibran
The snowdrop and primrose our woodlands adorn, and violets bathe in the wet o' the morn. — Robert Burns
So still were the big woods where I sat, sound might not yet have been born. — Emily Carr
Loveliest of trees, the cherry now
Is hung with bloom along the bough. — A. E. Housman
Morning has broken
Like the first morning.
Blackbird has spoken
Like the first bird. — Eleanor Farjeon
The noise of the great tree with the twig, the light of the happy house with the offspring. — Turkish Proverbs
Through woods and mountain passes The winds, like anthems, roll. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Such tenderness, those afternoons and evenings, saying blackberry, blackberry, blackberry. — Robert Hass
Going into the woods, is going home — John Muir
Merrily, merrily shall I live now,
Under the blossom that hangs on the bough. — William Shakespeare
I took a walk in the woods and came out taller than the trees.
Norwegian Quotes
I have a million things to talk to you about. All I want in this world is you. I want to see you and talk. I want the two of us to begin everything from the beginning. — Haruki Murakami
I probably still haven’t completely adapted to the world. I don’t know, I feel like this isn’t the real world. The people, the scene: they just don’t seem real to me. — Haruki Murakami
I was always hungry for love. Just once, I wanted to know what it was like to get my fill of it -- to be fed so much love I couldn't take any more. Just once. — Haruki Murakami
Use what talent you possess; the wood would be very silent if no bird sang except those that sang best.
When you come out of the storm, you won’t be the same person who walked in. That’s what this storm’s all about. — Haruki Murakami
Why do people have to be this lonely? What's the point of it all? Millions of people in this world, all of them yearning, looking to others to satisfy them, yet isolating themselves. Why? Was the earth put here just to nourish human loneliness? — Haruki Murakami
A gentleman is someone who does not what he wants to do, but what he should do. — Haruki Murakami
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference.
What makes us the most normal," said Reiko, "is knowing that we're not normal. — Haruki Murakami
I'm 100% Norwegian. Three generations removed and all continuous inbreeding of Norwegian of Minnesota and Iowa, so I traveled to Norway before. — Eric Christian Olsen
She waited for the train to pass. Then she said, "I sometimes think that people’s hearts are like deep wells. Nobody knows what’s at the bottom. All you can do is imagine by what comes floating to the surface every once in a while. — Haruki Murakami
My father was a Norwegian who came from a small town near Oslo. He broke his arm at the elbow when he was 14, and they amputated it. — Roald Dahl
Norway Quotes
Aye, aye! and I'll chase him round Good Hope, and round the Horn, and round the Norway Maelstrom, and round perdition's flames before I give him up. — Herman Melville
I want to travel. Maybe I'll end up living in Norway, making cakes. — Eva Green
What I love most about Norway is you ladies. Back home I'm used to fat and hairy women journalists. — Diego Maradona
Chop your own wood and it will warm you twice.
We have to find compromises. That's the way it is in Norway. — Kjell Magne Bondevik
I really enjoy myself in Norway. Because I had started losing confidence in my ability of what I do. But sometimes, man, you just get tired of fighting and trying to prove yourself. — Ike Turner
Right now I would rank Norway as the largest country in the world, I have never seen anything like it — Barack Obama
November always seemed to me the Norway of the year. — Emily Dickinson
I am living in Norway, where I am under the care of the best cancer doctor in Norway and I can be closer to my family. — Grete Waitz
I had to inspect all fighter units in Russia, Africa, Sicily, France, and Norway. I had to be everywhere. — Adolf Galland
We have a high standard of living. ... In Norway, we've tripled our income since 1970. In the rest of western Europe, income has merely doubled. — Jens Stoltenberg
Unfortunately, the clock is ticking, the hours are going by. The past increases, the future recedes. Possibilities decreasing, regrets mounting. — Haruki Murakami
I have this strange feeling that I'm not myself anymore. It's hard to put into words, but I guess it's like I was fast asleep, and someone came, disassembled me, and hurriedly put me back together again. That sort of feeling. — Haruki Murakami
Sometimes fate is like a small sandstorm that keeps changing directions. You change direction but the sandstorm chases you. You turn again, but the storm adjusts. — Haruki Murakami
Don't feel sorry for yourself. Only arseholes do that. — Haruki Murakami
What happens when people open their hearts?"... "They get better. — Haruki Murakami
It's because of you when I'm in bed in the morning that I can wind my spring and tell myself I have to live another good day. — Haruki Murakami
Nobody likes being alone that much. I don't go out of my way to make friends, that's all. It just leads to disappointment. — Haruki Murakami
If you're in pitch blackness, all you can do is sit tight until your eyes get used to the dark. — Haruki Murakami
No truth can cure the sorrow we feel from losing a loved one. No truth, no sincerity, no strength, no kindness can cure that sorrow. All we can do is see it through to the end and learn something from it, but what we learn will be no help in facing the next sorrow that comes to us without warning. — Haruki Murakami
Silence, I discover, is something you can actually hear. — Haruki Murakami
She's letting out her feelings. The scary thing is not being able to do that. When your feelings build up and harden and die inside, then you're in big trouble. — Haruki Murakami
When you fall in love, the natural thing to do is give yourself to it. — Haruki Murakami
I want you always to remember me. Will you remember that I existed, and that I stood next to you here like this? — Haruki Murakami
Letters are just pieces of paper," I said. "Burn them, and what stays in your heart will stay; keep them, and what vanishes will vanish. — Haruki Murakami
What a terrible thing it is to wound someone you really care for and to do it so unconsciously. — Haruki Murakami
People are strange when you're a stranger. — Jim Morrison
I don't go out of my way to make friends, that's all. — Haruki Murakami
There's no war that will end all wars. — Haruki Murakami
I dream. Sometimes I think that's the only right thing to do. — Haruki Murakami
No matter how much suffering you went through, you never wanted to let go of those memories. — Haruki Murakami
Death is not the opposite of life, but a part of it. — Haruki Murakami
I work through teams. It’s the only way I know how to work. — Angela Ahrendts
Which is why I am writing this book. To think. To understand. It just happens to be the way I'm made. I have to write things down to feel I fully comprehend them. — Haruki Murakami
Was the earth put here just to nourish human loneliness? — Haruki Murakami
Life doesn't require ideals. It requires standards of action. — Haruki Murakami
Learning by doing is the only way I know how to learn. — Tony Fadell
Writing is the only way I know how to pray. — Helena Maria Viramontes
It was as if I were writing letters to hold together the pieces of my crumbling life. — Haruki Murakami
Death is not the opposite of life, but the opposite of choice. — Robin Hobb
I didn't have much to say to anybody but kept to myself and my books. With my eyes closed, I would touch a familiar book and draw it's fragrance deep inside me. This was enough to make me happy. — Haruki Murakami
But who can say what's best? That's why you need to grab whatever chance you have of happiness where you find it, and not worry about other people too much. My experience tells me that we get no more than two or three such chances in a life time, and if we let them go, we regret it for the rest of our lives. — Haruki Murakami
Only the dead stay seventeen forever. — Haruki Murakami
All music now, I think, is fair game for jazz musicians to interpret, and they have been. I would consider those songs standards now. "Norwegian Wood" is a standard; "Call Me" is a standard. — Patricia Barber
Maybe the star doesnt even exist any more.Yet sometimes that light seems more real to me than anything. — Haruki Murakami
All of us are imperfect human beings living in an imperfect world. — Haruki Murakami
That's the kind of death that frightens me. The shadow of death slowly, slowly eats away at the region of life, and before you know it everything's dark and you can't see, and the people around you think of you as more dead than alive. — Haruki Murakami
So what’s wrong if there happens to be one guy in the world who enjoys trying to understand you? — Haruki Murakami
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