“ And it came to me then. That we were wonderful traveling companions but in the end no more than lonely lumps of metal in their own separate orbits. From far off they look like beautiful shooting stars, but in reality they’re nothing more than prisons, where each of us is locked up alone, going nowhere. When the orbits of these two satellites of ours happened to cross paths, we could be together. Maybe even open our hearts to each other. But that was only for the briefest moment. In the next instant we’d be in absolute solitude. Until we burned up and became nothing.
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— Haruki Murakami (Sputnik Sweetheart)
“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?”
(…)”I closed my eyes and listened carefully for the descendants of Sputnik, even now circling the earth, gravity their only tie to the planet. Lonely metal souls in the unimpeded darkness of space, they meet, pass each other, and part, never to meet again. No words passing between them. No promises to keep.”
— Haruki Murakami (Sputnik Sweetheart)
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My pleasure
These quotes are very sad. :(
I read Murakami's "After Dark" about two years ago. His characters are always lonely in one way or another - somewhat removed from the hustle and bustle of life around them.
In a way, I can relate to them too, which is wierd, considering that I'm an open outgoing person most of the time. I guess people in general are afraid to open up to others.
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will
Interesting...I had no idea that Lugosi died in poverty...sad.
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