In everybody’s life there’s a point of no return. And in a very few cases, a point where you can’t go forward anymore. And when we reach that point, all we can do is quietly accept the fact. That’s how we survive.
Haruki Murakami
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BLOW We were struggling the whole time and got to a point where we couldn't survive anymore. We needed a ... MARTHA JEAN We all reach the irrevocable point in time when we'll ask ourselves....'was there life before death? JAF LIETHERS / PIA FAJELAGUTAN Credit is a promise to deliver money. It will produce GDP but you'll create credit... So you rea... RAY DALIO One of the odd things about being a writer is that you never reach a point of certainty, a point of ... JENNY OFFILL ...there are often many things we feel we should do that, in fact, we don't really have to do. Getti... ELAINE ST. JAMES We are in a very grim situation, and everybody knows how serious it is. We are not anywhere near a p... RICHARD HOLBROOKE We have reached the point where we can't do that anymore, so as a result, the building has a shelf l... DANIEL MARTINEZ You miss a lot of a person’s life when you don’t keep in touch. Maybe that’s the point. BRYANT A. LONEY We could say that meditation doesn't have a reason or doesn't have a purpose. In this respect it's u... ALAN WATTS We could say that meditation doesn't have a reason or doesn't have a purpose. In this respect it's u... ALAN W. WATTS It's pretty tough trying to find areas we can cut back, when we've already done that, ... You reach ... BOB MURPHY The idea that there’s good and evil knowledge . . . well, that’s strictly a religious point of v... DEAN KOONTZ If the divine creator has taken pains to give us delicious and exquisite things to eat, the least we... FERNAND POINT The really amazing thing about all this is no matter what you believe,it took some doing to get from... JODI PICOULT Everybody's aware of where we're at and how many points behind. We know we can't falter anymore at t... ROBERTO LUONGO To be a child means to owe one's existence to another, and even in our adult life we never quite rea... HANS URS VON BALTHASAR If you love someone you must set them free like the wind and give them the respect they deserve.If y... GARY F EVANS... In youth, everything seems possible; but we reach a point in the middle years when we realize that w... ADLAI E. STEVENSON We think we think in a very literal way, but if you really ponder it, you don't think in a literal w... JOHN LESLIE Life's irony;No matter how appreciative we may be in life,at one point in life,we shall all remain u... DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) when we reach the point when our lives take on their final shape as in a novel we can identify our h... ORHAN PAMUK I have to accept that difficult stuff happens & there’s no point in getting worked up about it... JAY WOODMAN We all have a general idea of the numbers, but when we reach this point, it is important to have a p... CELSO AMORIM Gasoline was already so hammered. You reach a point where you have already accounted for any invento... BILL O'GRADY There comes a time in each life like a point of fulcrum. At that time you must accept yourself. It i... JOHN FOWLES That’s how stories happen — with a turning point, an unexpected twist. There’s only one kind o... HARUKI MURAKAMI It is very much a strategy golf course. You have to go from point to point and get in position to do... MARK MCNULTY There’s no point in believing in things that exist. TERRY PRATCHETT My son is totally different. When your child has said how he feels worthless, he wants to kill himse... CHARLOTTE DODDS At this point last year, we were in catastrophe mode. We were actually putting in new stuff, playing... JAY WRIGHT We have reached the point where ignorance and neglect are the best we can hope for in a ruler. LEV GROSSMAN Sometimes, you can work so hard and not get a point out of it, but things are going our way right no... ULF SAMUELSSON a major reason why we wake up each day is to know the real reasons why we wake up each day ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH We can all be conned but at what point do we realize that we're being conned and to what point d... GUY RITCHIE At this point there's been no requests for our assistance. We are following this closely, and if the... JOE LOCKHART A new day is here! yesterday is gone! tomorrow is preparing to come! but why is today here? ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH To this point we have had no confirmed cases of diseased transmission. BERT KELLY There comes a point where you can't raise fares or cut services anymore without risking losing rider... JOEL KELLER The entire content of the 'Queries' is usually taken to express Newton's personal point of view, but... BILL NEWMAN The entire content of the 'Queries' is usually taken to express Newton's personal point of view, but... BILL NEWMAN It's a new environment and a new point in both of our careers, where we can see if we can transport ... BILL BURKE There is a point at which everything becomes simple and there is no longer any question of choice, b... DAG HAMMARSKJOLD I'm not interested in Botox or getting a facelift. There comes a point where you have to let go ... JADE JAGGER World at any point of time is at the point of no return, so there is no point to try to make it go U... ANUJ SOMANY There have been some weather problems in some very important markets around the world. First of all,... MARC COHEN It will make it a different experience every time you visit. Right now, you can go from point A to p... TED MOLTER Once the program got up and running, the slots available filled up very quickly. At one point we had... MIKE POTTER Once you've reached the point where you can pay rent, you can go to the vet and you can go to the gr... RENEE ZELLWEGER When we are in human consciousness, we identify with the body – mind. We believe we are one and th... HOWARD MANN In the future we probably won't tour as many months out of the year. You start thinking about all th... TOM HAMILTON I think we have gotten to a point as Americans, unfortunately, where we take for granted the magic t... IRVIN MAYFIELD There was a point in the early 1990s where (the NFL) thought, 'how can we make something this great ... CHARLES COPLIN You reach a point where you don't work for money. WALT DISNEY You reach a point where you say you're not going to do juveniles any longer. RON HOWARD Generally we don't like them as a basic principle. In some cases it is working reasonably well from ... BRIAN GIBSON There becomes a point in time you can only use that excuse for so long. We are getting very sick and... JASON DONALD Is there a point at which we hit a tipping point and all of this economic, cultural and moral troubl... JOEL C. ROSENBERG To no who you really are in self-actualization you will not only no yourself from a physical point o... GARY F EVANS... Is it 10 years, 20, 50 before we reach that tipping point where climate change becomes irreversible?... VINOD KHOSLA Imagine life as a game, a game that is filled with obstacles and hazards to overcome but sometimes y... GARY F EVANS... We see the writing on the wall of some changes that could be taking place in the copper market. Howe... DAVE MEGER The debate is simple. We have one topic and students pick sides, if they are for or against it. Each... DANIEL NOIA When we win the doubles point we are a top-20 team in the country. The doubles point makes us compet... DAVID GEATZ You might walk around and find a nice restaurant. Then you return to the hotel. Then you go to a mon... ELIZABETH CAPALDI It is a scientifically proven fact that eating a variety of flavors over-stimulates the appetite. Wh... DR. DAVID KATZ By the way, the point between rationality and what we would call the irrational is a very difficult ... LEO ORNSTEIN There are very few certainties that touch us all in this mortal experience, but one of the absolutes... DR. JAMES C. DOBSON We had no business giving (Columbus) any life ... it cost us a point. Great teams find a way to keep... CHRIS CHELIOS There's a point for things we create where they don't belong to us anymore; when others love them, t... VANNA BONTA I think there’s a point in everyone’s life where they realize that despite their best efforts, t... TESSA CLARE Many of these companies are privately owned, and they now reach a point in their evolution where the... LEO APOTHEKER All we can do is basic stuff at this point. AL WISNOSKI There?s a pretty good disparity between views that are primarily economic. We did reach a point wher... JOE MCEACHARN We need two points at this point of the year. One point is not going to cut it anymore. ROBERTO LUONGO Marriage is a reflection of your life in general: how you treat people, how you argue, how secure yo... WILLIAM SHATNER Victor patted my hand. 'I like you, Sky. You're a fighter.' 'I am, aren't I? Hear that, Zed? No... JOSS STIRLING If you have to shout to prove your point, you're probably wrong. ALEKSANDRA NINKOVIC The point of mythology or myth is to point to the horizon and to point back to ourselves: This is wh... J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI I believe in 'last in, first out' budgeting, ... If you go to any company, any family budget, that's... GIL GUTKNECHT There's no point for me in being a writer and having all these blocked places where I feel I can... BINYAVANGA WAINAINA Only in some very special cases is comprehension the point of reading--in things like recipes and "r... RICHARD MITCHELL We're steadily approaching a point where if we don't reach a northern facing slope, we won't be as p... BYRON JONES Nature deals the cards without thought or care, and there is no point in blaming the dealer. All we ... JULIAN BAGGINI I want everyone to know what they deserve in relationships: that they can demand equality and kindne... OLIVIA COLMAN When you succeed in life, You cannot be sure till you reach at the point you expect. OSCAR AULIQ-ICE To disagree does not equate to ill intent. It says either, "You have not provided me with sufficient... LASHAN DIA GRAY To GET on with our move with GOD… We need to get to the POINT of NO RETURN wherein you can say-I S... MORENIKE AJIBORISHA And as much as I’d like to believe there’s a truth beyond illusion, I’ve come to believe that ... DONNA TARTT There aren't a lot of diseases where we can point to and say we have an answer today that we didn't ... HAMILTON MOSES Eventually, we reach the point where we start to realize that we are not going to find peace, conten... GUY FINLEY At this point, we feel like all the work and all the comments have been absorbed, and we're finally ... ED HERNANDO
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HARUKI MURAKAMI Even castles in the sky can do with a fresh coat of paint. HARUKI MURAKAMI Lots of different ways to live and lots of different ways to die. But in the end that doesn't make a... HARUKI MURAKAMI If I stayed here, something inside me would be lost forever—something I couldn't afford to lose. I... HARUKI MURAKAMI The sad truth is that certain types of things can't go backward. Once they start going forward, no m... HARUKI MURAKAMI I wasn't in love with her. And she didn't love me. For me the question of love was irrelevant. What ... HARUKI MURAKAMI I hurt myself deeply, though at the time I had no idea how deeply. I should have learned many things... HARUKI MURAKAMI Have you heard of the illness hysteria siberiana ? Try to imagine this: You're a farmer, livin... HARUKI MURAKAMI No matter where i go, i still end up me. What's missing never changes. The scenery may change, but i... HARUKI MURAKAMI For a long time, she held a special place in my heart. I kept this special place just for her, like ... HARUKI MURAKAMI I was always attracted not by some quantifiable, external beauty, but by something deep down, someth... HARUKI MURAKAMI For a while" is a phrase whose length can't be measured.At least by the person who's waiting. HARUKI MURAKAMI You can see a person's whole life in the cancer they get. HARUKI MURAKAMI When I open them, most of the books have the smell of an earlier time leaking out between the pages ... HARUKI MURAKAMI Before I became a writer, I was running a jazz bar in the center of Tokyo, which means that I worked... HARUKI MURAKAMI Most near-future fictions are boring. It's always dark and always raining, and people are so unh... HARUKI MURAKAMI George Orwell is half journalist, half fiction writer. I'm 100 percent fiction writer... I don... HARUKI MURAKAMI You live by yourself for a stretch of time and you get to staring at different objects. Sometimes yo... HARUKI MURAKAMI I began running on an everyday basis after I became a writer. As being a writer requires sitting at ... HARUKI MURAKAMI If you remember me, then I don't care if everyone else forgets. HARUKI MURAKAMI These days I just can't seem to say what I mean [...]. I just can't. Every time I try to say somethi... HARUKI MURAKAMI From his shoulder on down, the Rat felt the supple weight of her body. An odd sensation, that weight... HARUKI MURAKAMI Time really is one big continuous cloth, no? We habitually cut out pieces of time to fit us, so we t... HARUKI MURAKAMI Loneliness becomes an acid that eats away at you. HARUKI MURAKAMI He would eventually have to pass through the forest, but he felt no fear. Of course - the forest was... HARUKI MURAKAMI The ocean was one of the greatest things he had ever seen in his life—bigger and deeper than anyth... HARUKI MURAKAMI Time flows in strange ways on Sundays, and sights become mysteriously distorted. HARUKI MURAKAMI The things she most wanted to tell him would lose their meaning the moment she put them into words. HARUKI MURAKAMI Things can be seen better in the darkness," he said, as if he had just seen into her mind. "But the ... HARUKI MURAKAMI The moon had been observing the earth close-up longer than anyone. It must have witnessed all of the... HARUKI MURAKAMI A person's last moments are an important thing. You can't choose how you're born but you can choose ... HARUKI MURAKAMI They sat on a park bench, held hands, and told each other their stories hour after hour. They were n... HARUKI MURAKAMI Knowledge and ability were tools, not things to show off. HARUKI MURAKAMI But there are certain meanings that are lost forever the moment they are explained in words. HARUKI MURAKAMI I'm a very ordinary human being; I just happen to like reading books. HARUKI MURAKAMI If you can love someone with your whole heart, even one person, then there's salvation in life. Even... HARUKI MURAKAMI Time passes slowly. Nobody says a word, everyone lost in quiet reading. One person sits at a desk jo... HARUKI MURAKAMI I go back to the reading room, where I sink down in the sofa and into the world of The Arabian Night... HARUKI MURAKAMI I have always liked running, so it wasn't particularly difficult to make it a habit. All you nee... HARUKI MURAKAMI Music brings a warm glow to my vision, thawing mind and muscle from their endless wintering. HARUKI MURAKAMI Nah, I shook my head, things that come out of nowhere go back to nowhere, that’s all. W... HARUKI MURAKAMI We fell silent again. The thing we had shared was nothing more than a fragment of time that had died... HARUKI MURAKAMI It seems to me that very sad things always contain an element of the comical HARUKI MURAKAMI I started writing at the kitchen table after midnight. It took ten months to finish that first book;... HARUKI MURAKAMI Maybe I am fated to always be alone, Tsukuru found himself thinking. People came to him, but in the ... HARUKI MURAKAMI Nothing in the real world is as beautiful as the illusions of a person about to lose consciousness. HARUKI MURAKAMI The most important thing we learn at school is the fact that the most important things can't be lear... HARUKI MURAKAMI People soon get tired of things that aren't boring, but not of what is boring. HARUKI MURAKAMI Wherever there's hope there's a trial. HARUKI MURAKAMI The sense of tragedy - according to Aristotle - comes, ironically enough, not from the protagonist's... HARUKI MURAKAMI I'm just ordinary guy, ordinary family, ordinary education, ordinary face, ordinary exam results, or... HARUKI MURAKAMI He wasn't normally conscious of it, but there was one part of his body that was extremely sensitive,... HARUKI MURAKAMI Most people dream a dream when they are asleep. But to be a writer, you have to dream while you are ... HARUKI MURAKAMI You have to dream intentionally. Most people dream a dream when they are asleep. But to be a writer,... HARUKI MURAKAMI