Tell me, Doctor, are you afraid of death?" "I guess it depends on how you die. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Good style happens in one of two ways: the writer either has an inborn talent or is willing to work herself to… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“La muerte no se opone a la vida, la muerte está incluida en nuestra vida -Watanabe.” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Once you pass a certain age, life becomes nothing more than a process of continual loss. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
We all die and disappear, but that's because the mechanism of the world itself is built on destruction and loss. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Whatever is the loss becomes greater each time we meet. It is a well that will never be filled. It is dark,… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Those were strange days, now that I look back at them. In the midst of life, everything revolved around death. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“The pistol against her back was as hard and cold as death, and the feeling soothed her.” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
When death claim me, no doubt I would walk along by that faint light in the brief instant before being flung once… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
No truth can cure the sorrow we feel from losing a loved one. No truth, no sincerity, no strength, no kindness can… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“People die all the time. Life is a lot more fragile than we think. So you should treat others in a way… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“The shadow of death slowly, slowly eats away at the region of life, and before you know it everything's dark and you… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Suicides? Heart attacks? The papers didn't seem interested. The world was full of ways to die, too many to cover. Newsworthy deaths… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
People have their own reasons for dying. It might look simple, but it never is. It's just like a rock. What's above… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“The spring on a wound watch gets steadily looser, the torque grows closer and closer to zero, until he gears stop altogether… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“That’s the kind of death that frightens me. The shadow of death slowly, slowly eats away at the region of life, and… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“He was going to die soon, you knew when you saw those eyes. There was no sign of life in his flesh,… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“It's unfair." As a rule, life is unfair," I said. Yeah, but I think I did say some awful things." To Dick?"… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Becoming serious was not the same thing as approaching truth, I sensed, however vaguely. But death was a fact, a serious fact,… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“It’s really difficult to talk about dead people, but it’s even harder to talk about dead young women. It’s because from the… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
So that's how we live our lives. No matter how deep and fatal the loss, no matter how important the thing that's… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“By living our lives, we nurture death. True as this might be, it was only one of the truths we had to… — haruki murakami Copy Share Image
“I tried hard to forget, but there remained inside me a vague knot of air. And as time went by, the knot… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“If people lived forever—if they never got any older—if they could just go on living in this world, never dying, always healthy—do… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Most of these university types are total phonies. They’re scared to death somebody’s gonna find they don’t know something. They all read… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Until now, I had conceived of sleep as a kind of model for death. I had imagined death as an extension of… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“It seemed to work at first. I tried hard to forget, but there remained inside me a vague knot-of-air kind of thing.… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“I felt guilty that I hadn't thought of Kizuki right away, as if I had somehow abandoned him. Back in my room,… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“So that’s how we live our lives. No matter how deep and fatal the loss, no matter how important the thing that's… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“if people lived forever - if they never got any older - if they could just go on living in this world,… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Until that time, I had understood death as something entirely separate from and independent of life. The hand of death is about… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“As usual, Junko thought about Jack London's 'To Build a Fire.' It was the story of a man traveling alone through the… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Once you pass a certain age, life becomes nothing more than a process of continual loss. Things that are important to your… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I always feel like I'm struggling to become someone else. Like I'm trying to find a new place, grab hold of a new life,… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share
If writing novels is like planting a forest, then writing short stories is more like planting a garden. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share
“The sad truth is that what I could recall in five seconds all too soon needed ten, then thirty, thena full minute...” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share
“Intelligent teenage girls were often instinctively theatrical, purposely eccentric, mouthing highly suggestive words to confuse people.” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share
Memory is like fiction; or else it's fiction that's like memory. This really came home to me once I started writing fiction, that memory… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share
The most dangerous creature here would have to be me. So maybe I'm just scared of my own shadow. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share
If you listen to the radio for a whole hour there's maybe one decent song. The rest is mass-produced garbage — Haruki Murakami Copy Share
“that one of our problems was our inability to recognize and accept our own deformities” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share
“When I look back at myself at age twenty, what I remember most is being alone and lonely. I had no girlfriend to warm… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share
“There's not a branch of publishing or broadcasting that doesn't depend in some way on advertising. It'd be like an aquarium without water. Why,… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share
“One by one, I'll face the tasks before me and complete them as best I can. Focusing on each stride forward, but at the… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share
“Eleven o'clock had come and gone. I had to find a way to bring this conversation to a successful conclusion and get out of… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share
“Some people get a kick out of reading railway timetables and that's all they do all day. Some people make huge model boats out… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share
“When the time comes, everybody’s got to end up where they belong. Only me, I didn’t have a place to call my own. It’s… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share
“You let something out of the bag before yourself knew what it was all about” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share
