Death is not the opposite of life but an innate part of life. By living our lives, we nurture death — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“She and I were bound together at the border between life and death. It was like that for us from the start” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
There are ways of dying that don't end in funerals. Types of death you can't smell. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“True, he was tremendously boring, which really got on her nerves, but that was not a crime deserving of death. Probably.” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I wasn't particularly afraid of death itself. As Shakespeare said, die this year and you don't have to die the next. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Death was not the opposite of life. It was already here, within my being, it had always been here, and no struggle… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“People naturally pay their respects to the dead. The person had, after all, just accomplished the personal, profound feat of dying.” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Death was not the opposite of life. It was already here, within my being, it had always been there, and no struggle… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Most of these university types are total phonies. They’re scared to death somebody’s gonna find out they don’t know something. They all… — 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 there's any guy crazy enough to attack me, I'm going to show him the end of the world -- close up.… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
From now on, little by little, you must prepare yourself to face death. If you devote all of your future energy to… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Some announce their departure before they leave, while others just disappear all of a sudden without warning one day. And once you… — 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. Our lives… — 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
“I don't think you will ever be able to understand what it is like - the utter loneliness, the feeling of desperation… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“What the real world is: that is a very difficult problem,' the man called Leader said as he lay on his stomach.… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Most of these student types are total frauds. They’re scared to death somebody’s gonna find out they don’t know something. They all… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
They take the circuits out of people’s brains that make it possible for them to think for themselves. Their world is like… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
We fell silent again. The thing we had shared was nothing more than a fragment of time that had died longe ago.Even… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
You are a beautiful person, Doctor. Clearheaded. Strong. But you seem always to be dragging your heart along the ground. From now… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Aren't you afraid of dying? Not really. I've watched lots of good-for-nothing, worthless people die, and if people like that can do… — 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
