“But you know Hajime, some feelings cause us pain because they remain.” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I’m me, and at the same time not me. That’s what it felt like. A very still, quiet feeling. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
When your feelings build up and harden and die inside, then you're in big trouble — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
There's a special feeling you get on a veranda that you just can't get anywhere else. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Have you ever had that feeling—that you’d like to go to a whole different place and become a whole different self? — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
She's letting out her feelings. The scary thing is not being able to do that. When your feelings build up and harden… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
When the fire goes out, you'll start feeling the cold. You'll wake up whether you want to or not. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Every one of us is losing something precious to us. Lost opportunities, lost possibilities, feelings we can never get back again. Thats… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Animals that not only move by their own free will and share feelings with people but also possess sight and hearing qualify… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
It's just a feeling I have. What you see with your eyes is not necessarily real. My enemy is, among other things,… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
...I've just been feeling insecure since I was 20, and that's all I've been trying to express. Now the entire world is… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
It’s precisely because of the pain, the we can get the feeling, through this process, of really being alive—or at least a… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
What’s most important is what you can’t see but can feel in your heart. To be able to grasp something of value,… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“But this is something that you have to figure out on your own. Nobody can help you. That's what love's all about,… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Many people, especially young people, would like to be more independent and on their own. But it is very difficult and they… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Don't tell me anymore. You should have your dream, as the old woman told you to. I understand how you feel, but… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
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… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Every once in a while she'll get worked up and cry like that. But that's ok. She's letting her feelings out. The… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“It was hard to accept that she had almost no feelings, maybe none at all, for me as a man. This hurt… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I have these realistic dreams and snap wide awake in the middle of the night. And for a while I can't work… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Lost opportunities, lost possibilities, feelings we can never get back. That's part of what it means to be alive. But inside our… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
She's always polite and kind, but her words lack the kind of curiosity and excitement you'd normally expect. Her true feelings- assuming… — 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
Everybody's born with some different thing at the core of their existence. And that thing, whatever it is, becomes like a heat… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Oshima's silent for a time as he gazes at the forest, eyes narrowed. Birds are flitting from one branch to the next.… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Kumiko and I felt something for each other from the beginning. It was not one of those strong, impulsive feelings that can… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“For me- and for everybody else, probably- this is my first experience growing old, and the emotions I'm having, too, are all… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
you mean machines are like humans?" I shook my head. "No, not like humans. With machines the feeling is, well, more finite.… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“He wasn't normally conscious of it, but there was one part of his body that was extremely sensitive, somewhere along his back.… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
When I was a teenager, I thought how great it would be if only I could write novels in English. I had… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I was feeling lonely without her, but the fact that I could feel lonely at all was consolation. Loneliness wasn't such a… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Sometimes I feel so- I don’t know - lonely. The kind of helpless feeling when everything you’re used to has been ripped… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
It's like the Tibetan Wheel of the Passions. As the wheel turns, the values and feelings on the outer rim rise and… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I go back to the reading room, where I sink down in the sofa and into the world of The Arabian Nights.… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
That’s what love’s all about. You’re the only one having those wonderful feelings, but you have to go it alone as you… — 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
