Some things in life are too complicated to explain in any language. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“I was living for one thing only, and that was to confirm my own lack of feeling.” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Never in my life had I seen such a slim nothing of a figure eat like such a terror.” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
No matter how far you travel, you can never get away from yourself. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
two people can sleep in the same bed and still be alone when they close their eyes — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
In most cases learning something essential in life requires physical pain. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Like flowers scattered in a storm, man's life is one long farewell” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Well, Mr Katagiri, I have not been frogging all these years for nothing. I keep my eye on the important things in… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
If you can love someone with your whole heart, even one person, then there's salvation in life. Even if you can't get… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Despite your best effort, people are going to hurt when it's time for them to be hurt. Life is like that.” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Most human activities are predicated on the assumption that life goes on. If you take that premise away, what is there left? — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Exerting yourself to the fullest within your individual limits: that’s the essence of running, and a metaphor for life—-and for me, for… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Maybe the only thing I can definitely say about is this: That’s life. Maybe the only thing we can do is accept… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Even chance meetings are the result of karma… Things in life are fated by our previous lives. That even in the smallest… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Is this what it means to go back to square one? Most likely. He had nothing left to lose, other than his… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“He comes out of the mine about the same as when he went in. He has no sense that it was something… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“There are countless things in the world for which affection is not enough. Life is long, and sometimes cruel. Sometimes victims are… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
You're not a kid anymore. You have the right to choose your own life. You can start again. If you want a… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Life just isn’t fair, is how it used to strike me. Some people can work their butts off and never get what… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“It's not as if our lives are simply divided into light and dark. There's a shadowy middle ground. Recognizing and understanding the… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Before I became a writer, I was running a jazz bar in the center of Tokyo, which means that I worked in… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“People are born in order to live, right? But the longer I’ve lived, the more I’ve lost what’s inside me - and… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
The Earth, time, concepts, love, life, faith justice, evil - they're all fluid and in transition. They don't stay in one form… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Life frightens me sometimes. I don't happen to take that as the premise for everything else though. I'm going to give it… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I have come to think that life is a far more limited thing than those in the midst of its maelstorm realize.… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Unable to sleep after the others had drowsed off, I crawled out of the tent and lay on the ground, looking at… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“It might be a little silly for someone getting to be my age to put this into words, but I just want… — 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
You know what I think?" she says. "That people's memories are maybe the fuel they burn to stay alive. Whether those memories… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I tell you, Mr. Okada, a cold beer at the end of the day is the best thing life has to offer.… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Between the end of that strange summer and the approach of winter, my life went on without change. Each day would dawn… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“My only passions were books and music. As you might guess, I led a lonely life.” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Start making excuses and there's no end to it. I can't live that kind of life. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Whatever it is you're seeking won't come in the form you're expecting. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Sometimes when I think of life, I feel like a piece of driftwood washed up on shore. — 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
