I had my jazz club and I had enough money. So I didn't have to write for my living. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“and reality was one step out of line, a cardigan with the buttons done up wrong.” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Like flowers scattered in a storm, a man's life is a long farewell. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“All the dawns and all the twilights will rob me, piece by piece, of myself, and before long my very life will… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
When you are used to the kind of life -of never getting anything you want- you stop knowing what it is you… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“I happen to like the strange ones," the driver said. "People who look normal and live a normal life--they're the ones you… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“It was the age, that time of life when every sight, every feeling, every thought came back, like a boomerang, to me.” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Somebody once said if it’s something a single book can explain, it’s not worth having explained.” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
No matter what they wish for, no matter how far they go, people can never be anything but themselves. That's all. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Our life here was just a momentary illusion, and someday reality would yank us back to the world we came from.” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Life is moving alone smoothly, then." "I don't know about smoothly, but it's moving along, at least. There's no going back now… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“But finally, Mr. Wind-Up Bird, isn't that just what life is? Aren't we all trapped in the dark somewhere, and they've taken… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Yo no soy tan fuerte. A mi me importa que me entiendan. Hay personas a quienes quiero comprender y quiero que me… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Deep within her eyes, in the always bottomless depths, there was a spring. And, ever so faintly, a light. The light of… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I was in my house, alone in the living room, anxious about you, watching the flashes of lightning. And a flash of… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Once you’re lost, you panic. You’re in total despair, not knowing what to do. I hate it when that happens. Sex can… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“When I finished bathing after dinner, Kumiko was sitting in the living room with the lights out. Hunched down in the dark… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“When pain comes to me, I leave my physical self. It's just like quietly slipping into the next room when someone you… — 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
You know, they've got these chocolate assortments, and you like some but you don't like others? And you eat all the ones… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Anyway, it seems to me that the way most people go on living (I suppose there are a few exceptions), they think… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“In the spring of her twenty-second year, Sumire fell in love for the first time in her life. An intense love, a… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Listen. I may not be much, but I'm all I've got. Maybe you need a magnifying glass to find my face in… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“It's little strange, perhaps, to make this claim at such a late date, but Gatsby really is an outstanding novel. I never… — 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
“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
“Tell me something, Mari—do you believe in reincarnation?” Mari shakes her head. “No, I don’t think so,” she says. “So you don’t… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Things pass us by. Nobody can catch them. That's the way we live our lives. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Nobody's going to win all the time. On the highway of life you can't always be in the fast lane. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I get irritated, I get upset. Especially when I'm in a hurry. But I see it all as part of our training.… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“life had a lesson to teach me: it takes years to build up, it takes moments to destroy” — 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
