I find myself thinking about my ongoing existence as a human being and the path that lies ahead of me. Though of… — 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 answer is dreams. Dreaming on and on. Entering the world of dreams and never coming out. Living in dreams for the… — 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 — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Without those peak experiences our lives would be pretty dull and flat. Berlioz put it this way: A life without once reading… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I don't care what you do to me, but I don't want you to hurt me. I've had enough hurt already in… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“From the moment of my birth, I lived with pain at the center of my life. My only purpose in life was… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Why my wife owned a shotgun, I had no idea. Or ski masks. Neither of us had ever skied. But she didn't… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
People's memories are maybe the fuel they burn to stay alive. Whether those memories have any actual importance or not, it doesn't… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Just because there's an end doesn't mean existence has meaning. An end point is simply set up as a temporary marker or… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Naturally I have zero friends. I've built a wall around me, never letting anybody inside and trying not to venture outside myself.… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Unsure how to answer, I took another grape. Time was no problem for me, but I wasn't eager to hear the long… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“The image of her in another man's arms was stuck in my mind, as real as life. As if there was a… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I was confident that I was a special person. But time slowly chips away at life. People don't just die when their… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“But think about it - what if there were a deus ex machina in real life? Everything would be so easy! If… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“I live my life you live yours. If you're clear about what u want then you can live anyway you please. I… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“yet never once in his life had he experienced the unshakable certainty that he and he alone had arrived at a decision.… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Most things are forgotten over time. Even the war itself, the life-and-death struggle people went through is now like something from the… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“I felt like I was living at the bottom of a deep well completely shut up inside myself, cursing my fate, hating… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“There in the dim light, staring at the shadow on the wall, I poured out the story of my life. It had… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“No one in my family, not one of my friends or classmates realized that I was going through life asleep. It was… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Believe me, I know what I’m talking about. I’m working class. Revolution or not, the working class will just keep on scraping… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
If, as the dowager had said, we are nothing but gene carriers, why do so many of us have to lead such… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Nonetheless, we can in the same breath deny that there is any such thing as coincidence. What's done is done, what's yet… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
No matter what form the relationship might take, he was the only person she could picture sharing her life with. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
As time goes on you'll understand. What lasts, lasts; what doesn't, doesn't. Time solves most things and what most time can't solve,… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
There had to be something wrong with my life. I should have been born a Yugoslavian shepherd who looked up at the… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Why do I act like this, agreeing when I really disagree, letting people force me to do things I don't want to… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Isn't life strange? There are people who have so many leftover clothes they can't stuff them all in their wardrobe. And then… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Did all Finns like to make clever witticisms about life? Or was it just this one driver? Tsukuru hoped it was the… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“The way surviving hard winters makes a tree grows stronger, the growth rings inside it tighter” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“When granted hope, a person uses it as fuel, as a guidepost to life. It is impossible to live without hope.” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
To be able to talk to your heart’s content about a book you like with someone who feels the same way about… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Life is long, and sometimes cruel. Sometimes victims are needed. Someone has to take on that role. And human bodies are fragile,… — 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
“I've been clinging to this world like a discarded shell of an insect stuck to a branch, about to be blown off… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“When you come out of the storm you won't be the same person that walked in. That's what the storm is all… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“We survived. You and I. And those who survive have a duty. Our duty is to do our best to keep on… — 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
Each of us possesses a tangible living soul. The system has no such thing. We must not allow the system to exploit… — 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
