If you can’t understand it without an explanation, you can’t understand it with an explanation. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Remove everything pointless from an imperfect life, and it'd lose even it's imperfection.” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Unsure where she was to find a purpose or meaning to her life, she passed one formless day after another.” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“It was simply one of those things that remain as an “exceptional but interesting” episode in life.” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Without a true self, a person can not go on living. It is like the ground we stand on. Without the ground,… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Life is so uncertain: you never know what could happen. One way to deal with that is to keep your pajamas washed. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“I placed the highest priority on the sort of life that lets me focus on writing, not associating with all the people… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Imagine The Greatest Hits of Bobby Darin minus 'Mack the Knife.' That's what my life would be like without you.” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“No matter how quiet and conformist a person’s life seems, there’s always a time in the past when they reached an impasse.… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“But what his life had really meant, Hoshino had no idea. Not that anybody's life had more clear-cut meaning to it. What's… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“It was as natural and obvious to me as breathing. So I assumed that everyone else was doing it too. When I… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Don't let thoughts of me hold you back. Just do what you want to do. Otherwise, I might end up taking you… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
All over the world people have developed their own ideas about what's right and wrong in life, but so long as you… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“True, luck may rule over parts of a person's life and luck may cast patches of shadow across the ground of our… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
In everybodys life there is a point of no return. And in a very few cases, a point where you cant go… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Everything in life is metaphor… We accept irony through a device called metaphor. And through that we grow and become deeper human… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
As long as I stared at the clock, at least the world remained in motion. Not a very consequential world, but in… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Holding this soft, small living creature in my lap this way, though, and seeing how it slept with complete trust in me,… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“By living our lives, we nurture death. True as this might be, it was only one of the truths we had to… — haruki murakami Copy Share Image
“You're not telling me anything I don't know already. 'Relax your body, and the rest of you will ligthen up.' What's the… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Those are life-and-death-type experiences he goes through in the mines. Eventually he gets out and goes back to his old life. But… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
In traveling, a companion, in life, compassion,'" she repeats, making sure of it. If she had paper and pencil, it wouldn't surprise… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
My peak? Would I even have one? I hardly had had anything you could call a life. A few ripples. some rises… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
My only passions were books and music. As you might guess, I led a lonely life… Not that I knew what I… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“I plant my elbows on the kitchen table, prop up my chin and think: When the hell did the compass needle get… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I'd made it back to the land of the living. No matter how boring or mediocre a world it might be, this… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
You are entering a phase of your life in which many different things will occur...bad things that seem good at first and… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Humans are immortal in their thought. Though strictly speakin’, not immortal, but endlessly, asymptotically close to immortal. That’s eternal life.” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“All these inexplicable events that have occurred in my life so far...it's as though they were all ingeniously programmed from the start… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
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
“Slowly, like a movie fadeout, the real world evaporates. I'm alone, inside the world of the story. My favorite feeling in the… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Where I'm living is not a storybook world. It's the real world, full of gaps and inconsistencies and anticlimaxes — 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
Life is a lot more fragile than we think. So you should treat others in a way that leaves no regrets. Fairly,… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“To be able to talk to your heart's content about a book you like with someone is one of the greatest joys… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Am I happy? All I can say is I guess so. That's pretty much the way it is with dreams.” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“But listen to me--there are times in life when those kinds of excuses don't cut it anymore. Situations when nobody cares whether… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Maybe that's why people don't like you. You make it obvious you don't care whether people like you or not. That makses… — 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.” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Forgive me for stating the obvious, but the world is made up of all kinds of people. Other people have their own… — 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
