“I don't think most people would like my personality. There might be a few -- very few, I would imagine- who are… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“What's really important in life is always the things that are secondary. What's about all I can say.” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
In the spring of her twenty-second year, Sumire fell in love for the first time in her life. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Life is basically unfair. But even in a situation that's unfair, I think it's possible to seek a kind of fairness.” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
As we go through life we gradually discover who we are, but the more we discover, the more we lose ourselves. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Life is not like water. Things in life don't necessarily flow over the shortest possible route. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Most runners run not because they want to live longer, but because they want to live life to the fullest. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
We can, if we so choose, wander aimlessly over the continent of the arbitrary. Rootless as some winged seed blown about on… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“I was dying to have a cat. But they wouldn't let me. My mother hated them. Not once in my life have… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“There were three thin wrinkles at her neckline, sharply etched, like notches on the road of life. Or maybe they were marks… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Maybe the world was like a revolving door, it occurred to him as his consciousness was fading away. And which section you… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Everybody's gotta die sometime. But until then we've still got fifty-some odd years to go, and a lot to think about while… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“To understand something and to put that something into a form that you can see with your own eyes are two completely… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“I see many people who disguise themselves. I know some people who say, “I’m an artist, I’m very creative, I’m different from… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I think you still love me, but we cant escape the fact that I am not enough for you. I knew this… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
From now on, little by little, you must prepare yourself to face death. If you devote all of your future energy to… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“You’re still young and healthy. Maybe that’s why you don’t understand what I am saying. Let me give you an example. Once… — 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. That's… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“I have met many different people in the course of my life, some of whom I have come to know pretty well,… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“A giant octopus living way down deep at the bottom of the ocean. It has this tremendously powerful life force, a bunch… — 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’re wasting your life being involved with me.” “I’m not wasting anything.” “But I might never recover. Will you wait for me… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“It doesn't matter what form she takes - a living spirit, an illusion - but you have to see her, have to… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“By marrying her, Tony Takitani brought the lonely period of his life to an end. When he awoke in the morning, the… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Does this mean that my life has been nothing but a process through which I am giving concrete form to the dormant… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
The most important thing we learn at school is the fact that the most important things can't be learned at school. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“The Earth slowly keeps on turning. But beyond any of those details of the real, there are dreams. And everyone's living in… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Once again, life had a lesson to teach me: It takes years to build up, it takes moments to destroy. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Energies expended on sideshows, never on the main event. Where the hell was the main event? Was there a main event?” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Remove everything pointless from an imperfect life and it’d lose even its imperfection.” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“A child should learn from early on what kind of activity supported his daily life, and he should appreciate the importance of… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“You need to live it to the fullest. No matter how shallow and dull things might get, this life is worth living.… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Your life’s just begun and there’s a ton of things out in the world you’ve never laid eyes on. Things you never… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“The gears of life had moved ahead a notch with a loud ker-chunk, and Junpei knew that they would never turn back… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“I’ve been an outsider all my life. It’s been kind of hard, but I like that way of living.” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
But I didn't understand then. That I could hurt somebody so badly she would never recover. That a person can, just by… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“And you’ll return to real life. You need to live it to the fullest. No matter how shallow and dull things might… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I've always done whatever I felt like doing in life. People may try to stop me, and convince me I'm wrong, but… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“When you get used to that kind of life —of never having anything you want— then you stop knowing what it is… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Generally, people who are good at writing letters have no need to write letters. They've got plenty of life to lead inside… — 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
