That’s what love’s all about. You’re the only one having those wonderful feelings, but you have to go it alone as you… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
For a certain kind of person, love begins from something tiny or silly. From something like that or it doesnt begin at… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Number one of the list now was a diet book entitled Eat as much as You Want of the Food You Love… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I've translated a lot of American literature into Japanese, and I think that what makes a good translator is, above all, a… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Not that everything about it was wonderful: his chest ached, he found it hard to breathe, and a far, a dark oscillation,… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Some announce their departure before they leave, while others just disappear all of a sudden without warning one day. And once you… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Listen, every object's in flux. The Earth, time, concepts, love, life, faith, justice, evil--they're all fluid and in transition. They don't stay… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
It's like the Tibetan Wheel of the Passions. As the wheel turns, the values and feelings on the outer rim rise and… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“I hadn't planned on being a teacher, but after I actually become one I discovered a deeper respect and affection for the… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“A more pressing problem for me is that I have never been able to love anyone seriously. I have never felt unconditional… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“I was always attracted not by some quantifiable, external beauty, but by something deep down, something absolute. Just as some people have… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“I guess I've been waiting so long I'm looking for perfection. That makes it tough." "Waiting for the perfect love?" "No, even… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
you mean machines are like humans?" I shook my head. "No, not like humans. With machines the feeling is, well, more finite.… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“...no matter how advanced the system, no matter how precise, unless we have the will to communicate, there's no connection. And even… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I think you still love me, but we can’t escape the fact that I’m not enough for you. I knew this was… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Do you think you weren’t loved enough?” She tilted her head and looked at me. Then she gave a sharp, little nod.… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“He was glad to be human. For sure, it was a great inconvenience to have to walk on two legs and wear… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“If you don’t believe in the world, and if there is no love in it, then everything is phony. No matter which… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“I think most readers would say the same. Most would choose Midori. And the protagonist, of course, chooses her in the end.… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“I was at that age, that time of life when every sight, every feeling, every thought came back, like a boomerang, to… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Things like that happen all the time in this great big world of ours. It is like taking a boat out on… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Confidence; as a teenager? Because I knew what I loved. I loved to read; I loved to listen to music; and I… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Sometimes when I look at you, I feel I'm gazing at a distant star. It's dazzling, but the light is from tens… — 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
