Most everything you think you know about me is nothing more than memories. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I think history is collective memories. In writing, I'm using my own memory, and I'm using my collective memory. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
The faintest gleam of their lost memories glimmered for the briefest moment in their hearts. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Memories are what warm you up from the inside. But they're also what tear you apart. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
People leave strange little memories of themselves behind when they die. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Body cells replace themselves every month. Even at this very moment,” she said, thrusting a skinny back of her hand before my… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Memories warm you up from the inside. But they also tear you apart." Nakata shook his head. “That’s a tough one. Nakata… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Body cells replace themselves every month. Even at this very moment. Most everything you think you know about me is nothing more… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Here, too, a brand-new day is beginning. It could be a day like all the others, or it could be a day… — 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
“She knew that my memories of her would fade. Which is precisely why she begged me never to forget her, to remember… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“You can hide memories, but you can’t erase the history that produced them.” Sara looked directly into his eyes. “If nothing else,… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Now and then may not be enough…You have to enjoy it while you’re still young. enjoy it to the fullest. You can… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Still, though, I can't be sure if the zoo as I recall it was really like that. How can I put it?… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
You know what I think?" she says. "That people's memories are maybe the fuel they burn to stay alive. Whether those memories… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Our memory is made up of our individual memories and our collective memories. The two are intimately linked. And history is our… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
My father belongs to the generation that fought the war in the 1940s. When I was a kid my father told me… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“You know what I think?” she says. “That people’s memories are maybe the fuel they burn to stay alive. Whether those memories… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Writing from memory like this, I often feel a pang of dread. What if I've forgotten the most important thing? What if… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“They had stolen my memories from me! Nobody had that right. Nobody! My memories belonged to me. Stealing memories was stealing time.… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I think memory is the most important asset of human beings. It's a kind of fuel; it burns and it warms you.… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Lost opportunities, lost possibilities, feelings we can never get back. That's part of what it means to be alive. But inside our… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“We're so caught up in our everyday lives that events of the past, like ancient stars that have burned out, are no… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Every one of us is losing something precious to us,” he says after the phone stops ringing. “Lost opportunities, lost possibilities, feelings… — 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
“The majority of people dismiss those things that lie beyond the bounds of their own understanding as absurd and not worth thinking… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Memories warm you up from the inside. But they also tear you apart.' ... 'Nakata's lived a long time, but as I… — 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
“You know what I think?" she says. "That people's memories are maybe the fuel they burn to stay alive. Whether those memories… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Music has that power to revive memories, sometimes so intensely that they hurt.” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
No matter how much suffering you went through, you never wanted to let go of those memories. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Precipitate as weather, she appeared from somewhere, then evaporated, leaving only memory. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Commonplace they might be, but the accumulation of these memories has led to one result: me.” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“You know what I think?" she says. "That people's memories are maybe the fuel they burn to stay alive.” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
You can hide memories, but you can’t erase the history that produced them — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“People leave traces of themselves where they feel most comfortable, most worthwhile.” — 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
![“The world [...] an endless battle of contrasting memories.” quote by Haruki Murakami](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/076/haruki-murakami-21_memory_the-world-an-endless-battle-of-contrasti_1232618.jpg)
