People Quotes by Haruki Murakami

“A secret's a secret because you don't let people in on it.”

— Haruki Murakami

I was dying. Like all the other people who live in this world.

— Haruki Murakami

“People are weak when they are alone.”

— Haruki Murakami

That's how people live in the real world: forcing stuff on each other.

— Haruki Murakami

“If people aren’t equal, where would you fit in?”

— Haruki Murakami

While they're still alive, people can become ghosts.

— Haruki Murakami

Certain kinds of knowledge rob people of their sleep.

— Haruki Murakami

People leave strange little memories of themselves behind when they die.

— Haruki Murakami

I think most people live in fiction...That's how you keep your fragile body intact.

— Haruki Murakami

My heroes don't have anything special. They have something to tell other people but they don't know how, so they talk to…

— Haruki Murakami

I want to write about people who dream and wait for the night to end, who long for the light so they…

— Haruki Murakami

...most people in the world don't really use their brains to think. And people who don't think are the ones who don't…

— Haruki Murakami

We heard no other sounds. We met no other people. We saw only two bright red birds leap startled from the center…

— Haruki Murakami

What the world needs is a set villain that people can point at and say, “It’s all your fault!

— Haruki Murakami

People soon get tired of things that aren't boring, but not of what is boring.

— Haruki Murakami

Despite your best efforts, people are going to be hurt when it's time for them to be hurt.

— Haruki Murakami

I can't build a simple shelf. I have no idea how to change an oil filter on a car. I can't even…

— Haruki Murakami

I know how fiction matters to me, because if I want to express myself, I have to make up a story. Some…

— Haruki Murakami

It's a quiet place, so people talk quietly," said Naoko. She made a neat pile of fish bones at the edge of…

— Haruki Murakami

What do we talk about? Just ordinary things. What happened today, or books we've read, or tomorrow's weather, you know. Don't tell…

— Haruki Murakami

No, I don't want your money. The world moves less by money than by what you owe people and what they owe…

— Haruki Murakami

I'm not intelligent. I'm not arrogant. I'm just like the people who read my books. I used to have a jazz club,…

— Haruki Murakami

I probably still haven’t completely adapted to the world. I don’t know, I feel like this isn’t the real world. The people,…

— Haruki Murakami

Now for a good twelve-hour sleep, I told myself. Twelve solid hours. Let birds sing, let people go to work. Somewhere out…

— Haruki Murakami

She's always polite and kind, but her words lack the kind of curiosity and excitement you'd normally expect. Her true feelings- assuming…

— Haruki Murakami

I've never met a girl who thinks like you." "A lot of people tell me that," she said, digging at a cuticle.…

— Haruki Murakami

sometimes i'd wake up at two or three in the morning and not be able to fall asleep again. i'd get out…

— Haruki Murakami

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

I want to write stories that are different from the ones I've written so far, Junpei thought: I want to write about…

— Haruki Murakami

I tell you, Mr. Okada, a cold beer at the end of the day is the best thing life has to offer.…

— Haruki Murakami

Hey, what is it with you? Why are you so spaced out? You still haven't answered me." I probably still haven't completely…

— Haruki Murakami

Most people dream a dream when they are asleep. But to be a writer, you have to dream while you are awake,…

— Haruki Murakami

“It may well be that we can never fully adapt to our own deformities. Unable to find a place inside ourselves for…

— Haruki Murakami

“Walking to the subway, Aomame kept thinking about the strangeness of the world. If, as the dowager had said, we were nothing…

— Haruki Murakami

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

People's memories are maybe the fuel they burn to stay alive.

— Haruki Murakami

What happens when people open their hearts?"... "They get better.

— Haruki Murakami

Rousseau defined civilizations as when people build fences.

— Haruki Murakami

Young people these days don't trust anything at all. They want to be free.

— Haruki Murakami

“We’re talking about people, not common denominators.”

— Haruki Murakami