“It rained for a short time while I was running, but it was a cooling rain that felt good.” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“dry ground welcoming the rain, he let the solitude, silence, and loneliness soak in.” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Exhaustion pays no mind to age or beauty. Like rain and earthquakes and hail and floods. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Gazing at the rain, I consider what it means to belong, to become part of something. To have someone cry for me. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Sometimes when I'm with you, I remember things I lost when I was your age. Like I remember the sound of the… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“The world existed in two states, raining and non-raining, and there should be a line of demarcation between the two.” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
The rain that fell on the city runs down the dark gutters and empties into the sea without even soaking the ground — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I think of rivers, of tides. Forests and water gushing out. Rain and lightning. Rocks and shadows. All of these are in… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Who can really distinguish between the sea and what's reflected in it? Or tell the difference between the falling rain and loneliness? — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Most near-future fictions are boring. It's always dark and always raining, and people are so unhappy. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Look at the rain long enough, with no thoughts in your head, and you gradually feel your body falling loose, shaking free… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“Being all alone is like the feeling you get when you stand at the mouth of a large river on a rainy… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Your heart is like a great river after a long spell of rain, spilling over its banks. All signposts that once stood… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Not that running away's going to solve everything. I don't want to rain on your parade or anything, but I wouldn't count… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Trouble fell like rain from the heavens, and we just couldn't get enough of it. We went around picking up the stuff… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“It had started raining again, a soft, quiet rain. The rushing stream drowned out the sound of the rain. Haida could tell… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
If there's any guy crazy enough to attack me, I'm going to show him the end of the world -- close up.… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Inside that darkness, i saw rain falling on the sea. Rain softly falling on a vast sea, with no one there to… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Rain falls and the flowers bloom. No rain, they wither up. Bugs are eaten by lizards, lizards are eaten by birds. But… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I stare at her chest. As she breathes, the rounded peaks move up and down like the swell of waves, somehow reminding… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I was twenty-one at the time, about to turn twenty-two. No prospect of graduating soon, and yet no reason to quit school.… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“In the afternoon dark clouds suddenly color the sky a mysterious shade and it starts raining hard, pounding the roof and windows… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
When it's raining like this," said Naoko, "it feels as if we're the only ones in the world. I wish it would… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Thanks to the long days of rain, the blades of grass glowed with a deep-green luster, and they gave off the smell… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Colors shone with exceptional clarity in the rain. The ground was a deep black, the pine branches a brilliant green, the people… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I was reborn," she said, her hot breath brushing his ear. "You were reborn," Tengo said. "Because I died once." "You died… — 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
