But there are certain meanings that are lost forever the moment they are explained in words — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I'm kind of a big kettle. It takes time to get boiled, but then I'm always hot. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“That’s life, man. The sand of the times keeps running out from under our feet. We’re no longer standing where we once… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“If sympathy was all it took to clean up shit, I'd have 50 times as much sympathy as anybody else” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Cops, Hoshino concluded, not for the first time in his life, are just gangsters who get paid by the state.” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Champagne’s completely useless, you know,” he said. “The only good part is the moment you pop the cork.” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Between the time the last train leaves and the first train arrives, the place changes: it's not the same as in daytime. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
This uneasiness comes over me from time to time, and I feel as if I've somehow been pieced together from two different… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Of course you got rights, the law's on your side, but sometimes the law takes a long time to kick in and… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“I decided to go swimming. I don’t know how to explain this, but I wanted to purge my body of something by… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
You know, if you are kind of rich, the best thing is that you don't have to think about money. The best… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“People with places to go and people with no place to go; people with a purpose and people with no purpose; people… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
The answer is dreams. Dreaming on and on. Entering the world of dreams and never coming out. Living in dreams for the… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
If a person remains tense for a long time he might not notice it himself, but it’s like his nerves are a… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Six years during which time I'd laid three cats to rest. Burned how many aspirations, bundled up how much suffering in thick… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I used to think the years would go by in order, that you get older one year at a time. But it's… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“It doesn't matter. The same thing has nearly happened a few times already. It's just a physical phenomenon, no more. The spring… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Any one who falls in love is searching for the missing pieces of themselves. So anyone who’s in love gets sad when… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
A short story I have written long ago would barge into my house in the middle of the night, shake me awake… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Needless to say, it takes quite a bit of time, plus effort, to go through each stage, step by step, and arrive… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“With Naoko gone, I went to sleep on the sofa. I hadn't intended to do so, but I fell into the kind… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Blurring the line between possible and impossible, linear and non-linear time, fiction and reality, fate and free will, 1Q84 is both a… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Just as I have my own role to play, so does time. And time does its job much more faithfully, much more… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Mountains, according to the angle of view, the season, the time of day, the beholder's frame of mind, or any one thing,… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“In the spring of her twenty-second year, Sumire fell in love for the first time in her life. An intense love, a… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
How many times have you said, 'This is it. I've finally found my one true love'? And how many times has the… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Instead of things I'm good at, it might be faster to list the things I can't do. I can't cook or clean… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Until that time, I had understood death as something entirely separate from and independent of life. The hand of death is about… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“In the midst of this overwhelming sunset, the image of Hatsumi flashed into my mind, and in that moment I understood what… — 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
“He wasn't so bad when the two of us came to see you, though. He was just his usual self." Because you… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Lying there, I close my eyes for a time, then open them. I silently breathe in, then out. A thought begins to… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Huge organizations and me don't get along. They're too inflexible, waste too much time, and have too many stupid people. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“After all, what does the stock market sell us if not the unfounded hope of a rosy future?” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“A gentle silence descended on them, suggestive of the flow of time.” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“I guess time doesn't flow in order, does it - A, B, C, D? It just sort of goes where it feels… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“But there are times in this world when it’s not enough just not to do the wrong thing” — 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
My priority is my books, at least at this point. What I have to do is write the narrative of this time. — 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
