I am here, alone, at the end of the world. I reach out and touch nothing.”. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Don't pointless things have a place, too, in this far-from-perfect world? — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
All of us are imperfect human beings living in an imperfect world. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
When I am writing, I do not distinguish between the natural and supernatural. Everything seems real. That is my world, you could… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
[...] Shimamoto had her own little world within her. A world that was for her alone, one I could not enter. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
We all die and disappear, but that's because the mechanism of the world itself is built on destruction and loss. — 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
So what’s wrong if there happens to be one guy in the world who enjoys trying to understand you? — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Maybe working on the little things as dutifully and honestly as we can is how we stay sane when the world is… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
There is nothing in this world that never takes a step outside a person's heart. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Let the world move along as it pleased. If it had any business with him, it would be sure to tell him. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“When he woke up the next day, the world was still there, and things were already moving forward, like the great karmic… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
This is no honky-tonk parade. 1Q84 is the real world, where a cut draws real blood, where pain is real pain and… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
In this world, there are things you can only do alone, and things you can only do with somebody else. It's important… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
You know what I'd really like to do the most right now? Climb up to the top of some high place like… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
She curled up and pressed her cheek against his chest. Her ear was right above his heart. She was listening to his… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Suicides? Heart attacks? The papers didn't seem interested. The world was full of ways to die, too many to cover. Newsworthy deaths… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I'm going to take you out of here ... I'm going to take you home, to the world where you belong, where… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I realize full well how hard it must be to go on living alone in a place from which someone has left… — 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
When I was fifteen, all I wanted was to go off to some other world, a place beyond anybody’s reach. A place… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Not just beautiful, though — the stars are like the trees in the forest, alive and breathing. And they’re watching me. What… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
The point is, not to resist the flow. You go up when you're supposed to go up and down when you're supposed… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
A regular wind-up toy world this is, I think. Once a day the wind-up bird has to come and wind the springs… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Kafka is one of my very favorite writers. Kafka's fictional world is already so complete that trying to follow in his steps… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
As long as I stared at the clock, at least the world remained in motion. Not a very consequential world, but in… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
But even so, every now and then I would feel a violent stab of loneliness. The very water I drink, the very… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
In the world we live in, what we know and what we don't know are like Siamese twins, inseparable, existing in a… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I may not be the most likable person in the world, but I try not to upset people. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
If you want everything to be nice and straight all the time, then go live in a world made with a triungular… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Nothing in the real world is as beautiful as the illusions of a person about to lose consciousness. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I'd made it back to the land of the living. No matter how boring or mediocre a world it might be, this… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Once she was out of the car and gone, my world was suddenly hollow and meaningless. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
There is nothing so cruel in this world as the desolation of having nothing to hope for. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
she was beautiful and seemingly quite intelligent, what with her pentameter search system. There wasn't a reason in the world not to… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“The world's full of groundless ill will. I'll never understand it, you'll never understand it, but it exists all the same.” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Love can rebuild the world, they say, so everything's possible when it comes to love. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“What kind of world will be there tomorrow? "No one knows the answer to that," Fuka-Eri said.” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
The facts and techniques or whatever they teach you in class isn't going to be veryuseful in the real world, that's for… — 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