In most cases learning something essential in life requires physical pain. — 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
Either I'm funny or the world's funny. I don't know which. The bottle and lid don't fit. It could be the bottle's… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Kafka, in everybody's life there's a point of no return. And in a very few cases, a point where you can't go… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Don’t you see? You and he might never cross paths again. Of course, a chance meeting could occur, and I hope it… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Whenever an occasion arose in which she needed an opinion on something in the wider world, she borrowed her husband's. If this… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I have been told I've got a darkish personality. A few times." Takahashi swings his trombone case from his right shoulder to… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
In any case, suffice it to say I enjoyed hearing about faraway places. I had stocked up a whole store of these… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Those five fingers and that palm were like a display case crammed full of everything I wanted to know--and everything I had… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Was it Aristotle who said the human soul is composed of reason, will, and desire?” “No, that was Plato. Aristotle and Plato… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Hatred is like a long, dark shadow. Not even the person it falls upon knows where it comes from, in most cases.… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
They tell us that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself,but I don't believe that." he said. Then, a… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I myself, as I'm writing, don't know who did it. The readers and I are on the same ground. When I start… — 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
