It made her think of Laika, the dog. The man-made satellite streaking soundlessly across the blackness of outer space. The dark, lustrous… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“I’m not trying to imply I can keep up this silent, isolated facade all the time. Sometimes the wall I’ve erected around… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Things can be seen better in the darkness," he said, as if he had just seen into her mind. "But the longer… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“For darkness terrifies. It swallows you, warps you, nullifies you. Who alive can possibly profess confidence in darkness? In the dark, you… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Has the dark shadow really disappeared? Or is it inside me, concealed, waiting for its chance to reappear? Like a clever thief… — 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
What if I’ve forgotten the most important thing? What if somewhere inside me there is a dark limbo where all the truly… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
That's the kind of death that frightens me. The shadow of death slowly, slowly eats away at the region of life, and… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
That’s what love’s all about. You’re the only one having those wonderful feelings, but you have to go it alone as you… — 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
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
What gave money its true meaning was its dark-night namelessness, its breathtaking interchangeability. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
If you're in pitch blackness, all you can do is sit tight until your eyes get used to the dark — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Many people tell me that they don 't know what to feel when they finish one of my books because the story… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Samsa certainly had no idea what lay ahead. He was in the dark about everything: the future, of course, but the present… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“The new day is almost here, but the old one is still dragging its heavy skirts. Just as ocean water and river… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
It made her think of Laika, the dog. The man-made satellite streaking soundlessly across the blackness of outer space. The dark, lustrous… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
The best thing would be to break your neck, but you'd probably just break your leg and then you couldn't do a… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I laughed. “You’re too young to be so … pessimistic,” I said, using the English word. “Pessi-what?” “Pessimistic. It means looking only… — 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
Oshima's silent for a time as he gazes at the forest, eyes narrowed. Birds are flitting from one branch to the next.… — 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 Image
If writing novels is like planting a forest, then writing short stories is more like planting a garden. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“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 Image
“Intelligent teenage girls were often instinctively theatrical, purposely eccentric, mouthing highly suggestive words to confuse people.” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
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 Image
The most dangerous creature here would have to be me. So maybe I'm just scared of my own shadow. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
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 Image
“that one of our problems was our inability to recognize and accept our own deformities” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image