“The real world is in a much darker and deeper place than this, and most of it is occupied by jellyfish and… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
It's like the Tibetan Wheel of the Passions. As the wheel turns, the values and feelings on the outer rim rise and… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
A certain kind of shittiness, a certain kind of stagnation, a certain kind of darkness, goes on propagating itself by its own… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
It is a lonely life sometimes, like throwing a stone into the deep darkness. It might hit something, but you can’t see… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I closed my eyes and listened carefully for the descendants of Sputnik, even now circling the earth, gravity their only tie to… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“It was not one of those strong, impulsive feelings that can hit two people like an electric shock when they first meet,… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Lonely metal souls in the unimpeded darkness of space, they meet, pass each other, and part, never to meet again. No words… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“What I mean to say is probably something like this: any single human being, no matter what kind of person he or… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“What was I hoping to gain from this? he asked himself as he strode ahead. Was I trying to confirm the ties… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“The world of the grotesque is the darkness within us. Well before Freud and Jung shined a light on the workings of… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Today things are different. The darkness in the outside world has vanished, but the darkness in our hearts remains, virtually unchanged. Just… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
A man is like a two-story house. The first floor is equipped with an entrance and a living room. On the second… — 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
Never let the darkness or negativity outside affect your inner self. Just wait until morning comes and the bright light will drown… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“But Nakata wasn’t afraid of the darkness or how deep it was. And why should he be? That bottomless world of darkness,… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“It might look simple, but it never is. It's just like a root. What's above ground is only a small part of… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Naoko stayed frozen in place, like a small nocturnal animal that has been lured out by the moonlight. The direction of the… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“I do need that time, though, for Naoko's face to appear. And as the years have passed, the time has grown longer.… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
People have their own reasons for dying. It might look simple, but it never is. It's just like a rock. What's above… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“It doesn't matter what form she takes - a living spirit, an illusion - but you have to see her, have to… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Time. Particles of darkness configured mysterious patterns on my retina. Patterns that degenerated without a sound, only to be replaced by new… — 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
