When death claim me, no doubt I would walk along by that faint light in the brief instant before being flung once… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Death was not the opposite of life. It was already here, within my being, it had always been here, and no struggle… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Once you pass a certain age, life becomes nothing more than a process of continual loss. Things that are important to your… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Death was not the opposite of life. It was already here, within my being, it had always been there, and no struggle… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Good style happens in one of two ways: the writer either has an inborn talent or is willing to work herself to… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Becoming serious was not the same thing as approaching truth, I sensed, however vaguely. But death was a fact, a serious fact,… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Until now, I had conceived of sleep as a kind of model for death. I had imagined death as an extension of… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Aren't you afraid of dying? Not really. I've watched lots of good-for-nothing, worthless people die, and if people like that can do… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“The pistol against her back was as hard and cold as death, and the feeling soothed her.” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Death is not the opposite of life but an innate part of life. By living our lives, we nurture death — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“if people lived forever - if they never got any older - if they could just go on living in this world,… — 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
“What the real world is: that is a very difficult problem,' the man called Leader said as he lay on his stomach.… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“I tried hard to forget, but there remained inside me a vague knot of air. And as time went by, the knot… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“I felt guilty that I hadn't thought of Kizuki right away, as if I had somehow abandoned him. Back in my room,… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“If people lived forever—if they never got any older—if they could just go on living in this world, never dying, always healthy—do… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Some announce their departure before they leave, while others just disappear all of a sudden without warning one day. And once you… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“The shadow of death slowly, slowly eats away at the region of life, and before you know it everything's dark and you… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“By living our lives, we nurture death. True as this might be, it was only one of the truths we had to… — haruki murakami Copy Share Image
“Most of these student types are total frauds. They’re scared to death somebody’s gonna find out they don’t know something. They all… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
You are a beautiful person, Doctor. Clearheaded. Strong. But you seem always to be dragging your heart along the ground. From now… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“So that's how we live our lives. No matter how deep and fatal the loss, no matter how important the thing that's… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“As usual, Junko thought about Jack London's 'To Build a Fire.' It was the story of a man traveling alone through the… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Once you pass a certain age, life becomes nothing more than a process of continual loss. — 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
