Dreams come from the past, not from the future. Dreams shouldn't control you--you should control them. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“The scent of the sea and the burning asphalt being carried on the southerly wind made me think of summers past. The… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“You’re wasting your life being involved with me.” “I’m not wasting anything.” “But I might never recover. Will you wait for me… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“I don't know if I have the strength to care for Yukiko and the children, I thought. No more visions can help… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
It's just like Yeats said. In dreams begin responsibilities. Flip this around and you could say that where there's no power to… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Music brings a warm glow to my vision, thawing mind and muscle from their endless wintering. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Unclose your mind. You are not a prisoner. You are a bird in fight, searching the skies for dreams. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“It is all a question of imagination. Our responsibility begins with the power to Imagine. In dreams begin responsibilities.” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Now a narrative is a story, not logic, nor ethics, nor philosophy. It is a dream you keep having, whether you realize… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
If I stayed here, something inside me would be lost forever—something I couldn't afford to lose. It was like a vague dream,… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
People with dark souls have nothing but dark dreams. People with really dark souls do nothing but dream. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“The Earth slowly keeps on turning. But beyond any of those details of the real, there are dreams. And everyone's living in… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“It's all a question of imagination. Our responsibility begins with the power to imagine. It's just as Yeats said: In dreams begin… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“The world’s crawling with stupid, innocent girls, and I’m just one of them, self-consciously chasing after dreams that’ll never come true. I… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Have your dream...What you need now more than anything is discipline. Cast off mere words. Words turn into stone. (from Thailand) — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
They put up with such strenuous training, and where did their thoughts, their hopes and dreams, disappear to? When people pass away,… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I get up early in the morning, 4 o'clock, and I sit at my desk and what I do is just dream.… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“To fill in the silence Tsukuru lowered the needle onto the record again, went back to the sofa, and settled in to… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Well, finally, once you become an orphan, you're an orphan till the day you die. I keep having the same dream. I'm… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“I don't dream. Come to think of it, i haven't had any dreams in a long time.” — 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
