I am here, alone, at the end of the world. I reach out and touch nothing.”. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Even if we could turn back, we'd probably never end up where we started. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Hundreds of butterflies flitted in and out of sight like short-lived punctuation marks in a stream of consciousness without beginning or end. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Everyone, deep in their hearts, is waiting for the end of the world to come. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
One of these days they'll be making a film where the whole human race gets wiped out in a nuclear war, but… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Start making excuses and there's no end to it. I can't live that kind of life. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I want to write about people who dream and wait for the night to end, who long for the light so they… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
As long as there's such a thing as time, everybody's damaged in the end, changed into something else. It always happens, sooner… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
It seems to me, though, that you always understand very well what I can't say very well. Trouble is I end up… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
In the end, like so many beautiful promises in our lives, that dinner date never came to be. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Don't let thoughts of me hold you back. Just do what you want to do. Otherwise, I might end up taking you… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
An expectation was there, mixed in with so many other emotions - excitement, resignation, hesitation, confusion, fear - that would well up… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
No truth can cure the sorrow we feel from losing a loved one. No truth, no sincerity, no strength, no kindness can… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I don't want our relationship to end like this. You're one of the very few friends I have, and it hurts not… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Loving another person is a wonderful thing, and if that love is sincere, no one ends up tossed into a labyrinth. You… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
No matter where i go, i still end up me. What's missing never changes. The scenery may change, but i'm still the… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I bet the reason people are afraid of going bald is because it makes them think of the end of life. I… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
That’s all I think about these days. Must be because I have so much time to kill every day. When you don’t… — 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
Once, when I was younger, I thought I could be someone else. I'd move to Casablanca, open a bar, and I'd meet… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Human beings are ultimately nothing but carriers-passageways- for genes. They ride us into the ground like racehorses from generation to generation. Genes… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
My biggest fault is that the faults I was born with grow bigger each year. It's like I was raising chickens inside… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
You end up exhausted and spent, but later, in retrospect, you realize what it all was for. The parts fall into place,… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I wonder how it turns out that we all lead such different lives. Take you and your sister, for example. You're born… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
What’s most important is what you can’t see but can feel in your heart. To be able to grasp something of value,… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I tell you, Mr. Okada, a cold beer at the end of the day is the best thing life has to offer.… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“All's well that ends well.' 'Assuming there's an end somewhere,' Aomame said. Tamaru formed some short creases near his mouth that were… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
There are ways of dying that don't end in funerals. Types of death you can't smell. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Lots of different ways to live and lots of different ways to die. But in the end that doesn't make a bit… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
You’re optimistic one moment, only to be racked the next by the certainty that it will all fall to pieces. And in… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
So many dreams, so many disappointments, so many promises. And in the end, they all just vanish. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
He felt as if his heart had dried up. I needed her he thought. I needed someone like her to fill the… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
If there's any guy crazy enough to attack me, I'm going to show him the end of the world -- close up.… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Sometimes we don't need words. Rather, it's words that need us. If we were no longer here, words would lose their whole… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Listen up—there’s no war that will end all wars,’ Crow tells me. ‘War breeds war. Lapping up the blood shed by violence,… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I want to write stories that are different from the ones I've written so far, Junpei thought: I want to write about… — 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
