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
two people can sleep in the same bed and still be alone when they close their eyes — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Open your eyes, train your ears, use your head. If a mind you have, then use it while you can. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I closed my eyes and tried to sleep. But it was not until much later that I was able to get any… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I didn't have much to say to anybody but kept to myself and my books. With my eyes closed, I would touch… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Whoa!" he says with a smile. The wrinkles at the corners of his eyes deepen. "Chicken salad a la George Orwell! — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I think I'll stay alive here a bit longer, and see with my own eyes what's going to happen. I can still… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Something in her small eyes caught the sunlight and glistened, like a glacier on the faraway face of a mountain. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Like most novelists, I like to do exactly the opposite of what I'm told. It's in my nature as a novelist. Novelists… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
The power to concentrate was the most important thing. Living without this power would be like opening one’s eyes without seeing anything. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
It's just a feeling I have. What you see with your eyes is not necessarily real. My enemy is, among other things,… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Like most novelists, I like to do exactly the opposite of what I'm told. It's in my nature as a novelist. Novelists… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
You can’t look too far ahead. Do that and you’ll lose sight of what you’re doing and stumble. I’m not saying you… — 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
What would tomorrow bring? I wondered. Both hands on the wheel, I closed my eyes. I didn’t feel like I was in… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
All you have to do is wait,” I explained. “Sit tight and wait for the right moment. Not try to change anything… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Where are you now?’ Where was I now? Gripping the receiver, I raised my hand and turned to see what lay beyond… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I was in my house, alone in the living room, anxious about you, watching the flashes of lightning. And a flash of… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
And as we live our lives we discover - drawing toward us the thin threads attached to each - what has been… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Math is like water. It has a lot of difficult theories, of course, but its basic logic is very simple. Just as… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I was twenty-one at the time, about to turn twenty-two. No prospect of graduating soon, and yet no reason to quit school.… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Then she took my hand and touched it to the wound beside her eye. I caressed the half-inch scar. As I did… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“That’s why I like to listen to Schubert while I’m driving. Like I said, it’s because all the performances are imperfect. A… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
They tell us that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself,but I don't believe that." he said. Then, a… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Fate is like a small sandstorm that keeps changing directions. You change direction but the sandstorm chases you. You turn again, but… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I do feel that I’ve managed to make something I could maybe call my world…over time…little by little. And when I’m inside… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
The sun sliced through the windshield, sealing me in light. I closed my eyes and felt the warmth on my eyelids. Sunlight… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
You know what I'd really like to do the most right now? Climb up to the top of some high place like… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
my heart would swell without warning, and tremble, and lurch with a stab of pain. I would try clamping my eyes shut… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
You're walking through a field all by yourself one day in spring and this sweet little bear cub with velvet fur and… — 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
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
With the advent of winter, her eyes seemed to take on a greater transparency, a transparency that lead nowhere. Occassionally, for no… — 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
I’m free, I think. I shut my eyes and think hard and deep about how free I am, but I can’t really… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
To know one’s own state is not a simple matter. One cannot look directly at one’s own face with one’s own eyes,… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I read Naoko's letter again and again, and each time I read it I would be filled with the same unbearable sadness… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Like you're riding a train at night across some vast plain, and you catch a glimpse of a tiny light in a… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Closing your eyes isn't going to change anything. Nothing is going to disappear just because you can't see what is going on.… — 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
