I am worrying about my country. I feel I have a responsibility as a novelist to do something. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I wasn't particularly afraid of death itself. As Shakespeare said, die this year and you don't have to die the next. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I'm not afraid to die. What I'm afraid of is having reality get the better of me, of having reality leave me… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Everyone who has something is afraid of losing it, and people with nothing are worried they'll forever have nothing. Everyone is the… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
The thing I’m most afraid of is me. Of not knowing what I’m going to do. Of not knowing what I’m doing… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“You shouldn’t fear boundaries, but you also should not be afraid of destroying them.” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Never let fear and stupid pride make you lose someone who's precious to you.” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Tell me, Doctor, are you afraid of death?" "I guess it depends on how you die. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Writing from memory like this, I often feel a pang of dread. What if I've forgotten the most important thing? What if… — 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
This is no honky-tonk parade. 1Q84 is the real world, where a cut draws real blood, where pain is real pain and… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
The journey I'm taking is inside me. Just like blood travels down veins, what I'm seeing is my inner self and what… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
You're afraid of imagination and even more afraid of dreams. Afraid of the resposibility that begins in dreams. But you have to… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“I've had sex with lots of guys, but I think I did it mostly out of fear. I was scared not to… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“I have no physical symptoms, but psychologically there's this burden. I've got to get rid of it somehow. Of course, when I… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Narrow minds devoid of imagination. Intolerance, theories cut off from reality, empty terminology, usurped ideals, inflexible systems. Those are the things that… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
There's no sense forcing yourself if you don't feel like it. Tell you the truth, I've had sex with lots of guys,… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Everything has boundaries. the same holds true with thought. you shouldn't fear boundaries, but you also should not be afraid of destroying… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“You have to overcome the fear and anger inside you,” the boy named Crow says. “Let a bright light shine in and… — 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
“I go out on the porch and gaze up at the stars twinkling above, the random scattering of millions of stars. Even… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“The people who build high, strong fences are the ones who survive the best. You deny that reality only at the risk… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
You're afraid of imagination and even more afraid of dreams. Afraid of the responsibility that begins in dreams. But you have to… — 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
