“I was living for one thing only, and that was to confirm my own lack of feeling.” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
There's a special feeling you get on a veranda that you just can't get anywhere else. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I’m me, and at the same time not me. That’s what it felt like. A very still, quiet feeling. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
It’s precisely because of the pain, the we can get the feeling, through this process, of really being alive—or at least a… — 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
“I finally reach the end. Strangely, I have no feeling of accomplishment. The only thing I feel is utter relief that I… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Slowly like a movie fade out, the real world evaporates. I'm alone, inside the world of the story. My favorite feeling in… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I have this strange feeling that I'm not myself anymore. It's hard to put into words, but I guess it's like I… — 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
“A sense of calm envelopes me, a feeling close to rapture. Swimming is one of the best things in my life. It… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“I turn a corner," I offered, "just as someone ahead of me turns the next corner. I can't see what that person… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“It was the first time Junko felt a certain "something" as she watched the flames of a bonfire: "something" deep down, a… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“To be able to grass something of value, sometimes you have to perform seemingly inefficient acts. But even activities that appear fruitless… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Sometimes I feel so- I don’t know - lonely. The kind of helpless feeling when everything you’re used to has been ripped… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Everybody's born with some different thing at the core of their existence. And that thing, whatever it is, becomes like a heat… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Yup, you're in a strange position, all right. You're in love with a girl who is no more, jealous of a boy… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“At the time it didn’t mean much, but now, at this age, I’ve finally experienced what the poet felt. The deep sense… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“In the afternoon dark clouds suddenly color the sky a mysterious shade and it starts raining hard, pounding the roof and windows… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Here's what I think, Mr. Wind-Up Bird," said May Kasahara. "Everybody's born with some different thing at the core of their existence.… — 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
