Sometimes when I look at you, I feel I'm gazing at a distant star. It's dazzling, but the light is from tens… — 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
It feels good to think about you when I'm warm in bed. I feel as if you're curled up there beside me,… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
When it's raining like this," said Naoko, "it feels as if we're the only ones in the world. I wish it would… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I'm scared," she said. "These days I feel like a snail without a shell." "I'm scared too," I said. "I feel like… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
It feels like everything's been decided in advance that I'm following a path somebody else has already mapped out for me. It… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I was feeling lonely without her, but the fact that I could feel lonely at all was consolation. Loneliness wasn't such a… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I've translated a lot of American literature into Japanese, and I think that what makes a good translator is, above all, a… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
She's always polite and kind, but her words lack the kind of curiosity and excitement you'd normally expect. Her true feelings- assuming… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
It is however, difficult to make your narratives relative by yourself. A novelists' work is to provide models to make your narratives… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Hey, what is it with you? Why are you so spaced out? You still haven't answered me." I probably still haven't completely… — 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 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
“I’m not trying to imply I can keep up this silent, isolated facade all the time. Sometimes the wall I’ve erected around… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“How wonderful it is to be able to write someone a letter ! To feel like conveying your thoughts to a person,… — 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
To be able to talk to your heart’s content about a book you like with someone who feels the same way about… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
How wonderful it is to be able to write someone a letter! To feel like conveying your thoughts to a person, to… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
She was truly a beautiful girl. I could feel a small polished stone sinking through the darkest waters of my heart. All… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Everybody feels safe belonging not to the excluded minority but to the excluding majority. You think, Oh, I’m glad that’s not me.… — 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… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
In any case, suffice it to say I enjoyed hearing about faraway places. I had stocked up a whole store of these… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I’ve had that kind of experience myself: I’m looking at a map and I see someplace that makes me think, ‘I absolutely… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Oshima's silent for a time as he gazes at the forest, eyes narrowed. Birds are flitting from one branch to the next.… — 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
“All kinds of things are happening to me," I begin. "Some I chose, some I didn't. I don't know how to tell… — 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
“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 Image
“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 Image
“You let something out of the bag before yourself knew what it was all about” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
