No one could say how long that life would last. Whatever has form can disappear in an instant. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“The body is not the only target of rape. Violence does not always take visible form, and not all wounds gush blood.” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
No matter how clear things might become in the forest of story, there was never a clear-cut solution, as there was in… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I was reduced to pure concept. My flesh had dissolved; my form had dissipated. I floated in space. Liberated of my corporeal… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Whatever it is you're seeking won't come in the form you're expecting. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Beyond the edge of the world there’s a space where emptiness and substance neatly overlap, where past and future form a continuous,… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
As long as an individual's alive, he will undergo experience in some form or other, and those experiences are stored up instant… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
As I already explaned, I don't have any form. I'm a conceptual metaphysical object. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
No matter what form the relationship might take, he was the only person she could picture sharing her life with. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Spending plenty of time on something can be the most sophisticated form of revenge. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I was reborn," she said, her hot breath brushing his ear. "You were reborn," Tengo said. "Because I died once." "You died… — 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
To me, love is a pure idea forged in flesh, awkwardly maybe, but it had to connect to somewhere, despite twists and… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
But actually time isn't a straight line. It doesn't ave a shape. In all senses of the term, it doesn't have any… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
The Earth, time, concepts, love, life, faith justice, evil - they're all fluid and in transition. They don't stay in one form… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I keep to this routine every day without variation. The repetition itself becomes the important thing; it's a form of mesmerism. I… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I'm in no position to hand down any advice," he said, "but there's a rule I follow when I don't know what… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Our hearts are not stones. A stone may disintegrate in time and lose its outward form. But hearts never disintegrate. They have… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
But intolerant,narrow minds with no imagination are like parasites that transform the host,change form,and continue to thrive. They're a lost cause, and… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“If you have to choose between something that has form and something that doesn't, go for the one without form. That's my… — 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
