Of course it hurt that we could never love each other in a physical way. We would have been far more happy… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I'm tired of living unable to love anyone. I don't have a single friend - not one. And, worst of all, I… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Naturally I have zero friends. I've built a wall around me, never letting anybody inside and trying not to venture outside myself.… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“No one in my family, not one of my friends or classmates, realized that I was going through life asleep.” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
The world in books seemed so much more alive to me than anything outside. I could see things I'd never seen before.… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“He'd only seen photos of her, but felt a wave of nostalgia like he was meeting a long-lost friend.” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“I looked up at the sky. A mother wants to make friends with her daughter. The daughter wants a mother more than… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“I have met many different people in the course of my life, some of whom I have come to know pretty well,… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Is it possible to become friends with a butterfly?.. It is if you become a part of nature. You suppress your presence… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“I looked up at the sky. A mother wants to make friends with her daughter. The daughter wants a mother more than… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Didn't someone once say, 'A friend to kill time is a friend sublime'?" "That was you who said that, no?" "Sixth sense,… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“For a ten-year-old boy and a ten-year-old girl to become good friends was not easy under any circumstances. Indeed, it might be… — 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… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“I don’t want to mix music and computers. Just like it’s not good to mix friends and work, and sex.” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Music is my longtime friend. And I could never betray it. I listen to music while I’m writing.” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“For her first summer vacation, my sister went to California with a couple of friends on a package tour put together by… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“At this point I don’t want to mix music and computers. Just like it’s not good to mix friends and work, and… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“My husband and I see each other only on weekends, and generally get along well. We're like good friends, life partners able… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
It's not right for one friend to do all the giving and the other to do all the taking: that's not read… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“And I really wanted to see you, too," she said. "When I couldn’t see you any more, I realized that. It was… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“No one in my family, not one of my friends or classmates realized that I was going through life asleep. It was… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“But Nakata wasn’t afraid of the darkness or how deep it was. And why should he be? That bottomless world of darkness,… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Ordinary imperfect people, always choose similarly imperfect people as friends. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“In that sense, this is not a standard book of interviews. Nor is it what you might call a book of 'celebrity… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
It's not right for one friend to do all the giving and the other to do all the taking: that's not real… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Each day the sun would rise and set, the flag would be raised and lowered. Each Sunday I would have a date… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Listen. I may not be much, but I'm all I've got. Maybe you need a magnifying glass to find my face in… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Friends don't need the intervention of a third party. Friendship's a voluntary thing. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“It's kind of embarrassing to put this into words," she said, "but I want to stay friends with you, Junpei. Not just… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
The world in books seemed so much more alive to me than anything outside. I could see things I'd never seen before.… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Is it possible, in the final analysis, for one human being to achieve perfect understanding of another? We can invest enormous time… — 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
