Let me tell you something, Mari. The ground we stand on looks solid enough, but if something happens it can drop right… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Time really is one big continuous cloth, no? We habitually cut out pieces of time to fit us, so we tend to… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
As time goes on you'll understand. What lasts, lasts; what doesn't, doesn't. Time solves most things and what most time can't solve,… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
You’re here,” I continued. “At least you look as if you’re here. But maybe you aren’t. Maybe it’s just your shadow. The… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I realize full well how hard it must be to go on living alone in a place from which someone has left… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
A certain kind of shittiness, a certain kind of stagnation, a certain kind of darkness, goes on propagating itself by its own… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
At my core, there is nothing. Neither is it parched wastelands. At my core, there is love. I'll go on loving that… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Living like an empty shell is not really living, no matter how many years it may go on. The heart and flesh… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I could disappear from the face of the earth, and the world would go on moving without the slightest twinge. Things were… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I miss you terribly sometimes, but in general I go on living with all the energy I can muster. Just as you… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Tell me how you could say such a thing, she said, staring down at the ground beneath her feet. You're not telling… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Most human activities are predicated on the assumption that life goes on. If you take that premise away, what is there left? — 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
