“There's only one kind of happiness, but misfortune comes in all shapes and sizes.” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Don't blame me. That's evolution. Evolution's always hard. Hard and bleak. No such thing as happy evolution.” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
It's like Tolstoy said. Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Tolstoy’s famous line, all happiness is alike, but each pain is painful in its own way.” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“To be able to talk to your heart's content about a book you like with someone is one of the greatest joys… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Am I happy? All I can say is I guess so. That's pretty much the way it is with dreams.” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“At the same time that 'I' am the content of a relation, 'I' am also that which does the relating.” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
That's evolution. Evolution's always hard. Hard and bleak. No such thing as happy evolution — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“It was Yuki. What was I up to? My response: Chewing on a stalk of celery and having a beer. Hers: Yuck.… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“This was his favorite time of day, reading to his heart's content before going to sleep. When he tired of reading, he… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I have read all my novels that were translated into English. Reading my novels is enjoyable because I forget almost all the… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“He had that feeling he remembered from childhood when he opened a new textbook at the beginning of the term, ignorant of… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“There’s only one kind of happiness, but misfortune comes in all shapes and sizes. It’s like Tolstoy said. Happiness is an allegory,… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
That’s how stories happen — with a turning point, an unexpected twist. There’s only one kind of happiness, but misfortune comes in… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“As soon as I sat down across from her, she ordered me to put the entire contents of my pants pockets on… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I have a million things to talk to you about. All I want in this world is you. I want to see… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“What marks his plays is the way things get so mixed up the characters are trapped. Do you see what I mean?… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“You tell me there is no fighting or hatred or desire in the Town. That is a beautiful dream, and I do… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
In his or her own way, everyone I saw before me looked happy. Whether they were really happy or just looked it,… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
But who can say what's best? That's why you need to grab whatever chance you have of happiness where you find it,… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Or maybe that’s what it’s all about: this religion’s substance is its lack of substance. In McLuhanesque terms, the medium is the… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“A bunch of different people appear, and they’ve got their own situations and reasons and excuses, and each one is pursuing his… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
All imperfections are forced upon the imperfect, so the 'perfect' can live content and oblivious. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Only where there is disillusionment and depression and sorrow does happiness arise; without the despair of loss, there is no hope. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“No joy, no communion, no love. Only where there is disillusionment and depression and sorrow does happiness arise; without the despair of… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“I thought about the screws and their happiness. Maybe they were glad to be free of the eggbeater, to be independent screws,… — 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
“It wasn’t what I’d characterize as a happy part of my life, living as I was, a balled-up mass of unfulfilled desires.… — 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
