“Even a rat will choose the least painful route if you shock him enough” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“It was as good as sealing yourself into a dungeon. Walled in, with nowhere to go but your own doom.” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Pa, kakvo to iskustvo može da ima pisac bez strasti? To ti je kao kuvar bez apetita.” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Despite your best effort, people are going to hurt when it's time for them to be hurt. Life is like that.” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“As much as any contemporary writer, Murakami grasps the bewildering fluidity of commoditized life.” — The Japan Foundation Copy Share Image
“I was enveloped in numbness, and absence of feeling so deep the bottom was lost from view.” — haruki murakami Copy Share Image
“I was living for one thing only, and that was to confirm my own lack of feeling.” — 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
“Ništa se neće promijeniti ako žmirite. Ništa neće nestati samo zato što vi ne vidite šta se zbiva. Zapravo, bit će još… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“No, I don't think I've been defiled. But I haven't been saved, either. There's nobody who can save me right now, Mr.… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Knjiga je puna života i slobode, koju zdrav razum ne može sputati. Kao džin koji mora izaći van iz boce. To mi… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“People soon get tired of things that aren't boring, but not of what is boring. Go figure. For me, I might have… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Once you’re lost, you panic. You’re in total despair, not knowing what to do. I hate it when that happens. Sex can… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Even now, whenever I think of her, I envision a quiet Sunday morning. A gentle, clear day, just getting under way. No… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Envoltos por uma agradável sensação de intimidade, conversámos acerca de tudo e mais alguma coisa. Quem me dera, também a mim, que… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“The years 19 and 20 are a crucial stage in the maturation of character, and if you allow yourself to become warped… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Everything is there but there are no parts. Since there are no parts there's no need to replace one thing with another.… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Here's what hurst the most," Kafuku said. "I didn't truly understand her--or at least some crucial part of her. And it may… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“By living our lives, we nurture death. True as this might be, it was only one of the truths we had to… — haruki murakami Copy Share Image
“Our city, these streets, I don't know why it makes me so depressed. That old familiar gloom that befalls the city dweller,… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“What the hell kind of revolution have you got just tossing out big words that working-class people can't understand? What the hell… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Here," he said, "get yourself some healthy food. You look awful." I said he had done more than enough for me and… — 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… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“You know how they've got these cookie assortments, and you like some but you don't like others? And you eat up all… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“We couldn't bear to be apart. So if Kizuki had lived, I'm sure we would have been together, loving each other, and… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“I do need that time, though, for Naoko's face to appear. And as the years have passed, the time has grown longer.… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“She repeated what her mother had told me, that she had been moved when she heard me playing as she passed the… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“I think of human existence as being like a two-story house. On the rst oor people gather together to take their meals,… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“He wasn't so bad when the two of us came to see you, though. He was just his usual self." Because you… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“I think of human existence as being like a two-story house. On the first floor people gather together to take their meals,… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“April ended and May came along, but May was even worse than April. In the deepening spring of May, I had no… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Because you are neither an angel nor a god. I am quite aware that your actions have been prompted by your pure… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“今日、短い午睡から目覚めたとき、《顔のない男》が私の前にいた。 Hoy, al despertar de la pequeña siesta vespertina, el "hombre sin rostro" se encontraba enfrente de mi.” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“I could never get excited about games you play with other people. I can't get into them. I lose interest.” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“For a certain kind of person, love begins from something tiny or silly. From something like that or it doesn't begin at… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“No matter what we said, people would believe what they wanted to believe. The more we struggled, the more vulnerable we'd be.” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“I wrote letters in the classroom, I wrote letters at my desk at home with Seagull in my lap, I wrote letters… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image