“Even a rat will choose the least painful route if you shock him enough” — 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
“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
“Pa, kakvo to iskustvo može da ima pisac bez strasti? To ti je kao kuvar bez apetita.” — 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
“I was living for one thing only, and that was to confirm my own lack of feeling.” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“You can't go anywhere if you just resign yourself to being attacked. A state of chronic powerlessness eats away at a person.” — Haruki Murakami 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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“I don't give a damn about power and money per se. Really, I don't. I may be a selfish bastard, but I'm… — 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
“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
“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
“My eyes in the mirror are cold as a lizard's, my expression fixed and unreadable. I can't remember the last time I… — 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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“Naoko stayed frozen in place, like a small nocturnal animal that has been lured out by the moonlight. The direction of the… — 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
“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 rst oor people gather together to take their meals,… — 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
“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
“There is absolutely nothing to be gained from sleeping with one strange woman after another. It just tires you out and makes… — 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
