The sense of tragedy - according to Aristotle - comes, ironically enough, not from the protagonist's weak points but from his good… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I think memory is the most important asset of human beings. It's a kind of fuel; it burns and it warms you.… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I'm not human. I'm a piece of machinery. I don't need to feel a thing. Just forge on ahead. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Was it Aristotle who said the human soul is composed of reason, will, and desire?” “No, that was Plato. Aristotle and Plato… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“That’s why I like to listen to Schubert while I’m driving. Like I said, it’s because all the performances are imperfect. A… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I am a flawed human being - a far more flawed human being than you realize. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Sometimes I find it too hot to run, and sometimes too cold. Or too cloudy. But I still go running. I know… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Mere humans who root through their refrigerators at three o'clock in the morning can only produce writing that matches what they do.… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
[But] we accept irony through a device called metaphor. And through that we grow and become deeper human beings. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
There are some things about myself I can’t explain to anyone. There are some things I don’t understand at all. I can’t… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I find myself thinking about my ongoing existence as a human being and the path that lies ahead of me. Though of… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I said nothing for a time, just ran my fingertips along the edge of the human-shaped emptiness that had been left inside… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
But I didn't understand then. That I could hurt somebody so badly she would never recover. That a person can, just by… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
One of these days they'll be making a film where the whole human race gets wiped out in a nuclear war, but… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Human beings are ultimately nothing but carriers-passageways- for genes. They ride us into the ground like racehorses from generation to generation. Genes… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Results aside, the ability to have complete faith in another human being is one of the finest qualities a person can possess. — 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
How many times have you said, 'This is it. I've finally found my one true love'? And how many times has the… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I'm a very ordinary human being; I just happen to like reading books. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
All of us are imperfect human beings living in an imperfect world. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
But actually time isn't a straight line. It doesn't ave a shape. In all senses of the term, it doesn't have any… — 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
People have their own reasons for dying. It might look simple, but it never is. It's just like a rock. What's above… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
What do you think? I'm not a starfish or a pepper tree. I'm a living, breathing human being. Of course I've been… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
you mean machines are like humans?" I shook my head. "No, not like humans. With machines the feeling is, well, more finite.… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Everybody has some one thing they do not want to lose," began the man. "You included. And we are professionals at finding… — 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