“There are times when the understanding does not come until later, when it no longer matters. Other times I do what I… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I can't understand nothingness. I can't understand it and I can't imagine it. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“If you can let it go at not understanding, that's the best anyone could expect.” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“No truth can cure the sadness we feel from losing a loved one. No truth, no sincerity, no strength, no kindness, can… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“To understand something and to put that something into a form that you can see with your own eyes are two completely… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
If you can’t understand it without an explanation, you can’t understand it with an explanation. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“I'd like to ask you more about your ears if I may," I said. "You want to ask whether or not my… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
In most cases learning something essential in life requires physical pain. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Mutual understanding is of critical importance. There are those who say that ‘understanding’ is merely the sum total of our misunderstandings” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“I’ve got people I want to understand and people I want to be understood by.” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
There are lots of things we never understand, no matter how many years we put on, no matter how much experience we… — 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
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
