I always feel like I'm struggling to become someone else. Like I'm trying to find a new place, grab hold of a… — 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,… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Here's what I think, Mr. Wind-Up Bird," said May Kasahara. "Everybody's born with some different thing at the core of their existence.… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I have come to think that life is a far more limited thing than those in the midst of its maelstorm realize.… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Our lives are like a complex musical score. Filled with all sorts of cryptic writing, sixteenth and thirty-second notes and other strange… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“As far as I could recall, with long hair, she had been just another cute coed. From the girl who sat before… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
What we seek is some kind of compensation for what we put up with. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“You know what I think?" she says. "That people's memories are maybe the fuel they burn to stay alive. Whether those memories… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“yet never once in his life had he experienced the unshakable certainty that he and he alone had arrived at a decision.… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Death was not the opposite of life. It was already here, within my being, it had always been here, and no struggle… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“People are born in order to live, right? But the longer I’ve lived, the more I’ve lost what’s inside me - and… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Once you pass a certain age, life becomes nothing more than a process of continual loss. Things that are important to your… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Death was not the opposite of life. It was already here, within my being, it had always been there, and no struggle… — 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
“But think about it - what if there were a deus ex machina in real life? Everything would be so easy! If… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
The answer is dreams. Dreaming on and on. Entering the world of dreams and never coming out. Living in dreams for the… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Tendencies. Yougottendencies. Soevenifyoudideverythingoveragain, yourwholelife, yougottendenciestodojustwhatyoudid, alloveragain. -The Sheep Man.” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“My life is like a trunk stuffed with dirty laundry. It contains more than enough material to drive any one human being… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Life's no piece of cake, mind you, but the recipe's my own to fool with. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Life is not like water. Things in life don't necessarily flow over the shortest possible route. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Is this what it means to go back to square one? Most likely. He had nothing left to lose, other than his… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Each of us possesses a tangible living soul. The system has no such thing. We must not allow the system to exploit… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Isn't life strange? There are people who have so many leftover clothes they can't stuff them all in their wardrobe. And then… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
It feels like everything's been decided in advance that I'm following a path somebody else has already mapped out for me. It… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“I happen to like the strange ones," the driver said. "People who look normal and live a normal life--they're the ones you… — 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
