“life had a lesson to teach me: it takes years to build up, it takes moments to destroy” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“In traveling, a companion, in life, compassion....So what does that really mean? In simple terms." "I think it means...that chance encounters are… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
There had to be something wrong with my life. I should have been born a Yugoslavian shepherd who looked up at the… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“I plant my elbows on the kitchen table, prop up my chin and think: When the hell did the compass needle get… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“If something came out of the deal, it couldn’t make things any worse for us than they already were, I thought. But… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
It is a lonely life sometimes, like throwing a stone into the deep darkness. It might hit something, but you can’t see… — 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
“The Earth slowly keeps on turning. But beyond any of those details of the real, there are dreams. And everyone's living in… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“It wasn’t what I’d characterize as a happy part of my life, living as I was, a balled-up mass of unfulfilled desires.… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“A giant octopus living way down deep at the bottom of the ocean. It has this tremendously powerful life force, a bunch… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“I don't think it's a question of liking or disliking it," Tengo said..."It was the one thing he was best at." "Hmm.… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“For me- and for everybody else, probably- this is my first experience growing old, and the emotions I'm having, too, are all… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“I always feel as if I'm struggling to become someone else. As if I'm trying to find a new place, grab hold… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“He was going to die soon, you knew when you saw those eyes. There was no sign of life in his flesh,… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
No matter what form the relationship might take, he was the only person she could picture sharing her life with. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“I mean, all I do here is do the work that my bosses tell me to do the way they tell me… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“All the dawns and all the twilights will rob me, piece by piece, of myself, and before long my very life will… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
If, as the dowager had said, we are nothing but gene carriers, why do so many of us have to lead such… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“The law presides over things of this world, finally. The world where shadow is shadow and light is light, yin is yin… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“That’s life, man. The sand of the times keeps running out from under our feet. We’re no longer standing where we once… — 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
