“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
“Maybe the world was like a revolving door, it occurred to him as his consciousness was fading away. And which section you… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“I don't think most people would like my personality. There might be a few -- very few, I would imagine- who are… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
What we call the present is given shape by an accumulation of the past. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“I felt like I was living at the bottom of a deep well completely shut up inside myself, cursing my fate, hating… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Life is a lot more fragile than we think. So you should treat others in a way that leaves no regrets. Fairly,… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Living like an empty shell is not really living, no matter how many years it may go on. The heart and flesh… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“It's little strange, perhaps, to make this claim at such a late date, but Gatsby really is an outstanding novel. I never… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“But in real life things don't go so smoothly. At certain points in our lives, when we really need a clear-cut solution,… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“The image of her in another man's arms was stuck in my mind, as real as life. As if there was a… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“When I finished bathing after dinner, Kumiko was sitting in the living room with the lights out. Hunched down in the dark… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“I was born by the sea," I said. "I'd go to the beach the morning after a typhoon and find all sorts… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
My very existence, my life in the world, seemed like a hallucination. A strong wind would make me think my body was… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“No one noticed that I had changed- that I had given up sleep entirely, that I was spending all my time reading,… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“What's really important in life is always the things that are secondary. What's about all I can say.” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
It was as if I were writing letters to hold together the pieces of my crumbling life. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Money was not a living thing. It wouldn’t run off anywhere if he left it alone. Probably.” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
In most cases learning something essential in life requires physical pain. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“It's unfair." As a rule, life is unfair," I said. Yeah, but I think I did say some awful things." To Dick?"… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“It was simply one of those things that remain as an “exceptional but interesting” episode in life.” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“No sooner had one season slipped out the door than the next came in by another door. A person might scramble to… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Maybe the only thing I can definitely say about is this: That’s life. Maybe the only thing we can do is accept… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Unable to sleep after the others had drowsed off, I crawled out of the tent and lay on the ground, looking at… — 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
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
