“That’s the kind of death that frightens me. The shadow of death slowly, slowly eats away at the region of life, and… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“And you’ll return to real life. You need to live it to the fullest. No matter how shallow and dull things might… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“The way surviving hard winters makes a tree grows stronger, the growth rings inside it tighter” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“SO THAT’S MY LIFE—or my life before I stopped sleeping—each day pretty much a repetition of the one before. I used to… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Everybody's gotta die sometime. But until then we've still got fifty-some odd years to go, and a lot to think about while… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“But that was the last time. That was…how should I say it? ... the one moment in my life when I was… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“My husband and I see each other only on weekends, and generally get along well. We're like good friends, life partners able… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Everybody's born with some different thing at the core of their existence. And that thing, whatever it is, becomes like a heat… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“You know how they've got these cookie assortments, and you like some but you don't like others? And you eat up all… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Cops, Hoshino concluded, not for the first time in his life, are just gangsters who get paid by the state.” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
They take the circuits out of people’s brains that make it possible for them to think for themselves. Their world is like… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I am struck by how, except when you're young, you really need to prioritize in life, figuring out in what order you… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Why my wife owned a shotgun, I had no idea. Or ski masks. Neither of us had ever skied. But she didn't… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Does this mean that my life has been nothing but a process through which I am giving concrete form to the dormant… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Most people, they’re trying to escape from boredom, but I’m trying to get into the thick of boredom. That’s why I’m not… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“I placed the highest priority on the sort of life that lets me focus on writing, not associating with all the people… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Samsa certainly had no idea what lay ahead. He was in the dark about everything: the future, of course, but the present… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Where I'm living is not a storybook world. It's the real world, full of gaps and inconsistencies and anticlimaxes — 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
“So that’s how we live our lives. No matter how deep and fatal the loss, no matter how important the thing that's… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“For instance, supposing that the planet earth were not a sphere but a gigantic coffee table, how much difference in everyday life… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“By marrying her, Tony Takitani brought the lonely period of his life to an end. When he awoke in the morning, the… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
A man is like a two-story house. The first floor is equipped with an entrance and a living room. On the second… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Just because there's an end doesn't mean existence has meaning. An end point is simply set up as a temporary marker or… — 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
