“When you come out of the storm you won't be the same person that walked in. That's what the storm is all… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
What I feel for her is a wholly different emotion. It stands and walks on its own, living and breathing and throbbing… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Still, the time I spent with her was more precious than anything. She helped me forget the undertone of loneliness in my… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Lying there, I close my eyes for a time, then open them. I silently breathe in, then out. A thought begins to… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“It was as natural and obvious to me as breathing. So I assumed that everyone else was doing it too. When I… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Without a true self, a person can not go on living. It is like the ground we stand on. Without the ground,… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“I've been clinging to this world like a discarded shell of an insect stuck to a branch, about to be blown off… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“No one in my family, not one of my friends or classmates realized that I was going through life asleep. It was… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Am I happy? All I can say is I guess so. That's pretty much the way it is with dreams.” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Unsure where she was to find a purpose or meaning to her life, she passed one formless day after another.” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Start making excuses and there's no end to it. I can't live that kind of life. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“I go out on the porch and gaze up at the stars twinkling above, the random scattering of millions of stars. Even… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“I wake up, but where? I don't just think this, I actually voice the question to myself: "Where am I?" As if… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Never in my life had I seen such a slim nothing of a figure eat like such a terror.” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“It's easy to talk big, but the important thing is whether or not you clean up the shit.” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
As we go through life we gradually discover who we are, but the more we discover, the more we lose ourselves. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“I feel as if the world is listening for my next thought. But I can't think of anything. Sorry, but I just… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Listen. I may not be much, but I'm all I've got. Maybe you need a magnifying glass to find my face in… — 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
