All over the world people have developed their own ideas about what's right and wrong in life, but so long as you… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Anyway, it seems to me that the way most people go on living (I suppose there are a few exceptions), they think… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
The Earth, time, concepts, love, life, faith justice, evil - they're all fluid and in transition. They don't stay in one form… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Reality's just the accumulation of ominous prophecies come to life. All you have to do is open a newspaper on any given… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Until that time, I had understood death as something entirely separate from and independent of life. The hand of death is about… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I may be the type who manages to grab all the pointless things in life but lets the really important things slip… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
In traveling, a companion, in life, compassion,'" she repeats, making sure of it. If she had paper and pencil, it wouldn't surprise… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Well, Mr Katagiri, I have not been frogging all these years for nothing. I keep my eye on the important things in… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
In certain areas of my life, I actively seek out solitude. Especially for someone in my line of work, solitude is, more… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“My only passions were books and music. As you might guess, I led a lonely life.” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Maybe that's why people don't like you. You make it obvious you don't care whether people like you or not. That makses… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“No matter how quiet and conformist a person’s life seems, there’s always a time in the past when they reached an impasse.… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Unsure how to answer, I took another grape. Time was no problem for me, but I wasn't eager to hear the long… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
No matter what they wish for, no matter how far they go, people can never be anything but themselves. That's all. — 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
“The resounding stillness gives the structures an impression of abandonment. Yet each time I turn down these streets, I can sense strangers… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“But what his life had really meant, Hoshino had no idea. Not that anybody's life had more clear-cut meaning to it. What's… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
He was silent for thirty seconds, maybe a minute. I uncrossed my legs under the table and wondered if this was the… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
What do you think? I'm not a starfish or a pepper tree. I'm a living, breathing human being. Of course I've been… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“It doesn't matter what form she takes - a living spirit, an illusion - but you have to see her, have to… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I think you still love me, but we cant escape the fact that I am not enough for you. I knew this… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Remove everything pointless from an imperfect life and it’d lose even its imperfection.” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
As long as I stared at the clock, at least the world remained in motion. Not a very consequential world, but in… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Listen, every object's in flux. The Earth, time, concepts, love, life, faith, justice, evil--they're all fluid and in transition. They don't stay… — 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
