Let me tell you something, Mari. The ground we stand on looks solid enough, but if something happens it can drop right… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Because memory and sensations are so uncertain, so biased, we always rely on a certain reality-call it an alternate reality-to prove the… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Another person's life is that person's life. You can't take responsibility. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Before I became a writer, I was running a jazz bar in the center of Tokyo, which means that I worked in… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I've always done whatever I felt like doing in life. People may try to stop me, and convince me I'm wrong, but… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Wasn't much of a life anyway. Wasn't much of a brain." "But didn't you say you were satisfied with your life?" "Word… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“It might be a little silly for someone getting to be my age to put this into words, but I just want… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“I think of human existence as being like a two-story house. On the first floor people gather together to take their meals,… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
In everybodys life there is a point of no return. And in a very few cases, a point where you cant go… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
In his own way, he's lived life with all the intensity he could muster. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
You're not a kid anymore. You have the right to choose your own life. You can start again. If you want a… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“When I thought of how I’d been living, how I’d been approaching life, it was all so trite, so miserably pointless. Unimaginative… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Most things are forgotten over time. Even the war itself, the life-and-death struggle people went through is now like something from the… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Remove everything pointless from an imperfect life, and it'd lose even it's imperfection.” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“You’re still young and healthy. Maybe that’s why you don’t understand what I am saying. Let me give you an example. Once… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“The gears of life had moved ahead a notch with a loud ker-chunk, and Junpei knew that they would never turn back… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Slowly, like a movie fadeout, the real world evaporates. I'm alone, inside the world of the story. My favorite feeling in the… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
When getting old, things that are important to your life begin to slip out of your grasp, one after another, like a… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
No one could say how long that life would last. Whatever has form can disappear in an instant. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Even if we could turn back, we'd probably never end up where we started. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Naturally I have zero friends. I've built a wall around me, never letting anybody inside and trying not to venture outside myself.… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Exerting yourself to the fullest within your individual limits: that's the essence of running, and a metaphor for life — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Despite your best effort, people are going to hurt when it's time for them to be hurt. Life is like that.” — 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
