“Deep within her eyes, in the always bottomless depths, there was a spring. And, ever so faintly, a light. The light of… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“To be able to talk to your heart's content about a book you like with someone is one of the greatest joys… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“if people lived forever - if they never got any older - if they could just go on living in this world,… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
You're not a kid any more. You have the right to choose your own life. You can start again. If you want… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“In the spring of her twenty-second year, Sumire fell in love for the first time in her life. An intense love, a… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Autumn finally arrived. And when it did, I came to a decision. Something had to give: I couldn't keep on living like… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Everything in life is metaphor.... We accept irony through a device called metaphor. And through that we grow and become deeper human… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“But finally, Mr. Wind-Up Bird, isn't that just what life is? Aren't we all trapped in the dark somewhere, and they've taken… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“There in the dim light, staring at the shadow on the wall, I poured out the story of my life. It had… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Life just isn’t fair, is how it used to strike me. Some people can work their butts off and never get what… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Kafka, in everybody's life there's a point of no return. And in a very few cases, a point where you can't go… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
As time goes on you'll understand. What lasts, lasts; what doesn't, doesn't. Time solves most things and what most time can't solve,… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“To understand something and to put that something into a form that you can see with your own eyes are two completely… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“But listen to me--there are times in life when those kinds of excuses don't cut it anymore. Situations when nobody cares whether… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“It was the age, that time of life when every sight, every feeling, every thought came back, like a boomerang, to me.” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“I see many people who disguise themselves. I know some people who say, “I’m an artist, I’m very creative, I’m different from… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“I tried hard to forget, but there remained inside me a vague knot of air. And as time went by, the knot… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, the clock is ticking, the hours are going by. The past increases, the future recedes. Possibilities decreasing, regrets mounting. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
To be able to talk to your heart’s content about a book you like with someone who feels the same way about… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“I live my life you live yours. If you're clear about what u want then you can live anyway you please. I… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“The most excruciating thing, though, had been maintaining a normal life knowing his partner’s secret—the effort it required to keep her in… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I lost some of my friends because I got so famous, people who just assumed that I would be different now. I… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“I have looked deep inside myself, trying to detect something that might be there. But just as our consciousness is a maze,… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
If you can love someone with your whole heart, even one person, then there's salvation in life. Even if you can't get… — 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
