“I was impressed by the variety of dreams and goals that life could offer.” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I tell you, Mr. Okada, a cold beer at the end of the day is the best thing life has to offer.… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“I’ve been an outsider all my life. It’s been kind of hard, but I like that way of living.” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“He comes out of the mine about the same as when he went in. He has no sense that it was something… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
People's memories are maybe the fuel they burn to stay alive. Whether those memories have any actual importance or not, it doesn't… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Life frightens me sometimes. I don't happen to take that as the premise for everything else though. I'm going to give it… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Some things in life are too complicated to explain in any language. — 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
“Forgive me for stating the obvious, but the world is made up of all kinds of people. Other people have their own… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Even if I left this world, I doubt anyone would notice. I would shout out from the dark, but no one would… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“At a certain point in our lives, when we really need a clear-cut solution, the person who knocks at our door is,… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“We survived. You and I. And those who survive have a duty. Our duty is to do our best to keep on… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
You've already decided what you're going to do, and all that's left is to set the wheels in motion. I mean, it's… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“By living our lives, we nurture death. True as this might be, it was only one of the truths we had to… — haruki murakami Copy Share Image
“Loss was not a skill, not a measure of a life. And yet I still felt I had something to lose.” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I get irritated, I get upset. Especially when I'm in a hurry. But I see it all as part of our training.… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Things pass us by. Nobody can catch them. That's the way we live our lives. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
When you are used to the kind of life -of never getting anything you want- you stop knowing what it is you… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
In the spring of her twenty-second year, Sumire fell in love for the first time in her life. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
This is what it means to live on. When granted hope, a person uses it as fuel, as a guidepost to life.… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Whatever it is you're seeking won't come in the form you're expecting. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
two people can sleep in the same bed and still be alone when they close their eyes — 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
