Once you pass a certain age, life becomes nothing more than a process of continual loss. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“You’re wasting your life being involved with me.” “I’m not wasting anything.” “But I might never recover. Will you wait for me… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
No matter how far you travel, you can never get away from yourself. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Life is basically unfair. But even in a situation that's unfair, I think it's possible to seek a kind of fairness.” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“You're not telling me anything I don't know already. 'Relax your body, and the rest of you will ligthen up.' What's the… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“We all die and disappear, but that’s because the mechanism of the world itself is built on destruction and loss. Our lives… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
A life without pain: it was the very thing I had dreamed of for years, but now that I had it, I… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
You know, eating's much more important than most people think. There comes a time in your life when you've just got to… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Everybody has to start somewhere. You have your whole future ahead of you. Perfection doesn't happen right away. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“I was at that age, that time of life when every sight, every feeling, every thought came back, like a boomerang, to… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Nobody's going to win all the time. On the highway of life you can't always be in the fast lane. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Every one of us is losing something precious to us... Lost opportunities, lost possibilities, feelings we can never get back again. That's… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Looking up at [the sky], I think about the October evening world, where 'people' must be going about their lives. Beneath that… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Those were strange days, now that I look back at them. In the midst of life, everything revolved around death. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Humans are immortal in their thought. Though strictly speakin’, not immortal, but endlessly, asymptotically close to immortal. That’s eternal life.” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Your life’s just begun and there’s a ton of things out in the world you’ve never laid eyes on. Things you never… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
We can, if we so choose, wander aimlessly over the continent of the arbitrary. Rootless as some winged seed blown about on… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Everything has boundaries. The same holds true with thought. You shouldn't fear boundaries, but you should not be afraid of destroying them.… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
What we needed were not words and promises but a steady accumulation of small realities. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“True, luck may rule over parts of a person's life and luck may cast patches of shadow across the ground of our… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“She and I were bound together at the border between life and death. It was like that for us from the start” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“So my new, simple, and regular life began. I got up before five a.m. and went to bed before ten p.m. People… — 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
