That's the kind of death that frightens me. The shadow of death slowly, slowly eats away at the region of life, and… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Like flowers scattered in a storm, a man's life is a long farewell. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I was in my house, alone in the living room, anxious about you, watching the flashes of lightning. And a flash of… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Life is moving alone smoothly, then." "I don't know about smoothly, but it's moving along, at least. There's no going back now… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“On the whole, I think of myself as one of those people who take a convenience-sake view of prevailing world conditions, events,… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Of course, they're not clowning around trying to make me laugh. They're doing their best to live very serious lives, and they… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“When granted hope, a person uses it as fuel, as a guidepost to life. It is impossible to live without hope.” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Holding this soft, small living creature in my lap this way, though, and seeing how it slept with complete trust in me,… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Most runners run not because they want to live longer, but because they want to live life to the fullest. If you’re… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Things like that happen all the time in this great big world of ours. It is like taking a boat out on… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Life might just be an absurd, even crude, chain of events and nothing more. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
The house kept its own time, like the old-fashioned grandfather clock in the living room. People who happened by raised the weights,… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“As you are all aware, in the course of life we experience many kinds of pain. Pains of the body and pains… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Why do I act like this, agreeing when I really disagree, letting people force me to do things I don't want to… — 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. Thats… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
If you can’t understand it without an explanation, you can’t understand it with an explanation. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Believe me, I know what I’m talking about. I’m working class. Revolution or not, the working class will just keep on scraping… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Fairness is a concept that holds only in limited situations. Yet we want the concept to extend to everything, in and out… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“You need to live it to the fullest. No matter how shallow and dull things might get, this life is worth living.… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
From now on, little by little, you must prepare yourself to face death. If you devote all of your future energy to… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“There are all kinds of things we have to deal with in life,” Eri finally said. “And one thing always seems to… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
The most important thing we learn at school is the fact that the most important things can't be learned at school. — 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
