I had my jazz club and I had enough money. So I didn't have to write for my living. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
What we call the present is given shape by an accumulation of the past. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“life had a lesson to teach me: it takes years to build up, it takes moments to destroy” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I find myself thinking about my ongoing existence as a human being and the path that lies ahead of me. Though of… — 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
Everybody has to start somewhere. You have your whole future ahead of you. Perfection doesn't happen right away. — 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—-and for me, for… — 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
Most human activities are predicated on the assumption that life goes on. If you take that premise away, what is there left? — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Well, Mr Katagiri, I have not been frogging all these years for nothing. I keep my eye on the important things in… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Don't let thoughts of me hold you back. Just do what you want to do. Otherwise, I might end up taking you… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“No matter how quiet and conformist a person’s life seems, there’s always a time in the past when they reached an impasse.… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“But what his life had really meant, Hoshino had no idea. Not that anybody's life had more clear-cut meaning to it. What's… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“But think about it - what if there were a deus ex machina in real life? Everything would be so easy! If… — 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
“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
All over the world people have developed their own ideas about what's right and wrong in life, but so long as you… — 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
“SO THAT’S MY LIFE—or my life before I stopped sleeping—each day pretty much a repetition of the one before. I used to… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Listen. I may not be much, but I'm all I've got. Maybe you need a magnifying glass to find my face in… — 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
“Anyway, it seems to me that the way most people go on living (I suppose there are a few exceptions), they think… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
You know, they've got these chocolate assortments, and you like some but you don't like others? And you eat all the ones… — 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
“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
My only passions were books and music. As you might guess, I led a lonely life… Not that I knew what I… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Life might just be an absurd, even crude, chain of events and nothing more. — 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
“and reality was one step out of line, a cardigan with the buttons done up wrong.” — 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
If writing novels is like planting a forest, then writing short stories is more like planting a garden. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share
“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
“Intelligent teenage girls were often instinctively theatrical, purposely eccentric, mouthing highly suggestive words to confuse people.” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share
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
The most dangerous creature here would have to be me. So maybe I'm just scared of my own shadow. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share
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
“that one of our problems was our inability to recognize and accept our own deformities” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share
“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
“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
“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
“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
“Some people get a kick out of reading railway timetables and that's all they do all day. Some people make huge model boats out… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share
“When the time comes, everybody’s got to end up where they belong. Only me, I didn’t have a place to call my own. It’s… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share
“You let something out of the bag before yourself knew what it was all about” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share
