Like flowers scattered in a storm, a man's life is a long farewell. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
What we seek is some kind of compensation for what we put up with. — 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
“That’s life, man. The sand of the times keeps running out from under our feet. We’re no longer standing where we once… — 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
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
But didn't you say you were satisfied with your life?" "Word games," I dismissed. "Every army needs a flag. — 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
Once you pass a certain age, life becomes nothing more than a process of continual loss. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Cops, Hoshino concluded, not for the first time in his life, are just gangsters who get paid by the state.” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“There are countless things in the world for which affection is not enough. Life is long, and sometimes cruel. Sometimes victims are… — 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
“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
Before I became a writer, I was running a jazz bar in the center of Tokyo, which means that I worked in… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“It's not as if our lives are simply divided into light and dark. There's a shadowy middle ground. Recognizing and understanding the… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Most people, they’re trying to escape from boredom, but I’m trying to get into the thick of boredom. That’s why I’m not… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“We're talking about a revelation here,' Colonel Sanders said, clicking his tongue. 'A revelation leaps over the borders of the everyday. A… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Everything is blowing up around us, but there are still those who care about a broken lock, and others who are dutiful… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“I have met many different people in the course of my life, some of whom I have come to know pretty well,… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“A giant octopus living way down deep at the bottom of the ocean. It has this tremendously powerful life force, a bunch… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
My peak? Would I even have one? I hardly had had anything you could call a life. A few ripples. some rises… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Those are life-and-death-type experiences he goes through in the mines. Eventually he gets out and goes back to his old life. But… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
In traveling, a companion, in life, compassion,'" she repeats, making sure of it. If she had paper and pencil, it wouldn't surprise… — 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
“Our lives are like a complex musical score. Filled with all sorts of cryptic writing, sixteenth and thirty-second notes and other strange… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“But in real life things don't go so smoothly. At certain points in our lives, when we really need a clear-cut solution,… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“The sad spreadsheet of my life that reveals how much my debts far outweigh my assets.” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
In his own way, he's lived life with all the intensity he could muster. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Even if we could turn back, we'd probably never end up where we started. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Despite your best efforts, people are going to be hurt when it's time for them to be hurt. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Tendencies. Yougottendencies. Soevenifyoudideverythingoveragain, yourwholelife, yougottendenciestodojustwhatyoudid, alloveragain. -The Sheep Man.” — 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
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
