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
Everybody has to start somewhere. You have your whole future ahead of you. Perfection doesn't happen right away. — 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
“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
“Deep within her eyes, in the always bottomless depths, there was a spring. And, ever so faintly, a light. The light of… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“When I thought of how I’d been living, how I’d been approaching life, it was all so trite, so miserably pointless. Unimaginative… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Yo no soy tan fuerte. A mi me importa que me entiendan. Hay personas a quienes quiero comprender y quiero que me… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“But finally, Mr. Wind-Up Bird, isn't that just what life is? Aren't we all trapped in the dark somewhere, and they've taken… — 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
“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
“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
“The shadow of death slowly, slowly eats away at the region of life, and before you know it everything's dark and you… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“It might be a little silly for someone getting to be my age to put this into words, but I just want… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“It seemed to work at first. I tried hard to forget, but there remained inside me a vague knot-of-air kind of thing.… — 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
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
You know what I think?" she says. "That people's memories are maybe the fuel they burn to stay alive. Whether those memories… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Between the end of that strange summer and the approach of winter, my life went on without change. Each day would dawn… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Where and how did my relationship with Kumiko go wrong? That's what I can't understand. Not that I'm saying everything was perfect… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“It's unfair." As a rule, life is unfair," I said. Yeah, but I think I did say some awful things." To Dick?"… — 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
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
“A child should learn from early on what kind of activity supported his daily life, and he should appreciate the importance of… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Remove everything pointless from an imperfect life and it’d lose even its imperfection.” — 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
“Energies expended on sideshows, never on the main event. Where the hell was the main event? Was there a main event?” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Once again, life had a lesson to teach me: It takes years to build up, it takes moments to destroy. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“And you’ll return to real life. You need to live it to the fullest. No matter how shallow and dull things might… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I've always done whatever I felt like doing in life. People may try to stop me, and convince me I'm wrong, but… — 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
“The gears of life had moved ahead a notch with a loud ker-chunk, and Junpei knew that they would never turn back… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
But I didn't understand then. That I could hurt somebody so badly she would never recover. That a person can, just by… — 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
“Wasn't much of a life anyway. Wasn't much of a brain." "But didn't you say you were satisfied with your life?" "Word… — 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
“When you get used to that kind of life —of never having anything you want— then you stop knowing what it is… — 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
