Life is a lot more fragile than we think. So you should treat others in a way that leaves no regrets. Fairly,… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Forgive me for stating the obvious, but the world is made up of all kinds of people. Other people have their own… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Maybe that's why people don't like you. You make it obvious you don't care whether people like you or not. That makses… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“No one in my family, not one of my friends or classmates, realized that I was going through life asleep.” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“But listen to me--there are times in life when those kinds of excuses don't cut it anymore. Situations when nobody cares whether… — 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
No one could say how long that life would last. Whatever has form can disappear in an instant. — 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
The Earth, time, concepts, love, life, faith justice, evil - they're all fluid and in transition. They don't stay in one form… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“People are born in order to live, right? But the longer I’ve lived, the more I’ve lost what’s inside me - and… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
For me, writing a novel is like having a dream. Writing a novel lets me intentionally dream while I'm still awake. I… — 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
“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
When getting old, things that are important to your life begin to slip out of your grasp, one after another, like a… — 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
“I forced words out: There are some things about myself I can't explain to anyone. There are some things I don't understand… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“I mean, all I do here is do the work that my bosses tell me to do the way they tell me… — 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
“Unable to sleep after the others had drowsed off, I crawled out of the tent and lay on the ground, looking at… — 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
Generally, people who are good at writing letters have no need to write letters. They've got plenty of life to lead inside… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Don't pointless things have a place, too, in this far-from-perfect world? Remove everything pointless from an imperfect life, and it'd lose even… — 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
“It was as if my whole life revolved around trying to judge the appropriate point in a conversation to say goodbye” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, the clock is ticking, the hours are going by. The past increases, the future recedes. Possibilities decreasing, regrets mounting. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I may be the type who manages to grab all the pointless things in life but lets the really important things slip… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Money was not a living thing. It wouldn’t run off anywhere if he left it alone. Probably.” — 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
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 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
![“Looking up at [the sky], I think about the October evening world, where 'people' must be going about their lives. Beneath that pale autumn light, they must be walking down streets, going to the store for things, preparing dinner, boarding trains for home. And they think--if they think at all--that…” quote by Haruki Murakami](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/bd3/haruki-murakami-21_life_looking-up-at-the-sky-i-think-about-the_1494823.jpg)
