“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
“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
“Remove everything pointless from an imperfect life, and it'd lose even it's imperfection.” — 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
Each of us possesses a tangible living soul. The system has no such thing. We must not allow the system to exploit… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“It was simply one of those things that remain as an “exceptional but interesting” episode in life.” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Unsure where she was to find a purpose or meaning to her life, she passed one formless day after another.” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“People die all the time. Life is a lot more fragile than we think. So you should treat others in a way… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Even if I left this world, I doubt anyone would notice. I would shout out from the dark, but no one would… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“1971 was the year of spaghetti. In 1971 I cooked spaghetti to live, and lived to cook spaghetti. Steam rising from the… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“You know how they've got these cookie assortments, and you like some but you don't like others? And you eat up all… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I lost some of my friends because I got so famous, people who just assumed that I would be different now. I… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
My very existence, my life in the world, seemed like a hallucination. A strong wind would make me think my body was… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“I think it was the right move, but if I can be allowed a mediocre generalization, don't pointless things have a place,… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“The end of the race is just a temporary marker without much significance. It’s the same with our lives. Just because there’s… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I have come to think that life is a far more limited thing than those in the midst of its maelstorm realize.… — 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
“For instance, supposing that the planet earth were not a sphere but a gigantic coffee table, how much difference in everyday life… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“It doesn't matter what form she takes - a living spirit, an illusion - but you have to see her, have to… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Here's what I think, Mr. Wind-Up Bird," said May Kasahara. "Everybody's born with some different thing at the core of their existence.… — 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
Isn't life strange? There are people who have so many leftover clothes they can't stuff them all in their wardrobe. And then… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Did all Finns like to make clever witticisms about life? Or was it just this one driver? Tsukuru hoped it was the… — 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
There had to be something wrong with my life. I should have been born a Yugoslavian shepherd who looked up at the… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“We survived. You and I. And those who survive have a duty. Our duty is to do our best to keep on… — 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
“When you come out of the storm you won't be the same person that walked in. That's what the storm is all… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“She and I were bound together at the border between life and death. It was like that for us from the start” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Life is long, and sometimes cruel. Sometimes victims are needed. Someone has to take on that role. And human bodies are fragile,… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“I've been clinging to this world like a discarded shell of an insect stuck to a branch, about to be blown off… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“The way surviving hard winters makes a tree grows stronger, the growth rings inside it tighter” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
To be able to talk to your heart’s content about a book you like with someone who feels the same way about… — 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
“Humans are immortal in their thought. Though strictly speakin’, not immortal, but endlessly, asymptotically close to immortal. That’s eternal life.” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“All these inexplicable events that have occurred in my life so far...it's as though they were all ingeniously programmed from the start… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
You are entering a phase of your life in which many different things will occur...bad things that seem good at first and… — 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
