You know, eating's much more important than most people think. There comes a time in your life when you've just got to… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Let me tell you something, Mari. The ground we stand on looks solid enough, but if something happens it can drop right… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“The resounding stillness gives the structures an impression of abandonment. Yet each time I turn down these streets, I can sense strangers… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Still, the time I spent with her was more precious than anything. She helped me forget the undertone of loneliness in my… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
If you're going to while away the years, it's far better to live them with clear goals and fully alive then in… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Everybody's gotta die sometime. But until then we've still got fifty-some odd years to go, and a lot to think about while… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Maybe the world was like a revolving door, it occurred to him as his consciousness was fading away. And which section you… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“To understand something and to put that something into a form that you can see with your own eyes are two completely… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Most runners run not because they want to live longer, but because they want to live life to the fullest. If you’re… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
A life without pain: it was the very thing I had dreamed of for years, but now that I had it, I… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“A man is like a two-story house. The first floor is equipped with an entrance and a living room. On the second… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
In any case, suffice it to say I enjoyed hearing about faraway places. I had stocked up a whole store of these… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
They take the circuits out of people’s brains that make it possible for them to think for themselves. Their world is like… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“I was born by the sea," I said. "I'd go to the beach the morning after a typhoon and find all sorts… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“People sometimes sneer at those who run every day, claiming they’ll go to any length to live longer. But I don’t think… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Lying there, I close my eyes for a time, then open them. I silently breathe in, then out. A thought begins to… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
You've already decided what you're going to do, and all that's left is to set the wheels in motion. I mean, it's… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Death was not the opposite of life. It was already here, within my being, it had always been there, and no struggle… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“He was going to die soon, you knew when you saw those eyes. There was no sign of life in his flesh,… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
In other words, let's face it: Life is basically unfair. But even in a situation that's unfair, I think it's possible to… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“It wasn’t what I’d characterize as a happy part of my life, living as I was, a balled-up mass of unfulfilled desires.… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Some things in life are too complicated to explain in any language. [ ] Not just to explain to others but to… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“There in the dim light, staring at the shadow on the wall, I poured out the story of my life. (…) How… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Kafka, in everybody's life there's a point of no return. And in a very few cases, a point where you can't go… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
But who can say what's best? That's why you need to grab whatever chance you have of happiness where you find it,… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
You're not a kid any more. You have the right to choose your own life. You can start again. If you want… — 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… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“I always feel as if I'm struggling to become someone else. As if I'm trying to find a new place, grab hold… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“You’re wasting your life being involved with me.” “I’m not wasting anything.” “But I might never recover. Will you wait for me… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“By marrying her, Tony Takitani brought the lonely period of his life to an end. When he awoke in the morning, the… — 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
“The law presides over things of this world, finally. The world where shadow is shadow and light is light, yin is yin… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“As far as I could recall, with long hair, she had been just another cute coed. From the girl who sat before… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“I think of human existence as being like a two-story house. On the rst oor people gather together to take their meals,… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“For me- and for everybody else, probably- this is my first experience growing old, and the emotions I'm having, too, are all… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Because memory and sensations are so uncertain, so biased, we always rely on a certain reality-call it an alternate reality-to prove the… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“I tried hard to forget, but there remained inside me a vague knot of air. And as time went by, the knot… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“No sooner had one season slipped out the door than the next came in by another door. A person might scramble to… — 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
“Until that time, I had understood death as something entirely separate from and independent of life. The hand of death is about… — 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