“When I look back at myself at age twenty, what I remember most is being alone and lonely. I had no girlfriend… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Im not totally mad at you. Im just sad. Youre all locked up in that little world of yours, and when I… — 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
Many people, especially young people, would like to be more independent and on their own. But it is very difficult and they… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“I’m free, I think. I shut my eyes and think hard and deep about how free I am, but I can’t really… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Who can really distinguish between the sea and what's reflected in it? Or tell the difference between the falling rain and loneliness? — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
It made her think of Laika, the dog. The man-made satellite streaking soundlessly across the blackness of outer space. The dark, lustrous… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“I didn’t have the vaguest idea of what to do – I couldn’t keep staring at the wall forever, I told myself.… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
There was just one moon. That familiar, yellow, solitary moon. The same moon that silently floated over fields of pampas grass, the… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Alienation and loneliness became a cable that stretched hundreds of miles long, pulled to the breaking point by a gigantic winch. And… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“There was something odd for him about not feeling lonely. The very fact that he had ceased to be lonely caused him… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“solitude is, more or less, an inevitable circumstance. Sometimes, however, this sense of isolation, like acid spilling out of a bottle, can… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
But even so, every now and then I would feel a violent stab of loneliness. The very water I drink, the very… — 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
“You are a pastel-colored Persian carpet, and loneliness is a Bordeaux wine stain that won’t come out” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“And my inability to share this anger with anybody in the lobby aroused in me a profound sense of isolation." - Toru… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Durum semolina, golden wheat wafting in Italian fields. Can you imagine how astonished the Italians would be if they knew that what… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Lonely metal souls in the unimpeded darkness of space, they meet, pass each other, and part, never to meet again. No words… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I was feeling lonely without her, but the fact that I could feel lonely at all was consolation. Loneliness wasn't such a… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Being all alone is like the feeling you get when you stand at the mouth of a large river on a rainy… — 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 Image
If writing novels is like planting a forest, then writing short stories is more like planting a garden. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“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 Image
“Intelligent teenage girls were often instinctively theatrical, purposely eccentric, mouthing highly suggestive words to confuse people.” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
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 Image
The most dangerous creature here would have to be me. So maybe I'm just scared of my own shadow. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
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 Image
“that one of our problems was our inability to recognize and accept our own deformities” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
