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
My face, my self, what would they mean to anybody? Just another stiff. So this self of mine passes some other's self… — 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
I may not look it, but I can be a very patient guy. And killing time is one of my specialities. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
The ground we stand on looks solid enough, but if something happens it can drop right out from under you. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
She was, if anything, on the plain side, at least not the type to attract men wherever she went. But there was… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
You know what girls are like. They turn twenty or twenty-one and all of a sudden they start having these concrete ideas.… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
sometimes i'd wake up at two or three in the morning and not be able to fall asleep again. i'd get out… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Whenever I look at the ocean, I always want to talk to people, but when I'm talking to people, I always want… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
You have to make an effort to always look at the good side, always think about the good things. Then you've got… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
You’re here,” I continued. “At least you look as if you’re here. But maybe you aren’t. Maybe it’s just your shadow. The… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
A person’s destiny is something you look back at afterwards, not something to be known in advance. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Those were strange days, now that I look back at them. In the midst of life, everything revolved around death. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
It's just that you're about to do something out of the ordinary. And after you do something like that, the everyday look… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Things may look different to you than they did before. I've had that experience myself. But don't let appearances fool you. There's… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Listen - God only exists in people's minds. Especially in Japan, God's always been kind of a flexible concept. Look at what… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
You can’t look too far ahead. Do that and you’ll lose sight of what you’re doing and stumble. I’m not saying you… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
She gave me this look – she might have been watching from a lifeboat as the ship went down. Or maybe it… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
How can the mind be so imperfect?" she says with a smile. I look at my hands. Bathed in the moonlight, they… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I hurt myself deeply, though at the time I had no idea how deeply. I should have learned many things from that… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
You know what I'd really like to do the most right now? Climb up to the top of some high place like… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
To know one’s own state is not a simple matter. One cannot look directly at one’s own face with one’s own eyes,… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Shakespeare said it best,' Tamaru said quietly as he gazed at that lumpish, misshapen head. 'Something along these lines: if we die… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I happen to like the strange ones. People who look normal and leads normal lives - they're the ones you have to… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
In his or her own way, everyone I saw before me looked happy. Whether they were really happy or just looked it,… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
You always look so cool, like no matter what happens, it’s got nothing to do with you, but you’re not really like… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
She's kind of funny looking. Her face is out of balance--broad forehead, button nose, freckled cheeks, and pointy ears. A slammed-together, rough… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Not to excuse myself, but when you have people right in front of you denying your very presence like that, then see… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Sometimes when I look at you, I feel I'm gazing at a distant star. It's dazzling, but the light is from tens… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
So I'm not crazy after all! I thought it looked good myself once I cut it all off. Not one guy likes… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
People have their own reasons for dying. It might look simple, but it never is. It's just like a rock. What's above… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
And it came to me then. That we were wonderful traveling companions but in the end no more than lonely lumps of… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Whenever an occasion arose in which she needed an opinion on something in the wider world, she borrowed her husband's. If this… — 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
