“Never really loved by anyone, never seeming really to love anyone either” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Number one of the list now was a diet book entitled Eat as much as You Want of the Food You Love… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Human love is a fragile creation, and sometimes the smallest thing - the wrong choice of words or a single clumsy gesture… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
It's like the Tibetan Wheel of the Passions. As the wheel turns, the values and feelings on the outer rim rise and… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
That’s what love’s all about. You’re the only one having those wonderful feelings, but you have to go it alone as you… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Any one who falls in love is searching for the missing pieces of themselves. So anyone who’s in love gets sad when… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Like boarding a train running parallel. That's what disappearing is.” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“fairness is like love. What is given has nothing to do with what we seek” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Aomame said, "It's like the Tibetan Wheel of the Passions. As the wheel turns, the values and feelings on the outer rim… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“I don't deserve a girl like Hatsumi," Nagasawa once said to me. I had to agree with him.” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“...no matter how advanced the system, no matter how precise, unless we have the will to communicate, there's no connection. And even… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
At my core, there is nothing. Neither is it parched wastelands. At my core, there is love. I'll go on loving that… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Being with her I feel a pain, like a frozen knife stuck in my chest. An awful pain, but the funny thing… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“But falling in love is always a pretty crazy thing. It might appear out of the blue and just grab you. Who… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I want you to remember me. If you remember me, then I dont care if everyone else forgets — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“I wonder what either of us knows about love. Our love has never been tested.” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“My words did not seem to reach her. Or, if they did, she was unable to grasp their meaning.” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Once she called to invite me to a concert of Liszt piano concertos. The soloist was a famous South American pianist. I… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Anyone who falls in love is searching for the missing pieces of themselves. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“And in the movement of the sun, I felt something I hardly know how to name: some huge, cosmic love. ” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I've translated a lot of American literature into Japanese, and I think that what makes a good translator is, above all, a… — 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