“I wonder what either of us knows about love. Our love has never been tested.” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Love can rebuild the world, they say, so everything's possible when it comes to love. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Like boarding a train running parallel. That's what disappearing is.” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Every single day, each time I see her face, see her, it's utterly precious.” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
When you fall in love, the natural thing to do is give yourself to it. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I can't understand nothingness. I can't understand it and I can't imagine it. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“I'm your phantom dance partner. I'm your shadow. I'm not anything more.” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
If you can love someone with your whole heart, even one person, then there's salvation in life. Even if you can't get… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Energies expended on sideshows, never on the main event. Where the hell was the main event? Was there a main event?” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
It's not right for one friend to do all the giving and the other to do all the taking: that's not read… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I was always hungry for love. Just once, I wanted to know what it was like to get my fill of it… — 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
“This lady has deep feelings for Tengo, Ushikawa thought admiringly. Almost a kind of unconditional love. What would it feel like to… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“No joy, no communion, no love. Only where there is disillusionment and depression and sorrow does happiness arise; without the despair of… — 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
“There are countless things in the world for which affection is not enough. Life is long, and sometimes cruel. Sometimes victims are… — 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
“I hadn't planned on being a teacher, but after I actually become one I discovered a deeper respect and affection for the… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“I was always attracted not by some quantifiable, external beauty, but by something deep down, something absolute. Just as some people have… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“A more pressing problem for me is that I have never been able to love anyone seriously. I have never felt unconditional… — 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
Some announce their departure before they leave, while others just disappear all of a sudden without warning one day. And once you… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Listen, every object's in flux. The Earth, time, concepts, love, life, faith, justice, evil--they're all fluid and in transition. They don't stay… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
you mean machines are like humans?" I shook my head. "No, not like humans. With machines the feeling is, well, more finite.… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
You and he might never cross paths again. Of course, a chance meeting could occur, and I hope it happens. I really… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“In ancient times people weren't just male or female, but one of three types: male/male, male/female, or female/female. In other words, each… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Some people get a kick out of reading railway timetables and that's all they do all day. Some people make huge model… — 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
“Reiko set the ball on the ground and patted my knee. "Look," she said, "I'm not telling you to stop sleeping with… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“I made up my mind I was going to find someone who would love me unconditionally three hundred and sixty five days… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
How many times have you said, 'This is it. I've finally found my one true love'? And how many times has the… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
For a certain kind of person, love begins from something tiny or silly. From something like that or it doesnt begin at… — 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
“For a certain kind of person, love begins from something tiny or silly. From something like that or it doesn't begin at… — 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
“When you fall in love, the natural thing to do is give yourself to it. That's what I think. It's just a… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Losing you is most difficult for me, but the nature of my love for you is what matters. If it distorts into… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“She smiles faintly, and it continues to hover around her lips. This puts me in mind of how refreshing water looks after… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“I just got my signals crossed. First thing, I have to untangle the connections. Otherwise, I come away empty-handed. Or with someone… — 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
