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
No matter where i go, i still end up me. What's missing never changes. The scenery may change, but i'm still the… — 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
I've always done whatever I felt like doing in life. People may try to stop me, and convince me I'm wrong, but… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Don’t you see? You and he might never cross paths again. Of course, a chance meeting could occur, and I hope it… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I may not be the most likable person in the world, but I try not to upset people. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
It is however, difficult to make your narratives relative by yourself. A novelists' work is to provide models to make your narratives… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
"Between a high, solid wall and an egg that breaks against it, I will always stand on the side of the egg."… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
No matter what the situation may be, I still take pleasure in witnessing the joy of others. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Let me just tell you this, Watanabe," said Midori, pressing her cheek against my neck. "I'm a real, live girl, with real,… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
One last word of advice, though, Mr. Okada, though you may not want to hear this. There are things in this world… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Now and then may not be enough…You have to enjoy it while you’re still young. enjoy it to the fullest. You can… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
So this was how secrets got started, I thought to myself. People constructed them little by little. I had not intended to… — 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
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
At any rate, that’s how I started running. Thirty three—that’s how old I was then. Still young enough, though no longer a… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Please think of me like an endangered species and just observe me quietly from far away. If you try to talk to… — 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
But still," Ayumi said, "it seems to me that this world has a serious shortage of both logic and kindness." "You may… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
It's the same with menus and men and just about anything else: we think we're choosing things for ourselves, but in fact… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I would never see her again, except in memory. She was here, and now she's gone. There is no middle ground. Probably… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Living like an empty shell is not really living, no matter how many years it may go on. The heart and flesh… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
In this world, there is no absolute good, no absolute evil," the man said. "Good and evil are not fixed, stable entities,… — 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
