“All of a sudden out of nowhere I can bring back things I haven't thought about for years. It's pretty interesting. Memory… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
You can hide memories, but you can’t erase the history that produced them — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Were the stars out when I left the house last evening? All I could remember was the couple in the Skyline listening… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Everyone of us is losing something precious to us. Lost opportunities, lost possibilities, feelings we can never get back again. That's part… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Music has that power to revive memories, sometimes so intensely that they hurt.” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“You know what I think?” she says. “That people’s memories are maybe the fuel they burn to stay alive. Whether those memories… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
What if I’ve forgotten the most important thing? What if somewhere inside me there is a dark limbo where all the truly… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“I gained great pleasure from my body back then. I gave great pleasure with it, too, if you know what I mean.”… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Every one of us is losing something precious to us... Lost opportunities, lost possibilities, feelings we can never get back again. That's… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“The majority of people dismiss those things that lie beyond the bounds of their own understanding as absurd and not worth thinking… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Our memory is made up of our individual memories and our collective memories. The two are intimately linked. And history is our… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“She knew that my memories of her would fade. Which is precisely why she begged me never to forget her, to remember… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Body cells replace themselves every month. Even at this very moment,” she said, thrusting a skinny back of her hand before my… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Memory is a funny thing. When I was in the scene, I hardly paid it any mind. I never stopped to think… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“You know what I think?" she says. "That people's memories are maybe the fuel they burn to stay alive.” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Every one of us is losing something precious to us,” he says after the phone stops ringing. “Lost opportunities, lost possibilities, feelings… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Memory works in different ways for everybody. Different capacities, different directions, too. Sometimes memory helps you think, sometimes it impedes. Doesn’t mean… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Memories are what warm you up from the inside. But they're also what tear you apart. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“His mind floated in the amniotic fluid of memory, listening for echoes of the past. His father, meanwhile, had no idea that… — 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
“Or maybe the ... shock of it started me covering up all kinds of memories the way a squirrel hides a nut… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
People leave strange little memories of themselves behind when they die. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I think history is collective memories. In writing, I'm using my own memory, and I'm using my collective memory. — 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
