“When I look back at myself at age twenty, what I remember most is being alone and lonely. I had no girlfriend… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Dreams are things from the past. They aren't from the future. That wasn't you imprisoned there. You imprison your dreams. You understand?… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
ice contains no future , just the past, sealed away. As if they're alive, everything in the world is sealed up inside,… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Most things are forgotten over time. Even the war itself, the life-and-death struggle people went through is now like something from the… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
With each passing moment I'm becoming part of the past. There is no future for me, just the past steadily accumulating. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, the clock is ticking, the hours are going by. The past increases, the future recedes. Possibilities decreasing, regrets mounting. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Most things are forgotten over time. Even the war itself, the life-and-death struggle people went through, is now like something from the… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
People's memories are maybe the fuel they burn to stay alive. Whether those memories have any actual importance or not, it doesn't… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Beyond the edge of the world there’s a space where emptiness and substance neatly overlap, where past and future form a continuous,… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Dreams come from the past, not from the future. Dreams shouldn't control you--you should control them. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“But thing in the past are like plate that’s shattered to pieces. You can never put it back together like it was,… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“At some point the future becomes reality. And then it quickly becomes the past.” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Sitting on the floor, I'd replay the past in my head. Funny, that's all I did, day after day after day for… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
What we call the present is given shape by an accumulation of the past. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I found a Bill Evans record in the bookcase and was listening to it while drying my hair when I realized that… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
When I was fifteen, all I wanted was to go off to some other world, a place beyond anybody’s reach. A place… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Not just beautiful, though — the stars are like the trees in the forest, alive and breathing. And they’re watching me. What… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
A poet might die at twenty-one, a revolutionary or a rock star at twenty four. But after that you assume everything’s going… — 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