People Quotes by Haruki Murakami

While they're still alive, people can become ghosts.

— Haruki Murakami

“People are weak when they are alone.”

— Haruki Murakami

“If people aren’t equal, where would you fit in?”

— Haruki Murakami

That's how people live in the real world: forcing stuff on each other.

— Haruki Murakami

I was dying. Like all the other people who live in this world.

— Haruki Murakami

“A secret's a secret because you don't let people in on it.”

— Haruki Murakami

“We’re talking about people, not common denominators.”

— Haruki Murakami

Rousseau defined civilizations as when people build fences.

— Haruki Murakami

If you try to use your head to think about things, people don't want to have anything to do with you

— Haruki Murakami

When people tell a lie about something, they have to make up a bunch of lies to go with the first one.…

— Haruki Murakami

I realize now that the reality of things is not something you convey to people but something you make.

— Haruki Murakami

People are drawn deeper into tragedy not by their defects but by their virtues.

— Haruki Murakami

Huge organizations and me don't get along. They're too inflexible, waste too much time, and have too many stupid people.

— Haruki Murakami

two people can sleep in the same bed and still be alone when they close their eyes

— Haruki Murakami

I may not be the most likable person in the world, but I try not to upset people.

— Haruki Murakami

Ordinary imperfect people, always choose similarly imperfect people as friends.

— Haruki Murakami

That's wrong," she declared. "Everyone must have one thing that they can excel at. It's just a matter of drawing it out,…

— Haruki Murakami

Suicides? Heart attacks? The papers didn't seem interested. The world was full of ways to die, too many to cover. Newsworthy deaths…

— Haruki Murakami

Many people, especially young people, would like to be more independent and on their own. But it is very difficult and they…

— Haruki Murakami

If I stayed here, something inside me would be lost forever—something I couldn't afford to lose. It was like a vague dream,…

— Haruki Murakami

In everybodys life there is a point of no return. And in a very few cases, a point where you cant go…

— Haruki Murakami

I began to draw an invisible boundary between myself and other people. No matter who I was dealing with. I maintained a…

— Haruki Murakami

They put up with such strenuous training, and where did their thoughts, their hopes and dreams, disappear to? When people pass away,…

— Haruki Murakami

Whether in music or in fiction, the most basic thing is rhythm. Your style needs to have good, natural, steady rhythm, or…

— Haruki Murakami

All over the world people have developed their own ideas about what's right and wrong in life, but so long as you…

— Haruki Murakami

The sense of tragedy - according to Aristotle - comes, ironically enough, not from the protagonist's weak points but from his good…

— Haruki Murakami

Where there is light, there must be shadow, where there is shadow there must be light. There is no shadow without light…

— Haruki Murakami

Listen - God only exists in people's minds. Especially in Japan, God's always been kind of a flexible concept. Look at what…

— Haruki Murakami

Strange and mysterious things, though, aren't they - earthquakes? We take it for granted that the earth beneath our feet is solid…

— Haruki Murakami

“It was a narrow world, a world that was standing still. But the narrower it became, the more it betook of stillness,…

— Haruki Murakami

Where are you now?’ Where was I now? Gripping the receiver, I raised my hand and turned to see what lay beyond…

— Haruki Murakami

Only people who have been discriminated against can really know how much it hurts. Each person feels the pain in his own…

— Haruki Murakami

“It may well be that we can never fully adapt to our own deformities. Unable to find a place inside ourselves for…

— Haruki Murakami

“Walking to the subway, Aomame kept thinking about the strangeness of the world. If, as the dowager had said, we were nothing…

— Haruki Murakami

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

What happens when people open their hearts?"... "They get better.

— Haruki Murakami

Young people these days don't trust anything at all. They want to be free.

— Haruki Murakami

Certain kinds of knowledge rob people of their sleep.

— Haruki Murakami

People's memories are maybe the fuel they burn to stay alive.

— Haruki Murakami

People leave strange little memories of themselves behind when they die.

— Haruki Murakami