No matter what they wish for, no matter how far they go, people can never be anything but themselves. That's all. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I never trust people with no appetite. It's like they're always holding something back on you. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“No matter what they wish for, no matter how far they go, people can never be anything but themselves” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Even if you don't acknowledge it, people die, and guys sleep with girls. That's just how it is. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
People soon get tired of things that aren't boring, but not of what is boring. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
What the world needs is a set villain that people can point at and say, “It’s all your fault! — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Despite your best efforts, people are going to be hurt when it's time for them to be hurt. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
...most people in the world don't really use their brains to think. And people who don't think are the ones who don't… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Most people are not looking for provable truths. As you said, truth is often accompanied by intense pain, and almost no one… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Many people tell me that they don 't know what to feel when they finish one of my books because the story… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Perhaps most people in the world aren’t trying to be free, Kafka. They just think they are. It’s all an illusion. If… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Here, too, a brand-new day is beginning. It could be a day like all the others, or it could be a day… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Tengo could hardly believe it-- that in this frantic, labyrinth-like world, two people's hearts-- a boy's and a girl's-- could be connected,… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
People want to be bowled over by something special. Nine times out of ten you might strike out, but that tenth time,… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I'm not intelligent. I'm not arrogant. I'm just like the people who read my books. I used to have a jazz club,… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
No, I don't want your money. The world moves less by money than by what you owe people and what they owe… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
People have their own reasons for dying. It might look simple, but it never is. It's just like a rock. What's above… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
There are some things about myself I can’t explain to anyone. There are some things I don’t understand at all. I can’t… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I was confident that I was a special person. But time slowly chips away at life. People don't just die when their… — 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
I tell you, Mr. Okada, a cold beer at the end of the day is the best thing life has to offer.… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I want to write stories that are different from the ones I've written so far, Junpei thought: I want to write about… — 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
Most people dream a dream when they are asleep. But to be a writer, you have to dream while you are awake,… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
We heard no other sounds. We met no other people. We saw only two bright red birds leap startled from the center… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I want to write about people who dream and wait for the night to end, who long for the light so they… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
My heroes don't have anything special. They have something to tell other people but they don't know how, so they talk to… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I think most people live in fiction...That's how you keep your fragile body intact. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Most young people were getting jobs in big companies, becoming company men. I wanted to be individual. — 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
No matter what they wish for, no matter how far they go, people can never be anything but themselves. Thats all. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Everyone who has something is afraid of losing it, and people with nothing are worried they'll forever have nothing. Everyone is the… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
People fall in love without reason, without even wanting to. You can't predict it. That's love. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Most near-future fictions are boring. It's always dark and always raining, and people are so unhappy. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
It is my huge pleasure that my novels are translated into languages that are read among small numbers of people. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Generally, people who are good at writing letters have no need to write letters. They've got plenty of life to lead inside… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Forgive me for stating the obvious, but the world is made up of all kinds of people. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Memories and thoughts age, just as people do. But certain thoughts can never age, and certain memories can never fade. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
So this was how secrets got started, I thought to myself. People constructed them little by little. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I happen to like the strange ones. People who look normal and leads normal lives - they're the ones you have to… — 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
“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 Image
“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 Image
“You let something out of the bag before yourself knew what it was all about” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
