Nobody's easier to fool, than the person who is convinced that he is right. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
There is nothing in this world that never takes a step outside a person's heart. — 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
Another person's life is that person's life. You can't take responsibility. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
But what seems like a reasonable distance to one person might feel too far to somebody else. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Results aside, the ability to have complete faith in another human being is one of the finest qualities a person can possess. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Sometimes, however, this sense of isolation, like acid spilling out of a bottle, can unconsciously eat away at a person’s heart and… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
If a person remains tense for a long time he might not notice it himself, but it’s like his nerves are a… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
No matter what form the relationship might take, he was the only person she could picture sharing her life with. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
She was hearing everything that went on in his heart, like a person who can trace a map with his fingertip and… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
This person, this self, this me, finally, was made somewhere else. Everything had come from somewhere else, and it would all go… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Loving another person is a wonderful thing, and if that love is sincere, no one ends up tossed into a labyrinth. You… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Time passes slowly. Nobody says a word, everyone lost in quiet reading. One person sits at a desk jotting down notes, but… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I have always liked running, so it wasn't particularly difficult to make it a habit. All you need is a pair of… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I was in my house, alone in the living room, anxious about you, watching the flashes of lightning. And a flash of… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Everybody's born with some different thing at the core of their existence. And that thing, whatever it is, becomes like a heat… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I began to draw an invisible boundary between myself and other people. No matter who I was dealing with. I maintained a… — 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
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
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
In real life things don’t go so smoothly. At certain points in our lives, when we really need a clear-cut solution, the… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Only people who have been discriminated against can really know how much it hurts. Each person feels the pain in his own… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I hurt myself deeply, though at the time I had no idea how deeply. I should have learned many things from that… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Even when I ran my bar I followed the same policy. A lot of customers came to the bar. If one in… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
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
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'm tired of living unable to love anyone. I don't have a single friend - not one. And, worst of all, I… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
In certain areas of my life, I actively seek out solitude. Especially for someone in my line of work, solitude is, more… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
For a while" is a phrase whose length can't be measured.At least by the person who's waiting. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Nothing in the real world is as beautiful as the illusions of a person about to lose consciousness. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
A person’s destiny is something you look back at afterwards, not something to be known in advance. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I'm the kind of person who has to totally commit to whatever I do. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Perhaps I'm just too painstaking a type of person, but I can't grasp much of anything without putting down my thoughts in… — 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
If writing novels is like planting a forest, then writing short stories is more like planting a garden. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share
“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
“Intelligent teenage girls were often instinctively theatrical, purposely eccentric, mouthing highly suggestive words to confuse people.” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share
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
The most dangerous creature here would have to be me. So maybe I'm just scared of my own shadow. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share
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
“that one of our problems was our inability to recognize and accept our own deformities” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“You let something out of the bag before yourself knew what it was all about” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share
