I realize now that the reality of things is not something you convey to people but something you make. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Our life here was just a momentary illusion, and someday reality would yank us back to the world we came from.” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
It's hard to tell the difference between sea and sky, between voyager and sea. Between reality and the workings of the heart. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
That's gotta be one of the principles behind reality. Accepting things that are hard to comprehend, and leaving them that way. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
The honour of physical decline is waiting, and you have to get used to that reality. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“When you prick a person with a needle, red blood comes out- that's the real world.” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Things may look different to you than they did before. I've had that experience myself. But don't let appearances fool you. There's… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Up till a minute ago it felt so real, but now it seems imaginary. Just a few steps is all it takes… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional. Say you’re running and you think, ‘Man, this hurts, I can’t take it anymore. The ‘hurt’… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“There's no longer any place for a Big Brother in this real world of ours. Instead, these so-called Little People have come… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Narrow minds devoid of imagination. Intolerance, theories cut off from reality, empty terminology, usurped ideals, inflexible systems. Those are the things that… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Look at the rain long enough, with no thoughts in your head, and you gradually feel your body falling loose, shaking free… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
When getting old, things that are important to your life begin to slip out of your grasp, one after another, like a… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I stare at her chest. As she breathes, the rounded peaks move up and down like the swell of waves, somehow reminding… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
It's just that you're about to do something out of the ordinary. And after you do something like that, the everyday look… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
In order to pin down reality as realilty, we need another reality to relativize the first. Yet that other reality requires a… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I was reduced to pure concept. My flesh had dissolved; my form had dissipated. I floated in space. Liberated of my corporeal… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“But like a boat with a twisted rudder, I kept coming back to the same place. I wasn't going anywhere. I was… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“A question. So what are people supposed to do if they want to avoid a collision (thud!) but still lie in the… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Because memory and sensations are so uncertain, so biased, we always rely on a certain reality-call it an alternate reality-to prove the… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
What we needed were not words and promises but a steady accumulation of small realities. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
It depends on which reality you take and which reality I take.” (p. 318). — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“But that reality was like nothing I'd ever seen before: a reality that didn't seem to fit.” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
And her sleep was too long and deep for that:so deep that she left her normal reality behind. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
The best way to think about reality, I had decided, was to get as far away from it as possible. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
We're both looking at the same moon, in the same world. We're connected to reality by the same line. All I have… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
The better you were able to imagine what you wanted to imagine, the farther you could flee from reality. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Where I'm living is not a storybook world. It's the real world, full of gaps and inconsistencies and anticlimaxes — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
We were, the two of us, still fragmentary beings, just beginning to sense the presence of an unexpected, to be-aquired reality that… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Maybe the world was like a revolving door, it occurred to him as his consciousness was fading away. And which section you… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Strong and independent? I'm neither one. I'm just being pushed along by reality, whether I like it or not.” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Reality's just the accumulation of ominous prophecies come to life. All you have to do is open a newspaper on any given… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I'm not afraid to die. What I'm afraid of is having reality get the better of me, of having reality leave me… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“As soon as I sat down across from her, she ordered me to put the entire contents of my pants pockets on… — 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
