Said Quotes by Haruki Murakami

“Everybody’s got something weird about them,” I said.”

— Haruki Murakami

Probably." "Again with the probablys." "A world full of probablys," she said.

— Haruki Murakami

“When all is said and done, it is my life.”

— Haruki Murakami

It's like Tolstoy said. Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story.

— Haruki Murakami

“You know something?" she said. "What?" "I'm completely empty." "Yeah?" "Yeah.”

— Haruki Murakami

What makes us the most normal," said Reiko, "is knowing that we're not normal.

— Haruki Murakami

Properly speaking, should any individual ever have exact, clear knowledge of his own core consciousness?" "I wouldn't know," I said. "Nor would…

— Haruki Murakami

You said that the mind is like the wind but perhaps it is we who are like the wind Knowing nothing, simply…

— Haruki Murakami

I said nothing for a time, just ran my fingertips along the edge of the human-shaped emptiness that had been left inside…

— Haruki Murakami

It's just like Yeats said. In dreams begin responsibilities. Flip this around and you could say that where there's no power to…

— Haruki Murakami

I love pop culture -- the Rolling Stones, the Doors, David Lynch, things like that. That's why I said I don't like…

— Haruki Murakami

Grandfather always said school’s a place where they take sixteen years to wear down your brain. Grandfather hardly went to school either.

— Haruki Murakami

How many Sundays – how many hundreds of Sundays like this – lay ahead of me? “Quiet, peaceful and lonely,” I said…

— Haruki Murakami

How much do you love me?' Midori asked. 'Enough to melt all the tigers in the world to butter,' I said.

— Haruki Murakami

She curled up and pressed her cheek against his chest. Her ear was right above his heart. She was listening to his…

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Things can be seen better in the darkness," he said, as if he had just seen into her mind. "But the longer…

— Haruki Murakami

Most people are not looking for provable truths. As you said, truth is often accompanied by intense pain, and almost no one…

— Haruki Murakami

Hatsumi had a pretty good idea that Nagasawa was sleeping around, but she never complained to him. She was seriously in love…

— Haruki Murakami

Shakespeare said it best,' Tamaru said quietly as he gazed at that lumpish, misshapen head. 'Something along these lines: if we die…

— Haruki Murakami

It's a quiet place, so people talk quietly," said Naoko. She made a neat pile of fish bones at the edge of…

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Someone once said that nothing costs more and yields less benefit than revenge,” Aomame said. “Winston Churchill. As I recall it, though,…

— Haruki Murakami

That’s how stories happen — with a turning point, an unexpected twist. There’s only one kind of happiness, but misfortune comes in…

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I laughed. “You’re too young to be so … pessimistic,” I said, using the English word. “Pessi-what?” “Pessimistic. It means looking only…

— Haruki Murakami

And, well, mine are kind of on the heavy side anyway. The first day or two, I don't want to do ANYTHING.…

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Even when I ran my bar I followed the same policy. A lot of customers came to the bar. If one in…

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If, as the dowager had said, we are nothing but gene carriers, why do so many of us have to lead such…

— Haruki Murakami

Dance," said the Sheep Man. "Yougottadance. Aslongasthemusicplays. Yougotta dance. Don'teventhinkwhy. Starttothink, yourfeetstop. Yourfeetstop, wegetstuck. Wegetstuck, you'restuck. Sodon'tpayanymind, nomatterhowdumb. Yougottakeepthestep. Yougottalimberup. Yougottaloosenwhatyoubolteddown. Yougottauseallyougot.…

— Haruki Murakami

It's basically the same in all periods of societies. If you belong to the majority, you can avoid thinking about lots of…

— Haruki Murakami

Hey, what is it with you? Why are you so spaced out? You still haven't answered me." I probably still haven't completely…

— Haruki Murakami

I’m not good at talking,” Naoko said. “Haven’t been for the longest while. I start to say something and the wrong words…

— Haruki Murakami

When it's raining like this," said Naoko, "it feels as if we're the only ones in the world. I wish it would…

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I wasn't particularly afraid of death itself. As Shakespeare said, die this year and you don't have to die the next.

— Haruki Murakami

You know what I should do?" Hoshino asked excited. "Of course," the cat said. "What'd I tell you? Cats know everything. Not…

— Haruki Murakami

Wasn't he the one who said you shouldn't trust anybody who calls himself an ordinar man? - Naoko

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I’ve never once thought about how I was going to die,” she said. “I can’t think about it. I don’t even know…

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Letters are just pieces of paper," I said. "Burn them, and what stays in your heart will stay; keep them, and what…

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How about Proust's In Search of Lost Time?" Tamaru asked. "If you've never read it this would be a good opportunity to…

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Any explanation or logic that explains everything so easily has a hidden trap in it. I'm speaking from experience. Somebody once said…

— Haruki Murakami

I'm scared," she said. "These days I feel like a snail without a shell." "I'm scared too," I said. "I feel like…

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The library was like a second home. Or maybe more like a real home, more than the place I lived in. By…

— Haruki Murakami