“I was the chain that bit into my ankle, and I was the ruthless guard that never slept.” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Have you ever had that feeling—that you’d like to go to a whole different place and become a whole different self? — 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
Never let the darkness or negativity outside affect your inner self. Just wait until morning comes and the bright light will drown… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
The journey I'm taking is inside me. Just like blood travels down veins, what I'm seeing is my inner self and what… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
To sleep with a woman: it can seem of the utmost importance in your mind, or then again it can seem like… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Listen up—there’s no war that will end all wars,’ Crow tells me. ‘War breeds war. Lapping up the blood shed by violence,… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Without a true self, a person can not go on living. It is like the ground we stand on. Without the ground,… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
What I saw wasn't a ghost. It was simply--myself. I can never forget how terrified I was that night, and whenever I… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
No matter what you tell me, no matter how legitimate your reasons, I can never just forget about you, I can never… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Well, think of what I’m doing to you right now. For me I’m the self, and you’re the object. For you, of… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Our memory is made up of our individual memories and our collective memories. The two are intimately linked. And history is our… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
You might think you made a new world or a new self, but your old self is always gonna be there, just… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Listening to the music while stretching her body close to its limit, she was able to attain a mysterious calm. She was… — 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 certain kind of shittiness, a certain kind of stagnation, a certain kind of darkness, goes on propagating itself by its 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
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
Once, when I was younger, I thought I could be someone else. I'd move to Casablanca, open a bar, and I'd meet… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
sometimes i'd wake up at two or three in the morning and not be able to fall asleep again. i'd get out… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“I find it hard to talk about myself. I'm always tripped up by the eternal who am I? paradox. Sure, no one… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
My face, my self, what would they mean to anybody? Just another stiff. So this self of mine passes some other's self… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“I seriously believed I could escape myself–as long as I made the effort. But I always hit a dead end. No matter… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“My world foreshortened, flattening into a credit card. Seen head on, things seemed merely skewed, but from the side the view was… — 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
