To be able to grasp something of value, sometimes you have to perform seemingly inefficient acts. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Sometimes you’re just the sweetest thing. Like Christmas, summer vacation, and a brand-new puppy rolled into one. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Sometimes when I think of life, I feel like a piece of driftwood washed up on shore. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Maybe the star doesnt even exist any more.Yet sometimes that light seems more real to me than anything. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
It is sometimes necessary for each person. Fill up with delicious food, get drunk, sing loudly and chat frivolously. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
A girl doesn't always want to go out, you know, Mr. Wind-Up Bird. Sometimes she feels like being nasty--like, if the guy's… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Sometimes when I'm with you, I remember things I lost when I was your age. Like I remember the sound of the… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Of course you got rights, the law's on your side, but sometimes the law takes a long time to kick in and… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I dream. Sometimes I think that’s the only right thing to do. To dream, to live in the world of dreams. But… — 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
She waited for the train to pass. Then she said, "I sometimes think that people’s hearts are like deep wells. Nobody knows… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Sometimes I wonder why I'm a novelist right now. There is no definite career reason why I became a writer. Something happened,… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
He sometimes wondered if she had become involved with him just so that she could cry in someone's arms. Maybe she can't… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
What’s most important is what you can’t see but can feel in your heart. To be able to grasp something of value,… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Sometimes I find it too hot to run, and sometimes too cold. Or too cloudy. But I still go running. I know… — 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 would stare at the grains of light suspended in that silent space, struggling to see into my own heart. What did… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
People sometimes sneer at those who run every day, claiming they'll go to any length to live longer. But don't think that's… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Sometimes we don't need words. Rather, it's words that need us. If we were no longer here, words would lose their whole… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Sometimes I feel so- I don’t know - lonely. The kind of helpless feeling when everything you’re used to has been ripped… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
You live by yourself for a stretch of time and you get to staring at different objects. Sometimes you talk to yourself.… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
It is a lonely life sometimes, like throwing a stone into the deep darkness. It might hit something, but you can’t see… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
There wasn't a cloud in the sky, no wind, and everything was quiet around us - all we could hear were birds… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“I’m not trying to imply I can keep up this silent, isolated facade all the time. Sometimes the wall I’ve erected around… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
sometimes I think I've got this hard kernel in my heart, and nothing much can get inside it. I doubt if I… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Sometimes fate is like a small sandstorm that keeps changing directions. You change direction but the sandstorm chases you. You turn again,… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Sometimes I feel like a caretaker of a museum -- a huge, empty museum where no one ever comes, and I'm watching… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Everything was too sharp and clear, so that I could never tell where to start- the way a map that shows too… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
To me, love is a pure idea forged in flesh, awkwardly maybe, but it had to connect to somewhere, despite twists and… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I tell lies sometimes. The last time I lied was a year ago. I absolutely detest lying. You could say that lying… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Sometimes when I look at you, I feel I'm gazing at a distant star. It's dazzling, but the light is from tens… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I'm not sure if I could tell the difference—between just staring into space and thinking. We're usually thinking all the time, aren't… — 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
I miss you terribly sometimes, but in general I go on living with all the energy I can muster. Just as you… — 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 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
