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
It made her think of Laika, the dog. The man-made satellite streaking soundlessly across the blackness of outer space. The dark, lustrous… — 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
Well, finally, the events I've been through have been tremendously complicated. All kinds of characters have come on the scene, and strange… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
That’s how stories happen — with a turning point, an unexpected twist. There’s only one kind of happiness, but misfortune comes in… — 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
They take the circuits out of people’s brains that make it possible for them to think for themselves. Their world is like… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Do you know what ‘Sputnik’ means in Russian? ‘Travelling companion’. I looked it up in a dictionary not long ago. Kind of… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
So I'm not crazy after all! I thought it looked good myself once I cut it all off. Not one guy likes… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Although I didn't think so at the time, things were a lot simpler in 1969. All you had to do to express… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Lying there, I close my eyes for a time, then open them. I silently breathe in, then out. A thought begins to… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I think memory is the most important asset of human beings. It's a kind of fuel; it burns and it warms you.… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Most things are forgotten over time. Even the war itself, the life-and-death struggle people went through, is now like something from the… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
That's the kind of death that frightens me. The shadow of death slowly, slowly eats away at the region of life, and… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I saw that she was crying. Before I knew it, I was kissing her. Others on the platform were staring at us,… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
That’s all I think about these days. Must be because I have so much time to kill every day. When you don’t… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I've been lonely for so long. And I've been hurt so deeply. If only I could have met you again a long… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
It's the same with menus and men and just about anything else: we think we're choosing things for ourselves, but in fact… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
My very existence, my life in the world, seemed like a hallucination. A strong wind would make me think my body was… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Whenever I meet people for the first time, I get them to talk for ten minutes. Then I size them up from… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I didn't want to be a writer, but I became one. And now I have many readers, in many countries. I think… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I bet the reason people are afraid of going bald is because it makes them think of the end of life. I… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I think that my job is to observe people and the world, and not to judge them. I always hope to position… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Since I'm a novelist I'm the opposite of you - I believe that what's most important is what cannot be measured. I'm… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I've run the Boston Marathon 6 times before. I think the best aspects of the marathon are the beautiful changes of the… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I think people who share my dreams can enjoy reading my novels. And that's a wonderful thing. I said that myths are… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I’m free, I think. I shut my eyes and think hard and deep about how free I am, but I can’t really… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Everybody feels safe belonging not to the excluded minority but to the excluding majority. You think, Oh, I’m glad that’s not me.… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
In Japan, the writers have made up a literary community, a circle, a society. I think 90 percent of Japan's writers live… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
In other words, let's face it: Life is basically unfair. But even in a situation that's unfair, I think it's possible to… — 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
George Orwell is half journalist, half fiction writer. I'm 100 percent fiction writer... I don't want to write messages. I want to… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Since I have come to America, I am often asked whether my next novel will be set in America. I don't think… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I try not to think about anything special while running. As a matter of fact, I usually run with my mind empty.… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I'm often asked what I think about as I run. Usually the people who ask this have never run long distances themselves.… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
So once you're dead there's just nothing? Mari: Basically... Korogi: I get so scared when I start thinking about this stuff. I… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I've translated a lot of American literature into Japanese, and I think that what makes a good translator is, above all, a… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Age certainly hadn't conferred any smarts on me. Character maybe, but mediocrity is a constant, as one Russian writer put it. Russian… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
What’s more, you’re loads better than you think you are.” “So why is it I get to thinking that way?” I puzzled.… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
You know, eating's much more important than most people think. There comes a time in your life when you've just got to… — 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
![“I've been lonely for so long. And I've been hurt so deeply. If only I could have met you again a long time ago, then I wouldn't have had to take all these detours to get here.' Tengo shook his head. 'I don't think so. This way is just fine. This is exactly the right time. For both of us. [...] We…” quote by Haruki Murakami](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/3fe/haruki-murakami-21_been-hurt_i-ve-been-lonely-for-so-long-and-i-ve-be_219933.jpg)
