“One by one, I'll face the tasks before me and complete them as best I can. Focusing on each stride forward, but… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“When the time comes, everybody’s got to end up where they belong. Only me, I didn’t have a place to call my… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Dreams are things from the past. They aren't from the future. That wasn't you imprisoned there. You imprison your dreams. You understand?… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“There are times when the understanding does not come until later, when it no longer matters. Other times I do what I… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Blurring the line between possible and impossible, linear and non-linear time, fiction and reality, fate and free will, 1Q84 is both a… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“I focused on that point of light for a long, long time. It made me think of something like the final throb… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“The new day is almost here, but the old one is still dragging its heavy skirts. Just as ocean water and river… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“I decided to go swimming. I don’t know how to explain this, but I wanted to purge my body of something by… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“The past and the present, might we say, go like this . The future is a maybe . Yet we look back… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“A woman says to a man, 'Some people are polite, and some are quick. Each one's a good quality to have, but… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
The answer is dreams. Dreaming on and on. Entering the world of dreams and never coming out. Living in dreams for the… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
ice contains no future , just the past, sealed away. As if they're alive, everything in the world is sealed up inside,… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Tengo wasn´t certain that he was doing the right thing. Maybe the time he was spending here, in this room in a… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Even so, there were times I saw freshness and beauty. I could smell the air, and I really loved rock 'n' roll.… — 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
“After such prolonged frowning, it took her some moments to recall what her normal face even looked like, but after several attempts… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I may not look it, but I can be a very patient guy. And killing time is one of my specialities. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“We create the story, and at the same time, the story is what sets us in motion.” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
You know, if you are kind of rich, the best thing is that you don't have to think about money. The best… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“People don't just die when their time comes. They gradually die away, from the inside.” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“We can invest enormous time and energy in serious efforts to know another person, but in the end, how close are we… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Time really is one big continuous cloth, no? We habitually cut out pieces of time to fit us, so we tend to… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
How about Proust's In Search of Lost Time?" Tamaru asked. "If you've never read it this would be a good opportunity to… — 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
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
