A person's last moments are an important thing. You can't choose how you're born but you can choose how you die. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Of course, winning is much better than losing. No argument there. But winning or losing doesn’t affect the weight and value of… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
When I open them, most of the books have the smell of an earlier time leaking out between the pages - a… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“They had stolen my memories from me! Nobody had that right. Nobody! My memories belonged to me. Stealing memories was stealing time.… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“We're so caught up in our everyday lives that events of the past, like ancient stars that have burned out, are no… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“It was the first time he had seen her smile. It was the faintest of smiles, yet he felt the tides start… — 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
“Despite your best effort, people are going to hurt when it's time for them to be hurt. Life is like that.” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“He was a far more voracious reader than me, but he made it a rule to never touch a book by any… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Champagne’s completely useless, you know,” he said. “The only good part is the moment you pop the cork.” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
With each passing moment I'm becoming part of the past. There is no future for me, just the past steadily accumulating. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Between the time the last train leaves and the first train arrives, the place changes: it's not the same as in daytime. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Twenty years was a long time. But Tengo knew that if he were to meet Aomame in another twenty years, he would… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“There are some things in this world that can be done over, and some that can’t. And time passing is one thing… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“A gentle silence descended on them, suggestive of the flow of time.” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Whiskey, like a beautiful woman, demands appreciation. You gaze first, then it's time to drink. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
You have to be practical. So every time I say, if you want to write a novel you have to be practical,… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I’m me, and at the same time not me. That’s what it felt like. A very still, quiet feeling. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Words have all died in the hollow of time, piling up soundlessly at the dark bottom of a volcanic lake.” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
If a person remains tense for a long time he might not notice it himself, but it’s like his nerves are a… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“In the spring of her twenty-second year, Sumire fell in love for the first time in her life. An intense love, a… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
No matter how much time passes, no matter what takes place in the interim, there are some things we can never assign… — 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
