If you want everything to be nice and straight all the time, then go live in a world made with a triungular… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
This uneasiness comes over me from time to time, and I feel as if I've somehow been pieced together from two different… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Huge organizations and me don't get along. They're too inflexible, waste too much time, and have too many stupid people. — 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
“But there are times in this world when it’s not enough just not to do the wrong thing” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
The faintest gleam of their lost memories glimmered for the briefest moment in their hearts. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
My priority is my books, at least at this point. What I have to do is write the narrative of this time. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“After all, what does the stock market sell us if not the unfounded hope of a rosy future?” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Six years during which time I'd laid three cats to rest. Burned how many aspirations, bundled up how much suffering in thick… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I used to think the years would go by in order, that you get older one year at a time. But it's… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“And each time he finished a sentence, there was a tiny but meaningful lump of silence left behind. This lump floated there,… — 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
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
It's true though: time moves in its own special way in the middle of the night," the bartender says, loudly striking a… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“From the moment of my birth, I lived with pain at the center of my life. My only purpose in life was… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“It's not that I don't believe in contemporary literature," he added, "but I don't want to waste valuable time reading any book… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“And in that moment, he was finally able to accept it all. In the deepest recesses of his soul, Tsukuru Tazaki understood.… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“The total amount of time available is especially limited. The clock is ticking as we speak. Time rushes past. Opportunities are lost… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
You're wrong. The mind is not like raindrops. It does not fall from the skies, it does not lose itself among other… — 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 was fifteen, all I wanted was to go off to some other world, a place beyond anybody’s reach. A place… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I was twenty-one at the time, about to turn twenty-two. No prospect of graduating soon, and yet no reason to quit school.… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“One generation takes over from the next. This is how things are handed over in this world, so I don’t feel so… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“His mind floated in the amniotic fluid of memory, listening for echoes of the past. His father, meanwhile, had no idea that… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“But that was the last time. That was…how should I say it? ... the one moment in my life when I was… — 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
“Once upon a time, there lived a boy and a girl. The boy was eighteen and the girl sixteen. He was not… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Sometimes I run fast when I feel like it, but if I increase the pace I shorten the amount of time I… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“I do need that time, though, for Naoko's face to appear. And as the years have passed, the time has grown longer.… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“I mean, all I do here is do the work that my bosses tell me to do the way they tell me… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“It seemed to work at first. I tried hard to forget, but there remained inside me a vague knot-of-air kind of thing.… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“True, there are those in our league who take even less time. But they don't do any research. They do a handful… — 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
